What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
Man, did I ruffle some feathers this weekend, or what?
The Zac Efron workout and diet video.
I mean, good Lord.
If you haven't seen it, it's right here and you owe it to yourself to give it a watch.
More importantly, scroll through the comments when you do because it will put into context
better what I want to talk to you about here today.
I want to talk about the level of hatred thrown Zac Efron's way.
This poor kid, I don’t even know him, but I felt bad for him because a lot of people
– not everybody, certainly not everybody – a lot of people want to attribute everything
he got – they want to attribute his physique, they want to attribute his gains in preparation
for his movie, they want to attribute everything to steroids.
They don’t know him, they never trained with him, they don’t hang out with him,
but they want to guarantee that's what it is.
Why?
Because he looks better than they do.
Guys, I see this all too often and it pisses me off.
I'm going to rant today and I hope, if you need to put the ear muffs on and the kids
around you, you're going to have to do that.
The fact of the matter is, why are we always so quick to say that about everybody that
does look better than us?
Let's keep in mind, he's 165lbs to 170lbs.
Do you think that's an unattainable physique?
If you do, you're watching the wrong channel.
Shit, I sit up here all the time and preach to you about how possible it is.
If you train like and athlete to look like an athlete, being ripped and also to carry
lean muscle, and to maximize the amount that you can naturally carry.
It's unbelievable.
You should see the comments about it.
"This is crazy.
This is bullshit.
You can never do this without doing Zac's steroid regimen.
You could never do this without The Rock feeding you steroids.
You can never do this without a personal chef, without all day to train, with nothing to
do but train, without the highest level personal trainer."
Guys, first of all, as far as a personal trainer goes you've got a pretty damn good one here
giving you guys free videos each and every week.
I hope you've learned something from my videos that would allow you to make gains and see
progress and results.
I could tell you, I don’t condone steroid use.
Not in the least bit.
I am the biggest anti-steroid guy standing here on YouTube.
I was a guy that grew up in a household where my father would have killed me if I did anything.
Any drug!
He told me "Jeff, if you ever do anything and I catch you, get out of the house.
Get out!
I'm going to make it easy.
I'm going to pack all your shit, I'm going to put it out on the lawn, you can come and
take it, but don’t ever show back up here again."
Now, coming from a divorced household I had nowhere else to go.
I was scared to death.
So not only did I not do anything, I never drank, I never did a drug, I never tried a
drug, I never drank anything.
Even through college.
Nothing.
I was just clean and boring as I possibly could be.
I say it all the time.
I live a pretty boring life.
But, I'm proud of it and I'm proud to be able to stand here as an example to you to inspire
you of what is capable and possible if you train hard.
But we don’t know about Zac.
If you think that all this is unattainable, 165lbs-170lbs physique, all came from the
fact that he put on 10lbs in a year.
That's something that doesn't happen?
Guys, that's less than a pound a month.
If you understand the fact that he used heavy training for the first time ever in his training
program.
If you're out there and you're a 26 year old kid who's never trained before, I can guarantee
you that you have lots of gains waiting for you.
Lots of them.
I don’t even care if you're 40 or 60.
If you've never trained heavy in your life and you start training heavy, those strength
gains will lead to size gains.
You're going to see some noticeable signs, especially like I said, if you've never done
it before.
I don’t think Zac Efron was ever training really seriously before.
If you look at his physique, I'm not trying to knock him, but he was lean, but didn't
look like he ever really trained heavy; like he was ever really taking it seriously.
But when you start training seriously you start training with The Rock and let me tell
you something, even at 40 years old, can I make a 10lb gain in one year?
Probably not.
Not having trained all this time and reached my potential at this point; probably not.
But I tell you what, when you get The Rock as my training partner?
Fuck, I'm getting some shit done because I would love to train with The Rock.
Having the motivation that guy provides me every single workout would guarantee me some
gains, I can tell you that.
Even when I thought there was no gains to squeeze out of my physique.
I could guarantee some gains.
So what's the point of this whole video?
Why are we here revisiting this?
Because it's the mentality that I want to drive home here.
Don't use that accusation as an excuse for you to excuse yourself from hard work.
That's what it's all about.
I can't obtain what he is.
I'm going to say he is getting it all from steroids and I can't attain those gains because
I'm not willing to go down that same road.
Therefore, I'm not doing shit.
That is the most horrible mentality that you could possibly have.
The most horrible, loser mentality that you could possibly have.
If you're willing to put in the hard work, success and gains await you, I promise you.
But how hard are you willing to work?
Not hard.
I bet you the guys that say all that stuff, they don’t really like working out anyway.
They were looking for the easiest way out so they didn't have to work out.
That, my friends, that's not what we're here for.
Not what this channel is about.
I cater to the guys that want to train and train hard and squeeze every ounce out of
what they have because there's a lot in you if you start learning to train the right way.
I can tell you, the excuses continue to roll on.
"I don’t have that chef.
I don’t that personal trainer like that.
I don’t have all day to train."
Guys, come on.
Where are we going with this?
I mean, all it takes is about 30 minutes of hard training a day.
I do workouts here that would knock the average man on his ass in 10 minutes.
You don’t have 10 minutes?
I bet you if you looked at your favorite TV shows and figured out a way that you could
find 10 minutes you would.
I bet you if you figured out one less hit up on Facebook all day, or hit on Facebook
throughout the whole day you'd probably find an accumulative 30 minutes that you could
devote to train.
That's all it's going to take, if you're willing to train hard.
But a lot of guys aren't willing to do that.
Personally, I stand here and tell you I've been running a full time job, I have two premature
twins back on January 6th, one of which is still in the hospital.
I've been to the hospital almost every single day since January 6th to spend quality time
with my son and I still have a family, and I still have my job to run, and I still have
all my videos that I want to make for you guys.
Guess how many of those I've missed?
I think one.
Guess how many workouts I've missed in that time?
Maybe one.
Guess whose fault it was when I missed that workout?
100% my asses fault because I just didn't make the time that day.
I had no excuses.
I could have made the time.
If it means something to you, you'll make the time for it.
When you want to start laying all the excuses down for you so it makes it nice and easy
for you to discredit everybody else, that's bullshit.
Just because they look better than you?
Like I said, his physique is obtainable, guys.
It's totally obtainable.
If you're at 165lbs and you think that it's not in the cards for you at 5%, or 6%, or
7% body fat is not in the cards for you then you're lazy and you don’t want to work.
I'm happy to help you work and I'm happy to lay down everything you guys need to do that.
I've been doing it over here now for six years and I try to stand in front of you as your,
sort of, beacon of hope.
I'm going to be your motivation because that's what I feel like is my responsibility to do.
To lead by example.
If I haven't led you by example enough for you to understand that's obtainable then I
don’t know what I've been teaching.
The fact of the matter is, stop using excuses.
Stop using them.
You've got them all.
I don't have a personal chef.
I know a lot of baseball players that have a lot more money than I do and they don’t
have personal chefs.
They just care about it.
They care about the end goal more than you might.
You've got to start caring if you want to see results from it.
All right, guys.
I'm done.
I'm done ranting.
I don’t even know Zac Efron.
Poor kid.
It's like I'm sitting here defending Zac Efron and I don’t even know the kid.
I don’t.
I don’t even care about him, to be honest with you.
No offense, Zac.
I don’t really care about him.
It's just this blanket excuse that a lot of guys use.
This blanket accusation that everybody wants to run to as fast as they can because it gives
them the out that they're looking for.
Stop looking for outs.
Start pouring some of that energy into lifting the fucking weights and I'll tell you, you'll
see a lot more results from doing that, okay?
A lot more from your hard effort you're going to get from doing that.
You're going to be way more productive.
Guys, if you're looking for a channel that doesn't bullshit you, that puts it out there
the way it is, and tells it like it is; I hope you've found this channel to be that
channel.
Amongst a sea of YouTube channels that maybe don't do that for you.
I'm happy to do it every single time I'm here.
There's no agenda on this channel.
I'm just trying to be as real as I can, preach what I preach, and live by example.
I hope you guys are inspired by that.
You can subscribe to our channel for that anytime you want.
In the meantime, I'll be back here, guys, in just a couple of days.
Make sure you leave your comments and thumbs up below and also, let me know what you want
to see on this channel and I'm happy to do any and all of that for you guys.
I want to cover what you guys want to see.
By the way, tonight's video was supposed to be a knee video on meniscal tears, ACL and
MCL damage.
I think I got a little bit off track, but this was certainly necessary.
I felt like it had to be addressed given the uproar that we cause over the weekend.
So I hope you'll pardon me for that.
I will get back to that video very soon.
All right, guys.
I'll see you back here soon.