ARE YOU A CHAMPION?

Today ask yourself this question: "WHO AM I?" if your answer to yourself after watching this video isn't "I AM A CHAMPION" you're not doing what you should be doing to get where you want to go in life.

You see, this speech is not about sports. It's not just for a bunch of guys waiting to take the field before a football game. This video, this speech i about that hunger, that willingness to do whatever you have to do to achieve your goals. Is about never surrendering, about understanding that eventhough sometimes life throws some curves at you and brings you to your knees, you have to get up...you need to get up.

I see it every single day at the gym. I see the people that are doing everything in their power to get better and the slackers. Every day I see it in their eyes. I know who will become whatever they want to be in life and the lazy ass fools that will spend the rest of their pathetic lives wishing they where somebody else. Wishing they had the balls or the drive that others had to go for their dream.

I've written about this before, 5 years ago I would read articles from Coaches and trainers that I am lucky to call friends and that consider me one of their peers. Think about it, me...from little old Panama in Central America have somehow made a mark on the fitness industry.

How? Because I never doubted myself! Never once did the thought of me not being where I am right now, crossed my mind. I knew I was different from the ones that just dream and not do anything to make it true. I knew I was going to make it.

A few years ago they cast me as an outlaw, a weirdo...they said what I was doing would have no followers and that I would fail. Now, everybody in our country is trying to do what we do. They're trying to get where we are. But they will never even come close, because what drives us is not tha fact that having a gym like ours, is great business.  What drives us is the dream. The same dream I use to dream every single night years ago. The dream to be the best at what I do. The dream to make people feel the passion I have for training, for life. The dream to open people's eyes not just to a different type of training, but to open their eyes to a different type of living. To be an example that dreams come true, but only if you really work f*cking hard to make 'em true.

Nothing good in life comes easy. You have to work really hard to EARN whatever it is that you want. So everytime someone quits, stops coming to our gym for whatever excuse they choose...it makes me sick. Because I hear everyday how much they want to get better, how much they want to loose fat,how much they want to perform better...but then they quit and blame it on whatever they want to.

I know I'm an asshole sometimes, but like my boy Zach Even-Esh said, is because sometimes we get just so fired up about training and making you better that maybe we don't use the best words or the best way to say things. For everytime I've been an asshole, sorry! From the bottom of my heart. But I want you to know that is because I just want you guys to be better. Better athletes, better people.

I hope after reading this you'll make a new resolution...I hope you promise yourself you'll do whatever you have to do to make your dreams, your goals true. I hope when watching this video you get goosebumps everytime the team says: "I AM A CHAMPION" like I did.

Now, go outhere and chase your dreams...BE A CHAMPION!