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Home for the holidays. Taking you back where it all started. My home where I grew up to show you how Athlete X got to be what it is [Music] today. What’s up guys? Jeff Cavalere, athletex.

com. As I said, we’re going to bring you back home, home for the holidays. I came back home, you know, over the over the Christmas here. And um it always brings back memories of where I kind of grew up and how I started out working out. And I thought it might be kind of cool to show you guys exactly where that was.

So you can see what the uh you know the the the birth of Appling X and really what into what into the development of that program so so many years ago when I first got started out. So let’s get out and see how it all started back home. The first thing that you’re going to see is this nice peaceful swing set, but I never used that or really cared about that. What I used and cared about was that right there, that tree limb. And what I want to show you guys is that I don’t want to hear excuses about the fact that I don’t have a pull-up bar or there’s nothing that I can do pull-ups with or even my ab work because if you’ve got a tree, you’ve got a pull-up bar.

All right, so let me show you exactly what I used to do right here on this limb to overcome any of those equipment limitations that people do talk about. So, all right. Like I said, the tree limb here, all you have to do is find one, jump up to it, and start doing your pull-ups on it. The cool thing about this is that the uneven grip here this way, and also the thickness makes it a grip training exercise as well, not just a back exercise. Same thing.

I would come out here and do my ab work. Any hanging ab work, right? You could you could use this for anything. Even the scissors that we did the other day, right? Ab pull-ups.

The idea was I tried to do what I could here. And this is where the creativity was really started, I think, was when you’re given limited resources, you usually find that you can be a lot more creative in the exercises that you can come up with to be able to use what you have. Creativity with Athlete X definitely started here at the AB tree. All right, so now we’re going to go inside as I take you down into the basement. Right.

This is where all great things are made with Athlete X. The first thing I want you to see though is sort of my my studying lab here. This is it. And basically, I even have some that I never even got through, guys. I used to pour through these magazines.

I mean, look at Muscle Media. This is back in sometime in the in the 90s almost 20 years ago, you know, where I would pour through these magazines and see what actually made sense to me and what didn’t and, you know, tear out the the articles that made sense, right? I mean, Men’s Muscle and Fitness magazine, you know, all the ads, all the I mean, all the different ways to train. And guys, honestly, I’ve tried a lot of the workouts in here too over the years. Things like this, 5 weeks to a rip physique, and wound up overtraining so bad that I could hardly move the next day and would only find myself getting smaller and smaller.

You know, here with three sets, three sets, three sets, three two sets, two sets, three. I mean, you’re doing like 25, 30 sets in a workout. And you know, the idea of overtraining was just not something they addressed in these magazines because frankly, most of the guys that were in here were using drugs and they had unlimited recovery ability. But for a guy like me who had no idea thinking that that was the way to do it, I mean, I didn’t end up looking like this guy, you know, and thankfully no, because um that’s really not what Athletics X is all about anyway. We try to be functional and muscular and strong but you know not look like cartoon characters.

So, but what what I want you to see is that a lot of that again all the magazines I had thousands of magazines would go into categorization here of coming up with the things again that I said would make sense you know some regards to arms training what things actually made sense you know different concepts you know periodization crossraining lifting speed you know things like that I would I would take them out and read through them same thing here all about nutrition different things on insulin management and minerals and creatine and vitamin C and vitamins and you know the whole thing. But the education started there guys and again hours and hours and hours which then led to an interest in physical therapy and a little bit more sophisticated topics, joint structure and function, biomechanics of our muscular skeletal system, you know, color anatomy, color atlas of the brain and spinal cord and principles of neuros. I mean, some not fun courses, but again, it sort of was all sparked back in the day and then carried through to, you know, an education that I feel really carved out what Athleen X is all about. So, this is sort of my learning lab. Now, let’s take a look at the gym.

So, now you’re looking at the Athletex gym way back in its infancy. This is it, guys. This is it. And then I had the one piece of cardio equipment that I used that I think my father actually bought the old um uh Nordic track. And this is this is my space to work out right here.

So I would take my weights and I’d farmer walk them right into this room and do whatever I had to do. Didn’t have high ceilings. Okay. Was very limited in space and equipment. But what’s interesting, guys, is that you can do this.

You can you can do your workouts. I again, everything I learned from as I grew up is what shaped Athleen X. I don’t need a lot of equipment or space to do the Athlete X program. And neither do you. You just need a desire to do it.

I had these old Marcy weight plates here that I used to have to screw on here. You know, that took me probably 20 minutes every workout just to switch plates on and off. But the concept is that if there’s a will, there’s a way. And again, I make it so that you can do these workouts in Athletics X without having to do, you know, do much um in the way of redesigning your whole house to fit a gym. That right there, that’s the first dumbbell that I ever used, my 5 lb.

And I still just use these today. I don’t use anything heavier than that. Kidding, obviously. But this is this is it. This is what I had.

I had a set of dumbbells. I would use the weight plates and hold them to get heavier weights as I could. This right here, got all my forearm work done with the old, you know, uh, forearm gripper. Now, here’s a cool little tip for you. If you guys still use these, don’t just use these to grip your hands in and out like that.

If you want a really cool exercise, grip it and then flex the wrist and extend the wrist. flex the wrist and extend the wrist and see how many of those you can hold without letting the gripper separate. It’s a much different exercise. And again, it’s really another concept of that time under tension applied to forearm training. And then right here, that was my sound system, baby.

Right there. Right there. An old disc man could rock out to uh run DMC or whoever else I’d kind of use for motivation. All right. So this is it.

And again, the concept here, guys, is not a lot of room, but definitely a desire to train. And Athleen X was sort of founded on that same concept of just give me the desire, and I’ll give you the program that works. So, I mentioned to you the ab tree outside, but I did have an alternative inside to do pull-ups, and it wasn’t a bar that you guys are familiar with, right? That would fit in between a doorway. Now, for me, I had to have an alternative.

And I thought it’d be worthwhile to show you what that was. right here. This support beam in my house. That’s it. I didn’t have room for a pull-up bar.

I didn’t really have any head room for a pull-up bar. Matter of fact, I couldn’t do pull-up