Practice #17 - How to Build a Physique in High School

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,380 One of the most valuable things that I've done in high school is building my physique. 2 00:00:07,380 --> 00:00:12,840 So I started going to the gym in the beginning of sophomore year. 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:19,520 I actually just graduated a couple days ago from high school and I graduated early. 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:25,640 So it is, I had a senior year but I only had half of a year. 5 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,440 So one semester, senior year. 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,120 And so I've realized that the best thing that I've done for myself is build a physique 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:35,640 in high school. 8 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:42,560 And so with that said, I've seen so many people like try to build their physiques and yeah, 9 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,160 they've seen slight progress. 10 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:52,200 But the reason why I made so much more progress over other people is because I figured out 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,120 when I wanted to go and I went consistency. 12 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:56,520 I went consistently. 13 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,720 And the thing is that I dedicated everything to this. 14 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:05,040 This is all I cared about for years. 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:11,160 I would literally just go to the gym, go to school, come home, think about the gym and 16 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,160 then go to bed and then go to the gym. 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,160 Like I would just repeat. 18 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,680 That's all I thought about. 19 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:21,840 And that, like I said that I went to the gym before school, that's very important. 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,120 I believe that you should be going to the gym before school if you're a high school student 21 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:32,000 because this will allow you to be extremely consistent. 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,760 And the thing is that you should not go to the gym before school if you're not going 23 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,840 to bed in time. 24 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:46,240 If you're going to go to the gym before school and reap those rewards, you have to go to 25 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:53,680 bed in time because I went to gym, I went before school for years and I've also seen 26 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:59,960 other people go to the gym before school and they did not see nearly as much success as 27 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:00,960 I did. 28 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,720 And that's because they didn't go to bed in time. 29 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:11,640 I was going to bed, it depended like depending on when you asked me, I was going to bed at 30 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:16,160 eight o'clock and then I moved it down to 730 and then I moved it down to seven and then 31 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,880 630 and now it's at six o'clock. 32 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,880 I'm going to bed at six o'clock and that takes sacrifice. 33 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:30,960 If you want to build a physique in high school, then you should probably say goodbye to your 34 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:39,120 social life and this is where being a introvert is an extreme advantage and that's because 35 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:47,760 I'm able to just not talk to anyone for weeks upon months. 36 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,120 Over summer break, I did not talk to anyone. 37 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:58,920 Over breaks, I just did not talk to anyone and I'm coming at the beginning of a very 38 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:03,720 long time away from anyone. 39 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:09,880 The next time I'm going to see anyone from my school is when graduation happens, which 40 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:17,320 is in May because I did graduate early a couple days ago, but I'm walking the graduation 41 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,480 ceremony in May. 42 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:26,000 So be able to just not talk to anyone and the thing is that you're probably going to 43 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,080 outgrow those people anyways. 44 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:33,680 So like your real friends are the people going to the gym in the morning with you and I did 45 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,080 find that. 46 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,720 I did find that to be true. 47 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,320 Those are the real friends that are going to stick around with you. 48 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:47,480 So go to the gym in the morning and the thing is you, this will do more than build your physique. 49 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:52,000 This will build extreme discipline because if you do what I did, where you bike to the 50 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,960 gym, which I definitely recommend bike, only bike to the gym, you wake up like five in 51 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,880 the morning, you like shower or whatever I prefer to shower in the before the gym and 52 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,160 after the gym. 53 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:11,160 Just I don't like to feel gross while I'm lifting. 54 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,600 Just a personal preference. 55 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,800 You wake up, shower, eat if you want. 56 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,160 If you're going to school, I prefer you should probably eat in the morning and then go to 57 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,720 the gym and then you go to school. 58 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,680 That takes discipline, especially if you're in a cold climate. 59 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,760 Like I live in Chicago. 60 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,720 Chicago is freezing in the wintertime. 61 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,600 And so you're biking in the dark. 62 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,560 You're biking in the snow, in the rain at five in the morning. 63 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,440 Like that takes serious discipline and that really builds you. 64 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,120 So that part is very valuable. 65 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:51,520 And then doing it every single day because if you're going in the morning, you build up 66 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:59,760 that habit of going to the gym and then you shower there and then you bike from the gym 67 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:00,760 to school. 68 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,320 You build up certain habits that make it so you actually prefer to go to the gym in the 69 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,400 morning, especially when your sleep is on point and you've gone to the gym in the morning. 70 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,760 You're already like of awakened and you've been awake for a couple hours. 71 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,640 I did this and I actually had more sleep than most of my peers. 72 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:27,000 Like a lot of my classmates were going to bed at 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, like 73 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,920 very late hours on a school day. 74 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,880 They weren't waking up till like 7.30 and they were miserable during first period. 75 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:35,880 But me? 76 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:37,560 I've been up for four hours. 77 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,320 I'm chilling. 78 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:47,440 And I am wide awake because I just put some work in at the gym and I'm pumped up during 79 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,440 class. 80 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:54,400 So that's like that is an extreme advantage to go into the gym before school because then 81 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,480 you're way more focused. 82 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:03,880 I found that I was way more productive during my classes except I got a little bit more 83 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:08,520 tired during eighth period, which was like my last period of the day. 84 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,960 But thankfully I dropped that class very quick. 85 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,360 So like that, it didn't even matter. 86 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,680 And then so while you're at school, you get the benefits. 87 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,160 And then right after school, what you do is you read. 88 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,280 Like that's all you do. 89 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:27,480 You go home and you read. 90 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,040 You don't like you can hang out with friends if you want. 91 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,120 But if you're serious, you don't. 92 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:34,400 You read books. 93 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,840 And then after that, you eat like you eat food right when you get home and then you read 94 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:41,920 for the rest of the night and then you go to bed. 95 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,040 You go to bed at like 6 o'clock or 7 o'clock. 96 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,800 Like this is serious. 97 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,160 Like you go to bed early. 98 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,760 You want to get at least nine hours of sleep every single night or else you might as well 99 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,800 not even go to the gym in the morning. 100 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:58,640 If you're not getting nine hours bare minimum every single night, don't go in the morning. 101 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:17,560 It is only worth it if you get nine hours of sleep.