Eddie Pinero

My trainer started giving me, on top of the regular workouts, these fun but ridiculous weekend challenges.

He makes this video, sends it to me, you know, sometimes playfully, like super intense.

Here's your mission, you know, and it gamifies it a little bit.

But the workouts are hard, right?

They push me way out of my comfort zone.

Whether it's an hour-long kettlebell carry, 15-minute wall sit, extended treading water, putting on a ruck and climbing my 12-floor stairs for an hour, 200 burpees in 25 minutes, you get the idea.

Stuff that, it's not climbing Everest, but you hear it and you go, ooh, that doesn't sound fun.

Maybe on the surface, it even sounds a little absurd, and you want to stop and think, can I even do this?

But that's the beauty of it.

It conditions me to say yes first,

And once I commit, there's no more debate, right?

The question is no longer if, it's how.

And that transition is everything from a starting point.

There's no if.

This is happening.

How is it going to happen?

And when you do that, my God, you empower yourself, right?

Sometimes it's brutal, right?

The burpees are a great example.

I underestimated those.