 My name is Brian Wesson-Williams. I am a professional track and field sprinter. I am also a fitness enthusiast. I do group training, one-on-ones, personal training, and I'm also a fitness model here in Los Angeles. So when I was in middle school, I was always clean to be the fastest kid in class, and I took a lot of pride to that, because that was pretty much the only thing I was really good at at the time as far as being a group go. But when I got to high school, I got to football. Football season ended, so I needed to stay in shape, and sure enough, I joined a track team, and I got into a track team, and I started beating all the fast kids in the team and started going to track me, start winning races, start being very, very good at it, and I kind of made a commitment towards it. So the following season, football season came, you know, I was the fastest kid in the team. I was put as tail-back, corner wide receiver. I was always, always the fastest guy on the field and whatnot, and very, very prestige means like Arcadia and whatnot. My fastest time became a 10-58. I was 10th in the state, two years in a row, and I got recruited to play football and run track at Arizona State, so I got to Arizona State. Coach got fired, got a new spring coach that got to the program. They didn't know each other, they didn't know me, so I came in here with a partial track scholarship, and when I got there, you know what I'm saying, I was for being me tall, I was going to play football there, but they were like, no, you're not. So I ended up sticking with track at that time, and I'm kind of glad that it turned out that way because, you know, I'm not, I haven't really experienced concussions, shoulder problems, knee problems, you know, common football injuries and whatnot, and I do know that guys who are my age, which I'm 28 right now, guys who are still into football and NFL or some other type of league are, they start a football at a younger age in a professional league, to this day they're dealing with a lot of issues as far as injuries go. So when I go to the track, the smell that, when the sun hits the track and the smell of that rubber, that turns me on. I love the smell of it, I love, they make me want to go work out more and whatnot. When I go to environments like Arizona State Track, UCLA, USC, Track and whatnot, people get in and whatnot, that motivates me in order for me to go out there and do my thing. And I love being around people who are faster than me or better at me in some aspects of sprinting because that makes me want to adapt, be more resilient and produce myself in order for me to be better than them and whatnot. And as far as the gym go, I just love the sound of weights clamping, grunting, weights falling down. I love training at gym with no air conditioning because I love the sweat and whatnot. I just love the environment. And when it's something that I crave, when I was working for that aerospace company, I'd be sitting in my office just banging my head on the wall because I just can't wait to be there because I just crave it and whatnot. So that's what I love about those facilities. So it's all about, as an athlete, you got to have your priorities in order. You know, when you go into a training facility, you're going there for a purpose. My purpose is to run fast. So I need to do the necessary things I need to do in order for me to run fast. And when I go into a training facility, I go in there to make sure that I have the proper exercises to maximize the function in order for me to go and do my sprints. So that being said, sprinting is an anaerobic movement. It's a very dynamic connective tissue movement. So using every single muscle fiber in your body, every single ounce of energy in your body in order for you to run fast. And what that's going to do is it's going to burn a lot of fat and it's going to, and then you've got to have a lot of power so you've got to do some heavy lifting in order for you to build more mass. And that creates aesthetics. That being said, aesthetics just came along. It's something that I don't focus on. It's just something that has just happened to just be there. So in order for you to run faster, you've got to understand how the body moves. You've got to understand posture. You've got to understand how, you know, how your legs move, how your arms swings. And that being said and whatnot, you've got to be able to apply a lot of power into your sprinting because sprinting is a connective tissue movement. And when you're using every single muscle fiber in your body in order for you to do a specific movement. So that being said, if you understand power, you're able to go to the gym, do your deadlifts, do your squats, do your power cleans, hand cleans. You've got to have strength in order to apply power. So that means that you've got to do a lot of strength exercises to make your core strong and whatnot in order for you to do this movement. And if you're able to exceed in those two emphasis, you're able to continue to run faster. And on top of the power and strength movements, you've got to maintain mobility integrity. You've got to have the proper range of motion. You've got to stretch. You've got to foam roll. You've got to have the correct body posture in order for you to maximize your sprint so you don't hit plateaus. So again, you're going to hit plateaus as an athlete. In order for you to break those plateaus, you've got to train smart. In order for you to train smart, you've got to look at your weaknesses. And by looking at your weaknesses, you've got to identify what you suck at. So I'm born a skinny guy. I've got small joints. I'm not naturally big at all or anything like that. So that being said, I don't produce power and strength naturally. I've got to really work for it. I've got to eat a lot of food, drink a lot of protein, eat a lot of protein, get some carbs and me and whatnot. And at the same time, I've got to go to the gym and actually push some heavy weight in order for me to produce more mass in my body. So the first thing that, the first focus in a gym, obviously, you get on a bike, reactivate the muscles, reactivate the core, get the body sweating again in order for you to do your workout and then foam roll. And the first movement, the first type of exercise that I focus on in a gym is power moves. Connect the tissue work and whatnot, which today was hand clean and power clean. Hand clean and power clean is a good exercise in order for you to teach your body how to be fast with big, big, heavy weight. And you've got to use your speed and you've got to use technique and form in order for you to get underneath it and whatnot. Second to that will be strength training. So I'm a big advocate to a 5 on 5 reps and set ratio. So you can focus on strength and be able to have connective, in order for you to work on every single muscle fiber, whatever body part that you're working on. And the reason why I change chest is because your chest is one of the largest muscles in your upper body, along with the lats. You can use your chest to swing your arms and swing it up because the faster you move your arms, the faster your legs will react to it. And then afterwards I train during high reps, a lot of sets, ratios, reps of 20 to retrieve more fibers as they finish the touch. So supplements is an asset to nutrition. You eat the right foods that you need to do in order for you to get what you need. Supplements take it to a higher level as far as like the things that you need to go. So the first type of supplements that I make a focus on is vitamins. So I need fish oil, vitamins for fertility and make sure I get the proper body function in order for me to let my body do what it needs to do in order for it to stay healthy. The second focus I attack as far as like supplements go is protein. I need a certain amount of protein a day in order for me to recover, in order for me to go back the next day from my body to build and for me to keep on doing the things I need to do in order for me to keep growing. So the third would be BCA's amino acids which is an asset to the protein in order for the process inside your body. Fourth is pretty much glutamine and five is pretty much whatever vitamin or so that I'm lacking inside my body that I don't produce enough. What's important is you fulfill yourself from within. Like kind of like what Arnold Schwarzenegger said like when you wake up in the morning what's the first thing you think about? What's the first thing that you crave to do when you get out of bed? And whatever it is it can be the craziest thing in the world it can be to be in a president of the United States being a NASCAR driver it can be a parachute diver or whatever it can be a scuba diver all I care. If it's something that you crave to do and you're very very passionate about it make a life out of that as opposed to what society should tell you what to make a life out of.