 Who would win out of a crocodile and Batman dude great question, man. I mean easy question, but whatever. I mean Is it easy? I would say Batman. Yeah, bro What is up Zendu nation welcome back to episode double digits, that's right world episode number 10 Wow, that's great. What is going on ladies and gentlemen first and foremost I wanted to say to clear up any confusion about asked as n dudes if you guys What you need to do to ask questions is go to the link below and join our free four-week challenge because from there You're gonna go into a private Facebook group. That's where we post I post once a week and say hey guys ask your questions and then people comment on that post That's where we get the questions from to make these YouTube videos So don't post your question on one of these videos thinking it's going to get answered join the four-week challenge join the Facebook group Posted in there. It's all free. It is all free. If you're worried about that. It's free 99 and by free 99 I'm not trying to confuse you. It's just free. It's free. It's not money. It's negative dollars. We're not negative dollars Well, yeah, zero. Yeah, zero zero Question number one Gershie asks asks How long did you do this before you realized it could be a real business and what did you do to make money while you were Building it up great question my friend burning up We had the belief from the very beginning from the first time Dan was sitting on his couch now stand behind him And we said then do fitness that like this was gonna be successful and because we had that belief We knew it was going to be a profitable business and we knew it was gonna work we had no idea how we just knew it would work and so Your question regarding how do we make money? Well, we did two things to be completely honest The first thing we moved to Columbia where you can live for three times cheaper so our expenses were dramatically dropped and We started making money almost immediately and we just lived off the small amount of money that we were making just from coaching people personally Dan you had some savings put away from corporate life. That was helpful Dan kind of helped us Make her way in the beginning make the way but dude guys look like brains absolutely right like we I quit my job And like there was no backup plan like there was absolutely. I was like I'm never gonna have a job again like I mentally snapped into this into this mode of just belief that this was going to work and That's dude. That's I wish there was more like that really is what like how it went even to the point where like Yeah, I took my I took my savings and it was just like, you know We use that like we basically my point is we did whatever we could because yes at the beginning It was a struggle like it was definitely hard But all that work that we put in and all that faith and all that belief has now paid off and is now continuing to pay off in bigger ways, so Dude, if you're asking this question because you have anything that you want to do and you have something Dude just find a belief man Like it has to be something at the core of yourself that you want so badly that you just believe it is going to happen And honestly man, like that's not something Brandon and I are born with you have to cultivate this idea That you will make it and you have to practice that idea. You have to practice that mindset Andrew asks, what are our favorite alcoholic drinks? No, I've never had one. I love whiskey So either Manhattan's or whiskey Sours or old-fashioned. So those are my my three go-to's gin and tonic whiskey with a little bit of tap water on ice and IPA's for beer and red wine, right? Yeah, I wasn't thinking that I was thinking like a hard liquor. Well, love beer. Well beer What kind of beer do you like? I like red ale specifically. Yeah, you do I like red wine as well. Dude. We like it all. We like to give a f***ing hammer! Yeah No guys, we don't we drink alcohol. We love all kinds of alcohol, but we do it in moderation Yeah, we suggest. No, we really do max it usually around like three maybe four drinks at the most. Yeah, like your birthday last week I really didn't have just three drinks. Yeah, wait, no, no Dude, William, great question. William asks, what was your upbringing like? Hope this question is not too vague or personal Absolutely not, pretty good. My upbringing grew up in Queens, New York from zero to six years of age Parents were not doing that well financially then they started to make a little bit of money. My mom was a teacher. My dad Was self-employed was figuring it out Then we moved along an island once we had a little more money from six to 12 Then I moved to Oregon was there from 12 to 18 My dad began to gain some momentum with his own business He was running and we were living a nice middle-class Lifestyle all through our high school. So it was pretty cushioned. Honestly. It was good. It was a good life And for me mine was super humble upbringing. I have some of the best parents I feel in the world They were super supportive We lived out in the middle of nowhere and it's not like down south out in the middle of nowhere But if you know where Lancashire County, Pennsylvania is like like Amongst all the Amish people we lived My parents about amongst all the farms. So that's where I grew up. I grew up in a great small town that was very It was a good place to grow up like Lancaster is a very nice place to grow up as a kid. So The only thing that I wish I had more of the city I'm a huge city person there my extended family is all over different cities and I grew up from zero to 18 in This really small town and again, I love it But like my energy level was always just way too high and I always felt to myself like We're the summer really big so Great upbringing super supportive parents. Yeah, my dad's a blue collar worker. My mom is a third-grade teacher I got a great sister who's now a teacher as well It's not interesting that like we both had moms or teachers both had really solid parents. Yeah Probably shaped the way we are how we are right now I think yeah Just the best thing you can do in this world in my opinion Just be a good parent because then you you create this Human who wants to do good in the world and doesn't feel resentment like I feel we both want to like do good because we We've received that growing up dude shout out to mom and dad I'm dad even though like we've all had our struggles. I've had many struggles in life You've had many as well everyone goes through struggles, but like seriously like my mom and dad We're just like they I'm like a generally happy person Just because I grew up around people who were like really well mannered well tempered and just like made the right decisions Thanks mom and dad. I love you. Thanks for the question William Diego asks Which is your favorite jumper up exercise and move pretty good? For me crisscross because I'm not I'm not the master level manning yet But like I can do some moves and crisscrossing makes me feel like I'm on the moon For me, it's really timely that you asked this question I literally just released a video today called my favorite jump rope trick my favorite jump rope trick currently is the Fast side-swept crisscross watch the tutorial to uh to know to find out what that's all about Five Susanna asks as someone who left the city to look for a better quality of life. Why managing go ahead, Brandon Well originally as we mentioned yeah Medigene is an awesome city, but it's also three times less expensive and living in a major city in the US like LA or New York City so we were afforded that luxury to grow our business in Medigene and also The women are beautiful and I'm leaving here with the wifey so it worked out well Yeah, and also, I don't know if you're saying like the city You know Medigene is a humongous city like Medigene is bigger than most US cities. It's four million people It's the size of Los Angeles, which is by the way, the second biggest city in the United States and Susanna Yeah, dude, I would say everything Brandon just mentioned If you are starting a business we have money and we were making money right away But we decided to move down here because like just from a cost perspective We knew that we would have less stress and could do more with our money down here to grow our business And that really did pay off So I would recommend to anyone if you're trying to start an online business like go somewhere where you do You are free of the stress of having to pay for a bunch of stuff So you can just stack money save it up Then go back to markets like London or Tokyo or New York that are more expensive Json Jorula Jason asks what type of accounting practices do you guys use in the business? Do you pay yourselves a salary using account or manage the best the books on your own? I like dude I like these questions. Yeah, this is a good question. Yeah, we're interesting. I'm telling Brandon Tell them what we are we use a service called bench.co and so what they do is they give us a complete Balance sheet and statement every single month telling us, you know what our revenue was what our expenses were a profit Organizes it all so it's ready for taxes to send off. So this is really nice. That is our monthly system We want to get more sophisticated in the future and start breaking this down per week We're just not not quite there yet. Yeah, that's just like our book. That's bookkeeping system Yeah, and then we haven't we do have an account that we use It's Brandon's account that now is our account Charlie Charlie. Thank you my friend Yeah, and and we pay ourselves salaries. We're responsible like that We're in the beginning. We were just like taking money. Yeah, just surviving guys Just to give you an idea of going back to the other question about belief and faith Like when Brandon and I started this business like there was no system Like we were just taking money out as we needed it and it wasn't like a pretty thing and like my point in saying all This is like all of that did not prevent us from continuing to make content and videos that we're passionate about So don't get caught up in the details of oh, I can you know running a business is difficult So I can't follow my passion and put my content out on the internet screw that just do it anyway Just do it just do the thing Nathan asks can protein powder be dangerous when not taken carefully You know what I think I think too much anything isn't good If you're only consuming protein powder and you're not consuming real food Then I'm sure that's gonna be tougher on your liver and not be good for you in the long term It's gonna be tough on your whole household too. You're gonna be farting everybody. Oh, that's true But I drink a scoop a day. I do scoop a day. Yeah, I'm a scoop scoop and a half I you know what I realized dude. I actually do a scoop and a half. Yeah, I do a heaping scoop Ah, very nice. Thibault asks what can happen if we only eat 700 calories a day You're gonna shrivel up and die my friend. No, I'm kidding Yo, seriously people need to understand that you eat in this much of a calorie deficit you will People who want to eat in a calorie deficit and go that much into a gallery deficit There's nowhere for you to go deeper. Okay, and so your leptin which controls your is the hormone that controls How fast metabolism function is gonna be completely out of whack and so you may actually Actually put on more body facts your body goes into survival mode and says oh my god I'm only in 700 calories a day every time I get the 700 calories and it's stored as fast. So don't do that shit I swear don't do it. Don't use the calculator. Don't. Hey eat the food that we tell you, okay? Come on Thibault. We want you to you know be alive to do the thing my friend Explaining something I'm not really. Andres asks I really would like y'all's take on this kind of gross But it's part of the journey. My workouts are always 200% intensity. Good job, dude And sometimes I like to do it outside in the Sun, but pushing myself to my absolute limit sometimes has me throw up How do I just to make sure I get my macros for the day or should I just not micromanage? That far Bernie go ahead my friend bro. I'm gonna say Just cut your workout a little short before you throw up if you're getting to the edge of where you're about to throw up I go there sometimes with short dandas too. Mm-hmm. You just stop there and like you're good You're good do not throw up any further man because the stomach acid that comes up is just not gonna be good for overall health I don't even know the health effects just But also like dude you put the nail on you hit the nail in the head you're going 200% go 110% to 150 don't go 200 because like we don't want you to get to the point where like you you die like that And we want to be fun as well, right? Yeah, we want to be sustainable So it's not sustainable if you're gonna be thrown up every single time you work out and also man Don't like the macros has nothing to do with that Just hit your calories and macros if your goals to lose body fat then put it in a calorie deficit and hit those But don't maybe don't work out right after you've eaten a big meal. That could be part of the issue Tommy asks best way to beat sugar cravings Tommy. This is what I do I would like work with your sugar cravings if you need to Use your macronutrient and calorie budget to get a little bit of sugar in but make sure you just hate your numbers And then it has to be a cold stop It's just this is one of these things where we say do the thing where like when you know you have no more carbs After the day you just say okay. No more Twizzlers Yeah, dude away perfect I agree with everything Brandon said an example of the way that I do that is sometimes my meals are that Nato Nato is a restaurant down here that we like I always eat a piece of cake at that And I eat there like three times a week so three times a week I'm eating a piece of cake for dinner because I need that like I like to have those You know I like to give in to those sugar cravings, but I fit them in my macros so understand that while I'm eating that Piece of cake. I also get chicken like chicken and coconut soup Tom costume and a huge salad with like salmon or something So I'm getting a bunch of nutrients and only about 30% of that meal is the sugar 70 30 Remember the 70 30 rule jail asks can you talk a little bit more about your upcoming app? What will be on it? Will it be free? Okay? The app is going to be free for all the beginner level exercise workouts, so it's gonna be the free version is gonna allow you to Build and create your own workouts. We're also gonna have some custom workouts there We're also going to have a feature that teaches you how to jump rope as well. It's gonna be a series on there The paid version is gonna be 399, so it's four bucks and you'll get unlimited access and baby Basically, you're gonna be able to build your own workouts. I have timers It's it's like the perfect timer app that we use in conjunction with like the workouts You see in the four week challenge together. Yeah, it's gonna be it's we're super psyched about this because this is gonna finally make Digesting our workouts and everything and completing them super super easy So any of the time or apps that use that you use now It's gonna be like one of those except you can create your own zendied workouts with our faces and are we're gonna be in the video Mm-hmm our exercise tutorials everything just live playing for you. Mm-hmm. Jay second question Also, are you guys really brothers or just good friends? Well, you don't think this is my bro You don't think this is my bro. Yeah, we used to get this a lot more when Dan had a man bun Actually today. I was at a restaurant and this woman thought I was Dan I ordered food and she was like, I know what you want. I was like How do you know what I want? I don't come here, bro. Personally, I think that we are brothers We just don't we just don't know. Yeah, we were separated separate of birth. Yeah, so that's the answer so we're not blood brothers that we know of but We're may horror air monos best bros best bros, you know I'm saying bros to life rider die Oh Yeah, Rob Bob Bob asked Who would win out of a crocodile and Batman dude great question, man? I mean easy question, but whatever. I mean is it easy? I would say Batman. Yeah, bro Because Batman's a hero and he finds a way to save the day. I mean Batman obviously if Batman can beat What's his name the ice dude? Professor freeze. No, mr. Freeze. Mr. Freeze if Batman can beat mr. Freeze He can who can who can throw ice at you like that? He can he can take care of a crocodile. He's not wearing hockey pants Again, I did this on a live, but guys I just want to be the guy who does Batman's voice in dark. No, he's Christian Bale's not doing that Christian Bale's not doing Yeah, I'm not the one wearing hockey pants. That's not Christian Bale. That's Dan Kabir asks what is the key to gaining muscle? eating Coffee excuse you Eating in a caloric surplus and lifting weights three times a week Nicholas asks Hey, D&B. Hey, Nicholas. I think it's a business like that Duns and Bradstreet That's what I was thinking of too. Hey Duns and Bradstreet. I find it hard It's done in Bradstreet. I find it hard to stick to my workouts for more than two weeks It's like I work out for two weeks and suddenly I find myself not working out at all from then any advice We're gonna go you haven't created the habit yet. That's the biggest thing man You've got to create the habit So when you get to two weeks and then one day you just don't want to work out You just have to force the issue there and then you have to budget the time and that means there needs to be a little chunk on your calendar from 6 to 7 p.m When you get off work where you go into the parking lot you pull your jump rope and you whip that thing for 20 minutes As hard as you can you get back in your car you go Why why do you stop working out like bro if you find yourself not working out then just do it like if you In your mind if you worked out for two weeks straight 14 days on the 15th day You're like, I'm not gonna work out today. Just don't do that. Just work out like Yeah, it's so angry when I answer this question Dude, no because it guys like I'm giving you tough love like trust me dude We love you we support you in this but we have to give you guys tough love like there should be no reason Why you can't you can't ask like oh man, I suddenly find myself not working out. What's the deal? What's the deal? You're just not working out. Just do it. Yeah It reminds me of like a dude who's just like you know I was doing so well there and you know suddenly I find myself having sex with a woman who's not my wife and like it Just happens. Yeah You made the decision to not to not work out. So don't make that decision make the decision to work out That's it. I mean dude. There's so many days There's so many days where I'm like, I just don't want to work out and then the little my mind Little Dan pops up and it's like shut and just go work out. You don't choice It's not it's not something that you can decide you have to create a little game in the back of your head Hey guys any good healthy Colombian healthy Colombian recipes we want to share Healthy and San Cocho San Cocho. I know I'm kidding. There's a lot of healthy Colombian food actually Yeah, very macro-friendly not micro-dupe not micronutrient heavy true true Dude my favorite one. It's not like super healthy, but it's not super unhealthy. Remember. It's not about healthy and healthy My favorite breakfast. I love this breakfast Cafe Con Leche which is just a little bit of coffee with a ton of milk and then a little bit of coffee and a ton of milk It's a lot of milk. It's like half milk half coffee. They don't do splash like in the US But I would say it's it's eggs with tomato onions and ham and then an arepa with a little bit of butter and quesito cheese That is like dude. It's my favorite. I love it Even though I don't eat it for breakfast. I actually eat that most days. I like to be on yeah, I like San Cocho Juca papa's Avocado beef dude. I said co-chairs today three types of me ribs chicken and beef ribs chicken and beef fire Yeah, sorry for pronouncing your name wrong with my dude. We're here answer your question. What's up? I Hope you're fine. I'd like to know your body fat rate before parentheses I'm talking about the photos you show all the time and you used to be big and now cheers from Switzerland Brenda go ahead. Yeah, so I know why you put quotations are big cuz some people might look at our photos, especially my dick You're big, but you're not fat dude. Yeah, and I was probably about 20% body fat honestly 20% body fat when I was my biggest and I was probably about 22 to 23% body fat at my biggest again guys We we were not saying that we were fat people before but we were large and trust me like that That we lost 70 pounds like 70 pounds each like that was somewhere, you know Straight up straight up Matthew asks Brandon. You said you had done fitness modeling So I wanted to ask whether it is necessary to be tall to do to be a fitness model if you are good in other areas I'm 5'7 and yes, I'm from India. What does he mean good in other areas? And why yes, I'm from India. Look I'm 5'7, but I got a I got a two-foot Yo, you could for sure be a fitness model dude. What is Mark Wahlberg is like 5'8 Dude, he's short and he looks do you remember him in the Calvin Klein commercials He was all up in that fitness modeling game JB. He's not that tall. Yeah, he looks great And he's he's been done fitness modeling. Yo straight up Definitely some guys were taller get gigs, but there's a lot of dudes who are like medium height that get gigs as well So if you get the physique if you're lean if you're sculpted you can get work We actually made a video on this it's called how to get fitness model body where I talk you through How you go and try to get that career. So watch that video on YouTube Laura asks what should I do? If I'm 17 and can't afford buying my own food I'm living at my parents house. So it's a bit difficult for me counting macros and stuff girl I hear you Laura that's a tough situation. That was tough. It is if I if I was you I would she just have to do what you can. I'm sure your parents buy eggs, right? I'm sure they buy deli meat I'm sure they buy a lot of foods that you can make healthier recipes with and at the end of the day You're just gonna have to do portion control, which is I know it's hard to do But do your best to portion control and you're gonna be able to get yourself in a slight calorie deficit And you're 17 you shouldn't stress about this too much Just try to eat whole foods as much as you can and you're gonna be right whole foods being real food fruit veggies fish nuts And lean meats, and yeah, we'll bring me and when you can when you're when your mom or guy wherever go shopping Go shopping ask me if you can go with them and you know sneak some of food some of those healthy foods in the shopping cart Exactly exactly I agree Brandon Aaron asks. What's up Zen dudes? Sup Aaron. I'm in the Royal Air Force over here in the UK. Nice. Thank you my dude. Wait, no Thank you, you're not from the UK. I don't care man. I'm just saluting like someone who's fighting for their country You know or like standing up. Well, they're you're an ally. So thanks for you know putting up with Thanks for putting up with the US basically I'm in the Royal Air Force over here in the UK, and I'm going away for four months Obviously, I'm taking my cross for it But I won't be in control of cooking my own meals any advice on how to keep shedding those pounds while eating in the mess All for all that time. PSF downloaded all 207 episodes Take with me. Hell. Yeah. Thank you, bro Porsche control. This is so hard. This is so hard. This is probably why I was a fat dude in college It's the same well along with I was supposed to be facts I was a defensive end but along with that like it's so hard to have all this food And then Sam only gonna eat this much of it, but dude This is gonna be the test of your will man. You can do it We believe in you. You just have to force control your food portion control and honestly if you're in a mess hall or a cafeteria Even if you're in Like the military of some sort. I'm sure they're giving you Like pretty good macro friendly fruit food and I mean what I mean by that is you guys are always training and working out So they got a few of you stuff like, you know meats starchy vegetables Thick carbs like potatoes and things like that So I think that actually hitting your macros would be pretty easy in this situation like that Tell me otherwise, but I think you can do it man It's all about hitting those numbers tracking it consistently in my fitness pow as you build up awareness Rafael ask guys will you ever create a zen dude jump rope right now? Our main focus is helping as many people transform their lives as possible What we do down the road road as far as like physical products goes like we don't we don't know We're not even thinking there right now right now We want to help as many people transform their body with a jump rope as possible and fortunately We have the best partners in the world the crossroads right here So we're not in any urgency to try to make our own jump rope real quick guys if you want to cross rope We use all of their jump ropes. We have them in all of our videos check them out for 10% discount below You can get this specific rope right here and others that are on the site This would probably be a good time also shout out athletic greens. Yeah give them a shout out AG This is our nutrition company right here. They are one of the most top quality nutrition and supplementation companies That's why we work with them. We got the protein here and the green juice We also have BCAA's which Brandon and I take sometimes but we take these two things all the time The green juice is the best tasting most beneficial green juice that we have personally found the market So check those out. They are also linked Below Raul asks dudes when we start accepting payments through Amazon Yo, Raul we currently sell the simple meal system on Amazon So you can go there right now and search simple meal system and you'll find that there and we have a jump rope Workout program that we're launching this weekend and we might throw that on Amazon too So wait on my brother Gustavo asks what was the best place you guys ever jumped rope but did not make a video I like this question. Ah, I did not make a video. I jumped rope next like the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City Which is pretty cool. I didn't take any videos there. That was that's a good one I did it on the other side in Jersey City and didn't really take it. Yeah, that's a good one, dude I was thinking We didn't make a jump rope video in San Andres and I think that would have been a dope setting to make a jump Rope video. That's a little little island off the coast of Nicaragua Nicaragua and ladies and gentlemen, we have a guest question bonus question Someone on Instagram, but I don't know what their name was. I forget their name on Instagram, but check it Here's the question the person was asking since The limit of protein you should eat per every meal is 30 grams How do you hit your total number of protein per day and we have a special answer to that pretty good Yeah, so we actually don't agree with what he said about only being able to metabolize 30 grams of proteins Within that period of time. It's not a thing We always say just focus on eating the total amount of calorie math and nutrients for an entire day I mean to be honest We're able to maintain our physics and a lot of times we're only eating, you know Two or one meal a day later in the day So if that was true, like we wouldn't be able to maintain any of our muscle mass and like our bodies would just go to shit And so it's not true. Just focus on eating the total amount of calories math and nutrients Just that just that the like I totally understand where you're coming from because there probably is like a lot of You know like articles that say that 30 years. Yeah, that's like that's a body-building thing. Exactly That's like body-building pseudo science that hasn't been really proven out and also at the same time That's impossible because guys you have to understand the principle that everyone's body is different for me that threshold is probably like me and Brandon 60 to 80 grams of protein per meal for someone much smaller Yeah, their body might only be able to get 20 grams of protein per meal But the point is everyone's body is different So when you see blanket statements like this is that way or this is how much like one gram of Protein per pound of body weight, whatever like all that that old fitness dogma You can't go off that because everyone's body truly is different And you have to know the certain ratios of macronutrients for your specific body So avoid the artificial complexity and just stick to doing the thing stick to doing the thing ladies and gentlemen We want to thank you for another fantastic episode, let's clap it up