 What does it take for an average Asian guy to glow up into a super chat? Yeah, this went viral on Reddit. Let's read the post. He says, I was fat my whole life until 26 when I started lifting weights. I didn't really monitor my diet or do cardio. Then I lost some of it and eventually got my first girlfriend at around 27 years old. She ended up dumping me a week before my 33rd birthday. Then I went through a slow glow-up over the next two years to get to where I'm at now. I'm Taiwanese, I'm 5'11", 160 pounds. I stay lean year-round. Andrew, here are the photos of this guy's glow-up. Andrew, here he is skinny, but not a lot of muscle. Then he's like bulking. He's what, eating steaks, mac and cheese, more steaks. It's kind of getting out of hand here. He's looking almost like chunky, right? Boom! Gets motivated, leans out. Andrew, what C-drama, K-drama is this guy the actor of right now? I got to say, man, this is quite an inspiring journey this guy went on, but we're going to go through detail all the steps that he took. I would say this right off the bat that he pretty much put in a 9.5 out of 10 effort. This is almost as much effort as any regular software engineer would put into glowing up. But I want you guys out there, if you guys are thinking about trying to glow up or get fit yourself, you can kind of plot yourself compared to him. This is a bar. This is a high bar. This guy is not a professional actor or model or anything, right? So you're saying within sort of the over-the-counter consumers, this is he put in an almost the max. So this is what we're going to do, guys. We're going to go through his whole workout and all the effort that he put into it. It's quite a lot. Maybe it's not for everybody, but you can also plot yourself compared to where he's at. So please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the hot pop boys. Smala also getting a glow up. I mean, it's not really, but check it out. It's shipping out right now. SmalaSauce.com finally shipping. I know it took a while, but we're very excited about our product. Real quick, man, I just got to say sometimes if you get dumped by the love of your life, that will just get your motivation bar in your internals to a level that really almost nothing else can. I mean, how many memes have I seen on the internet about like a dude at the gym. He just got dumped. He sees this long text and he's just pumping iron. So I do think that obviously that's a large part of his journey, but David, we're going to go through all the steps and I don't know. I mean, you know, not every regular person is going to do all this, but you know what it is? I think a lot of guys, now that they see the results, they're going to see exactly because he listed out exactly what he does in terms of skincare, diet, exercise. Like you said, you can triangulate yourself. And this is a really useful chart. All right, David, can we start with the diet first? Because we all understand diet is probably the biggest part, the biggest component to even losing weight, cutting weight, which is what he wanted to do. He had good features. He's 511. That's a good height, but he was pudgy. So you can really see like his face fully. Right, right, right. I mean, let's be honest, he does have a good genetic basis because even in this second, like really bulky photo, he almost looks like a Korean mafia guy in a movie. But then, of course, to get to the, this almost like Marvel superhero type shreddedness, he eats about 3000 calories a day, Andrew, but he makes sure that all the calories are clean. He's not eating any sort of refined foods. He's cut out sodas, sugars, Andrew, huge. He cut out alcohol and fast food and all processed foods. But yeah, he's on a pretty strict regimen. Andrew protein shakes, of course, sweetened with monk fruit only. He's taking creatine. I definitely do recommend people take creatine. Whether it's in a pill format or in a powder format, he's taking collagen peptides for breakfast. He'll have one banana, unsweetened oatmeal, a large bowl of fruits. He'll have avocados on a Ezekiel bread, which is Ezekiel bread is the lowest carb bread you can get for eggs and powdered greens. I know you're a big powdered greens fan. I like powdered greens for dinner. He's going to have a salad, Andrew, but not with a creamy dressing with olive oil or balsamic and a little bit of cheese on top. He's also going to get veggies such as broccoli or spinach, a sweet potato, and then usually either salmon or chicken, but a double portion of lean. Anyway, he also, Andrew, wakes up at 430 in the morning to train for two hours. Bro, this to me is one of the hardest things. I mean, the diet, I'd have to eat a little bit more delicious food than that. But man, waking up at 430, whoo, not for everybody. Like we said, this guy is a software engineer. So he's coding in front of multiple computer screens all day long. So he gets up at 430 so he can get an hour of weight lifting in Andrew and an hour of cardio. Wow. And he says on his rest days, he actually still runs three miles and does yoga. Um, but yeah, he was talking about like, you know, walking on an incline treadmill and stuff like that because obviously, Andrew, as we know, sometimes you need a mixture of HIIT and slow burn stuff to get your knee rate up. Because sometimes you have like a carb reserve and a fat reserve and different types of exercises can tap into the either the carb or the fat. Yeah. What I found weren't walking on an incline. Maybe if you're holding some weights, like a two pound weight in your arm, even, I mean, that's going to get your non exercise activity, thermogenesis, Genesis, Genesis up, which that's just a fancy word for just saying like calories you burn just doing non intentional exercise. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, Andrew, uh, that's all the stuff I think would you agree that a lot of when it comes to the nutrition and the exercise part, people know the general things that they should do. Maybe they don't know the details, but everybody knows. Don't eat crap workout a lot, whether that's like running or weights. Right. Well, it depends on how much you work out, how many calories you want to eat and stuff like that. But yes, I think generally people understand guys lower fat, lower carb, workout, workout, eat protein. Yeah. Um, anyway, let's just get into his face wash, Andrew, because this guy also has like some skin routine because I want to note his pictures. Now, dude, he's, he looks like an actor now, bro. Like, you know, like he looks literally like a C drama, K drama guy. Right. Right. And so his skin is super clear. Like my skin is not on this level or at least a fitness model. Right. Right. Right. Um, anyway, he has a $50 face wash. He has $60 facial cleansing pads. He's got an $80 liquid exfoliation. He's got a $175 daily defense serum. Whoa, whoa, whoa. He's got a $110 vitamin C serum, $120 moisturizer, a $40 sunscreen, $20 peel off mask once a week and a $20 pack of poor packs that he uses once a week. That's a, you know, he just used the biori once and that's just during the day. That's his daytime setup. Right. That evening he has a $50 face wash, a $300 gold derma roller. He has a prescription for Tretinon, which is 30 bucks, but yeah, you got to get a, you know, a prescription to get that through your doctor or dermatologist. And he has a hydrating cream in the evening for $120. He also uses a $60 body lotion, a $30 foot cream, a $30 hand cream, a $52 body scrub and his shampoos and conditioners. Oh, we didn't even get to the hair yet? His shampoos and conditioners come out of a very hipster Swedish well designed bottle. He's got hair creams, hair powders. I know you're a big fan of hair powder as well as additional hairsprays. Oh man. All right. So, you know, straight up. First of all, shout out to this guy for his discipline and his dedication. Also, you know, he spends a lot of money on all of his skincare. Right. These are probably out of, they're probably like eight out of 10, nine out of 10 expensive on the tiers. Like by the way, you guys can obviously go on Amazon and get a much cheaper version of the same things. Like I would say he uses as many skincare products as an actor does. Right. Like as a professional person who's on camera. Definitely, you know, so I think it's very impressive at the same time. But I think some people maybe looking at his list, David, and looking at everything that he did and was like, are you serious? Right. I gotta do all that. Is there possibly like a takedown version or first few steps that people need to be taken? Yeah. I mean, it's just like anybody following a keto or a paleo diet. There's a reason why they call it semi keto or lazy keto. There's like all these modified versions that are much more sustainable for your average person with relatively average discipline or, you know, just like different life constructs that can't be subverted. Right. Anyway, I do think it goes to show you that upgrades can be done though. Right. I think every man could be upgraded. Okay. Just because you might not end up looking like him, you know, even if you do the same things, I will tell you this. I have a friend who's out here in the city. He's about five foot four. So he's not a tall guy and he was kind of pudgy for a while. He's losing a lot of weight. He's doing one meal a day. He's working out and he cut the carbs at his older age of 37. He's getting a lot more compliments now. It is changing his life. Did he turn into this super Chad? No, obviously not given the same genetic cards. So even if he did the exact same things, he's not turning into this guy, right? But he is literally getting compliments. He's having people view him differently. He's having some of those old flings, you know, compliment him and stuff like that. Hey, how you doing? Yeah. So he like for every guy in every situation, it's going to help. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, I think that everybody has different levels of discipline and life constraints, but everybody can at least like, let's say, say for example, this guy's out of nine out of 10 because he's not, he's not discipline level. Yeah. He's like, I got it. I mean, he's probably out of 10 out of 10, but he's not like maxing out everything. I'm sure like if you're a pro athlete, you're taking all these other like crazy supplements that are only approved in Germany or whatever. But I would say that like a lot of guys are probably at what a two out of 10 if he's at a nine out of 10. And I would recommend most everybody at least get to a five or a six, right? Just put in some effort. What effort are you using? Like I would like to know in the comments down below for the people who have started to make a change in the past couple years, what is one thing you guys started to do that maybe? Well, I know all the looks, maxing stuff is getting going really viral on YouTube right now. I mean, like even channels that you never thought would talk about it or talking about it. You can see in his old picks, Andrew, he's clearly spending a lot of time at expensive steak houses with a porter house and gigantic bowls of mac and cheese and cream spinach around him. I mean, I guess, does it just go to show you the mac and cheese and mashed potatoes and bread is going to kill you that dinner. You know, I mean, even technically the steak, if you just ate the steak is not that bad. What do you think is the diminishing law of returns? Like in terms of like, obviously, I'm sure he's doing it for himself just to max out and be the best he can be. But in terms of like, for most guys, Andrew, let's say for example, you spend a lot of time on the internet, you're like above 20 percent body fat is cutting to like seven or eight percent realistic or probably settling somewhere like 15, 16, 17 could even be okay. Dude, I think 15 percent body fat is already really, really low. You know, if you're talking about eight percent, I mean, I would say that's probably bodybuilder level. Right. That's crazy. Are people surprised at how different his face looked after cutting the body fat? Yeah, I think that that is pretty impressive, you know, that you didn't really know, like, I guess he just had a lot of pudge on his face this whole time. Right. What about getting an haircut? Because obviously he's spending a lot of money on his haircut. Andrew, what are some ways that basically people can achieve some level of what this guy did without spending all the money or being quite as disciplined or time intensive? Because some guys in the comments section were actually like put off by how much he put it. Yeah, no, I think it is intimidating to a lot of people. But I think that like, it's almost funny, like if you just do a fraction of what he did, you're actually still going to see an improvement, you know, as long as it's different than what you're used to doing. So I mean, a haircut, obviously he is, he does actually have a good head of hair. Not everybody is blessed with that. It was dense. Yeah, not everybody is even blessed with such great hair to start off with. So you know what I mean? Like, he's doing everything he can to keep it. You know what was cool about this post that I think the reason why I went so viral is because he was talking about that he was fat his entire life. And that's probably what allowed him to become a software engineer. If you look like this, your whole life with all the attention you're going to get, let's just say he looked like this when he was 16, you're not going to become a software engineer. Your life is going to go a different direction. Here's my thing. I just think like, you know, he probably has eaten all the mashed potatoes and mac and cheese that he probably he's tried everything. Yeah. And I think for him, he's probably just satisfied with having been like, you know what, I've been to a lot of dinners, you know, and I don't have to eat that stuff all the time. Maybe he's at a point in his career to where he doesn't need to. But he had to cut out the font one. He had to cut out the font one. You know, some of that stuff is still delicious. You gotta eat it from time to time, but you gotta be careful. I guess my real quick advice would be, man, there's a lot like cheaper versions and like, I guess a little bit more convenient versions of what he did. Like, let's say he is the nine out of 10 or the 10 out of 10, you can go on Amazon and get the takedown version but still have access to everything that he has. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's there's more affordable versions of these things. I don't know if they work as well, but you can get anti-aging cream for not as, you know, 13 bucks. Obviously the components are going to be different probably, but you know, on a molecular level, it'll still get the job done. You know, it might not be as good, but save you a ton of money. Anyway, somebody said, this man got dumped. This is what happened to his body. Yeah. I mean, I think girls do it too, right? They got that breakup glow up. That's like pretty common, right? Somebody said, this dude focused his self-care in a meaningful way that works for his schedule and desired life, lifestyle. It's a lot of info, but at this point it is a habitual routine that does not require a lot of time or conscious thought and has become his second nature. Think about it. Just all the times that he was basically like telling everybody that was saying, oh, this is too much work. All the times that you're online playing games or looking at memes or just wasting your time unproductively, this guy's just rounding it all up and focusing it in the morning. Right. Yeah. It is true. It is true. Somebody said, this guy went from a real estate church pastor to training for Nathan's fourth of July hot dog contest to a contestant in physical 100. Meanwhile, I'm flipping through his picks while eating a double cheeseburger. Somebody said all that and every morning he's like, nope, still Asian. This was from a white guy and another white guy came in and defended him and said, nope, you're still bitter, bro. Yeah. I mean, I do think when an Asian guy glows up this, because this got posted on like a multiple of like non-Asian forums to some, some guy who doesn't look this good wants to cut him down and be like, yeah, Asian guys still can't do anything. Yeah. No, in his state, nah, man, definitely he's, he's trumping a lot of non-Asian dudes. Like him being Asian is not as big of an issue, depending on his personality at this point. Yeah. Somebody said, calm down. Simu Liu still needs that job at Marvel. I mean, yeah, I think that, you know, he looks like he could try to be an actor, but let's be honest guys, being an actor takes way more other skill sets than how you look. Even though I guess how you look is the most obvious one. Someone said he looks way younger after he lost the weight. Yeah. I mean, I do think it like kind of can rewind sort of the clock a little bit. Somebody said long story short, he just hit the gym, lost weight and put on muscles and got a good K-pop or K-drama hairstyle. Yeah. I do think that that's the most like simplest way to see what he did, but as you can see from his breakdown Andrew, it actually got super nuanced. Right, right. And somebody said he didn't even need tats to look like a Supreme Asian F-boy impressive work, sir. Do you think that he looks like an Asian F-boy? Part of me thinks that he looks almost like a good guy protagonist in a soup. You know what I mean? I don't know if he looks like an F-boy because I do think when you get the tats and you kind of get that edgy look, that's more. Yeah, I would say definitely a physical 100 contestant, possibly a pretty boy, maybe action star because he's so buff and like not even like the drama guys are this buff. Right. Like, you know what I mean? The K-drama guys are just getting- But it is true. I will say this, that it's like not necessarily going to appeal to girls in the bad boy that like the bad boy thing. Oh, no, no, no. I mean, at the end of the day, he's just ranking higher in the lane that he was already in. The Eric Nam protagonist. Yeah, but he is to be honest on that level that if he was just looking at date casually, I think there's a number of women who would be interested in dating casually. It looks like Cyclops. Yeah, if you wanted to date casually, I think he's got that set up for him. If that's what you want, it all depends on what you want out of life. Why do you think this post went so viral, Andrew? Everybody knows that you just got to eat less bad stuff and work out and eat more good stuff. Literally, it is as simple as that, but people got to see it from a relatable person, right? Nam speaks to his focus and how much he invested. I don't even know who gave him all that routine, like who told him to get all those skin care products. But at the end of the day, he put in the time, the research, the discipline, and assuming he's telling the truth. And then I think a lot of people are just like, wow, wow, you made the change. You did it. You know what I mean? And they're just impressed by it. Whether you're Asian, non Asian, this is an impressive glow up. You know what I mean? I'm not gonna lie. I didn't even know what hair cream was. So when I was looking at his breakdown, I was like, I went to Amazon and I got a hair cream that was one fifth of the price of the hair cream he uses. Hey, you know what? Buying it is half the battle. You know what the other half is? Using it consistently. I think the dad is the tough part. A lot of people buy that stuff. How many people have bought a derma roller? Or yeah, how many people have bought this and this cream? And it's sitting around. Do you think buying a nice version makes you want to use it more though? Sometimes, sometimes it's a space thing. You got to have things laid out. You got to have your setup. Got to have your little bathroom cart. If you don't have the counter space, you You mean organized and sequenced you or you play down the things that you're doing. You're only doing a two step process instead of a six step process. Whatever it is, you got to do it consistently and you got to make it part of your life. You know what I recommend for everybody, man, go to either a Japanese or a Korean skincare spot, right? You don't got to get the best. Don't get the cheapest thing, but you can even one level above the cheapest. Get something that's like a foaming face cleanser. Just put it in the shower. So you've already got the face cleansing done right before you get out of the shower. And for a toner, spray toner. Wow. Is it going to go into your skin as good as putting it on a cotton ball? No, but guess what? If you have to put it on a cotton ball, you're not going to do it. Just not doing it guys. So make, put in the effort to design your life to make it convenient and consistent for yourself. I think if it's a pain in the ass to do something, a lot of people are less likely to do it. Yeah. Well, anyway, really inspirational post from this guy. Like we said, I don't have this amount of effort or discipline to put into it, but definitely it made me go, I mean, I could up at a few points. Let us know what you guys think in the comment section below of this guy's glow up. Let us know in the comment section below. If you have any tips or tricks or hacks to look your best, you know, especially as an Asian guy, I think that you just got to do it. One thing I will say this, one thing that I see sometimes Asian guys do is they go, well, you know, I was grew up in the neighborhood with this one dorky grizzly white guy and he got like a pretty cute girlfriend. He doesn't do any of this stuff. So how, why do I have to stone dwell on that man? That's beyond you. Listen, that's probably a real dynamic, but that ain't just life. I mean, some dudes get lucky too. Who knows? Anyways, guys, let us know in the comments down below what you think about his glow up. What did he go from a six to a nine? Did he go from like a five to an eight? Did he go from a seven to a 10? I don't know. What do you think? So what are some things that you guys do to help yourself out? And until next time, we out. Peace.