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[00:00:10] You know what keeps them moving and growing and living? Tell me. Itβs other catfish or that predator. So, if we never had predators in our lives. Weβd stay stuck and we progress nothing. So every time we ask, βGod, take away the stress, God, take away this issue,β weβre asking God to make us weaker, not stronger.
[00:00:33] Because instead of asking like, βHey, God, make me more creative, make me more passionate, make me more patientβ. We ask, βHey, take away thisβ.
[00:00:45] But then we still want everything else that comes along with it. How does that work?
[00:00:49] Itβs easy. I donβt know. I mean, if you think about it, you know, from the first time weβre born, Danny. Itβs not easy. Right. Youβve got to be one in a trillion sperm, really, and only to God, itβs very, very clear that, if you donβt get to that egg first? Done. Right. Youβre done. So from the moment weβre given a chance, weβre on the point of destruction from the beginning. Exactly. So, in essence, why did that sperm get to that egg? Right. So you asked. It fought through. Fought through, right.
[00:01:27] So, when you think of everything else as far as people complain, how people say, βoh, you know, I want more money, I want thisβ. But they donβt look at everybodyβs backstory, the back end. And then behind the curtains, they think, βoh, man, Dr. Jimenez, youβre a doctorβ. Sure, you donβt know how many times youβve lost and rebuilt your practice or youβre a gym owner and you have it made. You donβt know how many times you have to go in at 4:00 in the morning to get a work out because you have to train people all day long to ensure that this business stays afloat. You know? Right. People donβt see that back end. Right. You know, theyβre quick to say, βoh, it must be easyβ. No, itβs not easy until you step into the personβs shoes because youβre the one that has to sign the checks. Youβre the one that has to stay up at night and figure out payroll. Youβre the one who has to be creative and figure out how youβre going to make ends meet. Youβre the one that constantly has to be on it. You know, as much as you want to kick back and say whatever and do this. Well, I would love to work out four to five hours a day. That my passion. Is it your passion? Itβs my passion. And do we? No, no. Right. What do we have to do? We have to be meticulous. We have to be disciplined. And we have to keep, Iβm sure, we have to keep a proper order to ensure that we stay on top of schedule. Yes or no? Absolutely. Exactly. You know, so Iβm saying at the end of the day is, if you donβt have something chasing you, you become fat and dormant and you become lazy.
[00:02:54] I think nature is designed to eliminate you. Alex would say, you know, itβs survival of the fittest limiting the species or whatever heβd call it when heβs in biochemistry. You know, I got to tell you, itβs not easy to be a business owner. Itβs not. Itβs not easy when you have no sleep.
[00:03:15] Ever since Iβve known you, youβve put time in from early hours and youβre here from 430 in the morning and here. What time is it now? Youβre here. Youβre here. And weβre here sharing some stories. You know, itβs one of those things where itβs going to be nonstop all our lives.
[00:03:29] But hereβs the thing. If you donβt do it, it doesnβt stimulate you to become good at what you do. Right. You become lethargic and everything goes bad. Literally, you slowly begin the process of ceasing to exist. Right.
[00:03:45] So, we all need rest. Right? Right. To rejuvenate. Get creative. Itβs scientifically proven. You need that to reset. You have to. Otherwise, you burn out. Right? Right. But after how many days of rest? One. Two. Where you just get, disconnected, spastic. You know, youβre kind of like, βAll right, cool. I rested enough. Iβm goodβ. You donβt stay stuck there.
[00:04:12] No, no, no, no. And I pray for vacation. Right. And when I get it, after about three days, Iβm like, OK. Right. All right. Iβm done. Letβs go. Yeah, OK. What am I going to break? What am I going to do? Thatβs how we are. Exactly. But thatβs what makes you so successful, right? Yeah, well, it drives us. And it drives us in creating who we are. And it also gives us a vision as to what weβre going to do. You know, Danny, when we start these podcasts, we want to get a little bit or tell the people a little bit about the story of what you do. And tell them about, you know, where youβve been and whatβs been happening with you. OK. So for me, itβs very important to share with the people what is actually happening.
[00:04:59] Iβve always been one to say, you know, I see how hard you work. And I see how much effort you put into things. But Iβd like to know a little bit about you as to what actually made you and what kind of makes you click a little bit. When I actually discuss these things, I want to ask you what made you begin PUSH, what made you start this massive, massive organization.
[00:05:25] I want to reach the masses of people and help people.
[00:05:33] So, in all reality.
[00:05:39] My sister, my brother-in-law, my brother. Weβve all come from platforms, as far as, speaking, preaching, singing. Whatever it is. I was always, kind of the black sheep, so to speak, and I mean that like in a good way because I wasnβt treated differently. I just was very much a rebel. If that makes any sense.
[00:06:00] I wanted to create my own. So if my family went right, Iβd go left. The people go right. Iβd go left. I was always trying to find a different way. And I was just stubborn like that. But I think thatβs what allowed me to become the most successful. But thatβs what allowed me to create this place so I can reach the masses of people and have my own platform of changing peopleβs lives.
[00:06:23] Let me ask you. When you first started PUSH. What was the reason you started it out? You know? Did you? You were always in the fitness. Ever since Iβve known you, youβve always been into a deep understanding. You know, I love sharing that story with people about when I first met you. You were driven. I mean, you were this kid, itβs just like you were hunting for knowledge. You were trying to figure out what it was that made people tick. And you wanted to teach people. A little cocky. Iβd say. But being 18 years old, I mean, who isnβt? Right. At that age? You havenβt even thumped in the head a couple of times, but you did and you shared it with people and you did that. But what made you, what drove you? Because I got to tell you, Iβm a big believer, Danny. About like, when you evaluate families, I see how hard your dad works. I see how your mom is incredible in terms of what she does. She just, she wins these crossfit competitions just on mere, literally, you have to turn off the lights to get her off the wall because she just keeps on going. Right? I mean, what is it that you feel drove you and what started the whole philosophy of trying to help people out?
[00:07:32] I mean, like you put it, in my my parents work ethic. They just never stop. They still donβt stop. They still try to move forward despite what life throws at them and theyβre successful in their own way. They never stop working towards their marriage, towards their love, towards serving each other. The biggest thing they showed me is that, well, we always have to serve people and they serve each other. They serve at the church, they serve wherever they go. My dad, it doesnβt matter where it is. Heβs always trying to, if itβs not your house. It doesnβt matter. Try to take out your trash, clean your table, whatever it is. Youβve got to tell him, βHey day, just chill. But thatβs where I learned it from. You donβt just go anywhere and just be. Wherever you go, you always serve. And thatβs my sense of faith mentality. You know, itβs biblical. You know? Wherever you are, we are supposed to serve people. As husbands and wives, weβre supposed to serve each other. Thatβs what makes us so successful. You know, you look at Jesus in the Bible and heβs, βWhat do you do? You serve people.
[00:08:44] He helped people.
[00:08:47] Not the norm. The most unorthodox non-religious people, you know, other people that needed the most help, not the most religious. And I think thatβs what I love to do. I love helping the people that need the most help. The unconventional. Not the people that are already athletic. I mean, donβt get me wrong. I do love helping them, but I guess I like helping the unorthodox, so to speak.
[00:09:17] Yeah. You know what? When you mentioned that about your dad, one of things I noticed is that I came here to work out around 6:00 in the morning and it was freezing outside, literally freezing.
[00:09:29] You had a flat tire. Your dad was lifting the car by himself to get that tire up. Yeah. It was crazy. I go, you know, by the time I got there, I was like, thereβs this guy working on that. There was no jack. Heβs actually picking up the car himself. Heβs pushing that thing up and lifting the car to fit the tire on. I was like, you gotta be kidding me. You didnβt even know. I told you and you go, man, my dad never asked or, you know, he just does it. Thatβs one of the things you said. And thatβs who we are. We are our parents. We eventually become our parents to some extent. And thatβs very much how you are. Your philosophies that have guided the PUSH fitness, you know, entourage and the people that come here have been like extreme athletes. Tell me a little bit about that. In terms of what actually drove you to pick athleticism as your way of serving.
[00:10:20] I think seeing the potential of.
[00:10:24] Well, what people can be pushed to if you believe in them. A lot of times people, you know, do believe in themselves but itβs amazing what you see people become or individuals or athletes when you say, hey, I believe you. Someone that, not your mom not your dad, because itβs kind of like, itβs expected, sister, relatives, you know. And you know, not that they have to tell you that but, you know, itβs kind of sometimes expected. Yes, exactly. But then you have this stranger saying, I believe in you genuinely, wholeheartedly. And it brings out that much more of you. I know. Thatβs how I was. I still remember various times where you tapped me on the shoulder and said, you know.
[00:11:15] What are you doing? You can, and Iβm very different.
[00:11:20] I donβt need someone to preach to me. To tell me how to run the place itβs kind of like a little, just a little hug. A kick, a get going. And that gets you going to move on to the next level of the mountain. And thatβs what allowed, thatβs what I love seeing as a potential that you could bring out in all individuals. When you see that pretty much youβve been able to see everyone crack.
[00:11:45] What is it you look for when you see them kind of hit that wall? When you start working with an individual with a specific set, whatever sport theyβre in or whatever their dreams are, a weight loss or whatever it is. What is it you look for?
[00:11:59] To see the reason why theyβre quitting. Theyβre genuinely tired or have theyβve been?
[00:12:07] Babied so much by society that they donβt know how to push themselves anymore, and itβs really a sensitive society nowadays you canβt, you know, push kids because they get their feelings hurt or they feel this way or that way, and sometimes itβs like.
[00:12:25] Dude, you got to wake your ass up.
[00:12:28] If not, youβre not making it in this life. Nothing comes easy. And then weβre all expecting for things to become easy because weβre, you know, a microwave generation, everything we do we want to do so quick. So I look for the reason as to why theyβre quitting. This genuinely like, the why, theyβre tired and theyβre gonna throw up. Oh, alright. But you remember firsthand when I worked out with you, I went to go to the restroom, threw up. I came right back. Why? Because itβs what you build with that person, that respect. You know, why would you want someone to quit on you when it gets hard, you know? Yeah. Thatβs exanctly right. How are you gonna count on them. I know you depend on them. No, when it gets tough. You know, theyβre just gonna jump the wagon. Thatβs it. Youβre left alone.
[00:13:18] You know, youβre given a responsibility, a huge one, with a lot of the El Paso kids in whatever sports they do, in whatever the sport, whether it be agility sport based or just some sort of sport based system where where theyβre just kind of, you know, letβs say hockey or even things like tennis or golf.
[00:13:37] But they all have a moment of trying to reach within. I love the way you do that in terms of, you can go ahead and see the depths of what is wrong with them and you can actually connect with them like no other. Iβve seen that every single time, my own kids too when you train them. You asked why? So really like that boats to the point? No one cares what you know. They care that you care. And that caring really allows them to open up, huh?
[00:14:04] Right. Yeah, definitely it does. You know, it makes them see like I do have it in me. I, you know, need to quit babying myself. Right. And I need to get up and get after this because no oneβs gonna give it to me. I gotta get up after it and work for it, period.
[00:14:20] When I would tell my daughter, when they would come in, Iβd say, you know what? You know, Iβm not coming and, you know, Iβm not going today. Right. Iβd say, all right let me call, Danny. No, no. Theyβd feel like they have a, well.
[00:14:34] They sense the obligation that and the trust that you have put into their hearts like no other. Because thatβs what they want. They want someone to believe in them. Exactly. You know, push them. Thatβs why the push. Push. You know, thereβs the added edge of the push. You know, these are very important points. What got you into, do you have to deal with, like the mind-stuff and like work? How do you work on developing a child or working them through their own mental impediments or their own mental kind of dynamics to make them better of who they are? If that makes sense.
[00:15:13] You have to build a foundation with them first. You have to build trust with them. You canβt just go in and yell at them. Hey, letβs go, letβs go. Like, move your ass. Donβt be a little, bitch. You know, you canβt just do that. You have to build a relationship first, have them trust you and have them understand why youβre pushing them. And then when theyβre at the brink of giving up, you yell at their ass and they know why youβre yelling at them. A good parent, after they discipline their kid or ground them, theyβll tell them the reason why they did that. But they donβt stop loving them. They appreciate because they know theyβre wrong.
[00:15:48] Same concept here. Obviously I donβt hit them. But I do yell at them after they know like hey. Yeah, I was sucking and I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and get after it. Right?
[00:16:01] You know, in my own experience with what you did. You know, you have a lot of moms watching you train their kids. Moms are really sharp. Thereβs nothing smarter than a mother in this world. Right.
[00:16:14] And they intuitively understand and they feel the depths of the change in the child. Right. So when they see the depths of the change in the child, they trust you. And this is in mass because I have like a whole wall of families of moms, dads. They bring their kids no matter what. Tired, cold, sleet, rain, snow. They bring their kids here to train with you and the entire crew with the philosophies of pushing to those limits. You know, how does that feel when you see those kids, you know, kind of, excel?
[00:16:54] Proud.
[00:16:57] Completely, pretty much over the moon because you see the hard work that you took to instill that time into them and make sure their full potential came out. So itβs well, itβs rewarding. Itβs inexplicable.
[00:17:11] Let me ask you this. Youβve been now, you know, youβre not young, like 16 years more. Youβre in your 30s, which is a very young age. However, youβve lived long enough to see some of these kids go on and do their their thing.
[00:17:27] Tell me how that feels in terms of you watching them develop, in terms of who they are and what they are, what they develop because of the foundation or at least influenced by the foundation of just donβt give up and keep on pushing through it. How does it feel? What do you think?
[00:17:45] It feels very, in a lot of sense, a lot of pride, because you can see what they could have been and what they couldnβt have been. A lot of times some kids do come from poor or poor extremities. And so to see them excel, believe in themselves, to go to college, to get a successful job, to be something of a higher profession, that other wise they thought they couldnβt build or settling for less and not letting them settle for less is really amazing. Itβs of most, thatβs why I keep doing what Iβm doing.
[00:18:26] These kids keep on calling you? They talk to you personally?
[00:18:30] Yeah, they do. They still kind of keep up with me as far as like what theyβre doing, how theyβre doing, theβll come in work out. Still, you know, to chat with me, everything. Itβs fun. You build that long lasting relationship.
[00:18:43] If you could come up with a couple of words vindicating what makes PUSH unique and you can look deep inside your heart and figure out what it would be. Say you were to had an obituary being read about you. What would they say about PUSH and you? What would you want them to say?
[00:19:04] Honestly.
[00:19:06] That they have somebody other than their parents believe in them.
[00:19:11] Thatβs amazing. Thatβs really a huge component to everything thatβs going on. When do you think someone should actually be coming out to this place and enjoying the kind of lifestyle that this place, you know, helps enhance their lives with? When is that time?
[00:19:29] Whenever. Whenever you want to be a better version of yourself.
[00:19:33] Ok. Ok.
[00:19:34] What do you think people sometimes think about, you know, why shouldnβt they come in? What should not be an impediment? Of them coming in here?
[00:19:43] Their image, that they canβt do it. That theyβre not athletic enough. That theyβre obese. That they have any problems, low back problems. That they look foolish. You know, the whole thing is that at the day, we all look foolish to one extent or another.
[00:19:56] But the point is that if I always assume what others thought and paid attention to how I felt, as far as being embarrased and not being good enough, then I wouldnβt be where Iβm at.
[00:20:11] I tell you, Iβve learned a lot from you, and if anything, my kids have learned a lot from you by just your persistence. You know, I can honestly tell you that my son is better as an athlete because of his relationship with you.
[00:20:29] But let me ask you, in terms of what kind of physical changes as well as emotional changes have happened with you in terms of watching your clients attain their goals?
[00:20:43] Hearing people say you saved me from.
[00:20:48] From diabetes, medications, diabetic medications, I mean you hear people say like.
[00:20:55] I would have died being in this obese state. You saved my life. Man. How do you not get emotional with things like that?
[00:21:04] How do you not get emotional? People saying like, you know, I thought I couldnβt walk or had this muscle imbalance or muscle type of. How do you say?
[00:21:18] I have this one client that couldnβt build muscle. I canβt remember terminology, but the fact that she can build muscle now where the doctor told her she wouldnβt be able to squat a bar and now sheβs squatting over one hundred and thirty five pounds, thatβs phenomenal.
[00:21:31] How does that not keep you motivated and getting up every single day when you donβt feel like getting up, you know, and Iβll say it again. I am in the King David. You know, when you had to encourage yourself, because somebody is not always going to be there to encourage you. You do have to encourage yourself so you can be the best or somebody else that needs it more than you. Ultimately, at the end of the day, someone has it harder than you and you can always help somebody under you.
[00:22:01] Oh, Danny, youβve basically said it in very short and very important keywords. You know, we appreciate you. Weβre here at the PUSH Fitness Center. You know, weβve got some information there that you can use to find Mr. Alvarado, the PUSH Fitness Center is a monster center with a lot of people that care and make changes in peopleβs lives.
[00:22:25] If you guys have any questions, any comments, any ideas in terms of what we do for people, let us know. And weβre here to serve as Danny is. Danny, thank you very much, brother. And I appreciate everything youβve done.
[00:22:38] And God bless, brother. God bless. Thank you.
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