How Has The Fitness Industry Changed ft. Lewis Harrison

What's up everyone, welcome to today's video. We're back in UP and like I was saying, I need someone to push me through some hard workouts after traveling for a while. Okay, so last time we're in Marbella, I was with a very chesty individual, Mikey T. So I've got an even chestier Englishman this time. So, uh, we got Ed Lewis here and we're going to go through a chest and tricep session. So let's kick it off. We got, uh, 4 chest and exercises to treat triceps. So how you feeling?

I'm feeling good, you know what I mean? Um, expect on this workout, last time was in it, it was so hot. Yeah, it was like 35 degrees or something like that, I can't remember, and I was just sweating my back out. Today it's a little bit cooler, nicer, you know what I mean? It was raining yesterday.

Yeah, yeah, thunder and lightning.

Yeah, but we're just saying it's actually kind of nicer here in the months of like September, October, and even like April, May, June, July, August was ridiculous. But yeah, we still get a good sweat on anyway. So right, first up is dumbbell press. So, All right, so for the last set, we're going to do the weighted dips, and then when you can't do anymore, drop the weight and rep it out to failure, just body weight. So let's go!

Come on, 2 more! Let's go! Oh my God, it always feels so light. Last one, last one, come on. Oh my God.

Let's go, let's go!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go!

So Lewis just picks up my phone to check the time.

It's just his lift shady and Clark bent from Joss.

Joss, where are you? You blew the device so he would miss the session.

Yeah, exactly. Look at that Phillips head right there.

That's sick.

Right, session smashed. Chest feeling pumped. And look at the sun is out. I'm like, why am I doing my Q&As up here? Like, seriously, how did we just figure this out? I'm just in my living room. Looks like I'm back in Dublin.

I told him about this, by the way.

Yeah, credit, credit.

It's all right, we're just gonna have a little chat after the workout. And do a little Q&A. So first one up, right, so Lewis and Owen as well, they're OGs of the fitness industry. Like, I followed these guys since the very beginning. And so first question is, how has the fitness industry evolved since the Harrison Twin days?

Oh, massively, hasn't it? Do you think it's changed? Yeah, as we've been in a long time.

Yeah, I've been in the same, more or less same.

Yeah, yeah, like we've been at probably what, since we're about 20, 21, I mean. Like, and it's much harder now, isn't it?

Yeah, definitely.

To probably, I'd say, get a name for yourself like that. You need to bring something else to the table now, do you know what I mean?

Like, and it's like, back in the day, you know, remember your man like JT? Yeah, photos. You'd be walking down the street with your top off. No one wants that tacky shit anymore, which is good. So it's like, it's evolved for the better. It's gotten less kind of cheesy and less about like, you know, being in top shape. Now it's just about really like helping people.

But real life, isn't it?

Like, like, but you know what I mean?

Like, yeah, day-to-day stuff rather than You know, people want to see what you're doing day to day, real life, but they want to see the real you. They don't want to see like kind of like fake you.

Yeah, like no one even does those really over-edited photo shoots.

Yeah, you know, that's gone now.

It's gone. It's gone. Like they want to see real shit.

Yeah, exactly. Like a pic, if you post a pic of you like at your mates at a festival with your mates, it goes off way more than like a professional photo shoot. So it's changed so much. It's just gotten a bit more real because I think people get sick of the airbrushed shit. And I think that's good. You know, later on we'll show the AJ fight. Show us how to do whiskey stairs. People want to see that, you know. So it's got a bit more real and a bit more just about helping people, which I think is awesome. So you've been out in Marbella for the first time this summer.

This is my first time.

So what's your first impression of the place?

Like, when I first— so I was in Ibiza for a month before I came out here, and then obviously a close friend of ours, Joss, invited me out. Obviously I knew Rob was out here anyway, and my first impression I didn't really like it at first, I'm gonna be totally honest, like, because you know, you go down the port, it's very busy, and you're just like, yeah, dickhead. But then obviously as the weeks went on, I started to get used to it, and you know what, I loved it. And now, like, I'm planning to obviously move out here as well. Yeah, I mean, because I'm gonna say it, it's better than Ibiza.

Yeah, everyone's like, dislike! I love the Ibiza vibe.

Don't get me wrong, Ibiza is amazing, but you can't live there.

No, I don't know how Mike does it.

Yeah, we've done loads of it. I think I've done the most.

But we're saying we don't know how Mike does it, and even Louis as well. You know, you have to pace yourself so much on Ibiza, but you definitely feel like you're on an island, whereas here is a lot more connected. Like, I went back to London and Dublin, I was there in 2 hours. Yeah, it was so easy. And whereas like Ibiza just seems a bit more wilder and out of the way. But Marbella, I think the best way to learn how to settle in is to not go out, is to go to the gyms, go to nice restaurants, and go to the beach and kind of get active. And I hike that goddamn mountain, you know, like every day, every day.

Yeah, yeah, I hike it every goddamn day, post the same picture every day.

But like, so yeah, you know, don't come here and become a pisshead, and you get a way better impression often. So yeah, we're going to build a little Marbella family. Me, you, Joss, the whole gang is building. So, on to that note, how to incorporate going out and staying lean. We were just talking about this off camera here. So go on, how do you do it? We're two good people to ask.

Two very good people to ask.

After the summer we've just had.

Although by the end of it I was kind of looking, I was like, I'm not looking great in these last two weeks. I kind of think of it as a budget, guys. Do you know what I mean? Like, you've got to kind of incorporate You know, if you want to go out and party, which everyone should do, I feel. Yeah, you've got to have a social life. You have to. You can't just be a robot in this game, and that's what people want to see.

Yeah, yeah, that goes back to the first question.

Yeah, that goes back to the first question. Like, you know, you think of it as like kind of like a calorie budget, you know.

Calorie money.

Yeah, calorie money. Best type of money. If I could buy it, I could.

But you kind of got a, you know, take care of what you're drinking, I feel. And also, like, those pints, can you be like, looking at what, 300 calories a pint, maybe sometimes higher, and you're like, yeah.

And you got to look at the week in total. So like, if you want to go, go out, blow out on Saturday, well then you got to budget for that day, you know. So on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'll add in 30 minutes extra cardio a day, I'll drop carbs and fats just to give you that leeway. And that's going to increase your adherence long term as well. Now, if I'm prepping for a show or photoshoot, I obviously stay totally different, but if you just want to get like lean and have a good life, have a good social life, you can do that if you just take things into account. So many people don't take it into account and they get blackout drunk and they don't even remember eating the takeaway. But so you just need to be a bit more mindful, isn't it?

Like, you gotta, you know, think about how much sleep you're getting as as well.

Yeah, yeah.

Because you know, when you're drinking, you're more of in a, you know, a sedation rather than a proper sleep.

Yeah, you don't even sleep properly.

Yeah, you don't sleep properly.

You wake up loads during the night.

And that recovery is important, guys, you know what I mean, if you want to stay lean.

Yeah, so just as long as you take it all into account. But I think the best way to think about it is your calorie money and budget. So best advice for online coaches, we actually have the same kind of system in place, you know, so we help each other out. Like, if we're even— you sometimes take my calls.

Yeah, I do.

You know what I mean? Like, seriously, when I'm being a lazy fuck. So best advice for online coaches, because that's kind of like our main job.

Yeah, I think it's just you need to go out there and do it. Yeah, because, you know, and try and make the change from— if you are a one-on-one PT, then you obviously need to start incorporating some online stuff. And the only, the only way to do it, I feel, online is to start using your socials, start using YouTube, start using even like Twitter, Snap, you know, still audiences there that you can still attack.

Yeah.

Okay, but it's just to like, you know, get the hang of it, get out there, do it. Like, it's like your business, isn't it? Like, if you're going to start a business, you just need to go head first.

Yeah.

You can't tiptoe around the idea, otherwise you're not really going to progress. Yeah.

So do you know what I learned the most this last couple of months? Because again, I just started doing the one-on-one recently because these lads got me to do it, and it's one of the best things I've started doing again. I forgot how much I love doing it. But I learned the most from these lads is is you, again, use your socials. Like, some people, they'll post, they don't even reply to comments. They don't reply to their DMs. Like, they kind of think they're above it or something. And it's like, you want to get clients, but you're not messaging. And so what's so effective is, like, literally a potential client, call them up.

Call them.

Literally, they got me into the calls, be like, hey, are you interested? And they'll see the effort you're putting in.

And we give out our personal numbers as well.

Yeah, yes, seriously.

There has to be a personal touch there.

Like, because if there isn't—

They're like, I'm gonna call you, God.

But that's what I've learned the most, even just in the DMs. Sending videos and again engaging with your audience because too many people think they're too cool. So that's it, that's what I've learned from these lads. So plans for the coming months?

Plans for the coming months, well, I'm out here for the next like kind of like week, got to go back to the UK for a little bit. Are you going to Pai?

I think I might go for a little bit to see Mikey T and Joss and all. But I don't want to go out there for like months.

We're not gonna— yeah, we had this chat in the gym actually, in the workout, and we were just like, we don't want to go out for months. I think I plan to stay here the whole of winter really. Yeah, just try and buy a place here. Yeah, and obviously I'll probably rent first and then while my place is getting built, just trying to get a nice pad over here in the sun.

Yeah, that's the plan. So yeah, we'll be in Marbella for most of it, little cheeky trip to Dubai, and then we'll just fuck it up in the summer.

Yeah, yeah, in the summer, then reset the gauge.

And so, right, last one, highlight of the summer. Oh, he was filling me in in the gym.

I was like, make sure the audio's off.

I mean, there's a few things I can't say on camera, all right? Um, I'll probably say it was my birthday because I hadn't seen— believe it or not, I was obviously, when I was in Ibiza for a month that I seen Owen randomly. This was random. Yeah, I was in the gym, in Nevada Gym in Ibiza, and then my video guy went, oh, there's Owen. What? It's the first time I've seen Owen in like 2 years. All right, so I was just like— and we'd obviously had like, we weren't really talking, you know, kind of like for so many years. Yeah, I would say like, you know, months and that bit of family beef and that. But then it was kind of clicked and we're back to normal again. And it was like, and then obviously Rob couldn't make the birthday because he hasn't made it.

Yeah, he hasn't doing a wellness retreat.

You guys were doing the opposite. He was getting away from it. Yeah, I was like, get me out of Marbella.

But yeah, no, it looks unbelievable.

I'm pretty sure the birthday was good. Like, we obviously did a bit of dancing on the table.

Let's insert that clip.

Yeah, we will find that clip.

We'll find that clip. Yeah, we definitely got that clip. And then we went to Playa Padre, I think. And then you've obviously been up there.

Yeah, yeah, loads. Yeah, yeah.

And it's amazing, to be fair.

Yeah, it's sick.

It's got that party beach vibe kind of thing.

Probably end up there tomorrow.

Yeah, yeah, it is Sunday tomorrow. Big one tomorrow. That's the thing about Marbella. I know, I mean, you get these Sunday sessions. You got to be disciplined.

Yeah, no, seriously, evil.

All right, uh, wrap things up here. Right, so we're gonna wrap things up here. Um, I'll see you in the next one. Keep it real. Give the video a thumbs up for the big man here, myself. You want more videos, we're right here. Goodbye.