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00:00It's pretty late, and we're pretty tired, but you know what that means.
00:04We're still doing Wend Wellness, baby!
00:07Because we're here every day!
00:08We always do Wend Wellness, you guys!
00:11We would never miss a day, of course!
00:13It's been almost five years straight every day of Wend Wellness,
00:16and what better time than to talk about a question that was presented to us today
00:21that makes me very happy to answer,
00:25and that was, what sparked your passion?
00:28What invigorated you in regards to improving the health and lives of others,
00:37to being a chiropractor, to helping people feel better?
00:41And I don't attribute that to me, I attribute that to your own body, first off.
00:44I just put it in a position to function optimally, and it does the rest.
00:48And that is the whole idea behind what I do, really, in every regard.
00:53You do everything.
00:54I just help you to see how to get there, and help put you in that position.
01:00But also for fitness.
01:02Why?
01:04And aren't there days that you go because you feel as though you have to?
01:10Because you're mad at yourself if you don't go to the gym and work out,
01:15or eat healthy, you force yourself to eat healthy all the time because you feel you need to.
01:23No one ever needs to do anything.
01:27No one ever needs to do anything except for eat, breathe, drink water, eventually sleep,
01:36go to the bathroom.
01:37We don't need anything.
01:39We choose what we need.
01:43I don't need to do it unless I need to do certain things for myself and for other people.
01:51And as far as my purpose in life is concerned, I do.
01:55I need to help as many people as possible to achieve as much as they possibly can for themselves
02:04in regards to health, in regards to motivation, mentally, physically, and spiritually.
02:11That's what I'm on this earth to do.
02:15That's why I do Wend Wellness.
02:17And it is a passion and a fire in me that will never die.
02:22I will maintain that for my whole life.
02:24And that makes me happy.
02:26So what sparked that?
02:28Well, let's go way back.
02:30And I think you guys will enjoy this story.
02:32Go pick up a bowl of popcorn, or better yet, blueberries.
02:36And popcorn has some fiber.
02:38It's insoluble.
02:39You're better off with blueberries.
02:40It has that in a lot of vitamins and minerals.
02:42Way back to where this all started with fitness.
02:46Well, I was 10 years old.
02:48And I was in the ground round.
02:49And I loved the ground round.
02:51I really did.
02:51Back then, there was a smoking section, by the way.
02:54When you walked into the ground round, it shows you how old I am, right?
02:57That that was the thing when I was a kid.
02:59I'm not that old.
03:00I'm only 33, if you guys were curious.
03:02And, you know, I would eat all the French fries in the world.
03:05I was the French fry king.
03:06I would eat French fries of everybody at the table.
03:11I would eat their fries, whoever had fries left.
03:14I would eat all the chicken tenders.
03:16They'd give you popcorn in the beginning.
03:18I'd eat that.
03:19I was a happy kid.
03:20I was athletic.
03:21I played sports.
03:23I wasn't by any means a fat kid.
03:24But I had a little 10-year-old chub to me, you know, naturally.
03:28I wouldn't say I was chubby.
03:29But I wasn't, you know, ripped or anything by any means.
03:33And I was sitting there.
03:34And I was, you know, doing what a French fry king does best, eating French fries.
03:38And my pop-pop said, Shane's looking a little heavy.
03:42And I heard him say that.
03:44And I heard him say that to one of my parents, or both of them, whatever.
03:48And he didn't know I heard him.
03:49But I put my head down, and I was upset.
03:53It was only a 10-year-old kid.
03:54And I put my head down, and I thought, you know, am I chubby?
03:59I went home, and, you know, I was quiet for a little bit at dinner.
04:03And I went home, and I looked in the mirror, and I grabbed this fat on my stomach.
04:08I didn't know anything about exercise and nutrition and anything about anything.
04:11I was only 10 years old.
04:13And I said, well, you know, wouldn't it be nice if I could just go get a knife and just cut this off?
04:19Well, that doesn't seem like a good idea, of course.
04:21Even at 10, I knew, right?
04:23So I said, what if I could heat it up?
04:25What if I could just burn it?
04:28Make it on fire?
04:29I didn't know anything about fat burning or anything, right?
04:32Again, so I went on the ground.
04:34I laid down.
04:35I started moving around in all these ways.
04:36And I said, I don't feel, oh, that starts to burn.
04:38What was it?
04:39It was a sit-up.
04:40That starts to burn.
04:42Sit-ups and crunches.
04:43Moving in all these different angles.
04:45And I kept going, and I kept going.
04:46And I said, it's really on fire.
04:48I'm going to keep going.
04:49And I kept going, and I kept going, and I kept going.
04:52Until I couldn't do any more.
04:54So then, I caught my breath, and I did it again.
04:57Until I couldn't do any more.
04:59And then, I caught my breath, and I did it again.
05:01Until I couldn't do one.
05:03Until I couldn't do one sit-up.
05:05One crunch.
05:08I went to bed.
05:09I slept great.
05:10And I woke up the next day, and I was as sore as you could ever be in your entire life.
05:16I went to school, walking around the fifth grade classroom.
05:20I could barely walk.
05:22Right?
05:22I was so sore.
05:23I was bent over.
05:24I was like, oh my gosh.
05:25What happened?
05:27What did I do?
05:28This is crazy, but it feels like I did something.
05:32It feels like I did something.
05:34So, maybe I'll go home and do it again.
05:37So, I went home, and I did it again.
05:39Did as many as I could.
05:41And I couldn't do as many that night, because I was so damn sore.
05:44Right?
05:45Don't worry, the same muscle group about two days in a row.
05:47Right?
05:47We learned that at 10 years old.
05:50But really, we didn't.
05:51Because I went home, and I did that every day for the whole year.
05:56I would go to soccer practice.
05:57I would come home.
05:58I'd do crunches, sit-ups.
06:00I would do them before I'd go.
06:01I'd do them.
06:02Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
06:02I got an ab lounge.
06:04The next year, I asked my parents for one.
06:05That was my birthday present.
06:07Ab lounge.
06:07Doing the jackknife, for those of you who remember, whatever.
06:10I had a six-pack at 11 years old.
06:13I continued to work out.
06:15I got a Body by Jake.
06:16I had this woman bring a Body by Jake over from Sears, who was very overweight.
06:22Showed me how to use the Body by Jake with the bands.
06:24One of those band things, not like a really good one.
06:27You know, no offense, Body by Jake.
06:29Got the job done at what was now about 12 years old.
06:33Right?
06:34And, you know, I would do that thing every night.
06:36Pushing and pulling all these ways.
06:37Didn't really know what I was doing.
06:39Do it until I felt it burn.
06:41Do it until I felt it heat up the area I was trying to work.
06:45And just kept doing it.
06:47And kept doing it.
06:48And then I got some dumbbells.
06:49And by the time I was 13, I could take a 30-pound dumbbell behind my head.
06:53Overhead tricep extension.
06:55And I could do 100 reps at once.
06:57For a 13-year-old, that's pretty impressive.
06:59Maybe not for somebody who's an adult.
07:01Even though there's probably some adults out there that can't do it.
07:03But I did it every day.
07:04Whatever you do every day, you're going to be good at.
07:07And I did it every day.
07:08Not just because I wanted to see a change in my body.
07:10Not just because my pop-pop said that.
07:13Because I became addicted in the healthiest way.
07:16There can be a healthy connotation to that definition of addiction.
07:21Most often, there's not.
07:23To improving myself.
07:26And that went so far beyond physically.
07:29Again, mentally.
07:30I started to feel good.
07:31And I was talking to girls.
07:32And I was in 7th grade.
07:33And I was confident.
07:34And I felt great.
07:36And I got better in my sports.
07:38I got better in sports.
07:39I had natural coordination and things.
07:40But now I was faster.
07:42Now I was stronger.
07:43And I felt really, really good.
07:45So I kept doing it.
07:46I kept doing it.
07:47I kept doing it.
07:48I had my dad get me into the gym at 15.
07:50He had to show his ID.
07:52He had to be with me in there.
07:53I wasn't old enough to be alone.
07:55He would drop me off.
07:56Get me in.
07:56I would go.
07:57I would go downstairs to the dungeon at Gold's Gym in East Northport.
08:00Do my thing.
08:01I remember I was bench pressing.
08:03I was 15, right?
08:04And I had 185 pounds on there.
08:07And I did as many as I could.
08:09Which is probably only a few at that age.
08:11And I brought it down on my chest for one more.
08:14I said I could do one more.
08:15There was no one down there.
08:16The gym closed at 11 p.m.
08:17And it was 10 o'clock or 10.30, right?
08:20They were going to close soon.
08:21Nobody down there.
08:22And it got stuck.
08:24Of course, I had clips on the ends.
08:26Because I was safe, right?
08:30Quite the opposite.
08:31You can't dump it.
08:31If you're alone, never use clips.
08:33I learned that lesson that day.
08:35So I'm sitting there stuck.
08:37And I'm like, I'm just, I go, hello?
08:39You know, nobody's anywhere.
08:42The janitor's not even there.
08:43He probably went home already.
08:44Who knows, right?
08:45They don't pay him enough to stay there that long.
08:48And so I sat there and I had to roll it off my body, right?
08:53And all these things you go through in your journey, whether you're doing crunches wrong,
08:58you let a weight come down on your chest, you don't quite know what the hell you're doing.
09:03Just know that it is very good for something.
09:06If you can devote yourself to improving your health, your mindset, your physical capabilities,
09:15your appearance, how you feel all the time, and how you perform.
09:20And since I did that for myself for years and years and years, I said, I want to share
09:26this with other people.
09:28I need to share this feeling with other people.
09:30I need to instill this in them.
09:32But I realized how I learned.
09:34How I learned was I did it to myself.
09:37So I can't just tell you to go do something.
09:40I can't just make a YouTube video that says, this is the proper form that you do, or one
09:45wellness video, and you guys are going to go do that every day.
09:47Hey, I need to help you realize what you are capable of doing.
09:53And I guarantee you that 95% of you do not know that.
09:57I don't even know that for myself truly yet.
10:00Not that I am some at the apex of this.
10:02Not even close.
10:04Look at someone like Wim Hof.
10:06How he can control his internal physiological regulation with his thoughts.
10:12Climb a portion of Mount Everest with his shirt off.
10:15There are levels to this.
10:17And I intend to reach the highest one.
10:19Not because I feel like I need to.
10:22Not because I feel like I need to punish myself.
10:24But because I love myself.
10:27And I love helping other people.
10:30And I love instilling power in other people.
10:33And that's what Wim Wellness is about.
10:35And that's what Wim Wellness will always be about.
10:38No matter what products we sell, this and that.
10:40By the way, I haven't got a dollar from subscription.
10:43It's 15 subscribers.
10:44It'd be a whopping $15 a month.
10:46It's 99 cents each.
10:47Not even.
10:48$15.
10:49I haven't got a dollar of it.
10:50But I don't care.
10:51I don't do this for the money.
10:52Instagram, I guess, is keeping that money.
10:54Probably because I don't follow the guidelines.
10:55But I do it because I get messages from people that say, hey, you don't even know who I am.
11:00I'm this kid, random kid from Texas.
11:02I've been following your videos for six months.
11:05I've lost 30 pounds.
11:06Thanks.
11:07Ever since you talked about that keto video.
11:09Ever since you talked about that video with the weighted push-ups.
11:12I've been doing it.
11:12My core strength went up.
11:13The weighted V.
11:15That's what it's about.
11:16And I try to do the same thing in practice.
11:19So then I go through my life, right?
11:22And then, you know, at Stony Brook, I didn't really know what I wanted to do.
11:26I did biology over there.
11:27I had no idea at 18 what I wanted to do.
11:30I was business, the mechanical engineering, and then biology is what I ended at.
11:36And so then, you know, I became fascinated with the human body.
11:39And I said, maybe I'll become a physical therapist, right?
11:43So I was going to be a physical therapist.
11:45And then I was playing a rugby game for Stony Brook.
11:47Actually, my last game playing for them was at a bowl game in North Carolina.
11:51We kicked the shit out of Cincinnati.
11:53It was freaking awesome and had a good game.
11:56And the scouts came up to me afterwards from chiropractic school.
12:00And they said, you could qualify for a substantial scholarship if you want to be a chiropractor.
12:05So what the hell is that?
12:07You deal with backs.
12:09I had never been to one.
12:10I didn't know anything about it.
12:11So I said, all right, what the hell, you know?
12:13Maybe I'll keep, you know, take note of this.
12:15Probably never going to do this.
12:17Go enjoy the night.
12:18Have a couple with the boys throwing backs celebrate.
12:21Got a call from admissions a few days later.
12:23And they said, you know, you could get a good scholarship.
12:26We want you to come out and see the campus and maybe do a tryout for a percent scholarship and this and that.
12:31I said, yeah, why not?
12:32That sounds fun.
12:33You could play some rugby and get a doctorate if it's something that I agree with.
12:36Of course, I did research before I flew out there.
12:38I said, it's pretty neat.
12:40You help correct misalignments in the spine.
12:41You help improve the function of the central nervous system.
12:44You help improve the function of their bodies, someone's health.
12:48I said, that's pretty cool.
12:48That's pretty much why I want to be a PT, help people get better, you know, help them rehab and, you know what, not get them stronger.
12:57So I went out there and I had a good tryout and got a good scholarship.
13:01And, you know, I went to the pie house, right?
13:05And this is the first time I ever went to the pie house, Pi Kappa Chi.
13:08Represent, victory always.
13:10And I'm not a fraternity guy by any means, but I went in there and there were a bunch of chiropractic tables and there were all these plaques on the wall and it seemed pretty prestigious.
13:19And a young man named Matthias Rivers was there.
13:22And he said, you want an adjustment?
13:24I said, I don't know if I really need that.
13:28I don't, I mean, I'm here.
13:31I came to Iowa.
13:32I guess I should do what you guys do or maybe me will do at some point.
13:37Maybe I'll, I said, sure.
13:39So I sat down and he's moving my neck around.
13:41I'm like, what's going on?
13:42Oh, this feels weird.
13:43Oh, holy shit.
13:47I was ready to, you know, pin him against the wall.
13:50I don't know what just happened.
13:51And I said, I feel great.
13:54I feel great.
13:55Oh my God.
13:56I've never been able to move my neck like this.
13:59I feel fantastic.
14:00And Matthias, you convinced me right there beyond any science and research or anything.
14:05So credit to you, my brother.
14:06I love you, man.
14:08And that was my first adjustment.
14:09And the rest was history.
14:10So then I went to chiropractic school and it changed my mentality further.
14:14Changed my mentality further about how I could be totally natural and let the body heal itself.
14:21How I could have whole food from nature.
14:23A lot of nutrition we studied in chiropractic school.
14:25It's not just musculoskeletal things.
14:27It's not just the nervous system and anatomy and biochemistry and CNS and PNS and spinal anatomy and all this stuff.
14:35Pathology, a lot of that.
14:36But a lot of nutrition, right?
14:38So I became fascinated with nutrition.
14:41And then, you know, I would say really my first, my last year there, you know, the first year you're in the books.
14:47Your head's in the books.
14:47So it's kind of difficult to be that healthy.
14:50You order out and this and that.
14:50I began cooking a lot.
14:52I began cooking a lot.
14:52And then I learned how to cook well.
14:54At least well enough to eat healthier.
14:55By no means a master chef, right?
14:59But I started to feel really good.
15:00Even better than I had felt when I was just working out all the time.
15:04And that was pretty damn good.
15:05So I said, where does this end?
15:06So then I became really healthy.
15:08And I said, maybe I won't drink anymore.
15:10Maybe I'll just drink on the 4th of July on my favorite holiday.
15:12A little bit.
15:13You know, one glass, something like that.
15:15Don't be black and white about anything, right?
15:18Enjoy life and do what you want to do.
15:20As long as you have pure thoughts and good intentions, you can do that, right?
15:24For the most part, I think.
15:25So anyway, so then, you know, I'm in this state where I'm very healthy and I see how the body heals itself.
15:32And I thought, this is what my mom has been doing for years.
15:37This is why she preached eat organic.
15:41This is why she preached exercise and all these things.
15:43And we thought she was crazy as a kid, eating her lentil soup and her big thing of brock-le-rob.
15:50The plate is this big of brock-le-rob.
15:52But she's in great shape.
15:56And that's mentally and physically.
16:00Spiritually very connected in a fantastic place in life.
16:04And so I wrote my thesis paper at the end of chiropractic school, in one of my last classes there, about how my mother and chiropractic changed my outlook on health and my life.
16:15And I carried that with me.
16:16So then I graduated chiropractic school.
16:18And I said, let's take on the world, baby.
16:20Can't wait.
16:21Can't wait.
16:23Right?
16:23As Bart Scott would say.
16:24New York Jets.
16:25And, of course, naturally, a week after I graduated, I'm on my way back from my trip with Sam Duncan, who I also love.
16:35Love you, man.
16:36Brother for life.
16:37We were in Colorado, skiing.
16:39Celebrate again.
16:40Graduation on the way back.
16:41He said, there's some virus going around.
16:43And I heard of this virus.
16:45I said, okay.
16:45You know, whatever.
16:47They canceled my part four boards, of course.
16:49That was scheduled about two weeks out.
16:52And I was very prepared for it.
16:55So I said, all right.
16:56And they canceled it again.
16:58And I said, oh, my goodness.
17:01What am I going to do in this time?
17:03And I thought of a book that I read, How Life Imitates Chess, by Gary Kasparov.
17:09And I remembered one section where he talked about the quiet time.
17:14And the quiet time, as he iterated, was a position in chess where you aren't exactly sure what to do.
17:22Where you have no problem in front of you.
17:26There's really no puzzle to solve.
17:29It's in the opening.
17:30It's early.
17:30Just what route do you decide to go?
17:33What do you decide to do in that time when you're not forced to do anything?
17:38And you never want to be in a position where you're forced to do anything strategically.
17:41You're probably not doing well, if that is the case, right?
17:45It's a whole other video.
17:47So this was quiet time to me in COVID.
17:50And I could take that stimulus money and I could just go out and eat out and do whatever I wanted.
17:55Or I could buy supplements.
17:58And I could try to make a supplement that would enhance my mental and physical performance that was also healthy.
18:03And this is how Super U began.
18:04So as I started to do that, I had somebody ask me, hey, Shane, could you make a video or could you show me some workouts I could do at home?
18:14All the gyms this side of the Mississippi are closed.
18:17I don't really have anything at home.
18:18I don't know what to do.
18:19I was the workout guy, right?
18:21I've been for years.
18:22So I said, sure.
18:24So I said, Natalie, take a video of me.
18:26I'm going to do this.
18:27Send them a video.
18:28Somebody else asked me.
18:29So I said, all right, you know, send them a video.
18:31And then I said, well, wait, what if I could just do this and I could give this to everybody?
18:38What sort of platform could I go on to get this information out to as many people as possible to give them workouts to do at home so that they're healthier doing COVID?
18:48Well, and that's when wellness started, right?
18:51So my sister said, oh, there's this thing called Instagram, right?
18:54I never really used Instagram.
18:57I'm terrible with social media, as you guys can tell.
18:59I probably miss comments all the time and messages.
19:01And I'm really sorry about that.
19:02I'm just really busy.
19:02And I really hate social media, to be honest with you.
19:05I just use it as a platform to reach people.
19:08And so I started doing videos, right?
19:10And so I did a workout.
19:12I said, we'll do a workout today.
19:13Maybe I'll do a few straight.
19:15Maybe I'll do a couple workouts, a couple days.
19:17Then they have a few they could do and they could repeat them, you know, whatever they want.
19:21So I said, all right, I'll do like a full body day.
19:23I'll do a core day.
19:24Maybe I'll do some upper body or something like that.
19:26What do I have in the house?
19:27I have a backpack.
19:28I could put books in that.
19:29I could do this.
19:30Oh, that's a good idea.
19:31I could do that.
19:32Oh, that's a good idea.
19:32I can do that.
19:33Oh, that's a good idea.
19:34I can do that.
19:35I can do that.
19:36I did a few days and I was pretty sore, right?
19:39And I said, well, I could do tomorrow.
19:43I'll see how I feel when I wake up.
19:44Maybe I will.
19:45Maybe I won't.
19:46And I did another day.
19:46And I did a week.
19:48And then I did two weeks.
19:50And then it was a month straight.
19:51Then it was 40 days straight.
19:53I'll never forget.
19:54I was up in Maine with my brother, Nick's shop.
19:57And I said, even though I went away, I still want to do this video.
20:00I just feel as though I should do it.
20:02I want to give people more.
20:04I want to give more.
20:06And it also helped me.
20:08It helped me a lot, as it does every day.
20:11I have to go through research.
20:14I have to look back at old notes and refresh myself on all this information that could be so easily forgotten and thrown to the wayside and just do things that are clinically relevant at this point.
20:28And, of course, I focus on that.
20:30But I did another day, another day.
20:32It ended up being 381 days straight of Wend Wellness Workouts.
20:36And then I said, well, after a year or so, maybe I should keep doing this.
20:43I'm really damn sore.
20:44I was going to the gym on top of that, wearing the mask.
20:47The guy was setting the lunk alarm off on me because I had my mask below my nose.
20:52It's really intelligent that, you know, you would worry more about me spreading something than passing out and smashing my face on the weights, right?
21:00While I'm doing high-intensity exercise, sweating so much my mask is literally water, right?
21:05So I can't even breathe.
21:07So what I do, I poke the hole in it with a key, you know, whatever.
21:10So I can breathe, right?
21:11And I did that.
21:13And I did Wend Wellness every day.
21:15So then I kept going.
21:16And I said, all right, this next year, like I said, I'm really sore.
21:19And I said, I'll do workouts someday.
21:20Maybe I'll just talk.
21:21Maybe I'll talk.
21:22And then Wend Wellness Nerd Out Time started.
21:24And so I just kept doing these videos.
21:26I kept doing them.
21:27And the feedback I got from people is what really has kept me doing them.
21:33I had a long day today.
21:35I worked for 12 hours at least.
21:38Every day is like that.
21:39I'll go and ship out Super U.
21:41I'll go train people in the gym.
21:42Seven people.
21:43Back-to-back for hours.
21:45Then I'll treat 15 patients.
21:46I choose to do all of it.
21:48I choose to do it because it makes me happy to help other people.
21:53I'm not worried about anything with my body, with my mental condition.
21:58That's not why I make a point to play chess every morning and do research.
22:01Aside from helping people, it's about helping myself.
22:06Optimizing my natural capabilities mentally and physically.
22:11Fortifying myself constantly so that anything I encounter in life, I am in the best position.
22:18You never know what's going to happen, whether it means you have to protect a family member, or you meet someone who is important in public, and you need it to be sharp that day to make a good connection.
22:31But whatever it is, I don't worry about what can go wrong, I'm excited for what can go right.
22:39I want to instill that excitement for life that I have innate to me in other people.
22:45And so however you develop that, whatever journey you embark upon, take that home with you, please.
22:54It will change your life.
22:55And that is the story, really, of my fitness journey, and when wellness, and why I do all this, and why I love to help people.
23:06So, I hope that answered your question.
23:08Who do we got out here?
23:10Frank, how you doing?
23:12Shea, what's up?
23:13Sibia!
23:14Melanie Tower, what's up?
23:17Makeup Vin!
23:19How you doing, man?
23:20Preston Shea.
23:21Paul, what's going on?
23:24Insta.
23:25Megan, love you.
23:29Chris, what's up?
23:30J.B.W., Brang, David, Dan, Sunrise, George, official.
23:37Setton, appreciate the love, everybody.
23:40Aged to perfection.
23:43Good.
23:44Tommy Reed, I like it.
23:46Onion John, first one on.
23:47Thank you very much.
23:48And Fred Ed, as for now.
23:50So, we got it for you, folks.
23:51We'll see you tomorrow, baby.
23:53Not sure where, not sure when.
23:54But we'll see you then.
23:55You're damn right.
23:56Have a fantastic night.
23:58And happy Wend Wellness.
24:00See ya.
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