EduardoHigareda
Certified personal trainer and nutrition coach. Merced, California. Single father, foodie, and the guy who remembers not knowing what he was doing.
I had to askfor help first.
When I started training, I didn't know what I was doing. I had to ask for help to get better in my progress, and that was the hardest part of the whole thing. Now I want to do the same thing for other people who don't know or who struggle like I struggled back then.
A lot of people are self conscious, and asking for help is what stops them from making progress. I believe everybody should progress and evolve their bodies as we should. That's what inspired me to get my personal training certification, and my nutrition coaching too, because I didn't know what to eat when I was doing my own fat loss journey.
I want to help men especially. As men, we have that pride, we don't like to ask for help, and that's why some men are stuck in their thirties carrying the weight and accepting it as part of life. We want to be healthier. We want to live long term for our kids. We want to see our kids' kids grow up. As men we should be fit protectors and providers.
My philosophy of training is that starting is going to be the hardest, but the discipline evolves over time. The motivation should start with yourself, and then the motivation disappears, because it becomes discipline and consistency, and the results show in the end.
“As a coach, I focus on body recomposition and also strength train for weight loss for better performance. Because it goes a long way. You know, you go through the ugly stages of life and eventually, towards the end, you will gain those results that you dream about it. Starts with day one.”
Outside the gym,I'm a dad with a grill.
As a single father, I want to be the best father I can for my daughter — to provide, and to show her that her dad is strong. She tells me all the time, you're getting stronger, let me see your muscles, daddy. That's highly motivational for me, and it encourages me to keep doing the same thing on the days I don't feel like it.
That's also exactly how I coach. A crash plan is something you survive for six weeks. I'm trying to build men who are still strong in twenty years, still around, still the guy their kid brags about. So the program I write for you is measured against that, not against a number you can hit by August and lose by November.
I'm also a foodie. I love to cook, I've been cooking since I was younger. Barbecuing, smoking meat, grilling on a Blackstone, cooking breakfast on the weekends. You'll catch me in the kitchen or on the grill for sure. That's why I refuse to hand anybody a joyless meal plan.
And I'm building something. I want Lalo Fitness to be more than a name — a brand that stays long term, gets recognized, and keeps evolving. Right now that means a small roster and a lot of attention on the people in it.
