Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A / Kelly Walker: Welcome to this episode of Hustle and Pro Today, we're talking to Khalil McLean. Hi, Khalil.
[00:00:08] Speaker B / Kahlyl McClain: Hi.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Thanks for having me here at Rumble.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: It's an absolute honor to have you, ma' am.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: Well, I know that you are a coach at Rumbleboxing, which is where we are. We can talk about that. And owner of Fit Camp 101.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Yes, ma' am.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Okay, I want to hear about both of those things.
Start off with, you know, where we are. We're in a boxing fitness studio. Why boxing? Do you have a background in boxing?
[00:00:30] Speaker B: What's your sports story as far as a boxing background? It initially started for me wrestling. In high school.
I wrestled, I played football, and then I was also a thrower for my track and field team. Always came up from an extremely competitive family, so just not playing a sport was just not an option. My dad was really big on schedule, structure at all costs. So from the footwork, from being a defensive end, being a tight end, and being a defensive end, tight end. And also I was left guard and left tackle.
Yeah, I played kick return, kickoff punt return.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: That's a lot of football, you know. How long were you playing football?
[00:01:08] Speaker B: I played football from about eight, all the way up to my freshman year in College at 18.
I did not like football, if I'm being completely honest with you. I love being in the weight room more. It was just one of those things that gave me an excuse to work out year round.
But, yeah, started out with wrestling, and then maybe about three and a half years ago, I ended up picking up kickboxing, which was a ton of fun.
So when I got the opportunity and I came across formal about a little bit under two years ago, it was like, what is this? I don't want to be a group instructor. They're lame, they're weird. I'm not trying to choreograph anything. I'm just saying how it is, you know, I know I have the personality, but I'm very, very.
I'm a coach, so I love to be able to pinpoint form. I love to be able to make corrections. I also love to have that sense of personality. So it's kind of funny.
Coming to Rumble.
All those things almost, you know, came alive in me even more.
It gave me a sense of what community really was.
You know, all these individual sports, you know, outside of football, all these individual sports, they always tell you that, you know, the work that you put in is only going to affect your performance, and it only affects, you know, your outcome. You know, coming here at Rumble being able to utilize the camaraderie and the environment.
So people are pushing each other just by lead, by example. It kind of reflects not only what I like to do for my own brand, but also, too, it gave me a whole other perspective on fitness. So it made me fall in love all over again.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: I love that. So, yeah, you didn't expect to like the group aspect.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Not at all.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: But they feed off each other, right? If you're doing it right, if you're motivating them as a coach, coach, they're getting pushed from the guy next to them, guy or gal next to them to do more. And then do you guys have, like, group rewards? Like, does it feel better when you. Is there a. Is there a way in here that you have a definition of success for the group?
[00:03:03] Speaker B: So the super cool thing about Rumble, they set up milestones. So anything from you just hit your first class to your 50th class, your 100th class, your 250. I mean, I've been with people that have hit their 500th class before.
You tell me insane. 500 classes under one roof in under a year is just one. The commitment and dedication is ridiculous. Just goes to show the environment. Right?
But, yeah, and then, of course, for me, I like to address everyone as team or we or, you know, I'm really, really, really big on my faith. I'm not a perfect Christian in any way, shape, or form, but one of the things in church you always hear pastors say is, go ahead, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, we. We gonna lock in today. You know, So I. I introduced that to here.
Literally, neighbors, go ahead, look at your friend. Look at your folks. Give them a high five. Give a little bit of encouragement, because you're gonna need a best friend today, and that might not be me. So make sure you guys lock in.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Yeah, that's great. And that also makes them show up the next time, right? They have a sense of, okay, I gotta be accountable for that neighbor who I worked out with yesterday. Like, I gotta get there.
Then on the flip side, you own Fitcamp101. Is that more individualized, personal? You tell me about that.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. So I established picking 101 about 2020 during COVID I just got tired of kind of running my head into the wall doing the whole corporate thing. I was burnt out like crazy. For me, a big box trainer where you're darn near paid, you know, 10 cents for every dollar you make. And I really just found myself kind of just crying out to God, like, what is it that you want me to do? Because I feel like I'm performing way under my potential.
I'm not able to showcase who I am as an individual or my story. So what do you need from me? And I literally sat down in the middle of a basketball court with a notebook, pen and paper, and I prayed and I just wrote, wrote the vision for what we were going to be about, where we were going to go, who we were going to impact. And my life completely changed. I mean, there's been a lot of trips and bumps since then. Oh, you know, for sure.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: You say we.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Who's we? You. You. When I say we, it's me. It's me and God. It's me and God. I like to say we a lot because it's. I'm nobody. I'm nothing. I'm really just a vessel. So even just how I speak really is what I believe. You know, I say it's we. As much as I would love to take credit for it, you know, God needs a willing vessel, but I.
I'm nothing without him. So, yeah, it's like we team of us, we. We got together, we wrote, we rewrote the whole vision and the whole plan.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: So does somebody come to you? Do you come to people? Do you have a spot? Where do you train people?
[00:05:42] Speaker B: All the above. I come to people. I have a spot designated for my clients. Then I also have an online app that also too. I have a website too, Fitcamp101 that is officially live and launched. So anything you need as far as information, pricing. I stay in the cities of Plano, Prosper, McKinney and Frisco. Those are my bread and butter areas. It's all within maybe a three to four mile stretch. So I'm able to assess wherever I need to be at or get to wherever I need to get to within a designated time.
Absolutely, absolutely.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: I heard a cool success story with a. With a female that you trained.
If you want to tell me a little about some of the. Some of the cool.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: I heard it was like a 15.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: Week prep where you work.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Let's go. My dog. Yeah.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: Get ready for like figure conversation, right?
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: Shout out P. Yeah, P. Hands down, you're not supposed to have favorites, but, you know, P is not just a client. You know, P has been a mother figure for me over just the last year and some change. You know, she'll tell everybody in the world, you know, Khalil's this, he's that, he's the third. But there have Been some days where literally the only reason why I'm excited to get out of bed to go do my job is because she's my first client.
She is a wonderful mother of two, amazing wife.
Her husband's absolutely amazing. Shout out Ali. He's super duper awesome.
And when I first met her about a year and a half ago, just saw her working out, she had an ideal, pretty cool physique for a four figure competitor. Asked if she ever did it. No. She was actually an endurance athlete at the University of Oklahoma. So not her, not her. Catch it all. But she was just very, very, very type A, very task oriented.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: I mean, if you're an endurance athlete in college, like you can be dedicated, you can make something happen.
So she needed somebody to show her the cat.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: I didn't even think she needed me. I was just wanting to suggest, hey, look, I think this is something that might be a niche that you could possibly step into. And you know, initially she was apprehensive. She was like, you know, hey, never thought about it, but we'll see. She shot me a message. About eight months later, we did a 16 week prep, completely natural. And by the end of her 333 show season, we were able to not only turn her pro, but also get her a third place win in her pro debut. So, yeah, we're actually getting ready to start the season off pretty soon. So shout out to Pete for busting your tail. I'm so proud of you, girl.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: And I have a ring that we help her with. Nutrition, recovery, his blood work, monthly body, and I even saw a stat about her losing body fat. 6.7.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: Absolutely. That's what Fitcamp is all about. We're about recomposition.
So we love to be able to not only get that body fat off, but also too, we love to maintain and build that muscle mass. At the end of the day, our bodies are already breaking down over a period of time. So if we can strengthen the body and strengthen those bones, we can slow down degeneration to maybe. Us breaking down at 60 is now us breaking down at 90. That sounds like a pretty long life we can enjoy and spend. Like I said, she has two young, beautiful daughters that I'm pretty sure she wants to be a part of their lives too. So, you know, we don't care about just being strong. We want to make sure that we're mobile. We want to make sure that we have our health, our performance. And when we got started, the biggest focus was that this is not going to take away from me being A mother. So for her to be able to accomplish so much and just be under, be under leadership and receive it so well, that's, that's why she is who she is.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: That's a great success story.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: Love that one.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Real life doesn't stop when you want to get fit. Like you have to keep doing your life.
The fitness part of your lifestyle fit in and that's, that's hard for mo. I think, I think that's probably the biggest challenge for most people. It's not, there's no magic of. I mean, food and movements can be pretty basic when you, when you write it out.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: It's the.
How do you get all that done when you've already busy? Xyz, worker, mom, you know, spouse, all that.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: You know, having the schedule that I have where I'm up at 4 o' clock in the morning and I'm not in bed till 10:30, I'm a single 28 individual. So people will look at me all day and say, you have that time.
The odds started to change when I started to get the demographic of individuals like moms or dads that have multiple children.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: We give our time to everyone else.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Everyone else.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: We all have the same amount of time, right?
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: So shifting in from P. Is that.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: What you call her?
[00:09:58] Speaker A: Your, your female success story.
What about you though? So you are a men's physique, what?
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Npc.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: I don't know what that means.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Npc, National Physique Committee.
NPC has different categories from. For the men's, there's bodybuilding, there's plastic physique, there's men's physique. Men's physique is where it's 6 to 8 inch board shorts. Typically it hyper focuses on the X factor from across the shoulder shaping into the waist.
And then of course, the way the rules have changed over the last few years, they allow you to show a little bit more leg. So you really want to make sure you have a good quad taper. And it's not important everybody, but important to me. You got to have a good set of calves, especially if you're tall, you're long, you're lengthy, you would have a good set of calves.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: That makes sense. I mean, obviously that's your shape, so that's why you're thriving in that.
So talking about balancing time, right, you're a competitor. How do you balance when you're competing, how you're prepping for competitions and how often does that happen?
[00:10:56] Speaker B: Can I be honest? This is not a balanced sport.
It's not. And I think that's the reason why a lot of people fall off. They want the convenience to look a certain way with essentially without having to sacrifice what's needed in order to get there. And I'm not talking about drugs, I'm not talking about spending hours in the gym. I'm talking about telling yourself no.
That's really what it boils down to. Because can you go out on Friday night and spend your time at the club or can you go to the store and spend a couple hundred dollars on some clothes or order some doordash and get some chick fil A? You can do all those things. But there's another side to that. There's another coin. There's another side of that coin. I rather take that time and I'll spend that doing cardio or doing posing or going grocery shopping every two to three days so I can make sure I have fresh food in the house. I'd rather learn the recipes and the things that I crave. So that way when I crave it, I can make it. As opposed to I get in my car, drive, waste time, gas, and ingest something that I don't even know the full ingredient list of and then come back home and then lie to myself in the mirror and say, I don't know why I still look the way I look or feel the way that I feel. This is not a balance sport.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: So you're saying being a competitor here, it's a constant.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Being a competitor means to compete. Any real competitor knows you look to have an edge in every way you can. So if I can out sleep you, if I can out hydrate you, if I can get to the lab and make sure that my blood work. You might get your vitals done every three months. That's cool. I'm getting my vitals done every four weeks. You might make a change in your training program because you plateaued for two months. I don't let it get past two months because I'm already written out for the next six months. The second something doesn't correct or doesn't adapt the way I need it to, I'm checking at that three to four week mark. I mean, some people just don't want to take it that serious.
I want to win. So I'll sacrifice vacation time, I'll sacrifice time with friends, I'll see my folks when I need to see my folks. But at the end of the day, this is something where I want to be the best. So if I've already put in 15 years and I'm just starting to scrape the surface where prayerfully in the next three and a half weeks, you know, I'll have IFBB pro in front of my name.
That's just the start. There are individuals that are right now top of the sport that have been 25 years and 30 plus years in. So this is going to have a time where you can just turn it on and off. You're either on or, or your office.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: What's this competition going pro or.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: So this first one is going to be our warm up show. Our warm up show is going to be the feel you super show. We're going to win. I'm very excited to have us on camera because it's going to be nice to be able to come back and say I said so. Not because of arrogance but because of preparation and just the favor and grace of God. If I don't win, then there's always that better, higher plan for me. But there is something in my soul how this prep has gone, how my sponsors have come into my life, my team, my employees, my clients, everything is aligning and shape. All I have to do is just do the work and then show up.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: You're ready. Yeah. Okay. So you mentioned sponsors and like all this stuff aligning and I mean I'll just figure dialed in. So hormone optimization, IV hydration, fat burning treatments, recovery. Like this is not your average fitness guy. Like this is like next level stuff.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: This is professional.
So I mean I do everything from red light therapy to make sure my skin is good, it's hydrated, it's shining, it's glowing for my IV treatments. I'm always making sure that I'm getting my also too huge big shout out to Julian M.D. love you guys. Seriously amazing family.
Dr. Harris, Amy, you guys have been nothing but blessings to me. They found me and I tell you they put so much support and so much resources behind me just to make sure that I'm able to continuously do what I love. So I'm very grateful that they found me when they did. But yeah, IV support, just making sure that my hydration levels are always good, my amino acid, everything I can possibly have.
They give it me my IM shots, making sure my blood levels are good.
IM is intramuscular shots.
Yeah, intermuscular. So let's say.
So say there is an amazing.
So amazing. There's actually a, there's a compound called NAD and some individuals they're able to do it through, you know, im which is normally a lower dose to be able to do it with you Know Tulia and have it be directly in my IV where it's going straight to my bloodstream. Not only does it help out with mental clarity, alertness, also brain capacity. So they. A lot of bodybuilders experience this fatigue when they're pulling out carbs and pulling out water and they're training by at this high end level to not experience that. Because I have everything that I need.
It's the thing that's going to put me over the edge. So competitors right now are getting their depletion point and they're forgetting stuff and they're foggy and their muscles aren't getting full.
I don't feel like that I'm getting shot stronger as I.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: That's really. That's really cool.
So I, I was going to ask you like, what are you most proud of? Okay. I know you're about to do this competition. This is like a game changer as far as like your status, whether you win that or not. I know you are right. But, but today, as of today, what are you most proud of for yourself?
[00:16:26] Speaker B: I'm just grateful for the community that I've built. I.
Growing up, I was always told that you're supposed to hide your scars and hide your flaws and your imperfection.
To be able to have such a loving community that has been able to give back to me what I give to them has just been, I mean, win, lose or draw. To sit up here and say that I have people that genuinely love me, care for me, support me and believe in me, especially in times that I didn't believe or care for myself at all. It's been proud of countless to finally let people in, let the right people in and then not let my heart get hardened by the times of human disappointments because you know, humans are gonna be humans. But it's just so good to be able to love.
I didn't really have that life growing up for sure, outside of my grandmother, but to be able to just receive that love and also give that love back and just to see it like see the tangible hands and feet of what that effort looks like. So, yeah, big problem.
[00:17:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I'm gonna ask you the flip side of what's. What's the hardest thing or biggest challenge that you. You know, everybody needs to overcome things and it helps them get better and have motivations and reasons to be better.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: Right.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: What is that for you? What was that for you?
[00:17:52] Speaker B: What is that for me is continuously getting over myself.
I have a lot of great men in my life that, you know, married with kids. Exactly where I want to be at my pops, you know, Edgar, he has this phrase, you know, regardless of how successful we become and what God allows you to have, we have not arrived.
Very, very, very much so. I have to always get out of my own way. We have not accomplished anything, we have not done anything. And the second you start to buy into the hype, it's the second the wall starts to collapse and close in on you. So Kobe Bryant had a phrase, don't rest when you're tired, rest when you're done. And I'm nowhere near being done, so there's no point to rest.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: That's so great. And I completely see it. Like you're always going to be striving for the next best for you, right? The next achievement.
That's why you're where you are, why you look like the way you do and feel like the way you do and have it just community around you. It's because you're not friendly for where you are. You always want to be the next one. So I love that. Anything else you missed?
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Definitely just want to go ahead and do a shout out. My guy, Brandon from Corporate athlete, super duper awesome guy, took a chance to come out, bring his film crew to come out and record the class, send me interview questions just to get to know me so that my brand can have a little bit more sense of exposure. I definitely want to thank you for sharing. Please guys, make sure you go ahead and check out his page. Just give him the same love that he's been able to give me.
Also, major shout out to just rumble Corporate. As a general whole, you guys have been able not only help being kind of fired for me, but you've given me an entirely different perspective on what the fitness industry is supposed to be about. Community, camaraderie and passion driven individuals that lead by example by what they do, not just what they say.
Major, major shout out. She's in heaven right now. But major shout out to my grandma, AKA my moms. I'm saying big Brenda Hart, number five, you know what I'm saying? Huge major love for you. And man, last, not least, man, all glory to God. I wouldn't be where I'm at if I didn't fail as much as I did. If there's anybody that's watching this that's just wondering why is it that things aren't catching? Why is it that I feel like I'm in the dark or I feel like I'm not giving the credit for the effort that I'm putting in. I just need you to know that you rather get there at the pace of Grace and be there when you're supposed to be. Because if you get brought to the light too soon, it doesn't reveal. It only exposes. So stay patient, be genuine, and make sure that your heart is rooted in your passion, not for what it can give you, what you can give it. Y' all be blessed, be safe, and take care. One on, one out.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: You're good. That's great, man. That makes me want to go out and do something great right now.
Thank you. Grace. Never heard of that.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: Oh, man, please.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: All right. Jul McLean, thank you for your time.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: Good luck. Thank you. I appreciate you.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Thanks for joining us for this episode of Hustle and Pro. Subscribe on YouTube and check us out on Instagram and we'll see you next episode.
