Derik Fay, a 44-year-old American billionaire with a toned body resembling Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzing, recently revealed in an interview his secret to maintaining a good physique, including 30 years of unbelievable self-discipline.
According to the British media "Mirror" reported on February 17, Derek from Bonita Springs, Florida, has been practicing weightlifting since he was a teenager and has maintained strict eating habits, so he still maintains a "22-year-old physique", and he also has a happy family and a very successful career, which can be described as a winner in life.
Don't look at Derek now owns a number of companies in the fitness, real estate and financial industries, but in fact, his family was very poor when he was a child, and he put in much more effort than ordinary people along the way.
And Derek's success can be said to be due to Schwarzenegger's "inspiration", he not only took business inspiration from Schwarzenegger, but also learned the trick of staying in shape.
"When I was a kid, I remember Schwarzenegger saying never eat dessert, and that phrase stuck in my mind," Derek recalls.
So since then, Derek has eaten monotonous high-protein, low-carb meals every day, without any dessert, and even now when invited by his family to enjoy delicious sweets, he will ruthlessly refuse them.
The entrepreneur and his wife, Shandra Phillips, 34, who now have two daughters, Sophia, 16, and Isabella, 14, often treat themselves to sweets, but Derek always walks away alone.
He explains, "I indulge myself occasionally, but I never eat dessert," he explains, "I haven't eaten cake in over 30 years except on my birthday — which I might eat as a small piece out of courtesy — and "it's not that I don't like sweets." Actually, I love cheesecake, but I don't eat it for myself. ”
Derek says he's the black-and-white guy who is very principled and takes his diet as well, and while eating only high-protein and low-carb sounds "pretty boring," he enjoys it.
Derek's high-protein, low-carb meals consist mainly of lean meats and fish, protein shakes, and plenty of fruits and vegetables.
In addition to his strict diet, Derek wakes up early every day for weight training and goes to the gym five to six times a week, and now maintains a body fat of about 7 to 8 percent.
Sure enough, successful people are self-disciplined. And when it comes to everything he has today, the business tycoon admits that he is the kind of person who either "has nothing" or "becomes a millionaire", "there is no middle ground, every effort in life is like that".
Derek said that it is precisely because of "living in poverty and abuse in childhood, and relying entirely on himself along the way" and "not even finishing college, he is self-taught, learning from trial and error, mistake, failure and perseverance" that he knows more about cherishing what he has now and makes him more motivated to help as many people as possible, "so that they no longer feel hopeless or poor." ”
It is worth mentioning that although Derek insists on fitness, he rarely does aerobic exercise. He thinks that he is already very strict with his diet and does not need to do a lot of aerobic exercise to stay in shape, unless it is for other reasons, such as to compete.
During the recent Pro Bowl weekend in Las Vegas, Derek had to step up his cardio through a treadmill in order to play basketball games with celebrities like Floyd Mayweather.
Source: Mirror, Bing