(hip hop music)
- Today we, The Test Friends, are at Rise Nation
which means which means climbing ladders.
- I don't know what's gonna happen today
but one thing I'm sure of is, I'm gonna hustle.
- I've heard that this is really intense
but I'm hoping that because I still exercise regularly
it won't be too bad.
- Not really, I don't really know much about this.
I saw a picture of it, it kinda look like hell.
- I'm not someone that exercises at all
but everyone here has like very great, 100% smiles
and that's very reassuring.
- So I really hope Ryan will spare us
all his groaning.
- I make noise when I work out
because I'm an expressive dude.
(laughs)
- A half hour here,
hitting these machines.
Yeah, I think I got it.
- [Jen] So what is Rise Nation?
- Rise Nation is a 30 minute cardio class
that incorporates full body and we spend the whole thing
on the Versaclimber, so pretty much you're fighting gravity.
It's like an endless ladder,
if you wanna think of it that way.
- I hear Bradley Cooper does this.
(laughs)
He's pretty ripped, so.
- He's ripped, he's a handsome guy.
(laughs)
- Ryan is obsessed with Bradley Cooper.
- He's a big Coop-head, he's a big Cooper head.
- I would like to have his muscles, if I could.
(deep bass music)
- We're gonna hold on to both handles.
Yep, hips are gonna go back, right.
- Devin, the superhuman, was telling us
to do these moves where you would have to like,
we'd change up the speed, sometimes you do these like
really intense rip through motions.
- If you think of going full-length,
and just using a little bit more energy.
- Kay.
- Looks kinda like this, so.
- [Ryan] Oh, shit!
(laughs)
- You know what I'm talking 'bout.
- Devin, I'm pretty sure is a Na'vi
from the motion picture, Avatar.
- Look guys,
y'all know I'm a big homo
but Devin was the most beautiful man I have ever seen.
- Aw, it's gonna suck man.
- [Devin] We're going full reaches,
hips down and back.
Use that tempo
with one, two, one, two.
Keep it going, yep.
- After a couple minutes, just flatlined, I thought,
well, only 28 more minutes of this.
So I'm going to die.
(Ryan grunts)
- [Devin] Nice and small, let's skip to the beat.
(Ryan grunts)
- This motherfucker is always grunting.
- The unifying theme of all the things we've done
are the strange, very unique noises that are produced
by Ryan Bergara.
(Ryan grunts)
(laughs)
- This is the warm up, right?
- Exercise just maintains you,
uncomfortable resistance will change you.
(laughs)
- Devin was great, I was really made at him
because at one point, it looked like that he wasn't sweating
and I was like, how fucking dare you.
- At least look like you're a little tired.
(laughs)
Don't be a dick.
- A few minutes into the workout,
it started like changing colors
and I felt like I was in a club.
Oh, shit the ceiling!
- Gonna take it back, full length,
in four, three, two, one, stretch.
Two, stretch, two.
Hips down and back, Ryan.
- Okay.
- There you go.
- It's a dark room
where you're just doing interval training,
climbing a ladder forever.
It's literally hell.
- I shut my eyes when I was exercising
'cause I was like, if I just shut out all external stimuli
maybe there's a part of me that can pretend that I'm,
that this isn't happening.
- I think the squats were my favorite part.
We were doing like a little ladder twerk.
It's like your dancing, guys.
- No, it's not.
(laughs)
- [Devin] Stretch two yeah.
- Hell yeah!
- [Voiceover] We're dancing --
(Shane grunts)
- [Devin] There you go, Shane.
Two, yep.
- They're waiting for you to turn around. (laughs)
I'm not in high school, he can't fail me.
But I was just like, he's not looking, he's not looking.
(sighs)
- Nice, you guys do better when I'm down here, huh. (claps)
Let's go and get in a nice sprint down in squat position.
Moving as fast as you can, squat position.
(high intensity music)
- I really like Rise Nation in the moment.
And now, I still like it so, I think I'll go back.
- It was one of those things where I really feel like
it was targeting areas of my body
that I've always wanted to target.
- If I hate a workout, it's because it's a good workout.
And I hated it.
- There were definitely times where it...
really got strenuous and I didn't know
if I was gonna make it.
- There was a moment where I was utterly defeated.
I felt like I was gonna throw up and
then I just reached inside and I thought,
what would Kobe do?
- Did get the most steps,
'cause I've got big, dumb, giant legs.
- I don't know how I miraculously came in last,
but I did, I'll own it.
But I think it was just because I was checking out
my butt so much in the mirror. (laughs)
- I like skateboarding and I like walking,
but I don't like any other form of exercise.
- I think everyone had a crush on Devin.
Daysha, for sure had a crush on Devin. (laughs)
- He's a buff, beefcake, black Fabio prince.
- I'm not Bradley Cooper, I never will be
but that day I went the extra mile
and I feel better for it, so.
- At the end of the day,
it's about hustle.
And if you're not here to hustle, then why are you here?
- Yeah, hell yeah, I feel that hustle.
Hustle manics.
Addicted to hustle.
(laughs)
(sighs)