Cam and Brandon Jones, otherwise known as YouTube's Goal Guys, aren't afraid of putting their self-professed "average" fitness to the test, taking on physical challenges that push their strength and endurance. In a recent video, they up the ante, taking on the diet plan and bodyweight workout routine of the highly shredded calisthenics athlete Chris Heria for two weeks, using information from his Heria Pro app.

They adopt a beginner level workout which includes calisthenic exercises such as the elevated pike press, wall walks, planche lean pushups, L-sit single leg raises, lateral raises, and dumbbell shoulder press. "This might just kill me," quips Cam.

A typical meal during this challenge consists of sweet potatoes, greens, and a source of protein. "Most of Chris's meals are low-carb, so I am feeling hungry constantly," says Brandon. "On the flip-side, I am loving the workouts."

In addition to following the workouts, they also start to follow Heria's morning routine, which involves starting each day with 100 pushups and 100 pullups. Brandon breaks the pushups down into four "manageable" sets of 25 reps each, and then does the pullups in 10 sets of 10.

Cam, meanwhile, is able to complete the pushups, but maxes out at 50 pullups, even when doing a band-assisted version of the exercise. "My arms feel so tired right now," he says. "My lats have never felt worse in my entire existence, so the idea of this being an activation workout... no." In fact, he is in so much pain after the first day that he only reaches 25 reps on the second day, and he sets himself the goal of being able to do 100 banded pullups by the end of the two weeks, although his back and lats continue to take a beating as the days wear on. "I am ready to be done," he says.

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"I thought this challenge was going to be tough going in, but it proved to be even harder than I expected," says Cam upon achieving his target, while Brandon states that his biggest struggle was sticking to the diet.

"Just eating well for a week isn't good enough," he says. "I need to eat those same meals the next week, and the week after, and so on."

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