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Remember why you started.

This video might be longer than my usual content, or longer than your attention span lol, but I promise you, it could easily fill a two-hour movie if I shared all the ups and downs that have brought me to where I am today. This is a tiny sneak peek into my journey as a poor kid from Recife (Brazil), as a tennis player, and on how I started my fitness pursuit. My main goal is that you can take something away from my story: life can get really hard at times. We may reach our breaking point, lose everything that we’ve ever worked for... but how we respond to it all is what defines us and our futures. Every day we have the choice to keep fighting, working, and battling to find our purpose, and giving in to negativity will never lead us to reach our full potential. So giving up should never be an option. Shifting my focus, being determined to do and be better, and being proactive towards my goals instead of clinging to all the problems led to my love for the gym, for discipline, routine, and hard work. This newfound love then led me to share my journey with you all, getting me out of the shadows I was hiding from what I once considered “failures” or my battle with weight after retirement. And putting this energy out there, sharing my ups and downs, now led me to this new accomplishment – we’ve reached 50k followers. My life is in constant transformation; I’ve discovered new passions and purposes. And my biggest takeaway from it all is that my identity as an athlete and my passion for impacting people’s lives will always be there, and it’s the one thing no one can take away from me. And that keeps me going. Thank you sooo so much for your support and motivation. I hope that I can do the same for all of you, even if it’s just a little. Let’s reach our full potential together, with NO EXCUSES! 🦾 #noexcuses #mystory #gymmotivation #fitnessmotivation #workoutmotivation

Welcome to MAD ( @madapparel.us ), my ultimate passion project — a brand born from my own relentless pursuit of breaking barriers and pushing the limits of what’s possible. As a former Paralympic tennis player, retirement brought unexpected challenges. I faced weight gain, felt overwhelmed by depression, and lost my sense of identity.

However, through the unwavering power of determination and discipline, I found myself once again. I reignited the fire of my athlete’s mindset, rebuilding myself from the ground up and reaching new heights that I had never before imagined possible. To get there, I had to push through countless days of feeling down and unmotivated. It was only by embracing discipline every day that the “I can do it” mindset became a habit. I told myself every day that success comes from the discipline of repeatedly doing things that you may not necessarily want to do until they become a habit. And surely, it did—not just a habit but a passion, a necessity.

This personal journey inspired the creation of MAD, a brand that celebrates the unwavering commitment and determination driving us to reach new heights in our lives and fitness journeys. With our signature M