Listen, you're not defeated with David Hernandez

David was born in El Paso, Texas to immigrant parents who moved from Mexico to Texas with dreams of making a better life for themselves and their children. David fell in love with sports, fitness, and nutrition at a young age when he became involved in Little League Football at the age of 8. One of his favorite Halloween costumes was dressing up as a football player. Soon he was also involved in baseball, basketball, karate, soccer, volleyball, and boxing. But David was always told he was too skinny, that he wasn't big enough or fast enough to be good at sports. This only increased his passion for sports and his drive to be the best.   
At the age of 12 he began working out at the YMCA in order to gain weight and build muscle. As he started working out he soon developed fascination with and then a passion for bodybuilding, He began to buy the muscle magazines, he looked it up on the internet, and started putting into practice everything he was learning. David was soon one of the few sophomores to play varsity football, he was the fastest runner on the team with a 4.4 (seconds) in the 40 yard dash. He became captain of his high school team, and was a First Team, All City, wide receiver with multiple scholarship offers coming in.   As his interest in bodybuilding continued to grow, David would go to the gym and make friends with the “big guys,” the bodybuilders, and soon he was getting tips and learning the secrets that weren’t written in the muscle magazines, the things most personal trainers didn’t know, and if they did, they didn’t share them with their clients. This only drove his passion to learn more about the fitness industry and how to help others transform their body.  But then David lost his childhood best friend Eric, to obesity. 
Growing up, they used to do everything together, they went to school together, they played high school football together, they worked out together. Eric was overweight and had struggled with his weight all of his life, but David began helping with all the things he was learning about health and fitness. When David turned 18, he moved to Miami to pursue his dreams, and with that move he lost track of his childhood best friend. Three years later he found out that Eric was dead, and that he had died because of obesity. He’d become so frustrated with his weight, and suffered in silence for so long, that in a desperate attempt to finally get the weight off, he’d gotten gastric bypass surgery, but two days later he got an infection and he died.   David’s best friend had died of obesity, and that devastated him. He felt like he could have helped Eric more, that he should have stayed in touch with him, and so he blamed himself, at least in part, for his best friend’s death. David decided right then and there, that no one he loved or cared about was ever going to die of obesity again, if he could help it. So this tragedy fueled David’s passion to help people, not just with weight loss issues, but with all their health and fitness issues.   
David is also the host of the You're Not Defeated Podcast,  which focuses on encouraging people to overcome, and live Not Defeated, through the sharing of inspirational stories of triumph, thus improving people's lives and helping them achieve their life goals. 
He can be found on  @YouTube  via  @DaveKHernandez