About "The Pilgrim"
When I turned 30 I had achieved the dream of building a corporation that gave me financial freedom and I was looking for physical fulfillment, political problems plus bad circumstances made me migrate from my country, leaving and losing a large part of my heritag. I arrived in the United States where everything a world of new opportunities were presented, new ventures, new challenges. By then I was 34 years old and my first venture in the country failed after 2 years of operations, losing a lot of money and leaving me in a difficult economic situation in a foreign country and with a blessing (my first daughter on the way), the difficulties increase, work gave me little to cover family expenses, it caused common problems that ended in the loss of 10 years of marriage.
I was then living on the street and sleeping in a parking lot in front of a planet fitness, with no friends, no family, no one to talk to, sleeping in my car and at that moment with only 4 things: my car, a bag of clothes, a membership in planet fitness (how it helped me) and my intelligence that had started a second venture Falco Pilgrim INC (more about it on the official website www.falcopilgrim.com). For this moment I did not know that a more important ingredient was needed, since without more or less it appeared: fear, anxiety, frustration, anger, weakness, tiredness, pain, depression, loneliness. Four days passed between nights with all the negative emotions and loneliness, reaching a moment of clarity thanks to God, Allah, the creation, the universe, the source, the energy or how else we humans have named it, reflected before the mirror to fill me with hope, strength and understanding that we are not alone, that lives within us, everything happens for a greater reason.
What we are looking for will be reflected to us at some point in a way that we will not be able to understand and the harder we fight for something, assuring that it comes from our higher self, the harder the tests will be to prove it.
Understanding this, I got down to work, the basis of my strength is in the health of my entire body that protects my mind and my vital energy (spirit), I had to develop all my power for which I was created, just as a tree grows at its maximum splendor and gives its maximum possible fruits to nature. If we feel grateful for life, we will give everything possible for that maximum development, which includes physical strength, agility and speed, knowledge, intelligence, arts, economy, empathy and respect that I later understood to be the concept of love.
For this I had to leave behind beliefs, customs and fears that limited my development, study every day about each of the foods, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, macro and micro-nutrients that nature provides us and that would be the source From this development, study the anatomy and functionality of each muscle, our organs and their complexity, our bones and nervous and cardiovascular systems, reaching our source brain and control tower of our entire organism, study psychology and understand how ideas and thoughts change the chemistry of our body; he had to do all this while training and testing all the knowledge he received; With a tight budget, I had to be efficient in my food intake to guarantee the maximum possible performance without exceeding or falling short of physical needs, based on the fact that in each training session I simply gave my best.
Hello my name is Carlos Ugas, I will tell you a brief story about me and how I formed this company, which is full of events and moments that you will surely feel identified since all human beings without exception experience difficulties that show that we are here to learn and enjoy the ride.
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For more than 20 years I have dedicated myself to studying and analyzing the performance of our anatomy, During this period I learned about how our body works and how to get the best performance out of it.I have lived like any other person difficult, family, economic, physical circumstances that affected my physical performance and my health.
For 3 months I was continuously training, feeding with more awareness and respect for nature and living beings, fasting once a week in preparation for what would later become my first prolonged fast that reached 9 days, all while giving my best. better for my Falco pilgrim clients from 7:30 am to 10 pm continuously every day of the month (there was no space for vacations or days off).
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This took me from a weak 170 pounds to more than 195 pounds of strength, health, energy, concentration, happiness, I felt and looked like never before in my life, I didn't think it was possible, my connection with the superior being made me feel unlimited and Grateful for everything, I understood my humility by not being more than anyone and my greatness knowing that no one is more than me. I was my best competitor, he demands me in each series, in each customer service, in each fast, in each interaction to be a better human being, achieving growth in my entire being, in my business and my personal and commercial relationships, clients and clients of my clients who received the benefit of the good energy that was emanating.
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At this point I had to go through and break barriers, my economy was now stable, I had everything I needed, stability and the comforts desired by any man, now it was time to give thanks. For 9 days I fasted without food and only consuming a couple of glasses of water from the third day of fasting, discovering the incredible world of possibilities within our mind and being, observing that we were created almost indestructible and that our being protects us at all times. , he generates the necessary chemistry to regenerate and repower himself. Incredibly before finishing my fast I went to train, in an exercise where I lifted 200 pounds of weight now I lifted 185 pounds, almost no loss of strength if we consider that I had lost almost 30 pounds during the previous week and the nine days of fasting ending less heavy than at the beginning of this trip but with a completely different body and mind that in turn took me 6 months of preparation.
Detached from insecurities, I took action taking my business to a higher level, taking more social and community action, expanding my reach and services provided, considerably increasing my income and that of the work team, improving and better understanding the development technique of each of my muscle fibers, practicing the healing of my body with herbs, roots and infusions, improving my level of learning and assimilation of new information, connecting, sharing more with nature, understanding more about it and about me.
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For 2022 I set out after 4 years of study and practice I started a new proposal born Strong Beings and for this I set myself the goal of competing in a sport that required maximum physical conditioning, counting for the moment with 40 years and being the first Once I was competing formally, I entered a natural bodybuilding competition to be held in November of that year, a national competition sponsored by the NGA.
The COVID -19 pandemic was a challenge that led my company to a difficult situation, having to request high-interest loans, accumulating interest that in July 2022 after 5 years of operations, with more than 100,000 services performed, with 97% of effectiveness and growth for my affiliate clients of more than 500%, led me to stop operations to avoid leaving employees unpaid or providing poor service.
From that moment, losing my source of income, unemployed, with high debts, a project underway with competition in front of only 3 months, and after 5 months of preparation, I remembered that when one does something with love, "the harder the tests they will be to verify it”.
In November 2022 I was competing and winning my first amateur masters bodybuilding competition, opening the door for Strong Being to show what one can be capable of, with a healthy mind and spirit, over the financial and personal difficulties that I was obviously facing in that moment.
Life is a very short space in time of which we are not aware, live well, grow, develop, be a better human being every day, a better man, a better woman, be strong in all areas of our lives with empathy, love and humility is the philosophy of Strong Beings and I would love for you to be a part of my journey.
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Would you like me to be part of yours?
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Special Thanks to:
My Family for my education and unconditional love, and to my friends for every word of support.
Thanks to AFIT and its owner Abraham Oluwole that for their sponsorship and advice I was able to be on stage in my first time.
Thanks to my girlfriend Linda that always was in my side giving me support.
NGA that since its founder Andy Bostinto who at him 98 years old (2023) still promotes and seeks to stimulate a healthy life through diet and exercise.
And to all those who in the gym where I am give me a boost and a word of motivation.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And then we were given wings...
For you my little Sophia. 2023