1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,800 Hello, ladies and gents Robert Sykes ketose amazon.com. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,900 And today's episode is going to be all about my competition 3 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:07,700 prep. I've got my lovely wife Crystal 4 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:08,800 here. She's going to be kind of, 5 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,000 interviewing me going through my prep protocol going through. 6 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,900 My starting stats, going through my competition, plans for 2023, 7 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:20,100 my prep starts today, April 3rd, and I just kind of wanted to 8 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:22,800 unveil that talk to you about what my plans are. 9 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:26,400 In addition to the prep, like the the business plans, the 10 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,300 course launch plans, the conference plans, all the 11 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,100 turmoil and chaos. Chaos that is going to be 23 in 12 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:35,400 addition and in tandem to the competition prep in which I'm 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,400 going to also be going to having when I had some loftier goals 14 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,600 and just simply competing competing is going to be a life 15 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,000 to go in and of itself. But I'm throwing some other 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,100 goals in there that are just on top of that. 17 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:46,000 So, I'm super excited about this podcast episode. 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,200 I'm super excited to get this information out and just to have 19 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,600 y'all support through it. Also, thank you all for tuning 20 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,800 in and let's dive into the podcast. 21 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,700 And we are live. Crystal, how are you? 22 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:08,300 I'm doing, well, how are you doing? 23 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:11,500 I almost said, Crystal, Faye, love that. 24 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:13,900 It was the first time since. I've said, my name is still 25 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:15,800 saved, his crystal, loving my phone, I don't know. 26 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:17,500 What am I saved in as you're on your phone? 27 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,100 Robert studly, you put that in there, right? 28 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:21,900 No, I put that in there. Yes, you did. 29 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:25,400 Like, I don't know, five, six years ago before we were 30 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:26,400 married. Yeah. 31 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:29,600 All right. So this conversation Is going to 32 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,400 be about this is going to go live on the third, which is the 33 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,900 official start date of my 2023 competition prep. 34 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,300 So we're going to be talking about that and I figured rather 35 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:44,200 than me, just talking, I'd bring you on to kind of talk to me, so 36 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,400 it's not just me talking. So talk to me, baby. 37 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:50,300 Cool. I so excited about your prep, a 38 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:52,200 excited or crap. I'm gonna let me preface this 39 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:55,500 prep conversation with the fact that I've got a crazy cough 40 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:57,500 right now. So if I start hysterically 41 00:01:57,500 --> 00:01:59,800 coughing throughout the middle of this, This, I don't have a 42 00:01:59,808 --> 00:02:03,100 disease or anything. Crystal did not get any sleep 43 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:04,500 last night because I was coughing all night. 44 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,700 I don't know what's going on. You've been sick on enough. 45 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:08,699 I don't think I've ever been sick. 46 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:11,400 Like, I haven't gotten a fever, I just like don't have to have a 47 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,500 fever to be sick Robert things. You have to like be dying and on 48 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:15,900 your deathbed in order to be sick. 49 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:19,400 He's been coughing up a lung so bad that he is keeping me up at 50 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,600 night, that is definitely sick. You are sick. 51 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,900 I'm not start sick, I'm not sick. 52 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:25,500 All right. So yeah, let's talk about the 53 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:28,400 prep. What do you wanna talk about 54 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:29,400 first? Where should we start? 55 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,900 We should start about when. Well, you just said you're going 56 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:36,800 to start the official start date is April 3rd 2023. 57 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:39,000 I like to start the beginning of the month but I also like to 58 00:02:39,008 --> 00:02:41,500 start on Monday. So third is good enough for me. 59 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:43,600 So how long of a Preppers is going to be? 60 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,200 What kind of depends we get several tentative competitions 61 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,800 lined up you and I kind of went to the calendar to, you know, 62 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,600 correspond the competition dates with our conference States as 63 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:53,800 far as like when I'll be speaking at different 64 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,000 conferences, when we have a booth at different conferences, 65 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,100 the only competition that 1000% for sure. 66 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:03,600 Doing is the one on October 14th, the Washington State, 67 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,100 natural Pro-Am are Norton's show, but I will probably do a 68 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:12,400 preliminary show before that one as like my test to show. 69 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:17,100 And then if I win that one, I'll probably compete at Worlds in 70 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:22,400 November, but I might also compete at to before those, so 71 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:25,700 anywhere from three to five shows basically. 72 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,400 So how to, for sure five. Initially how many weeks? 73 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:31,900 It's like six months, right? No it's longer than that. 74 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:34,900 I think the first show so that was mid-october. 75 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,300 There's one I think the very beginning of October so would 76 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:40,600 that be April? I don't know my mom's the year 77 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,000 very well, whether we got January March, April May. 78 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,300 June, July August, September, October so, seven months. 79 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:49,900 Basically, if you did that November 1. 80 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:52,100 Hmm. So yeah. 81 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:55,200 So an eight-month prep would be insane having the longest I've 82 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,700 ever gone is 22 weeks. Yeah, for a Up. 83 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:00,000 That's how long my prep was 20 weeks. 84 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:06,200 Yeah, so tell me what you're doing to prepare for this one. 85 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,500 That's different than the ones you've done previously. 86 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:11,700 Well, okay, let's first of all, talk about the last prep that 87 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:18,700 Robert did was in 2020 and what was 2019 into 2020, and like a 88 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:21,700 week before, his first competition all the competitions 89 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:24,400 got canceled. So literally a week before. 90 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:27,000 Yeah. Just go into like, how you 91 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,400 didn't. Get as lean as maybe you would 92 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,100 have what we did instead of doing the competitions and then 93 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:35,500 like what you plan on doing like differently maybe this time. 94 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:38,800 Yeah so my last time competing was in 2017 when I got my Pro 95 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,600 card at the gbo Federation and then I got what was I think? 96 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:49,800 I got second at the W NB F show in Washington state which is why 97 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,900 I'm going back to kind of like Get first on that one again. 98 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:56,800 I gotta unfinished business there but in in 2020, I plan on 99 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,300 competing a starter. Prep on November 1st, 2019, and 100 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:04,500 then prep for 22 weeks with the intention of competing at a 101 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:05,600 show. I forget where the first show 102 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,400 was but then also that show in Washington and then literally a 103 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,500 week, think a week and a half before that first, show that it 104 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:14,600 got cancelled because of covid. So I went through with that, 105 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,800 prep, up to that first shows, timing wise and then I got a 106 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,400 photo shoot instead and then I pretty much stopped after that, 107 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,000 but I had planned on communal prepping for another several 108 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,100 weeks. So I didn't get as lean as I 109 00:05:25,108 --> 00:05:27,300 would have gotten had I competed in. 110 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,800 T. So I've been the leanest. 111 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,200 I've been up to this point was in 2017 so I've got to beat that 112 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,400 this go-round. Hmm. 113 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:38,700 I'm really excited to see how well you do this year. 114 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:41,100 I mean, I know you're gonna do great but like I feel like it's 115 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:43,100 been several years since we've seen you lean. 116 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,100 But like, even longer since we've seen me like super 117 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:50,400 shredded. So I'm super excited to be real. 118 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,700 I'll leaned out and stuff. I got pretty frequently in 2020 119 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,300 we did. I didn't get as lean as I know. 120 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:58,500 I can't get and there wasn't really any For me getting leaner 121 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,400 because there was no show. So, it's like, I might as well 122 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,900 not risk. Any, you know, wrecking, Havoc 123 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:05,700 to bimetallic metabolism or hormone? 124 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:09,000 So, I just kind of get really lazy but then not get the 125 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,300 leanest. Yeah, we did. 126 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:12,400 Talk about that. You're like, should I keep 127 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:13,500 going? Should I not? 128 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:15,800 Like, I don't want to feel like I'm quitting, blah, blah, blah, 129 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,900 and I think that, I think that was, like, the best choice 130 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:21,700 because then you could like, you reverse dieted, and then you 131 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:24,500 just went back into building, and that's what has a lot of you 132 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:26,200 to gain some land mass since then. 133 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:29,200 Yeah. Like 2020s prep was weird 134 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,000 because I couldn't use a gym, so, like I had no StairMaster. 135 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,300 Like, I had a StairMaster like the first few months of that 136 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:39,900 prep. But then I lost access to the 137 00:06:39,907 --> 00:06:41,200 gym because of Adam's closed down. 138 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,100 So I started running around the park. 139 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,200 Oh, that's right. Yeah. 140 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,200 Party, which is most certainly not my preferred from the party, 141 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,900 like you deplete muscle glycogen with running you risk injury 142 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:54,100 more with the running. So it like, there's just so much 143 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:56,100 more benefit to behind with StairMaster, from a cardio 144 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:57,900 standpoint. So, I didn't have That 145 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:01,600 throughout the last half of the prep which I'm excited has to 146 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:02,900 measure. It's going to be a game changer. 147 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:05,600 Yeah. How do you feel about your like 148 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,500 stats Now versus when you started in the 2021? 149 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,600 I feel like I'm pretty much on par like my Baseline 150 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,400 maintenance, which I pretty much maintained when I'm not in prep 151 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,700 is around 180 pounds and around. 15% body fat. 152 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:24,400 I'm pretty sure I was about the same when I started my prep last 153 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,200 time and I'm pretty much the same. 154 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,600 Mmmmm now. So I feel like from a starting 155 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,100 position. I'm pretty much on par with 156 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:32,700 where I was there. I think I've gotten stronger 157 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:36,300 since then, and I feel like I've built better shape if I could 158 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:38,800 get better shape up. My chest has come up since then, 159 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,500 I feel like my hamstrings become up since then my calves have 160 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:44,000 come up since then. So I feel like I'm a little bit 161 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,300 better from a overall shape, some true proportion standpoint, 162 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:51,100 but as far as like hard stance, go like wait, haven't got any 163 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:55,800 taller since then surprise? So all those are pretty well on 164 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,800 par. Some I said about £80 182, 183 165 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,600 is kind of where fluctuate and I'm taking it about three 166 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,300 thousand to thirty three hundred calories. 167 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,600 I think my caloric intake may have been a little bit higher 168 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,200 than, because I'm trying to push it a little bit more with the 169 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,300 calories, but if that my maintenance right now is around 170 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:15,300 3,000, so I'll probably start my prep at around 3,000. 171 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:17,900 Cool. And then like, what about like 172 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:19,400 lab stuff? Like I know. 173 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,600 Well, you're going to get your labs done on the day that you 174 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:23,900 start prep. Yeah. 175 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:26,400 So so I'm gonna get all my labs done on the day. 176 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,500 I start prep. One thing I'm super excited 177 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:31,100 about with this prep that I have not been able to do in preps 178 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:35,400 prior is s 2017. When I did my first ketogenic 179 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,299 competition prep as you can attest, we were broke as a joke. 180 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:43,500 So like we didn't have money for anything. 181 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:46,100 We didn't have money to get blood work, done on a regular 182 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:47,600 basis. We didn't have money to get dexa 183 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,500 scans, super cool that Robert was going into a deficit because 184 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:52,300 it means we have to spend less money on groceries. 185 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:57,200 Yeah, it was, it was not optimal in that regard in 2020, we had 186 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,200 Money to buy those things until I get that data. 187 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:03,100 But nothing was open to get that data, like I couldn't schedule a 188 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:05,500 dexa, scan. I couldn't go get random Labs 189 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:09,500 drawn whenever I wanted to. So this year I'm going to be 190 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,700 able to get all of that data and I'm going to do it, really good 191 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:15,000 job. Documenting the entire prep week 192 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,900 after week after week on my Instagram account on my YouTube 193 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:21,800 channel through the podcast. That thing I text you today, 194 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,700 that's working on those little Emoji. 195 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:26,400 Things like blowing up my phone, I'm like, what do all of these 196 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,300 means? That's kind of what I'm 197 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:30,000 thinking. Like, as far as a template goes 198 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,100 for my Instagram post every single week, like, I'll have up 199 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,900 their progress pictures, but then having that like template 200 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,100 where I basically give people an update as to what the date is, 201 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:42,000 how many weeks and I am how many weeks I have left to go, what my 202 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,300 weight is with. My macros are what my body fat 203 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:47,100 stats are. What my libidos like you like 204 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:49,200 them. I was like the Imposter for more 205 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:54,200 info. What my Hunger is like what my 206 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,900 thoughts are like overall with all that stuff, it just 207 00:09:56,900 --> 00:09:58,900 basically. Documenting everything as 208 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:01,400 clearly as possible. So anybody that's wanting to 209 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,300 follow along or wanting to experiment with a ketogenic 210 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,400 competition prep or fat loss phase would be able to see 211 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,400 exactly what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. 212 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,100 How it's affecting my body. Okay, let's just lean into like 213 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,500 your kind of like protocol for this prep since we're kind of 214 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:18,300 like already into that, a little bit. 215 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:21,200 Yeah. So the protocol will be the same 216 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,800 as my prep protocol. So what I've developed through 217 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:29,100 years of trial and error, what I do with My clients, basically, 218 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:32,800 it will be all start with a high percentage of calories coming 219 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,200 from dietary fat, probably about 80% of my calories, come from 220 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,900 fat made that call from all started around my maintenance 221 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:41,400 and take of about 3,000 calories. 222 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,700 That's basically gonna be designed to ramp up my level of 223 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:48,800 fat metabolism right there at the onset, taking the same 224 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,100 amount of calories, should I shouldn't feel overly hungry, 225 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:53,900 but I'm up being the fat ratio, so I can just maximize Ketone 226 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:57,100 production and circulating blood ketones and just overall family. 227 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,700 And then I'll slowly titrate my protein up while simultaneously 228 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:05,300 dropping my fat down until I find my own unique protein 229 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:10,600 threshold, which will likely be somewhere around the 59, 60 230 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:11,600 percent. Total calories coming from 231 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,000 dietary fat. I think, last prep I got my 232 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,200 protein up to 220 grams before I started dropping that down, so 233 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,500 I'll find that threshold. Then I'll start dropping both 234 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:23,500 fat and protein down. So my overall fat ratio as a 235 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:26,700 percentage of total calories, will start to increase as we get 236 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:31,500 into the Second half of the prep and then after about after I'm 237 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:33,700 get about one month out from the first show. 238 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,100 Also introducing the ketogenic caloric refeeds with an increase 239 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:38,900 in fat and protein. Start tweaking my sodium a 240 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:42,000 little bit and just getting dialed into Peak for the show 241 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,100 itself. Okay? 242 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:46,800 So you're doing this, you created this, you also have a 243 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:54,200 book that people can purchase and should we go into the next 244 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,000 thing that you're doing there that you're in the process of 245 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:58,100 the course? Yes. 246 00:11:58,100 --> 00:12:02,200 So the book said like blurred it out and then yeah. 247 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,700 So the book is occasionally bodybuilding natural athletes. 248 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:08,400 Guide to competitive, Savage, dream, I published in January, 249 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,500 2020, to super proud of that book, that literally details, my 250 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,700 exact prep protocol that I've worked used for myself and all 251 00:12:14,708 --> 00:12:17,700 my clients and then I'm in the process now of building out, 252 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:23,400 this super intensive online course that You don't have to 253 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,100 have the book to do it. It kind of mirrors, a lot of the 254 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:29,300 concepts in the books, like the books comprised of seven phases. 255 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:31,800 The course, is comprised of seven phases, but there's so 256 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,000 much more content in the course because it's going to have like 257 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,100 video tutorials where you can see things that you obviously 258 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:40,700 can't see in the book, like the book is great. 259 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,700 But as I'm writing in the book about what to look for with 260 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:48,100 regards to with the refeed, macros and sodium and 261 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,300 applications like what you should be seeing the next day 262 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:53,500 when you wake up in the mirror, Like, you can't really get that 263 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:55,600 out of the pages in a book, but you will be able to with the 264 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,500 quarks, I'm gonna be showcasing everything. 265 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:01,000 There's gonna be a lot of just a additional bonus content in the 266 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,400 course. There's going to be like a 267 00:13:02,408 --> 00:13:05,100 community aspect of the course for anybody that, you know, gets 268 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:07,800 involved with the course. And that is hopefully going to 269 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,700 launch in May is the goal for that. 270 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:14,000 So yeah, it's going to be super. It's going to be like, the most 271 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,900 involved course that I'm aware of on the internet, especially 272 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,000 from a body composition standpoint especially from a 273 00:13:20,008 --> 00:13:22,600 ketogenic standpoint. Like it's going to be The 274 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,800 Behemoth of all courses for sure. 275 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,700 Yeah, I think what's cool is that like the book is really 276 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:31,900 great for just about anyone like you don't have to be doing a 277 00:13:31,900 --> 00:13:35,200 bodybuilding competition. You can just be looking for more 278 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,600 information looking to lose weight things like that. 279 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:42,600 Whereas the course will be like a step-by-step I think pretty 280 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:47,300 much anyone could still also do that but that'll be for sure for 281 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,500 you know people who do plan on competing and so and it's cool 282 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:54,500 to have both options. Ins and I don't know he could 283 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:56,500 like by the book now and then wait till the course is out and 284 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:59,700 then you'll already have an idea of like how things are rolling 285 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:00,500 out. Yeah. 286 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,000 There's not supposed to be salesy. 287 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I was just like, that's how I would do it if I was thinking 288 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,500 about doing yeah, gonna be a lot of carryover between the book 289 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:10,000 and the course, like some of the stuff in the course, I'm 290 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,300 literally using a teleprompter of my book. 291 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:14,900 Me reading the book and parts, like some of it is 100% the 292 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,500 exact same because a lot of it is just simply the exact same, 293 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,700 but there's gonna be a lot of additional content in the 294 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:22,000 course. That wouldn't make sense to 295 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,400 have. The book because you need to 296 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,100 have a visual representation of it. 297 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:28,000 So yeah, I'm super excited about the course we made like the 298 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 deeper state of course, back in 2017 and I'm proud of them. 299 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,700 But that just pales in comparison to what this course 300 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:36,800 is about to become. Like this thing is going to be, 301 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:38,900 like I said, a behemoth of course, is for sure. 302 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:41,500 I think it's gonna be a great resource for people that want to 303 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,500 do a prep, want to do a fat loss phase in the most efficient 304 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:47,200 effective manner possible with a ketogenic diet. 305 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:50,200 But then don't want to go the route of one-on-one coaching, or 306 00:14:50,208 --> 00:14:52,200 don't want to just have a bunch of conflicting information. 307 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,800 Going to have everything they need at their fingertips, you 308 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,000 know? With the course for sure. 309 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,500 Yeah. So what do you think? 310 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:01,100 Like what do you think is going to be? 311 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:04,500 That your biggest difference between like the preps that 312 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:06,300 you've done? Previously in this one? 313 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:11,000 You're about to do I feel like I'm busier than ever been have 314 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,800 this competition prep. I mean like you're supposed to 315 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:17,000 you're supposed to be for the start to align it to prep 316 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,300 because like there's a lot of, a lot of, you know, demands placed 317 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:23,400 on you and the stars are definitely not aligning but they 318 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,100 never will. So you just have to pull the 319 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:27,000 curtain back in the same thing as having kid. 320 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,500 Yes. Like if you wait, for things of 321 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,600 perfectly line, up, your never come out one. 322 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,100 Yeah. But like, like this year 2023, 323 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:36,200 I'm doing potentially five competitions. 324 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,300 Probably not five, but somewhere between three and five. 325 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:44,300 I'm doing like I'm speaking and I think five conferences I want 326 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:48,200 to sound like he remembered like that and they're all at the same 327 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,800 time frame like there's depending on which conferences I 328 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,500 want to actually go to. I may actually be competing one 329 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,100 day and then flying to speak at a conference like the next day. 330 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:02,000 So that's not really realistic and maybe doesn't make it mean. 331 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 It doesn't make any sense to do them and I'm probably going to 332 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,100 prioritize the competitions because I only do those every 333 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:09,100 three years. Years or so. 334 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:13,900 But I'm going to try and fit in as much as I can possibly fit in 335 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,800 while not letting anything suffer. 336 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:18,100 So it's just going to be a like my whole Manifesto for this 337 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:20,600 year's discipline is Destiny. And I'm just going to double 338 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,800 down on that because if I'm not organised and proactive my life 339 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,100 is going to get away from me for sure. 340 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,400 I feel like everyone knows that like summertime it's just a hard 341 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,000 time anyways because like their vacations are sisters that like 342 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,900 Robert and I don't really do a whole lot of vacations, but we 343 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:38,400 are like going on a family trip with my family. 344 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:41,100 Lee. We're going to visit my family 345 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:45,800 all together, and then we have like the low-carb Crews that 346 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,900 were going on. So like that's going to be a 347 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:50,600 huge thing and itself like you're going to have a gym but 348 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,500 like they may not have a StairMaster on the ship and we 349 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:56,100 won't have a squat rack. Yeah, they'll have like probably 350 00:16:56,100 --> 00:17:00,900 a Smith machine and they'll have dumbbells but like the food and 351 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:03,600 things like that. I think you can bring packaged 352 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,700 Foods as long as it's packaged and sealed, you can't like bring 353 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:08,900 your own food. I was talking to Kevin about 354 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:11,900 this earlier. And so I think that's a thing. 355 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:14,599 So we're just going to have to like, buy a whole bunch of like, 356 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:19,200 carnivore, cry, carnivore, snacks, and kyudo Bricks. 357 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:23,200 Like it's at least real food and like pack. 358 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,200 All that for Robert, make sure that he's going to hit his 359 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,200 macros. Luckily it's a Sunday to Sunday, 360 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,400 so, it shouldn't be too crazy. But like, that's a whole nother 361 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,400 level of having to be disciplined. 362 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:37,700 And then like, all in things like that, like, being 363 00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:40,100 disciplined, with the Is not whatever I'm concerned. 364 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:41,900 They have never had an issue with that, don't know. 365 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:45,800 But I think it would be easy to be like, well, you know, I think 366 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,500 the average person like you everyone knows Robert, you're a 367 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:51,700 Savage but like the average person or like I'm going to go 368 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:54,300 on a cruise and I'm going to just like do the best I can I'll 369 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:57,900 just guess at what it is but like we're not just guessing, 370 00:17:57,900 --> 00:17:59,700 you know? Yeah we're not just guessing 371 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:03,100 everything's gonna be very measured out very specific, very 372 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:06,900 strategic and like for me whenever I know I'm going to a 373 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:11,500 prep like the moment like When the third hits, when I put third 374 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:14,500 when the clock strikes, 12 and April 3rd starts like, the 375 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:16,500 switch is flipped, like it was go time. 376 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:21,100 And there will be zero deviation from the macro plans, 0 377 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:22,800 deviation from anything. Like everything will be 378 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:28,800 according to plan and I like that rigidity but I think my my 379 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,100 goal for this one is to be able to maintain that rigidity with 380 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:33,700 like the things that I have complete control over but then 381 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:36,800 not to get tooth distraught. When I can't maintain the 382 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,300 rigidity for things that I don't have. 383 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:39,800 They control over. Hmm. 384 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,700 Because when I when I want to be so dialed in that I try and 385 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:46,500 control everything that oftentimes works until it 386 00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:48,200 doesn't. And for things that I just 387 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,400 simply can't control. Like if I can't control it, then 388 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,800 I I get frustrated in the past and I don't want to get 389 00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:00,600 frustrated this year. So so a whole another level that 390 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,400 are adding to it this year. It's going to be like we have a 391 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,300 son and you never had a competition with a child and 392 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,300 Like as long as he doesn't eat my macros, he didn't reach over 393 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:13,700 and grab my food. It's all good. 394 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,400 You do. I mean, I feel like you just 395 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,800 tend to be a little bit more tired during a prep like 396 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,600 especially towards the end a little bit more irritable. 397 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,700 I already asked Robert to be home more. 398 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,200 I'm always like you come home early? 399 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,000 Can you you want to like hang out this weekend and not work 400 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,200 like all that. So I think it's going to be 401 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,600 definitely a little bit of a challenge because we're just 402 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,700 adding another level another layer on top of like where 403 00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:48,200 you're putting your time and effort and energy and Yeah, I 404 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:49,600 don't know. I think I'm gonna send though 405 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:57,500 will Really keep my focus on what matters and my wife for all 406 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:01,800 of this stuff. Like if if I start to be 407 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:07,400 negative towards him or lack patience towards him, that would 408 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:12,000 be a really apparent moment to check myself because like, he 409 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,300 obviously is not doing anything wrong. 410 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:17,800 My decision to do a prep as my decision, if I'm miserable, it's 411 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,400 my own fault. So like it's not fair for me to 412 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,400 be. A short with him or being 413 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,500 patient with him. So if I feel like I'm getting 414 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:28,000 that way with him, then that would be a really just a litmus 415 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,800 test, basically. So I need to check myself. 416 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:32,600 Yeah, yeah, I could totally see that. 417 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,300 I think I like that. What you said, like, having a 418 00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:41,300 son will actually help keep you in line more because it's so 419 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:43,400 hard to be upset with him. He's just so cute. 420 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:47,300 You know, it's like okay I am frustrated because I'm 421 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:49,300 frustrated, I'm not frustrated because he's done anything, you 422 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:51,900 know, it's just I don't know but But yeah, it'll be. 423 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:54,000 It'll be interesting. I feel like you have gotten 424 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,900 better each year like 2017, you are not the nicest person on 425 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,000 prep, like, you are mean, but like, you were just very 426 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,500 shutdown and zoned in like to the max when we, when I was 427 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:09,900 prepping when was it that I was, I would walk into gold and I'll 428 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:13,100 just be addicted. People 17, was that not the 429 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:14,900 entire but that was the year prior. 430 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:20,400 Are the the prep prior. Maybe it wasn't as shoot. 431 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,500 Now I can't remember is unique because you knew me during my 432 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,100 2015 prep. Yeah we did 15 17 20. 433 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:30,500 Yeah. Oh darn. 434 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:32,600 We weren't near as close in 15. No. 435 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:38,900 Because in 15, I went on a trip to California for like the month 436 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:43,800 before you did your competition, okay, so I think in 17, is when 437 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,000 it was really hard. So I didn't actually see you at 438 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,800 the very end of your competition until or in 2015. 439 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,300 But in 2017, I was there all the way through and yeah that was a 440 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:59,200 little bit little bit rough and if like 2020 I was probably a 441 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,500 little short because like like nothing was going our way with 442 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:05,700 like nothing was going anybody's way with the whole pandemic 443 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:06,900 stuff. Like there's all these things 444 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:10,400 that I couldn't control but all these things that were having a 445 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,900 pretty profound impact on the prep itself like the fact that I 446 00:22:13,908 --> 00:22:16,800 couldn't go to a StairMaster That was very frustrating. 447 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,100 I do think that like you said something the other day, you're 448 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:23,700 like, I think like you because when you're doing a prep, you 449 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:26,100 almost like allow yourself. Yeah. 450 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:28,000 That wiggle room. Like explain how you said that 451 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,600 because it was really good. Yes, I feel like like doing a 452 00:22:30,608 --> 00:22:33,700 prep is a very intensive thing. It's a very like body building 453 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:37,400 is a very selfish sport when it all boils down to it and I feel 454 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,600 like people don't do them very often so that when they do do a 455 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,500 prep they give themselves permission to be an asshole 456 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,700 because they no, they're doing something very hard. 457 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,400 They would like to think that everybody around them should be 458 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,400 understanding of the fact. They're doing something hard. 459 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:52,900 Yep. And should be very supportive of 460 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:56,400 that and ideally those people are very supportive of that but 461 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,400 it's like they give themselves permission to be short with 462 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,600 people to have a shorter fuse to be more irritable. 463 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,100 And I think with this prep, my goal is to just simply never 464 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:08,400 give myself that permission. Like if I don't have the 465 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,600 permission to be a dick to my wife, then I probably won't be, 466 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,000 you know, at least I'll try not to be. 467 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,900 I really hope not. Yeah I mean I'd certainly like I 468 00:23:18,908 --> 00:23:22,400 don't ever do it intentionally and you've done a prep like your 469 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:24,200 you just a sweet little angel anyways though. 470 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,900 So like you were never that that short with your prep. 471 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,300 I was not I was like totally normal, I like did not allow it 472 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:36,100 to control me but I think it's probably because I did watch you 473 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:41,500 those two years prior and like you did at 17. 474 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:44,700 Yeah, because then I competed in 2018. 475 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,200 Yeah and for me like when I do prep like I take it to a weird 476 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:56,000 level like I take it to a weird dark place where I like it's 477 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,800 like I'm a masochist when it comes to prep like I want to be 478 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,100 in pain, I want to be miserable, I want to freaking crawl down to 479 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:06,900 the depths of hell and kick the devil's ass and then look him in 480 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:10,100 his eye while I'm doing it and they come back up to show people 481 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:12,000 what I just accomplished. Like I take things. 482 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,300 To an unhealthy extreme and prep and I don't think that's right. 483 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:18,700 I don't think it's good. I just like doing things that 484 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:22,900 are very hard for the sake of being very hard, but I don't 485 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:25,100 think you need to do that. And this is kind of where I've 486 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:27,000 matured a little bit with this in the past. 487 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,800 I feel like that was necessary in order to get to the level of 488 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,100 conditioning that I wanted to get to. 489 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,600 I don't think that's the case. I feel like if I'm just simply 490 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,900 working, really hard and I'm not stressing about going down there 491 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:39,300 and kick them kicking the devil's ass. 492 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:42,100 Simply not stressing, and not having that. 493 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,000 Constant, you know stress State? I'd probably come even leaner 494 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,100 than not. So yeah, making the whole 495 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:52,000 process more sustainable to go. As you think that that is a big 496 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,700 thing that I think you have matured a lot in just in life as 497 00:24:56,700 --> 00:25:00,500 a man. All those things since your 498 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,600 prior preps and I think I think that definitely will be 499 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:04,900 different. I feel like every project going 500 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:07,600 forward is just going to progressively get different and 501 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,000 probably better. But yeah, that's exciting. 502 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,100 And I think also To that, I'm a much more public facing now than 503 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:17,100 I was previous. Like, I've got people watching 504 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:18,200 me now. That's true. 505 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,000 You know, like before when it was just me and I've tried to 506 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,700 just prove something to myself, like I didn't know what I was 507 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:26,500 capable of. I didn't have any perspectives 508 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:28,800 that fear of the unknown weighs heavily on you and yours have to 509 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,700 push yourself to the limit to figure out what your limit truly 510 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:36,100 is, whereas now, I know the depths that I can go, if I need 511 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:38,600 to go there, but I don't feel like I need to go there and it's 512 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,400 not sustainable to go there all the time. 513 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,700 So like I would much rather Showcase the people, how to do 514 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:48,500 this in a healthier manner, in a sustainable fashion and then 515 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:54,300 still succeed and Excel even but all the while doing so in a way 516 00:25:54,308 --> 00:25:56,300 that's positive for other people to take part in. 517 00:25:57,100 --> 00:25:58,700 Yeah. Do you think that there will be 518 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:03,900 a difference in like previously you've competed in the spring 519 00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:07,600 like the only times I've ever been at your competitions? 520 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,400 All three have been in the spring. 521 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,300 Do you think that there's going to be a difference with Not 522 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:15,400 having to go through winter and like actually going through 523 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,500 summer and like nicer weather and things like that. 524 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:20,600 You think that will like age you or do you think it won't make a 525 00:26:20,608 --> 00:26:23,400 difference if they want to be super cold for sure? 526 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,300 Towards the end of it? Yeah, you will only access look 527 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:28,600 at me like November. It doesn't get too cold here, 528 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,400 but like when we go to Washington, it'll be. 529 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,700 Yes, I'll definitely be like, cold other wearing some beanies 530 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:36,900 for sure, at that point. Yeah, but no, I think I'm 531 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:38,900 excited about it. You know, I feel like it's just 532 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:40,800 different. Like, in the past when I started 533 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,700 prep in the fall, You know, a diet through Thanksgiving 534 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:46,100 Christmas. Where's this time? 535 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,900 I'm pretty much dieting through the summer, but like, I don't, 536 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:50,400 really ever feel like I'm missing out like when everybody 537 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,800 else is eating barbecue and drinking beer, like, I don't 538 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,300 ever feel like I'm missing out for that, like, I don't mind 539 00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:58,900 bringing my Tupperware to the events and being that weird guy 540 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:01,000 in the corner, eating out of a tupperware. 541 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,000 Like, I don't care about that. Like, that doesn't really face 542 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,800 me. I just like the sunshine, like, 543 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,700 I feel like that is, like, really helpful because like, if 544 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:12,200 you are feeling overwhelmed or stressed, or whatever you, You 545 00:27:12,208 --> 00:27:15,400 can just go for a walk, get outside and it's like beautiful. 546 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,600 It's beautiful outside. You know it's just going to me 547 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,400 nice weather whereas going through a prep in the winter. 548 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,500 It's just like come drab and miserable and me. 549 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:26,300 Yeah. Do you think one thing that I 550 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:27,800 want to incorporate with this prep? 551 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,300 Like I'll do my StairMaster as my primary form of cardio, but 552 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:33,500 then like maybe on the weekends, like, go for a hike every 553 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:35,200 weekend. And that's not really even 554 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,300 something, like, I'm doing, like, for my calculated cardio 555 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:40,700 standpoint, but just simply getting outside and going for a 556 00:27:40,708 --> 00:27:42,000 hike every weekend, like around Lincoln. 557 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,900 Or something, I think would be good. 558 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,200 Good for my my psyche of nothing else. 559 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,700 Yeah. What about reverse dieting? 560 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:51,500 So reverse the ending. I'm going to do something a 561 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:52,900 little bit different. This go-around. 562 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,900 I've done this with a few of my clients and I've been so 563 00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:57,300 impressed with how it's worked for them. 564 00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:00,400 That I'm going to emulate it to myself in the past. 565 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,900 I've been a pretty slow reverse diet like three to four months. 566 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:07,000 Usually, for a verse that with this one, my plan is to do 567 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:10,900 pretty much as slow. Reverse diet as the prep itself. 568 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:14,000 Let me be prepping for months on be reversed adding for seven 569 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,600 months. So as much intensity as is going 570 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,700 to go into the prep itself, the same tense. 571 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,000 He's going to go into the reverse diet because if like the 572 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,500 reverse that is the part where a lot of people slip up they put 573 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:25,700 on way too much weight, too quickly. 574 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:27,100 I've done that past. Everybody's competed. 575 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,100 Probably has done that in the past and it's just not worth it. 576 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:32,400 You did that, you had a really negative rebound, you developed 577 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,300 a bunch of Eating Disorders. I developed a bunch of Eating 578 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:38,400 Disorders by going incredibly, slow with the reverse diet. 579 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,100 You're going to minimize any unnecessary body fat that, you 580 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:42,000 know, gain that you could put on. 581 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,600 But then you also going to just, you know, feel really good. 582 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,500 And I've had several clients that like that have done this, 583 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,900 what? I'll reverse diet them so slowly 584 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,500 and they'll continue to lean out as we start increasing calories, 585 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,400 you know, like from a strictly calories in calories out 586 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,200 standpoint that I can make a lot of sense to people. 587 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,000 But what's happening is there were ramping up their metabolic 588 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,200 rate with the influx and calories. 589 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,000 They're likely moving more. They're having more neat 590 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,500 activity. So they are burning more 591 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:10,300 probably which is why they're experiencing that but certainly 592 00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:13,300 from a metabolic standpoint, They're having all the benefits 593 00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:15,800 that come with eating more food. They're continuing to lean out, 594 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,500 but they feel Fuller. They feel more energized because 595 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:21,000 they have that influx of food coming in and I just continued 596 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,200 to look better and better. So that's my plans with the 597 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,200 reverse time. What do you think I'll do like 598 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,800 between your competitions? So I think this is interesting 599 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,600 depending on how lean I gets and when I get that lane, I would 600 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:40,200 like to ideally, stop decreasing calories at either that first 601 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,700 show or that shown Then from there, start to increase in 602 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:49,100 calories and basically start feeding into the world's 603 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:52,700 competition. So to paint that into a picture, 604 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:55,800 like if my competition in mid-october, is the point at, 605 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,600 which I stopped dropping calories, that's the lowest my 606 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,200 cabbage get and then I start increasing calories from there. 607 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,300 So tentatively start my reverse diet there but then continue to 608 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:07,000 lean out and look better and better and better. 609 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,500 You know, going into Worlds for five weeks later that would be a 610 00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:13,900 good example. I love what that reversing into 611 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:16,400 the next show. It look like, you know how 612 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,100 people like usually have like a big like post-show meal? 613 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:23,500 Are you going to do that? Like at each show? 614 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,400 Are you going to just like, go all the way through until you're 615 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,200 completely done? Are you even gonna do like a 616 00:30:27,208 --> 00:30:30,000 post-show meal? Where your you allow yourself to 617 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,700 eat a little bit more. I might make, I'm really 618 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:35,900 intuitive when it comes to that, like I just kind of see how my 619 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:40,100 body feels and responds. So if I do, it will be something 620 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:41,900 simple like a, like a steak, like it. 621 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,100 Like a, like a 16 ounce ribeye steak, and that's probably it, 622 00:30:46,100 --> 00:30:49,600 like, not even any added butter or anything, just like simply a 623 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,200 steak because, like, I'm gonna have the refeed meal the night 624 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,100 before that, the keto refeed meal that fat had pizza that we 625 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:57,600 do. So that would be Friday's meal. 626 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,200 And then I'll have an increase in calories on Saturday during 627 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,400 the day of the show through like you do bricks and stuff like 628 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,000 that. So if I do a steak celebratory 629 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,200 meal post, so that's going to be two days of higher calories, 630 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,000 which depending on how early Nomads and where my calories 631 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,400 are. That may be totally fine, but if 632 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,400 I still want to get Get even leaner as I go. 633 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,500 I'm a I'm a wave that celebratory meal to after it's 634 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,000 all said and done. Yeah I think that's probably 635 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,400 like where I fell off is like if had I just eaten a normal sized 636 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,800 stake in a normal sized meal. I probably would have been 637 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,300 totally fine but we went and ate at like Fogo de Chao or 638 00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:33,500 something. Yeah, and I ate probably twice 639 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:39,200 as much as Robert and I had wine and I had then we went back to 640 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:45,000 the hotel room and I had like a huge Kito Brownie and like 641 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,800 totally passed out on the bed and it was great, but I really 642 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,800 do think like that meal needed to be a little bit more 643 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,400 structured for me, so I like the way your kind of planning to do 644 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,800 this. Yeah, and I probably will do its 645 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,000 kind of crazed there. We don't have any Brazilian 646 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,400 steakhouses in Arkansas. We had one years ago, they 647 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,700 closed down there, making a new one Oklahoma Tulsa, it's not too 648 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:10,100 far. They're making one in Arkansas 649 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:13,400 that's going to open in April, so it's can And really starts 650 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,400 when it was that in Rogers. So I'll probably go there but it 651 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,300 won't be until after all the shows are done and then we won't 652 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:24,500 go there. Oh, you mean you'll go there? 653 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:27,100 Eventually, I was like, why would we go there before your 654 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:28,200 know? After all the shows are done. 655 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:29,800 We'll go there. Yeah, that would be really good. 656 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,600 Like, take the whole crew to that or something. 657 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,800 Yeah, that would get like a good team there something. 658 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,100 Yeah. Yeah. 659 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,900 So yeah, I will do that. And that's kind of plan as far 660 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:41,000 as the reverse that goes and honestly, I just want to stay 661 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,200 pretty lean. In after this show. 662 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:45,700 Because I mean, like, it doesn't really benefit you from a muscle 663 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:48,200 building standpoint, just stay to Tulane. 664 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,800 But like I'll continue to add muscle. 665 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,900 I want to keep adding muscle, but there was a point in my 666 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:56,600 life, in which I just felt really small. 667 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,100 Like, oh man, I'm way too small to be competitive and I'm still 668 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:03,100 smaller, like, I'm never gonna be the biggest guy on stage, but 669 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:07,000 I like the way I look shape and symmetry was like, I don't think 670 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,400 I've got any majorly, lacking body part. 671 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,600 I do definitely have bipartisan to bring up, but But I feel like 672 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,900 I'm at a place where I can be okay. 673 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,700 With not prioritizing, just sheer mass building and just 674 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:24,200 kind of like enjoy being lean for a little bit and plus from a 675 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,300 business standpoint like that would probably be advantageous 676 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:28,300 as well. Like spend some time you know 677 00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:31,100 being lean for little while, get some good photos, get some good 678 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:34,200 video content and it just kind of capitalize on that time frame 679 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:37,600 from a bunch, of course, videos for a bunch of exercise 680 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,500 tutorials. But then do all of that while 681 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:43,000 I'm leaner but then post-show so that I've All that content as 682 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,500 well. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. 683 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:48,200 I'm looking at your face right now and like your face is full 684 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,100 and your cheeks are full. And like in a few months they're 685 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:55,100 not going to be that way. Like my face fan right now. 686 00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,400 Well, you do, you do have a rounder fate like around her 687 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,600 cheeks for sure and so cheeks. Yeah. 688 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:05,700 When you get lean, like your face definitely can like 689 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:09,100 definitely gets more like chiseled. 690 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:13,000 Yeah, and it is interesting because like Like comparing you 691 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,699 now to what you're going to look like it is wild. 692 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:20,199 But yeah it's weird. Like when you as a natural body 693 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,100 builder when you are lean and you're wearing clothes, like you 694 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:26,400 don't look like a bodybuilder, looking like a method, like, you 695 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,000 don't look like you have any size to you don't like you have 696 00:34:29,007 --> 00:34:32,000 any muscle to you. When you take the clothes off, 697 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,100 you start flexing, you start seeing all the striations, the 698 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:35,699 muscle fibers pop in the vascularity. 699 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:37,400 Then it's obvious that your body butter. 700 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,000 But yeah, it's a I don't I'm just confident enough now. 701 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,400 Like in high school I So self-conscious, but how small I 702 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,300 was, I literally never wore a t-shirt in high school because I 703 00:34:46,308 --> 00:34:48,100 don't want people to see my arms now. 704 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:49,699 I don't really care. Like I'm never gonna be the 705 00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:52,100 biggest guy on stage and I'm fine with that. 706 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:54,100 I just want to be the leanest guy on stage. 707 00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,500 Yeah. So that what is your like 708 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,900 overall overarching goal of like this entire prep? 709 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:03,300 Like if you could put something on it like what would be your 710 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:07,200 your overall like goal. All right, so I was listening to 711 00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:11,700 David Goggins, new book? Never finished. 712 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,200 And he was talking about how he did a bunch of like endurance 713 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,600 events. Obviously he like jacked up his 714 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,800 knees and he's always been jacked up, he Jackson Nia people 715 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,300 more, but he wanted to do, Moab 240, run 240 miles, and I think 716 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:28,700 there was like eight months time between when he jacked up his 717 00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:30,900 name and was basically told that he would never be able to run 718 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,900 again to him, running up to 14 getting like one of the five 719 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:39,600 factors fastest times and that like, if you're in the operating 720 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,400 room and the doctors like yeah, your knees, this This, here's 721 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,900 the MRI scan is totally jacked up, you know, going to run again 722 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,500 and saying, like, in that moment, hey, I'm gonna go run 723 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:52,800 the Moab 240 240 miles. Like, that's a pretty audacious 724 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,200 goal. And for me, I like the idea of 725 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,100 having an audacious goal, I like to do things that excite me and 726 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:01,100 I've done multiple bodybuilding competitions. 727 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:03,200 I've won multiple, bodybuilding competitions. 728 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,800 And that's a very hard intensive thing. 729 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,400 Like I can say, hey, I want to win this bodybuilding 730 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,300 competition, and that would be an audacious goal, but it's not 731 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:14,800 as a daysius enough for my liking so clear my throat for 732 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,800 this one. My goal is to not simply do the 733 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,700 bodybuilding competitions. My goal with this prep is to 734 00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:28,400 literally be the leanest man on planet Earth for that point in 735 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,600 time. Like, that's not figuratively, 736 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:31,900 that's not a joke, it's not a metaphor. 737 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:34,500 It's 100% fact. That's what I'm going to do that 738 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:37,100 as my goal. I don't know idea how you would 739 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:38,400 test that. Like I don't know if it's 740 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,000 something that Guinness Book of World Records has to come out 741 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,200 and you know put a cow Brownie. I'm not sure how that works. 742 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,700 I think the one of the supposedly nice guys on planet 743 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:48,700 Earth right now it's like 4% body fat. 744 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:52,900 I don't know if that's the decks are in body or caliper what but 745 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,900 I forget his name. He's a yeah, the plan to look 746 00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:58,700 him up and forget his name, but my goal with this prep is to 747 00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:02,100 Simply become the leanest man, alive for that point in time. 748 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:05,300 If I do that, then the competitions are just going to 749 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:08,300 happen, you know, as a by-product to that endeavor. 750 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,500 And if I'm the leanness count stage, if I'm a ladies, man, the 751 00:37:11,508 --> 00:37:12,900 world. That we're building discount 752 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:15,700 stage. So for me, having that goal of 753 00:37:15,707 --> 00:37:18,300 being least man alive, it just kind of like. 754 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,100 That's the Pinnacle and then the bodybuilding competition is just 755 00:37:22,100 --> 00:37:23,200 bonus. On top of them. 756 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,700 Yep. So that's my plan. 757 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:29,200 So that well, I've, uh, how's that? 758 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:33,200 How's it going to be married to the leanest man alive? 759 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,000 That'll be interesting. If sure will be, it will be 760 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,000 interesting to like, see all your markers and everything at 761 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,300 that point, our doctors office like has like a sweet deal for 762 00:37:43,300 --> 00:37:46,500 us and just in general for labs and stuff. 763 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:48,800 So I'm really excited to see what all those are. 764 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:53,600 But I'm just excited to see like how you are mentally 765 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,100 emotionally. What you actually look like 766 00:37:56,100 --> 00:37:59,600 because like you've been so lean before I'm like it's like how 767 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,200 how do you get any more lean? It's like freakish you know and 768 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,900 then just yeah. You're like labs and everything. 769 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:09,300 I think it'll be it'll be really interesting and I'm not gonna 770 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:11,400 lie, I like being the leanest man. 771 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,700 Alive is not a healthy, Endeavor, that is not something 772 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:16,800 it's only for a very short period of time. 773 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:20,500 Yeah, but that's not something that I would suggest people do. 774 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,300 If they're their primary goal is Health and Longevity. 775 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,700 I think bodybuilding in and of itself can be a very healthy 776 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:31,000 sport but getting down to, I mean whenever you go sub 5% body 777 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,500 fan like it's not healthy at that point period. 778 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,700 So Roberts gonna do it. Yeah I am most certainly 779 00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:44,100 sacrificing some health to reach that goal but it is for a very 780 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:49,200 finite period of time and I just I don't mind sacrificing for 781 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,200 that thing that I feel is going to bring me some sense of 782 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,600 satisfaction fulfillment like I do. 783 00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:58,500 Mind, giving something up. IE saving a few years off, my 784 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:04,000 life, maybe thank do something that I think deserves my most 785 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000 attention and respect and discipline. 786 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,700 So yeah, that's where I met with him. 787 00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:09,700 Robert and I are two very different people. 788 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:15,300 Like Robert is like likes. I like hard things too but it's 789 00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:19,600 like you want to be like the best you want to like win. 790 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,100 You want to like all those things. 791 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:24,500 I'm like I'm just doing it for fun, you know? 792 00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:26,800 Like I do whatever. The result is great. 793 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,500 You like, I'm going to be the leanest, man, in the world. 794 00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:31,300 Yeah. Well, like, it is cool. 795 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:33,800 We're just very different in that man, is probably a good 796 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,100 thing that were not both. Yeah, that way I can be would be 797 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:39,000 just competing each other each other but like, I know 798 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,800 Genetically speaking. Like I'm never gonna be the 799 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,200 biggest guy like, I'm just not like, it's not gonna happen. 800 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,300 I'm okay with that, totally okay with that, but there's no excuse 801 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:52,100 in my mind, as to why I can't be the leanest guy on planet Earth. 802 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,800 So, that's exactly what I'm gonna do and I feel like another 803 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,400 7 plus 8 ohms, 8 billion people on this planet right now. 804 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,200 There's not anybody out there. That's better than me, you know. 805 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,200 Like I don't want to put limits on myself. 806 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,000 I feel like if there's something that I want to achieve, then 807 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:13,700 I'll damn will achieve it. You know, there's no reason I 808 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:15,400 can't, there's no reason. I shouldn't there's no reason I 809 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,700 won't as long as I put in the work so damn it time to put in 810 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,800 the work. I do think that like with being 811 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,500 an athlete to it's a little bit different almost no matter what 812 00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:32,900 sport you're being there is a level of elite that if you are 813 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:37,400 at that level you could you can almost do something a little 814 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,700 unhealthy in any sport that you choose. 815 00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:42,200 Don't for sure. So I feel like this is just that 816 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,600 level like you're choosing to be in that level and bodybuilders 817 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,600 doesn't have to be that but like this is you're like, I'm gonna 818 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:51,900 I'm gonna go be in that top Elite tier, you know. 819 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,200 Yeah. And the quote Goggins again he's 820 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,500 like he wants to be the uncommon amongst the uncommon you know. 821 00:40:58,500 --> 00:40:59,400 Yeah. Right. 822 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:03,100 That's what this is like. This is the The point zero, one 823 00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:06,400 percent of the one percent. It's like that's that's where I 824 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,500 want to take things. I don't want to be just another 825 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:11,600 Elite bodybuilder. I want to be the world's leanest 826 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,100 freaking man, you know. Yeah. 827 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,200 So that's the plan and I'm going to do it that there's a whole 828 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,800 lot of debate right now. It's a totally different 829 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,900 tangent. There's a ton of debate right 830 00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:24,100 now about high protein versus high fat. 831 00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:27,600 And like, there's a lot of benefits to different types of 832 00:41:27,607 --> 00:41:30,500 diet for different people. I mean, I've gotten incredibly 833 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:33,200 lean with high carb. Herbs and I protein. 834 00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:37,700 But the reason I even went Quito in the first place is because I 835 00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:40,100 did the high-protein thing, I got really lean, but that's what 836 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:41,500 developed a bunch of Eating Disorders. 837 00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:44,000 Forming, that's what tanked my hormones. 838 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,700 That's what screwed up. My metabolism screwed up. 839 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:50,000 Everything for me. So I know I'm a supremely 840 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000 confident in the fact that it well formulated high-fat 841 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,400 ketogenic diet can be extraordinary from a competition 842 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,700 bread by bullying standpoint and that's what I did in 2017. 843 00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:04,900 Like, I don't think my my fat ratio ever got below like 70 844 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:08,200 percent, total calories, come from fat and oftentimes was 82%. 845 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,700 Total calories come from fat and I'm not villainizing protein at 846 00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:13,000 all. Like proteins, great, it's very 847 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,500 important but this notion that's passing around right now that 848 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:19,800 you can't lose body fat and Excel from a performance 849 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,600 standpoint. In the context of high fat is 850 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,100 just totally inaccurate. So I kind of want that's how I 851 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:27,400 did mine too. Yeah. 852 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:32,800 You know all your one-year show ya all your All my clients 853 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,800 clients, yeah. They at least start off super 854 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,100 high fat and then, you know, you figure out what's going to be 855 00:42:37,107 --> 00:42:39,900 best for their individual body and then you adjust from there. 856 00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:41,500 Yeah. So I just want to document that 857 00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:44,100 process because it does it baffles me that there's still so 858 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:47,400 much confusion out there. And like there's always going to 859 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,700 confusion, but it baffles me that there's still so much. 860 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,700 There's still so much discussion around. 861 00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:56,600 High-fat not being effective, and it's like, it's obviously 862 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,400 effective. So, I'm just going to Showcase 863 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,200 that one more time. What's this crazy? 864 00:43:01,300 --> 00:43:04,600 Easy to me like again we're on a tangent here is like you could 865 00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:09,300 you could lose body fat by eating fast food like you could 866 00:43:09,700 --> 00:43:12,300 you could lose body fat by eating high carb. 867 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,400 You could lose body fat by eating high protein or I thought 868 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,100 like there isn't one way to do things. 869 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:25,400 It's just what is most optimal? What do you feel best at and 870 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,100 like what are your lab saying? What like what is your body 871 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:30,700 telling you based off of how you're doing things? 872 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:32,300 Which is that why? I think so important that you're 873 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:37,600 documenting your labs and your hormones and you know, how 874 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,700 you're feeling and your libido and like, all that kinda stuff. 875 00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:42,700 I think it's really important because I feel like a lot of 876 00:43:42,700 --> 00:43:44,600 people don't do that. They're like, man, I feel like 877 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,900 trash today or yeah, you don't get it up when you're at the end 878 00:43:47,900 --> 00:43:50,400 of prep, or whatever. And it was like, yeah, that's 879 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,000 the thing. Like so many people in the 880 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,900 nutrition space, they point to bodybuilders and it's a look, 881 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:59,500 obviously, high protein high fiber foods is what you want to 882 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:01,100 do. If you want to get lean look 883 00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:03,900 like, Body butters but what they don't show case is that all 884 00:44:03,900 --> 00:44:05,800 those body builders feel like shit. 885 00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:07,100 Yeah. You know like their hormones or 886 00:44:07,100 --> 00:44:11,500 tanked they literally are in Zombie status and like I'm not 887 00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:13,800 always peaches and cream to be around the last part of a prep. 888 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,900 Don't get me wrong but I feel a hell of a lot better than I did 889 00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:20,200 when I was doing the super high protein, high carb approach. 890 00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:23,700 So so yeah, I think keeping dietary fat wrote, so Bhai is 891 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:26,200 going to do wonders for stabilizing hormones. 892 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:28,600 I mean, I know it does, like I've done it before, but now I'm 893 00:44:28,607 --> 00:44:30,500 gonna be able to Showcase all that for people to see. 894 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:32,800 So I think Be very good. Yeah. 895 00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:36,300 So let's talk about the beginning of your prep in April. 896 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:38,900 How do you plan on starting off your prep? 897 00:44:39,500 --> 00:44:43,000 So I'm going to do, like, when I do a pretty, I'm pretty much 898 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,500 track and macros Loosely. Now like I went throughout the 899 00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:49,800 majority of my building phase not tracking macro just ensuring 900 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,800 that I was eating enough overall food enough, overall protein the 901 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,100 past couple months I've been a Loosely tracking so that I can 902 00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:58,100 Target three thousand, three hundred calories and they just 903 00:44:58,100 --> 00:45:00,900 kind of hone in on establishing that as my true maintenance. 904 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:04,200 When the third rows around, I'm tracking everything to the 905 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,500 frickin teeth. Like everything to the G will be 906 00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:09,900 measured and all macros are good kind of for and I'm just going 907 00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:13,200 to remove all the noise from the equation so it comes to food and 908 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,700 removing noise from the equation I like to do pretty much like a 909 00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:20,700 meat and Bricks style approach. I'm not a hardcore carnivore. 910 00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:22,300 I feel like nothing against carnivore. 911 00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:24,700 Like I don't feel like I have any inherent benefits from a 912 00:45:24,707 --> 00:45:29,400 performance standpoint with the inclusion of veggies but I don't 913 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,500 like just pure Carnival for Standpoint because I like a 914 00:45:33,508 --> 00:45:36,600 little more variety and tastes and textures and plus with a 915 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,900 higher fat it's easier to get that in a few allow things like 916 00:45:39,900 --> 00:45:43,900 avocado oil, olive oil, some dairies that some people don't 917 00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:45,500 allow for super straight carnivore. 918 00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:47,900 Depending how straight you want to be coconut yogurt. 919 00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:51,000 For instance is a great source, the keto bricks obviously he one 920 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,500 of those every single day those are not hardcore karna form but 921 00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:55,500 the stearic acid in those is Good from a performance 922 00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:58,700 standpoint for dietary fat. So I'm just going to do straight 923 00:45:58,700 --> 00:46:01,100 up meat and Bricks as the first month. 924 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,600 With of the prep to kind of wipe. 925 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,500 The Slate clean, get all the noise removed from the equation. 926 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,900 Let my body flush out any excess fluid way and just kind of 927 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:12,400 re-establish a super solid Baseline at the onset of the 928 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,000 prep, so meat and Bricks for me in April. 929 00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:19,800 So with that, like, if people want to join along with you and 930 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,900 you meet in bricks for like a month of April, what do you 931 00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:25,800 consider like meat and bricks? And a last time you did this, 932 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,100 you did eggs. Also like is, are you allowed to 933 00:46:28,107 --> 00:46:30,500 cheese or you allowed yogurt? Like, or is it like, literally 934 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:33,600 just me. I think just meat and Bricks I 935 00:46:33,607 --> 00:46:37,300 think eggs be totally fine like eggs be fine but yeah like no 936 00:46:37,300 --> 00:46:38,700 yogurts like all that other stuff. 937 00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:42,000 I don't think against the ogre everything against cheese but 938 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,900 like it just adds more complexity to what could be a 939 00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:48,800 very simple situation. So for me meat and Bricks is 940 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:53,800 just simply one Holbrook a day, plus whatever meat and eggs 941 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,000 makes up for my macro targets for that day and just stop 942 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,500 salts. No sauce or anything. 943 00:47:00,100 --> 00:47:02,200 I could probably like hot sauce. Or something like that. 944 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:06,600 Like like some sauces, like a primal kitchen salad, dressing 945 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,400 sauce, probably not so much, but like Tabasco sauce, probably 946 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,400 totally fine, seasonings and stuff like that. 947 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,100 I'm totally full all for. So yeah. 948 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:17,600 Just meet bricks, one brick, a Dame and then whatever meat plus 949 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,300 eggs, would make up your target macros for the day. 950 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,000 That's what I would consider meeting bricks Danny vague and I 951 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,200 did that I don't know two or three years ago and it like kind 952 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,000 of kicked off and hashtag meeting Brooks. 953 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,200 Yeah and like everybody started doing it and they also pretty 954 00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:32,200 good. Success with it because it just 955 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,300 simply removes all the variables, the noise from their 956 00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:36,500 nutritional equation. So yeah, that's how I'm going to 957 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:40,200 do to kind of kick off my prep, just a month of meat and bricks. 958 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,100 And I pretty much do meet and Bricks, right? 959 00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:44,500 The entirety of the prep, but then I might include more stuff 960 00:47:44,500 --> 00:47:46,100 like yoga or stuff like that. Yeah. 961 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:47,600 But for the first month, just meeting brick. 962 00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,400 So yeah, definitely, I think it's kind of cool when you get a 963 00:47:50,408 --> 00:47:52,700 little Community aspect going. So anybody that wants to do 964 00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:54,300 that, by all means, month of April. 965 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,600 Get you some bricks, get you some meat, hit your Macros, and 966 00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:01,700 let your body, get dialed in optimize that all the Noise in 967 00:48:01,700 --> 00:48:02,800 the equation. Yeah. 968 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:05,500 Oh show. Where she got babe. 969 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,700 I think that's all I got. That's all you got. 970 00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,100 I feel like I feel like that was pretty good. 971 00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:14,600 I feel like we went through a lot of different aspects of 972 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:19,200 things I'm like, trying to Rack my brain for Anything else? 973 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:20,600 You feel like I'm missing anything? 974 00:48:21,900 --> 00:48:23,100 That's pretty much it. I'm just excited. 975 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:24,800 Hit the ground running like I'm excited too. 976 00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:27,500 I've already kind of been doing a lot of stuff to kind of get 977 00:48:27,700 --> 00:48:30,200 geared up. Like, I've been, I got a 978 00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:32,400 membership at Crunch Fitness so I can use your tanning bed and 979 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,800 StairMaster. So I've been tanning these past 980 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,700 couple days because I want to my starting progress pictures for 981 00:48:37,700 --> 00:48:41,600 the prep to reflect a similar skin tone as what my ending 982 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,400 pitchers are going to be just as hard to compare. 983 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,400 So started tanning. Got that kind of dialed in. 984 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,100 I've got my morning routine dialed And I've got my 985 00:48:50,100 --> 00:48:52,700 journaling dialed in. I've got all these things. 986 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,100 I got my cold plunge, dialed in, like, all these things that I 987 00:48:55,107 --> 00:48:57,100 want to make sure that I'm doing throughout the prep. 988 00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:59,600 I'm going to keep doing, like I've already started doing so 989 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,900 it's not like I'm gonna have to change everything drastically 990 00:49:01,900 --> 00:49:03,600 when the prep starts. Like it's pretty much just 991 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,000 coasting right on into it. I feel like you started like 992 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,700 January with what with like making sure that you were doing 993 00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:10,700 all the things. Yeah. 994 00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:12,400 Like attract a macro. Is it started probably in 995 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,400 January cold plunge? You started before January but 996 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:19,500 like you've been. Yeah, pretty like This is what I 997 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:21,700 do all the time. I think I'm also going to keep 998 00:49:21,700 --> 00:49:24,000 the full-body split going through my prep, which I was 999 00:49:24,008 --> 00:49:26,500 kind of on the fence about that. Yeah. 1000 00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:30,500 So in the past, I did my Eighth Day rotational split like heavy 1001 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:35,100 hypertrophy split and I like that a lot but I've been doing 1002 00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:38,200 full body for the past has been about six months ago. 1003 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,200 Probably it's been a while. Probably longer than that, we 1004 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,000 may be. Yeah, and I feel good with it 1005 00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,800 and I feel like I don't know if it's the best for building 1006 00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,800 muscle. But I feel like it's certainly 1007 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,700 adequate for preserving muscle and from a psychological 1008 00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:57,900 standpoint, I think that the when the calories get really low 1009 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,700 and I dread the workouts because that will come. 1010 00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:03,200 Yeah. If I it's gonna be easier for 1011 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,500 me, to psych, myself up to do. Okay, let's get through, you 1012 00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:08,700 know, five sets, six sets of squats. 1013 00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:11,700 I'm dumped legs for the day and then I move on to shoulders and 1014 00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:13,800 then I move on to back. Then I move on to arms, are do 1015 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,700 just for five sets for that. Given by part as opposed to a by 1016 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,300 parts, Split in, which it's like, all right, I'm going to 1017 00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:23,300 the gym and I've got to do five or six sets for squats and I've 1018 00:50:23,300 --> 00:50:26,700 got to do five or six more exercises for legs specifically. 1019 00:50:26,700 --> 00:50:29,300 Yeah, that's that's pretty rough mentally. 1020 00:50:29,900 --> 00:50:33,300 So I feel like if I go into it with a full body approach, its 1021 00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:36,500 to me less mentally exhausting, I can kind of adjust Embrace 1022 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:40,200 that suck a little bit more. Just looking at my calendar 1 2 1023 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:48,600 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 Days. 12 days until he has kind of Mike. 1024 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,600 It's gonna it's like a month and a half away. 1025 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,500 Oh, it's like a month away. It's like no, it's in 12 days. 1026 00:50:54,900 --> 00:50:59,700 Well, you are my my prep. The proper animal. 1027 00:50:59,700 --> 00:51:02,100 Like a t-shirt for you. This is like meal prep queen or 1028 00:51:02,100 --> 00:51:04,100 something like that. Master, no print master. 1029 00:51:04,100 --> 00:51:07,200 So you do all my meal prep. Oh, I send you the macros for 1030 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,900 the week and then I tell you what foods, I want to eat and 1031 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:11,500 then you cook them all. Yep. 1032 00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,300 I did just buy whole bunch of stuff where though, so yes we 1033 00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:17,000 did Vice and about then what do you think about that? 1034 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,300 Are you ready for this? All commencing in 12 days, eight 1035 00:51:20,300 --> 00:51:25,200 months of milk and like I okay? So you guys think like, oh yeah, 1036 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,900 meal prep, like you cook a bunch of ground beef and then you 1037 00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:32,800 weigh it and then you separate it know, like I weigh it raw and 1038 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,100 then I cook it individually. And then I put it into a 1039 00:51:36,100 --> 00:51:40,400 tupperware for one day and then I weigh it raw and then I cook 1040 00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,800 it and then I put it into a tupperware for day two. 1041 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:48,800 It's like Everything has to be to the tea with Robert, so it's 1042 00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,300 like, there are no cutting Corners. 1043 00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:54,700 There's no cooking everything all at the same time and just 1044 00:51:54,700 --> 00:51:56,500 separating it. Like, that's not a thing with 1045 00:51:56,500 --> 00:51:58,100 him. There was one week where you 1046 00:51:58,100 --> 00:51:59,700 miscalculated, my macros. Remember that? 1047 00:51:59,700 --> 00:52:02,200 I did not kiss you. Keep saying that I never did? 1048 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,300 Are you sure? I'm pretty sure you like forgot 1049 00:52:04,300 --> 00:52:05,500 to add some heavy cream or something. 1050 00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:09,200 So I'm pretty sure I didn't like, I am like long time ago. 1051 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,400 I ain't trippin, but I'm pretty sure. 1052 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,300 I am. I've always been like so. 1053 00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:16,100 Good at all of it? Yeah. 1054 00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:18,500 Well you're a rockstar. I'm not complaining at all. 1055 00:52:19,100 --> 00:52:21,000 Right. Very blessed to have you. 1056 00:52:21,900 --> 00:52:23,100 So yeah. It is going to be different 1057 00:52:23,100 --> 00:52:27,600 though because like I usually do take care of rigel a lot. 1058 00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:31,400 And when you're cooking food and things are popping and things 1059 00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,300 like that, like he can't be in the kitchen with me, so it'll be 1060 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,700 a little bit different but I think he's old enough now when I 1061 00:52:37,707 --> 00:52:40,500 just could take him and go somewhere stuck on Sunday when 1062 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:42,100 you meal prep for the coming week. 1063 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,300 Like he and I can just load up and go. 1064 00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,200 Do something. You know, that will be really 1065 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,900 nice and he's hit me, he'll be a year and two months. 1066 00:52:49,300 --> 00:52:52,600 So he's like almost walking already. 1067 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,200 So he's going to be like Adventure, you're on doing all 1068 00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,500 the different things and hopefully not wanting to be in 1069 00:52:57,500 --> 00:52:59,100 the kitchen. What's have to get like a little 1070 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,100 baby gate up and yeah, yeah, but it's gonna be good, it'll be 1071 00:53:03,107 --> 00:53:05,600 good. It is a lot for me to like, here 1072 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,600 we go. You know, because it's like 1073 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:11,000 every week and if we're gone for a conference that week like we 1074 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,500 get back. I have to wash everyone's 1075 00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:14,300 clothes. I have to do. 1076 00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:16,800 Prepping on Monday. Make sure that he has food for 1077 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,100 that day. It's a lot like during like the 1078 00:53:21,100 --> 00:53:23,700 conferences and things like that honestly though. 1079 00:53:23,700 --> 00:53:27,400 I think like we're so busy that thing. 1080 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:28,800 It's actually going to work to our advantage because like I 1081 00:53:28,808 --> 00:53:32,900 think with less prep in 2020 we were super busy but we're like 1082 00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:34,500 stuck at home. There was any conferences, 1083 00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:38,100 everything was canceled and like when it when you're stuck like 1084 00:53:38,100 --> 00:53:41,600 you just like your mind starts wandering and to think negative 1085 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,300 thoughts we're going to be. So freaking busy with 1086 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,700 Conferences with rigel with the prep right? 1087 00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:49,500 Have time for - thought like the business alone to keep us that 1088 00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:51,800 busy. Yeah the course launched and all 1089 00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,700 that stuff. So I'm going to be so busy that 1090 00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:59,500 I'm not going to have to like allow myself time to be negative 1091 00:53:59,500 --> 00:54:02,300 or be short. You're going to be too busy to 1092 00:54:02,300 --> 00:54:05,400 complain about anything like like it's going to be go time. 1093 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,100 Yeah, it's gonna be go time but it's going to be go time for a 1094 00:54:08,100 --> 00:54:11,700 finite period of time. Like we go freaking you know all 1095 00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:14,300 the freak out all the Freak Out freak. 1096 00:54:14,500 --> 00:54:19,400 And we go with a freak out. We're not going to freak out but 1097 00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:24,400 we go all out until it's over which is going to be in 1098 00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:26,900 November, you know. Like we can do anything for 1099 00:54:26,900 --> 00:54:29,500 eight months, anything like I can do anything for eight 1100 00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:31,700 months, I can wall sit with a 45-pound plate on my lap for 1101 00:54:31,700 --> 00:54:34,000 eight months. I don't know about that, but I 1102 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,300 can do anything for eight months and then obviously, we're going 1103 00:54:37,300 --> 00:54:39,900 to the reverse that free strict as well, but then after that 1104 00:54:39,900 --> 00:54:42,200 point, like there's not the weight on your shoulders of it 1105 00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:43,900 all. So I'm not really worried about 1106 00:54:43,900 --> 00:54:45,500 that. But For eight months, we just 1107 00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:49,100 freaking put her head down and grind, grind on parenting going 1108 00:54:49,100 --> 00:54:52,300 on the course, quite on the prep, around the business going 1109 00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:55,900 on groans Peter, breathing whether homesteading Garden. 1110 00:54:56,300 --> 00:55:00,400 We're throwing so much into our life right now, like Frances. 1111 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,200 Yeah, so much. There's a lot happening in the 1112 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,500 next year or so. Yeah, it's gonna be good, 1113 00:55:05,500 --> 00:55:06,100 though. I'm excited. 1114 00:55:06,100 --> 00:55:08,100 Are you excited? I am excited. 1115 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:17,600 Like I my like not my Manifesto but my like saying my words for 1116 00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:21,500 the here is be the calm or like be the piece or you know 1117 00:55:21,500 --> 00:55:26,400 whatever and that I really think that because it's going to be 1118 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,400 chaos like we did a podcast at the end of last year, the 1119 00:55:29,408 --> 00:55:31,900 beginning of this year, whatever we're like this year is going to 1120 00:55:31,900 --> 00:55:36,600 be mad and I still feel like that and sometimes I have to 1121 00:55:36,607 --> 00:55:42,000 remind myself to like be that piece and be the piece for rigel 1122 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,800 and for Robert and like things have already been Been crazy 1123 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,700 this year for us and it's like, you just have to really remind 1124 00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:51,600 yourself to like, get in that mindset of like, everything's 1125 00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,400 going to be just fine. You know, we can make it through 1126 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,200 anything. So I think your your is going to 1127 00:55:57,207 --> 00:56:01,700 be a lot about like discipline and doing the hard things and I 1128 00:56:01,700 --> 00:56:04,900 am hopeful that like the house and the home will just be really 1129 00:56:04,900 --> 00:56:09,200 peaceful place for you to come and like, just be, but we have 1130 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,300 to, like, we get things like very strict and in order in 1131 00:56:12,300 --> 00:56:15,000 order for that to be a thing, you think, Marriage is going to 1132 00:56:15,008 --> 00:56:19,500 be stronger or Not by the end of this all stronger Stronger. 1133 00:56:19,500 --> 00:56:22,200 Yeah. I feel like every prep that we 1134 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:28,200 go through is better and better. Like, I feel like we have deeper 1135 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:32,100 conversations, like, I can get frustrated at you, like, you're 1136 00:56:32,100 --> 00:56:35,700 a jerk and you're like, yeah, I know, and just, you know, things 1137 00:56:35,700 --> 00:56:38,200 like that, just it'll be fine, it'll be great. 1138 00:56:38,300 --> 00:56:43,200 Every Struggle that you go through, always makes you a 1139 00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,100 better person. Well, if you come out on the 1140 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,600 better side of things, yeah makes you a better person, you 1141 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,000 know, and Robert. And I don't really allow 1142 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,000 ourselves to be negative about things like we can be negative 1143 00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,100 about it. For about 5 Seconds, get it off 1144 00:56:57,100 --> 00:57:00,700 your chest, do the thing? Be sad, cry, whatever you got to 1145 00:57:00,700 --> 00:57:04,000 do and then it's like, okay, now it's time to get up and fight. 1146 00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,600 So I think, yeah, we were always going to be stronger at the end. 1147 00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:10,200 Boom, boom. That's a wrap. 1148 00:57:10,300 --> 00:57:11,600 I love you baby. Love you too. 1149 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,600 Excited for you. Excited for you? 1150 00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:18,300 Everybody is not know where to find you, where they go on 1151 00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:20,600 Instagram. It's the adult lady does savage 1152 00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:26,800 on my website is Lady Savage.com and we also have the lives that 1153 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,700 we're going to be doing a lot more home sitting stuff. 1154 00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:31,800 Like we just started a garden this past weekend where I get 1155 00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:33,800 some chickens going to build the chicken coop. 1156 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,600 I think honestly having that like if I can do most of my 1157 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:41,200 training during the week, And then, like, most of my work for 1158 00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,500 the weeks of the weekends can truly be homesteading weekends, 1159 00:57:44,900 --> 00:57:46,900 that will probably help a lot with my prep as well. 1160 00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:51,000 I think it's going to help a lot for me with your prep because I 1161 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,500 will have something to like look forward to it and like have the 1162 00:57:53,508 --> 00:57:56,900 fun things and all that but for our your last preps I always had 1163 00:57:56,900 --> 00:57:58,900 to find something. I'm like this is my thing but 1164 00:57:58,900 --> 00:58:04,000 like I go and I do and I'm hopeful that it's home setting 1165 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,600 type stuff. This should be good. 1166 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,000 Should be good. All right, that is live savage 1167 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,500 or Instagram live savage on in. G team Savage on Facebook. 1168 00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,200 Then we have our YouTube, of course. 1169 00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:14,400 Yeah. And they will be more info on 1170 00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,100 the Course once it gets closer. Love you. 1171 00:58:17,100 --> 00:58:19,800 Babe, and that's a wrap on the podcast on. 1172 00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,400 Let's go get little rigel. Okay.