Nice shirt man, fuel for life. I wear that the other day.
Probably not this one, probably your own.
What size is that XL? It may have been that when I
wear an XL in that design. Snuck in your closet?
And I took it off my hanger this morning.
Yeah, I put it back that you noticing good.
That's why it stinks. Yeah, I was thinking because I
just got done working out and I'm still wearing my workout
shirt. Little What is this?
Not a big deal when you work for.
Yourself White Oak Pastures. I know we have a shower now and
I'm taking advantage. That's true.
So I want to stink for my employees.
It's all good. We're used to it smells like you
to break in here. That's true.
It smells like we're working in a chocolate.
Factory that's true like. Willy Wonka.
It's pretty cool. I had some.
I had a client who I haven't met in person yet.
She came in on Sunday 'cause she was dropping off her grandson in
Little Rock and they were driving back home and had to go
through Fayetteville. I'm like, well, shoot, I'm just
outside of Fayetteville. You had to swing by him.
So her and her husband came by him.
She signed the wall. I gave him a tour of everything
and talked to him about nutrition and training for
probably about an hour or so. It was cool.
Because like her husband is like man, kind of unassuming looking,
building on the outside. And then you walk in, you got,
you know, the podcast, the gym, the commercial kitchen, all this
stuff. Pretty cool, so.
Gave him a bunch of bricks. Yep, gave him a bunch of bricks
to compound that to me is what it's all about.
Like I like working with clients remotely because I can interact
with. People all over the world.
When I get to meet him in person and like they can actually put a
face to a name and just becomes more tangible.
That's exactly How I Met you, remember?
I tracked you down in Omaha. That's the first we had been.
You'd been coaching me for a while remotely.
Yeah. We've talked and chatted and
stuff. I'm pretty sure the first time
we met, when you walked up to me it's like I didn't even
recognize like. You said that you're like, holy
cow man, I'll barely recognize because my face was so lean.
Yeah. It was in prep.
And I didn't know you were coming to that show.
So, like, didn't have that context in the back of my mind
of like, OK, I'm expecting to meet Greg.
He just, like, popped out of nowhere.
That's pretty cool. Just.
Drove down? What year was that?
That was 20. It wasn't called hard to kill.
It was called Keto Summit Omaha. Yeah, that.
Was the first year I went to. It 29th I forget I don't
remember. I think it maybe in 2019 might
have been. My first actual no 'cause I was
in Prep in 21. Maybe 2020 then might.
Have been 2020. So you and I have got a five
year anniversary coming up. You still wearing your ring?
No. No, you got me tattooed on your
leg though. That's true.
Stands for something. Yeah, that probably won't come
off too easy. Yeah, well, you just got back
from a competition, man. You spent the weekend in
Wisconsin at the. Clair, Wisconsin.
Give me the.
Details, man. So you left here Wednesday
night. Give.
Me, the play by play. From the moment I last saw you
on Wednesday to today. Was it Wednesday night or
Tuesday? Night, thank you.
Left Wednesday night. I forget.
And you drove halfway. I drove, I drove halfway 'cause
it's it's like 11-12 hour straight through drive.
It's 800 miles or whatever. So the, well, First off, the
reason I wanted to do this show is I'm friends with the
promoters. They're absolutely amazing
people. Was one of them the the guy that
kept tagging me in keto brick? Coach.
That was your buddy, right Coach?
Coach Gary. Coach Boris.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was with me.
He was my, he's my best buddy from Minnesota.
So he came over to the competition just to be there and
stay in the room with me and everything.
But I know the promoters. I've known him for several
years. They're absolutely amazing
people. They're gym owners right there
in Eau Claire. She is a world renowned
competitor, natural athlete. She actually flew to Japan and
competed on behalf of the United States.
So she's done some remarkable things as a natural athlete.
She has smoked a ton of non natural athletes so she is very
highly regarded. Anyways, they have a show that
they have been running for several years called the
Wisconsin Warrior. It's a USBF Federated show.
It's natural. That's in Eau Claire, WI and I,
since I lived in northern Minnesota for so many years, I
actually had the opportunity to volunteer backstage at their
show, expediting athletes, helping set up, tear down
registration, all the things kind of for the whole entire
weekend several years in a row. And I always said, wow, this is
a really super well run show. The venue is top notch.
It's a performing arts theatre much like ours is going to be.
So the audio was dialed in like the sound system is insane.
The lighting is top notch, the seating, the stage, all the
backstage amenities, everything is just exactly how you'd want
it to be as an athlete and being backstage helping.
I was like, OK, if I ever have the opportunity to put my feet
on this stage as a competitor, I want to be able to do it.
So it just so happened that your competition in September was
going to have me in prep for that.
What if we started my prep a little bit earlier and just kind
of weaseled this one into my calendar?
So this one is still what 12 weeks, 1112 weeks out from
yours. So we decided we would dial me
in to some extent, not like full blown dialed in because we
wanted to save that for in 11 weeks.
So that's where how I ended up there.
It's very well run orchestration.
The event is all the fine details are perfect.
It ran perfectly without a hitch.
I'm sure there were some little hiccups along the way that none
of us as competitors saw, but they were on time.
The tanning was perfect. They were even ahead of
schedule. Everything that could go right
went right like. Awesome it was.
It was awesome. So I competed as a Classic
Physique Masters 40 plus you're. The only one in that one.
I was the only one registered for that one.
But I thought, you know what? I'm 40 plus, why not do it?
I'm already going to be on stage for another class.
So I did the 40 plus. I was the only registrant, so I
obviously swept that one. And then I did the open class
and the open class had 17. I think it was 17 or 18,
whatever registered competitors, and they end up splitting that
one into an A and ABI went out with half the guys, eight of the
guys, and I took home 4th place in that one.
I could tell that, and it may have been because I hit the
stage a little bit later than I ever have in the past.
It was like 2:30-ish. It's pretty late.
Yeah, it's pretty late. So I had my refeed meal pretty
much right before bed the night before, which is 9930, got up in
the morning, did kind of the morning protocol, but I was not
consuming a lot of water. And I think that may have been
some that may be something that we need to talk about and tweak
because on stage it was hard for me to keep my legs going, just
keeping them flexed. And we've done a lot of posing
practice here. We've done timed holds.
We've done all the quarter turns and comparison rounds.
But when you're on stage against seven other dudes that are
pretty freaking dialed in with. The stage lights hit.
Stage. Lights and the judging panel was
9 judges. This is one of the biggest round
and they hold you out there and they juggle the athletes or the
competitors around, you know, like we want 2 of you guys to
spot places. We want to see you against you.
And you know, maybe the judge on the end of the table can't quite
get a good view, so they're going to move you down over
there. You know how it goes.
And another round of quarter turns, another round of quarter
turns.
And my, my legs were starting to shake like I just could not keep
them contracted. And I bumped into a well,
several people at the after party get together and they're
like, man, you looked really good.
It looked like your legs. You were having a hard time
keeping your legs involved. Keeping your legs, you know,
were. They actually quivering.
They were. Quivering, yeah, like I could, I
could feel them and see them shaking and like, Dang, we, we
either needed to work on longer holds or maybe maybe we needed a
little bit more hydration, a little bit more electrolyte
intake. But other than that, I felt
super good. I didn't have any necessarily
any cramping. I was just having a hard time
keeping them contracted and that could have been just water,
electrolytes, that kind of thing.
So anyways, the the event itself is absolutely phenomenal.
It was incredibly fun. I opted for the upgraded photo
package. So the day before the
competition, Friday morning, I got to do a full blown photo
shoot and we picked several locations in town, right
downtown Eau Claire. We went to their host gym that
they own the, the promoters own a gym.
We got some awesome photography done there.
We went outside, we did a whole bunch kind of outside the venue
because the venue and the host gym are literally one block away
and then the host hotel is 1 block the other direction and
then the after party was one block across the street so you
could walk everywhere. You leave the car parked.
It's a super nice setup. We got a whole bunch of
photography. We did some like street shots in
the alley. Part of what I did for the photo
shoot and for my routine was I brought my mullet wig that you
guys have seen. I think you could totally pull
it off man. I think it's like super good
with the mustache. I know everyone's like, is that
real? Is that real?
No, like there was a ton of people walking around downtown
Eau Claire 'cause it's kind of like a little touristy.
It's a nice little downtown area and there's people like looking
and stopping. And I'm like, I'm like, no, it's
not real. And I'm like, oh, OK, 'cause I
could tell they were like, you know, trying to figure it out.
So I did a whole bunch of fun photos with that get up.
Even brought a keto brick. We got some pretty sweet keto
brick branded content. With you in the mullet, yes.
All right, Yeah, it's like American flag.
That'll be our new ad. Yep.
It's going to be Made in America kind of thing, kind of like
that's the theme. And then when I went on stage,
did the comparison rounds and as soon as we were done with that,
I went back and I threw some striped shorts on and the mullet
and some shades. And it came out and did my
posing routine in that outfit. And it was pretty funny.
It was, it was really cool. A lot of people backstage were
like, man, that's, that's hilarious.
Da da da da da, you know, like why doesn't anybody else like
dress up or add any fun flair or accessories or.
Components. So that was like the really the
gist of the whole weekend was I got to be on stage, kind of got
my feet wet. I haven't been on stage since
last prep. Did some posing, did some
competitiveness, but really just had a really good time with a
lot of people. And I think anybody who does
their first show, the nerves are crazy.
Like you're anxious. I could tell there was a whole
bunch of brand new competitors backstage.
They didn't know. They just they just you could
just tell they just weren't comfortable in this scenario.
They didn't know what to do with like pumping up.
They didn't know what to do with like where to put their button
or how to put their button on. They were just dripping sweat
like their tan was terrible. And I remember, I remember being
that guy backstage, like watching all the seasoned
competitors and they're just like sitting over in the corner.
You know, they got their earbuds in or they're laying on their
back and they have their feet elevated and they're like chill
as can be. Then you have the other ones
that are the newbies in there, you know, they keep looking in
the mirror, they keep trying their poses.
They're like trying to remember what they're going to do.
And so I was trying to kind of offer that fun, don't stress
about it kind of vibe to all those guys.
And I think it rubbed off a lot because they're just, they were
just, you know, like less stressed and were just less
anxious and worked up over it so.
That's cool, man. It's cool when like you've
reached the upper echelon to the point where you are the seasoned
competitor and you could just impart some words of wisdom to
people knew in the sport, 'cause my my first show too, man.
I remember being like super anxious, super nervous, like
almost talking myself off of competing the day before.
Yeah, you're almost to the point where you're just like, I don't
know if I can do this. Yeah, yeah.
It's like, and then like this last prep I did, I mean the, I
think chips got footage of me like falling asleep in the pump
up room just like totally chill. I was reading a Indian book, you
know, like a Native American history book 1 one go around.
It's like I'm just chill, cool as a cucumber.
And I guess what you want it to be because if you're super
stressed, like you're going to work up yourself, you're going
to like, you're going to have all this anxiety.
It's going to dump all that adrenaline and you're not going
to be able to hold that contraction.
You're going to start, you know, shaking your hands, going to
start rubbing. It's just not a good look.
And it like the judges can tell, you know.
Oh yeah, they can tell. And I remember even my like one
of my first shows, I had a routine that I was going to do.
I think it was like a tea Walker, Elle Walker, Jay Walker,
whatever. It was men's physique.
And I got out there in front of all the lighting and I heard
people like hollering and, you know, the judging table was
there and everything. And I just completely forgot
everything that I had practiced. And this past weekend, it was
just like once I once the music started, it was just like
turning the switch on. And it was, it was, it was fun.
You feel pretty good about like apart from your your legs
shaking a little bit, like your execution of the poses and your
routine. I do pretty good about it.
And that's probably the heaviest I've ever been on stage.
I was like 19191 on stage. My in body had me at like 6
between 6:00 and 7:00. I know the in body is not 100%
accurate, but that's the lowest I've been all prep.
I know I've got some size in my legs since last prep so I know
that there's some mass and weight there beneath the trunk
and I felt really good. I don't think there was anything
that I felt needed to be changed except just being able to keep
the legs rocking. And then you're after a party
meal, unlike everybody else where they're slamming pizzas,
you're eating chicken wings and. I did have some pizza toppings.
Pizza. Toppings, scripted topping
stuff, Smash. Burger had an awesome smash
burger with some Brussels and that's all we needed.
Gary, my best buddy, he had it's some ice cream.
I don't know if that was yesterday or the that same day
or the day after, but and then we're both back on track like we
both the next morning we went for a couple hour walk.
No, he's I'm trying to get him. He he would rock the show really
well if he ever decided he was going to compete.
So I keep planting the seed and I got to bring him backstage,
showed him all the insurance and outs of the the tanning, the
backstage competitor area, the pump up area, like the tanning
touch ups. One of the cool things about
this show also is they've got all the athletes backstage in
one big open conference room and they have the competition live
streamed up onto the screen. So you can watch the entire
thing from backstage. There's a whole bunch of
athletes laying down. We even saw some bikini
competitors that brought their own air mattress.
Nice. He's not like that's like top.
Tier so there's like people just like hanging out watching up on
the big projection screen and then they they know where
they're at in the running format.
But yeah, I got to bring him backstage.
He saw all that. He's like, wow, this is super
cool cuz he's been to shows before, but he's never been able
to see behind the curtain. And we got to go back behind the
actual stage, walked out onto the stage so you can see, like,
all the stage lighting. And it's really neat.
Like once you do your first show, all those things are no
longer anxiety producer. Yeah.
Because you're just like, OK, this is how it works.
This is where you go. This is why I always recommend
people that are competing for the first time and do more than
one show in the same season. Like, have them close together
ideally, so you're not like, you know, prolonging your prep any
more than necessary. But if you can like, have one
show to get all those nerves out, Yep, you're gonna look way
better the second show. Absolutely.
You're gonna be so much less nervous.
Yeah. And if you can do that during
your same prep instead of waiting until the next prep,
it's Yeah, the first one is. Everyone has to overcome the
first one. Yeah, like there's no way.
Around it, if you do it in the same prep, then you can end that
prep on a positive note now that your first show wouldn't be
positive because a lot of people as soon as the show's over, they
feel like, oh, I'm ready to do this again.
But like, if you do 2 shows, you're pretty much ensuring that
OK, you're going to leave it on the positive note for that
season and then the next time you go into a season you're
you're more motivated to do it the right way and just have the
conference to do so the right way.
Yeah, yeah, you're making me get the itch you get, man.
It's fun. It is it, It makes all like the
the feelings of I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm cold, I'm irritable.
Once you get there, then you're just like, oh this is awesome.
It's great. Like you don't really, I mean,
you think about food at all times, but like when you're
competing, like you're not really thinking about food, like
you're in the zone and that's all the work that you put in.
That's that moment because. You're not going to do anything
that's gonna change the outcome that day or even the several
days beforehand. And like, that's your freaking
battlefront. Like that is your war zone, you
know? So that's.
What you've been prepping for? Yeah, like this is what it all
goes to, and that is and should be premier focus number #1 you
know, so that's cool. And you did a folk trip after.
Yeah, did you see that reel I posted of of in the little
tanning tent? Yeah, yeah, shaking it up with
the sock. So there's a bunch of guys,
there's a bunch of like volunteers, staff members,
competitors, all backstage that because I did that the first day
that they came up to me that I don't know them.
And they're like, hey man, I saw you saw you're shaking your ass
in the little tanning tent. And they just thought it was the
funniest thing because it was actually showing up on like
their social media feeds. We weren't even friends or
followers of each other. They're like, Oh yeah, I saw
that. I saw that.
That's hilarious. So that was.
Pretty for anybody to listen that does not know what we're
talking about. When you are getting your tan
done as a guy you you pretty much naked.
Depending on what class you do, yeah, if you're doing, if you're
doing Classic Physique or bodybuilding, you're pretty much
naked. Pretty much, yeah.
They won't. They don't like to tan you full
blown naked. You have to wear one of their
little disposable thong coverings or a sock or a sock.
And I had a sock on, just for the record.
Ankle sock no show. Sock, toddler sock.
But just for the record, I mean, like, I'm like I told Gary, I'm
like, you can come in here. He said he was going to wait out
in the hall. I'm like, no, come on in.
You can see how the tanning stuff works and everything.
And I put the, you know, sock covering on and they were
tanning me and everything and I was just dancing around and he
took a video of it. So I posted the video, but I put
a little censored box over it so you couldn't really see what was
going on back behind the little censored area.
I did not. I was not naked, just FYI.
So. He had a son out there.
Yeah, float trip. So one of the cool things that
they do is they invite any of the competitors with a + 1 if
they want to go float down the Chippewa River the next day.
Is it like right out there easily accessible too from the
venue and everything? Not from the venue, no.
We had to drive like 20 minutes from the hotel and you just pop
into this place called Loopy's. It's right there on the river
and we think we had probably 15 or 16 of us or so.
And they cover the cost of all the tube rentals and cooler tube
rentals. So we had a, we had a cooler.
We threw like some Zevias in there, some teas, energy drinks.
I had some carnivore snacks, just like some snacky type stuff
just to work through on the way down the river.
And then they throw you all in a bus with a trailer on it.
They throw the tubes in the trailer and they cart you up the
river. It really only takes you like 10
minutes by vehicle and they drop you at a landing and then it
takes you several hours to float back down to this place called
Loopies. Well, 5 minutes into it, we all,
we all tether together. So there's 14 or 16 or whatever
tubes all roped together in a big circle.
So you're all got your feet in the middle, All the cooler tubes
are in the middle. And then you can have
conversations with everybody because you're all floating down
together, tied together. 5 minutes into it.
We you have to go under a bridge, which is I think the
road we probably drove in on. And there's a big pylon that's
holding the bridge up. But right where it comes out of
the water, there's like a concrete pad or something there
that had a piece of rebar stuck sticking out of it that had been
bent over. Well, typically the current I
suppose takes your whole group of tubes and sends you around
the pylon in One Direction for some reason.
Our group wanted to go straight to the pylon, so half of our
tubes were going around to the right and half of our tubes were
going around to the left. So we're trying to kick and
paddle and everybody's like pulling.
And in the meantime, my friend Gary, of course, his tube goes
right over the top of this bent over piece of rebar.
And I could see it. Nobody else saw it happen
because he was tied right next to me.
I could see this happen. And everyone's like, Oh yeah,
just keep paddling, keep paddling.
And we were, we were making good headway.
We were actually curving the entire group in the right
direction. So we were good.
But I'm I was keeping an eye on his.
We just hear and there's like bubbles shooting out everywhere
And sure enough, his tube is flat as can be and he it's still
tied on, but now it's just like an anchor because it's like
filling with water. Luckily they sent us with two
extra tubes, so he had to throw his tube up in into the other
spare tube and then grab the other spare tube and hook it on.
And it was it was funny. It was kind of like the laughing
stock of the whole thing because 5 minutes in, Gary pops, yeah,
it's like we're in a river. How do you pop YouTube?
So never a dull moment, man. Yeah, it was fun.
How long was the folk trip? Yeah, it was probably 3 hours
through. Nice.
Three hours or so. Yeah, 3/4.
See, that's, that's pretty cool. Like I want to figure out
something like that that we can do with our show.
We can get any of the competitors that are willing to
like do something unrelated to the competition to just like
have a camaraderie. It was awesome.
Positive vibe scene, you know? Yeah, and we all like nobody
really knew each other outside just that group of of floating,
besides the promoters, of course.
But we got to meet a whole bunch of other competitors.
We kind of talked about what their goals are like if they're
going to do any more shows, if they have anything on the docket
for next season, just different struggles that they've maybe
encountered or how things went for their prep.
And people of all ages and all the classes is really neat
because you got to like bond and converse with other competitors.
So are you glad you started your prep so early in order to fit
this show in? Like, in hindsight, having done
it now, it's like, is it worth all that extra dieting?
Yeah. Good.
Yeah, cuz I felt pretty good on stage.
Yeah, you look good on stage. You look, I'm excited to see you
peaked a little bit later into the year, but but you look
totally, I mean you belonged on stage for sure.
So. Good, that makes sense.
It's fun being on stage. You posted some of your initial
prep photos and your peak week photos the other day on social
and you've come a long way already man Like 30 lbs down or
something crazy. 30 plus pounds and 10 plus percent body fat.
Yeah, pretty well. All right.
What do you think you're going to do?
We'll have to do a whole after the season's over in its
entirety. But like, having dieted that
much and lost that much already, was still another 10 lbs to go.
What do you think you're going to do offseason this go round?
Do you think you'll get as heavy?
No, you're not going to do that. I don't want to no, because at
the at the very tail end of this most recent offseason, I was
pushing my own nutrition just to just to test the envelope, to
test the waters and push the envelope a little bit.
So I had days where I was forty 505,000 calories just because
just because it was fun to lift super heavy.
It was fun to just eat and I definitely didn't need to gain
that much weight. Like two 230 lbs was way too
much for my stature and my frame.
I was fluffy, fluffier than I was comfortable, but I knew that
we were going to start prep in January.
So I kind of like it did it on purpose.
It was it was a purposeful thing.
Just kind of learn my body and see what see what the outcome
was going to be, you know, something that's trackable.
Now I know next offseason I don't need to go that heavy,
don't need to go that high. I don't want to kind of keep the
lean gains leaner. Yeah, you know.
It's easy to justify or I need to eat like a freaking animal to
gain more muscle, but like. Then you got to just peel it all
off. Yeah.
And it's not like you gain that much more muscle.
Like whether you're eating 3500 calories or 5500 calories, like
that's a pretty big spread in calories.
It's not going to contribute to a significant increase in
strength or lean tissue, right So.
So if I can hover somewhere around like the 200 to 210 mark,
I think it'd be comfortable there.
Yeah, I'm kind of the same mindset, man.
Like I'm like 180 right now and I feel like this is a very
healthy offseason weight for me. I think the anybody yesterday
made like 14-5, which I think is pretty healthy body fat for the
offseason. But I mean, like, yeah, when I
was 200, that's probably like you're 230.
Like it's just not necessary. Just fluffy.
Yeah, but you like, I mean, you and I both can eat a lot of
food. And I was telling Chip this
earlier, that's like, I'm in the full blown off season right now
and I can legitimately eat more food.
But you hear about all these body butters, like you watch
YouTube videos of like the the body butters of the early 2000s,
they're just like annoyed with how much they're having to eat,
but they're also on a bunch of gears.
So it's like not even the same sport, you know?
So no need to take it to that extreme, but exciting stuff, man
I'm excited. Yeah, I'm excited for your show.
That's going to be here in no time.
That's about 11 weeks. Yeah, 11 weeks, 10 weeks, 11
weeks, 1010, 1/2 weeks, I guess roughly.
So that'll be good. And I'm going to be taking some
notes from this show as to what I want to include in my show.
We can get some more competitors, man.
We got that challenge that's still totally open and in
effect, anybody that signs up for that part of the tribe,
there's 5000 cash for the male and female winners of that, and
it corresponds with the show. So we just need more
competitors, you know, the more the better.
Yep, Yep. But we'll be, we got some
awesome sponsors. We've got some awesome things in
the works for that. We've got a lot of the details
coming together. We're just going to do a little
push now to get some athletes signed up.
But like you said, a lot of people wait.
Yeah. It's not not very good.
It's not conducive to us being able to figure out what kind of
attendance we're going to have, but it's understandable from a
competitor's point of view to some extent.
Like you're just going to wait and see how their prep is going
before they pull the trigger, pull the trigger.
But I think if you pull the trigger, that'll zone you in
more instead of being half assed on the fence.
You're like, all right, this is the date.
This is we need to be ready. So exactly.
So register, Register. What else?
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I mean, we liked, obviously we like to sell out and sell the
product, but we were bumming out a lot of people that couldn't
get their hands on any. So if you've been dragging your
feet and getting some primal fudge, you still can.
Yep, Yep. We got all those packages sent
out yesterday, Monday, so that feels good to have knocked out.
We got more in inventory, people that want them.
We'll be making PB cup today actually, so we're gonna have
more chocolate. PB Cup So by the time this goes
live, PB Cup will be back. Yep, Yep.
So yeah, man, we just got a a lot of things in the pipeline
right now, a lot of things on the horizon.
Crystal's dad's coming into town today, so he's going to help out
around the house with Hazen and Rigel and Crystal and I are
going to record a podcast on Friday.
Lots of stuff on the On the Horizon ship and I'm going to do
a whole bunch of new media work on the course.
He and I are going to double down and do all of our appendix
videos for all the posing. So anybody that's going to be
competing, whether my show or some other show, if you want
more information on posing specifically, we're going to
have a much more involved course, you know, itinerary or
structured there for all the different divisions.
That'll be good. That'll be a good resource
because posing posing's no joke. People that wait till the last
minute to pose, they're doing themselves a massive disservice
because like you and I and Ellen and Ralph who are competing and
here on site, like every single week, we've been doing posing on
the holds, transitions, hitting all the mandatories, working on
your routine when you were doing that.
And it's like you got to give it the time it's due.
Yeah, and and I think the announcer even at this past
competition put it in a good, good context is you might not
have the best physique, but you might look like you have the
best physique. If you have your posing dialed
in, you might slaughter the entire other line up against
people who have a better physique but can't pose.
Yeah, I mean, you could have like a ton of size.
And if you got someone that's been doing it for 10 years more
than you, you're probably not going to have as much size as
them. But like, if you can come in
more condition and if you can showcase what you have better
than they do, the judges are going to reward that, you know?
So there's a lot of thing that makes the subjective sport.
There's a lot of things that you have direct control over that
you don't want to squander, you know?
And one last little thought on the competition, somebody forgot
what they said. Somebody messaged me prior to
the competition and she said you already won.
Like meaning look how far you've come, look at your progress,
look at your transformation, the weight you've lost, all the hard
things you've done along the way.
You already won. So before you even go on stage,
whether your posing is dialed in, you have the best physique,
the worst physique, whatever, you probably have already won,
you know, like that's, that's kind of how I went into this
weekend is like I already won. Like this is like, look at I
don't care what happens on stage.
Look at my before and my after. Like that's incredible.
If I would have done that without a competition involved,
that's impressive. So it still is impressive. 100%,
yeah. I mean, at the end of the day,
like you can't dictate what the judges are going to come up with
on the scorecard. But if you can know with 100%
certainty that you've put in all the work that you possibly can
and you've left no stone unturned and you've got no
regrets, then stand up there with confidence and be proud of
yourself 'cause I mean, that is, that is the key thing.
It's a battle against yourself. And it's like some of the first
time competitors, they may not look like, I shouldn't say this,
They they may not look like they belong on stage.
They may not feel like they belong on stage when they
compare themselves to everybody else they're standing up there
alongside. But if you take a snapshot of
them that day and a snapshot of them six months ago, they may
have had way more crazy transformation than anybody else
up there. So like that's kind of what you
have to understand if you're going to be doing some
competitions like 100. Percent.
Yep, 100%. Well, Greg's going to make a
shorter episode today, man. I'm about to jump on a client
call, but we're going to have some exciting things on the
horizon for people, so stay tuned, y'all.
Greg, proud of you, brother. Thank you.
I'm excited for the next show and you and I'm gonna put in
some work on the competition next week.
So we're not going. Details coming together, we're
gonna get the trophies all lined up and ready to rock, so that'll
be good. But until then, y'all take care
Tata.