22 - The Dark Side Of Getting Shredded

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do you want to learn how to get healthy perform at your best and create body composition changes that lasts in this

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podcast we're going to talk about all things Fitness Nutrition health and mindset you're going to learn how to create real results and most importantly

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how to maintain those results in the long run I'm your investors I'm Christine and Dally and you're listening

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to talking nutrition

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[Music] all right what's up guys welcome back to

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the talking nutrition episode 22 today or another guest episodes

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today we're joined by Hannah Rasmussen did I say that right perfect okay I'm doing my best here

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um Hannah actually lives in Toronto where I live as well Hannah's basically the person who tells

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me my technique is shared at the gym and shows me how to do it correctly you

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know I know I Hannah very well with her boyfriend and they're both great people and uh we're going to talk about

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something that we haven't really brought up in this podcast because it's it's not our expertise and that is uh

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bodybuilding right competing getting people stage lean um so that's what we're going to talk

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about today so Hannah has experience with bikini fitness so she has

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gone that route she has been on stage as well as a boyfriend she got super lean

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she's gonna tell us kind of like what it took um we're also going to talk about like how

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being super lean is not necessarily like the uh the best you know health approach either

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I'm gonna yeah talk about like I said what it takes but also kind of struggles along the way

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um effects maybe after that you know but then also to shift that we are currently seeing where even though

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there's always been a lot of pressure you know for a long time at least on women being like lean and dieting and

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let's be honest we all know a lot of women who've always been trying to diet you know for a very long time

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we've got to see a shift now where more people are like building muscle which I think is really cool um and more girls and women are looking

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to fuel and feel good and nurse our bodies so I think that's very important as well so before we get into the episode guys

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real quick you already know what I'm going to ask and that is a quick five-star rating or review on Apple or

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Spotify next two seconds helps us grow the show and of course helps the helps the the

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algorithm you know but all joking aside

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Let's uh let's get into it so tell us about yourself Hannah so what do you do study work you know things you love to

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do Etc and then we'll take it from there yeah uh currently I'm working as a

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personal trainer and fitness coach but yeah not bodybuilding but more health so

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um I I'm doing online clients and in person uh personal personal training

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and I also study uh right now I take math and physics

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so I'm thinking about getting into computer science which is something

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totally different but yeah I think that's you can say there's two sides of

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me yeah that's cool though that's interesting how how like are you balancing it like

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50 50 or how is that working right now

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it's a week where I do clients but in person uh and online coaching is

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really a day-to-day uh check-ins and stuff like that right

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um right before my exams uh it's almost only studying and doing clients when I

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can but um mostly it's 50 50 years got it cool

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so um obviously we wanted to talk about what like Johann said so just give us a

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little bit of background of like when you went on stage you know how long you did that for

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um what that kind of looked like to Fitness and competing

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very young

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and a woman on Instagram that I really like looked up to and she was a bikini

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Pro and I thought that looked very cool and I I can remember back to when I was

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like 13 14 everyone was looking up to like very skinny woman and I was looking

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up to those with more muscle mass and stuff that was cool so I reached out to

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her when I was like 16 and I asked for coaching so I started on a only a workout program

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from her um and did that for like a year and then

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I thought oh games now I can compete and back then many girls didn't have like

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much muscle even on stage like bikini girls so

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um you actually had to apply for uh getting into the team but uh I think if

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I had applied right now with that physique I wouldn't have gotten into any

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team because I was so uh little and didn't have much nothing much at all so

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um my first competition was

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I think I was 17. right before I turned 18. so very young and very very very

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skinny didn't have much muscle at all um and I think we're gonna get into that

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also but uh a lot of girls think that if they just work out for a while and then

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get very lean the muscles will pop and just be underneath but

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actually the they are not gonna do that they are going to disappear when you diet so right yeah

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so I did the first competition when I was 17 the second when I was 19 and the

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last last one um uh last year actually okay were you with

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the same coach that whole time uh for the first two competitions I I

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was with the same coach and then I changed to another one because she

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stopped doing yeah like Fitness teams yeah about it I feel like that's really

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young yeah like I typically I'm hearing people

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right when they're like I don't know late 20s 30 and above I've never heard anyone do it that young have

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you you on no just how I mean it's kind of impressive because

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people I feel like I mean at least over here I mean now they might be might be but like

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that young I feel like they're not even like thinking about that you know

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so you're I feel like your head was in a good place though you know at that age you know prioritizing that but I think

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it is often our heads will go that way versus like going Health at that age you

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know what I mean yeah yeah okay I think looking looking

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backwards I I would don't think I would have done it again that young but also I

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didn't have like a bad experience because my coach was very good at telling me that okay when when you're

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getting off the stage we're starting our reverse diet and you are getting back to the shape it was before and then we will start building muscle so

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I was very ready for for the reverse diet and the building

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phase afterwards and I think that's where most girls

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yes fall apart in this yeah sport yeah yeah it seems like that

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coach was on top of it to so how old are you right now uh I'm 22. okay got it yeah yeah because

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like the whole like reverse dieting thing that just really gained a lot of traction in the past couple years I feel

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right so that coach being on top of that back then it's pretty solid

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yeah I'm actually like happily surprised that you mentioned like hey actually we did a reverse diet and we switched back

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to building muscle uh and regaining that and that your coach actually said like hey this is

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what we're gonna do now like you're done you're not done yet you know I'm gonna do the transition

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um and actually I didn't know that you actually did like a reverse diet back then already so that's super cool because like Christine said it's it's

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really like now like you see it all over the place you know and I feel like back then it might have

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just been like like I don't know when like the North and kind of came up with that a little

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um but like it must have been like not that known at all back then you know so

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I really like that I think it's really cool yeah because you used to see I mean when I was younger I'm quite

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older than you right now but like when I was younger and I would see bodybuilders they would be like super lean and then

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like right away they would blow up right yeah like right away where now it's more

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of a process people are doing it in a much more I mean healthier healthier way

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uh but yeah it was like total extremes yeah

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awesome that's good to hear though um so

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talk to us a little bit about that process

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um you know from like when you started to getting on stage and what it what it really took to get that you know stage

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lead and how you felt along the way um

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both of my coach uh had that mindset that we are going to do it healthy

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as close up to the competition as we can and I think a lot of people think that

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competing and being lean is like healthier and that's what you're supposed to look like and you can if you

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want to get lean you can just get into our fitness competition and then you

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will be lean afterwards and win-win right right that it takes a lot first of all you

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need to work out for very very hard for years to gain that muscle mass

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and eating being in a surplus being uncomfortable in your body and being

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bigger than you actually want to be because you needed extra energy to actually be able to

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build muscle mass and then you start the prep as you call

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it and you start to get lean and

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at the beginning it's like a normal deficit where you just cut calories

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you work out normal maybe you add like steps or something to make sure you get

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enough activity in but really it's just a deficit and you still work out like

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normal and for a bodybuilder that's a lot but right normal amounts yeah

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so but as you get into it your body will start to work against you because your

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body don't want to get that lean especially women we're not supposed to get that lean right so

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progressing forward you eat less and less and less you you need to cut out

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more and more and you need to work out harder and work very hard mentally to

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keep pushing weights because your body don't want to have that muscle mass and

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your body wants to get rid of it because it's taking too much energy right so you need to push your workout but also you

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need to manage the activity maybe you get up to like 10 or 15 000 steps and you also have to do excessive cardio on

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the treadmill or something like that so

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uh at the beginning I cut out uh like 500 calories a normal

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deficit and in the end I think like from the start to the Finish

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I cut off like cut out like 1 300 calories or something something like

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that and also I did two hours of cardio every

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single day and before that I did like running intervals uh three times a

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week and also um doing strengths workouts five times a

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week and posting for like half an hour a day so it adds up at the end it's a

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full-time job yeah did you live at the gym yeah

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basically living at the gym and uh going home make your food eat your

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food sleep think about food work out you all you do is like planning so you can

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get everything in and I remember likes the last couple of weeks I I can't

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really remember doing my workouts or doing my cardio or going to work I just

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I just did it and I don't think my mind was with me or I I just

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had to make it work so I turned on like a zombie mode where I

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just had to get through it right because you're at such low calories right and

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then basically the most amount of activity yeah okay so the body is just under so

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much stress yeah right yeah like how like how did you feel like were you

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super lethargic like how were you sleeping how were like bio feedback

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markers um

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I was not sleeping well I all all three preps I went through uh at the

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end like last couple three weeks maybe I wake up like three four times a night

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because you're hungry and your body is like

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cramping up or something yeah you always you're always kind of

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uh hungry and tired yeah and you get this brain fog where where everything is

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just like it's around you but you can't really hear it or Focus or anything you you're

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just you're just there and uh you're there but you're not right

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and me and my boyfriend we did this at the same time uh and

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I don't think we could have made could have made made it work

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without both being that way because you're so focused and in your own bubble

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that you forget about every thing and everyone around you and so and also the

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libido and yes yeah that's another big one it's not there yeah yeah so uh

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yeah like the stress and the energy and the libido and like the menstrual cycle

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stuff that's all because the body is just under so much stress it's starting

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to down regulate these these our sex hormones our thyroid and these are

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basically the the repercussions of that

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my workouts and my cardio and everything

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I I'm very good at switching just off my mind and just be like it okay I got to

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do this so the more I think about it the more time it will uh the more time we'll

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go and I uh before before I'm done so if I just sit there and think okay I have

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to work out I have to do cardio it it will take longer time to actually get it done so

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I just got into this mode where I'm like okay I need to get this and this and

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this done and then I do it and and it's them um and I think

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people around me see me like this like I'm very strong and healthy and

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doing all these workouts and doing cardio and eating healthy and

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but actually I'm I'm not even there I'm I'm not thinking

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I can't right I I can't do anything except the things I have to do

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it's quite literally the opposite of Health though yeah and like it

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it's a it's a sport right it's a sport like with Crossfit for example

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um like I was a high level CrossFit athlete and that was my life for a long time and you can't have performance in

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health and you can't have Aesthetics and health like those just don't go together

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right and I think that I mean I guess you could have there's a

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there's a limit of like Aesthetics you can have and health right like when

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we're getting into bodybuilding it's not it's just it's just not healthy period but there's

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people honestly trying to live that lifestyle

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just to to look a certain way normally like not to get on stage there's there's

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no goal there to get on stage they but they think they have to do these things and it's actually driving them

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in an unhealthy Direction but they they think it's going in a healthy direction

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right but it's it's really ultimately not they're just striving for this

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body you know body goal or whatever they're striving for and it's just it's

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an unrealistic thing yeah I think I think social media plays a huge role

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there as well and I mean we have we've all seen the liver King stuff like pop off last week

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and without really getting into that too much like people think yeah that I do

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like that who's like eating liver and stuff you know like okay like that's what I that you know that's what it must

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be or I need to look like this and then he goes on about like mental health and stuff now he's actually adding to the

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problem because people now think you have to get that lean you have to look like that you know and the same for women like you see

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a lot of people online who are either fairly and very unhealthy

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or they're very lean for a short period of time they do all their photo shoots then and then they post those photos

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throughout the whole year but we all have like unrealistic view of that

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of what's healthy or not all but you know what I mean offer's healthy and

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looking lean and like you said Christine performing and this is actually something I mentioned my in my

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presentations I have like a triangle on the thing and it's like Performance Health and physique you know so I ask

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people like who here wants to perform at a high level look absolutely shredded and be

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the healthiest possible you know and all the hands go up then you've got to give them the bad

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news like we can't do that you know we can focus on performance we can't focus on health we've got focus on physique

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but not all at once all the time and that's maybe something that everyone needs to hear is that you can't have it but it's not

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at all at the same time you know right um so like let's let's get back to you like

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so you just said okay I felt like a zombie I was doing unsustainable amounts of cardio lifting

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weights you're basically living at the gym right you were also barely eating you were

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barely sleeping I can only imagine well actually I cannot what it was like being on stage

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like that moment like try to like try to picture that like you're on stage what you feel like right there

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oh that's very hard actually to describe

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because um for me being on stage

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like the glitter bikini and the makeup and the hair and everything it's just

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stressful I I actually don't enjoy that much being on stage or the stage day at

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all it's I I like being uncomfortable I like having

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life this huge goal in front of me that I have to reach so I like putting down

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the work but I don't really like the Glam and being on stage and everything

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and it's actually very sad because people

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only see uh See the stage part and the Glam and bikini and everything and they

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think it looks great and looks healthy and I want to be like that and do that

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and everyone is smiling from ear to ear and looks super happy and and healthy

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but they are dried out and with and haven't eaten for like a month they're

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all dying a little bit well this is one thing I wanted to say was like I know we kind of touched on it

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a little bit but again the social media thing where they could see a picture of

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Hannah and be like wow like and like your family wow like she looks so good like she's so healthy and then

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look at how she's feeling right and like this is something I I talk to my clients a lot about too is like you have no clue

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how that person got to where they are and how they feel it could have been

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a chaotic mess and they could feel like absolute crap and now you you're wanting

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to look like that right it's there's a big disconnect there they just have no clue what the process has looked like

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for anyone and this is a prime example of that hey and plus people have lives yeah

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right they have a job they have school they have [ __ ] too kids whatever

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they can go and live at the gym because they got stuff to do or do we go broke or whatever you know

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so right I gotta give it to you like it's it's super impressive to hear you doing that work and I I can kind of tell

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because I I see how to frequently at the gym and we talk a lot and I can kind of tell like you're a hard worker you know

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like when you put your mind to onto something like don't get it done basically I can see that

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um and I think that's also what it takes because most people realistically like

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most people won't actually be able to do that because I don't think I can do it I don't think I don't know like it's it's

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a super impressive thing that people have that you know mental strength to do

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what you guys do but I feel like I would die like I could not push through that

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see I I recently did a cut where I I was

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done and I wasn't even like I mean I was lean and I've been lean but like I still would have gone through like a

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whole prep phase to even get like stage lean or something hell no like I'm good yeah so it's it's

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impressive I gotta say like it's getting to that point doing it also multiple times like

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knowing what it takes that second time third time whatever [ __ ] like that's that's crazy and like

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Hannah said it's kind of two extremes because like the super lean is really really hard but

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then you in order to get that you have to put on weight and be super

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uncomfortable in your body right so they are dealing with like both

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right so yeah it's it's crazy it's impressive yeah

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because do you think um so because I know we talked about this a while ago but are you gonna do anything

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in the future or you think like no I'm good I'm just focusing on like studies and stuff

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like body or bodybuilding wise I mean actually don't right now

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but the the level of muscle mass uh that girls

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are are competing with right now uh all right

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uh a lot more than it used to be so uh even though I trained for a long time

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and I work out really hard and I eating a surplus and everything I think I would need like two three

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years maybe before I'm at the level the fitness

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bikini fitness category is right now so

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um first I need to put on a lot of muscle mass and then I need to consider if it's worth it or where I am

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in my life do I have a lot of work do I study do I uh am I in the right place to

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start uh a fitness prep because

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you put your life on hold in some way because you need to focus so much on it

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so you can't expect to have a social life

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and be on it at work and study a lot if you are going through it you have to

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like uh you have you still have to work and study and stuff like that but you you

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can't be a hundred percent yeah that's it that's a good topic

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because that kind of translates into coaching too right where you know you

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have people who want to get super laying or like they want to lose that last last 10 pounds

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it's like okay but what's the trade-off like you know the the five to ten pounds or your quality of life starting to

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suffer right so you have to like weigh the pros and cons there which seems like you're

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having to do for sure yeah and and one thing I

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learned for being lean multiple times and definitely in multiple times

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um is that you don't really get to the point where you feel like ah no I'm

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happy no I'm leaning not sorry right it's like never good enough really no

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it's not and when you're deathly new or I think that I need to gain weight

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because now I look so little and stringy and but you also feel like [ __ ] because you're

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not eating uh and when you start to gain weight again you you get to a point

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where you're like ah oh I'm kind of comfortable but kid lose a little bit of that or again a little bit here or you

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never really get satisfied because your mind don't don't let you do it

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right yeah so um I don't think anyone will get to a

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point where they're like oh no I'm lean enough right I feel like that you know

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people dealing with that they have to completely eventually remove themselves

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from the sport two potentially at one point be satisfied with you know where their body

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weight is at you know it's hard to be satisfied when you're in the sport

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yeah yeah so um sorry I'm like asking all the questions you want

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I don't mind oh no sorry I was I was thinking really quick because we you you

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touched on a very good point you said like okay I kind of have to step away or you might have to step away from it I

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mean I know you did a similar thing with Crossfit and you kind of have to say hey I'm I'm not going to compete anymore I'm

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going to take care of my hormonal stuff my injuries and all that now like I gotta just I have to see something else

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yeah and um like for me it was

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I don't know it kind of in a similar way what I wasn't competing at eye level I was just like burned out but I also had

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to like stop and say like I had to make a change you know but do you think there I mean

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we we know there are but like do you see a lot of people with like long-term kind of struggles

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coming out of that you know like coming out of bodybuilding having been at that stage you know

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knowing that you know from your experience too like knowing that you're never really satisfied with the way you look like I could be a little leaner

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here I want to put on some muscle there do you notice anything now personally in

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terms of like your mindset maybe your body or even like how your body feels and do you see maybe other people that

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you know who have you know done shows who long after that still kind of

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struggled maybe eating enough putting on weight when that's actually a healthy thing to do

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um yeah like I need like mental struggles or something like that you know yeah

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um for me personally uh I I've never been on

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uh I've never really restricted myself from eating I always follow the plan and

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if my Coach tell me to eat 100 calories more the next week and 100 calories more than next week after that I I do it uh

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but for me the control of how much I'm eating uh at one point was taking over

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so I felt like I had to control and wait

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out or all my food food and and eat at a certain

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and it's like on the clock

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three hours four hours yeah so uh but gradually I stopped weighing my

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food and I talked to my coach and was honest about it and he was like okay next week you're not uh you're not

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counting your breakfast and the week after that you're not counting your

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lunch and the week after that okay this weekend are totally free and I'm very

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much like if my Coach tells me to do something I will follow it so

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um you get out of it um if you have the mind to do it right

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and I think a lot of girls don't and they actually don't know what they are

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getting into they think that they are getting stage lean and then it's over and you walk out of it with uh lean body

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but you're so lean and you're so hungry and if you

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don't have a coach and you don't follow a plan after you get off off the stage you will

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start eating maybe you start with going out for a burger and ice cream or

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something to celebrate and it tastes very good because you're very hungry and

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you're very lean and you think okay I will get back on track tomorrow but you

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don't have a coach that follows you up so you don't get back on track you you continue eating okay only this breakfast

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um okay maybe on ice cream or in a chocolate bar and then you just keep on

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eating and you can't stop because you have restricted yourself for so long and

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you're so hungry and your body is just screaming for it to happen yeah so

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I think very many after a competition just gained weight very rapidly and then

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they are like [ __ ] what happened and then they start to struggle a lot

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because where they that lean body I had like two weeks ago right so

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um the importance of knowing that you are going to get stage lean and then you are

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going to follow a reverse diet afterwards and you're going back to the physique that you originally had before

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you started prepping uh that's very important when you you

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get into the sport you you can't get into it and think oh I will be

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staged lean and I will be happy and I will keep that body for the rest of the Summer perfect it's not possible it's

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not possible and and so obviously we see the body image stuff

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right um what about you know how has your relationship with food

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how was your relationship with food after that because that's I know we're

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talking about the binging and stuff but I mean if that can take a long time to overcome and I've personally worked with

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you know women who have come from the bodybuilding world and we have to work

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on improving their relationship with food because it's so out of whack from that so how what was your

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um what was your journey with that um

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never really struggled with that reverse diet afterwards or like

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being way I'm flying with binging and stuff like that so

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I think I just had the right mindset to stick to a plan

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even after the competition was over but I know a lot of

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competitors struggling with binging afterwards and

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uh they intend to start a reverse diet but one or two weeks into it they they

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are like falling falling off because it's way harder to stick to a plan when

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you don't have the goal anymore you're right just following it because it's healthy to do it but

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you don't really get anything out of it or or you think you don't get anything out of it but it's very very important

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to uh to keep being healthy after a competition are those uh women you're

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talking about do they have coaches or were they trying to do it on their own most of them have coaches

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but not every coach are right the best coaches right so many of them are like

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okay now you're done just eat and enjoy oh geez and

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when I'm struggle afterwards right yeah it's actually pissing me off

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yeah coaches do that same yeah yeah and this even ties back to like

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normal I'm doing air quotes for people who are listening like normal people who don't body build like it's not just

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the diet it's not like okay this x-week block like I'm gonna lose weight yeah

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it's the building muscle getting you ready like feeding you up doing that

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actual transformation and then also after that and I tell everyone multiple times

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before they even go into a cut like hey at that point once we get to the the 12 weeks the the x wait or whatever you're

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not done yet you know like we gotta still work on keeping the weight off and people forget that's in bodybuilding

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that's outside of bodybuilding with oh sorry with anyone who's trying to create results and you

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know lose the weight it's like this thought of I'm gonna do his quick diet or whatever

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but in reality there's so much more outside of that before and after

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I don't really think like that I I wish and I think this we might be going that

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direction but like I really hope that this turns into like common sense or common knowledge you know where people

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know hey if I want to lose fat and keep it off and I want to do this I'm a Gleaner okay so that's how it works it's not the

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the quick restrictive you know X weeks or whatever you know it's not a moment it's like a process it

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takes time and it happens in Cycles it can happens

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in Cycles right like for sure it might not just take one shot where I think a lot of people say okay I'm gonna do keto

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lose all this weight and then all this weight then I'm done no like it can take

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multiple times right so laughs

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okay cool where were we

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um yeah so did you have anything to ask Eric we're seeing otherwise no I was just looking

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at some of some of the questions to see where we were gonna go but we kind of already asked her transition out and

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stuff so basically yeah yeah so so I said this in the very beginning

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um that it's kind of cool that we do see more girls lifting weights you know want to lift heavy put on muscle

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I think that's really cool it's it's probably a very good change hey maybe this is going to backfire too like we

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know as well even with like Tick Tock and stuff like everything is Extreme and I mean health and fitness is Extreme it

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goes from like one thing to the other and back and keeps swinging like although I really like to see what's

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coming now you know where we're moving away from The Chronic dieting the dieting dieting dieting eating glass

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move more now to hate let's nourish our bodies let's make sure that we have a

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cycle well not we but women not me

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um but that women are healthy are at a healthy body fat percentage too because

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that's something you said like women actually need a little bit more and like I almost feel like I have to be

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careful because I'm a dude saying this well that is that is true like for

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health for you know continuing our species yeah like it's super important

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for your hormones um but anyway back back to like feeding uh

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fueling like getting workouts in like building muscle I know you train a couple of girls as well at the gym like

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do you see that now where girls are trying to actually put on muscle like actually do

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like a lean like gaining phase for example or

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many girls that uh are like waking about it and I know that

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okay if I if I'm going to gain muscle I need to eat and they are asking me for help to gain

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muscle and when I tell them okay then you need to eat more too they are that they are pretty much comfortable

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with it but I don't think everyone

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is realizing that you can't just eat in a surplus for like two three months and

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gain a lot of muscle and then you're going to a deficit phase you have to do it for like years maybe

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before you're even there and I actually get a lot of girls contacting me on for

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example Instagram uh and some of them even sent me

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pictures of themselves and ask if if they can compete soon

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and most of them yes they they look very good and they have a little bit of

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muscle mass but they are very tiny and already very lean but right but not

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enough muscles to compete anytime soon and I think many of the coaches just

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tells them that yeah sure we just get you lean enough and then your muscles

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will pop but that's what I want to hear I think more coaches need to tell them okay what it

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takes to actually get to the point where you you can compete or actually what it takes to gain muscle uh it's not the

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cutting face it's the building phase that's it that is most important and you

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spend most of your time in the gaining phase um not the cutting phase

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um what was the question no that's good because that that's true that translates

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over to adorable people like we're talking about this all the time where like you need to be

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out of the dieting phase you need to be you know at maintenance or in a surplus

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like that's the body that's gonna show in the cut right so if you don't build

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it nothing's gonna show and like you said at the beginning if you don't have

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that muscle when you do go into a deficit you're gonna lose what you have and then that

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becomes a bigger problem right so I love that yeah me too I'm

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gonna collab that I think it's gonna be a real because I was like you were saying that I was like hell yeah like

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that's exactly what we need to like people need to know that stuff you you have to spend time like

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sure a couple months that's cool like you're going to see a little bit challenging like time time build muscle for it a year two years you know yeah

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imagine and it's it's hard as a human being like we don't think long term we're like give you that short-term [ __ ]

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you know but if you can only imagine like the muscle you can build in two three years and then do like Cuts or even like maybe

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along the way a couple mini Cuts here and there like if it's necessary even but if you invested time

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if you can actually think long term and which again is super difficult but if you get through that period

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uncomfortable experience of also gaining body fat which is going to happen you know but getting good workouts and

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feeling good in terms of hormones like actually having enough fuel you know getting healthy fats Etc like going through that

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building muscle we then get lean you've got to set yourself up for

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a very long time because you've got to have more muscle maintaining the muscle is way more easy than initially building

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it that's going to serve you for years after like when we got older we want to have the muscle we want to have good

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metabolism that's the [ __ ] that's got to do that for you yes

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love that one people always people message us and

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they'll be like I love your rants I'm like perfect because

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I feel like maybe uh this was probably maybe 10 episodes ago I think we had like a side rant about like influences

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like three episodes yeah but

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[Music] um not like yeah that's it's just important yeah get out some muscle build your

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muscle people yeah yeah let me actually see when does this

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episode launch yeah you guys just chat I just want to check something actually more important to eat it up

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okay that was a question you were gonna ask but she answered it already we already

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answer that that was it's checking so okay it's December 7 this episode will

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be up December 19th okay so yeah let's say let's call it like 12 days you

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know left in a year or something get to the gym like people who are listening to this now

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yeah use the food you know yes get a good workout in use that [ __ ] like if you have a big I

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told this to probably five clients today like if you have a big Christmas dinner with dessert with all the carbs and

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cookies and [ __ ] get to the gym the next day you're gonna like probably PR or something you know yeah I always used to do that you know

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when I was training for in CrossFit for competing and stuff like those meals I'm

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like yes tomorrow I'm gonna like do a heavy deadlift or something I would use it to my advantage

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yeah yeah tradition yeah

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I don't play so I'll join you guys too I'll join you then that's awesome

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I think um also uh with uh eating a lot uh I see

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a lot of girls uh seeing yeah influencers on like Tick Tock and stuff

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and I genetically or or work there they their way to

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hi a huge butt or something and they see this exercise that that is just totally

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ridiculous and not putting any and putting in any work actually on the

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muscle just making it burn or something yes and they messaged me and they're

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like oh should I do this exercise or do you do this and I'm like no stick

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to the basics yes let's have it do the work you you can't go to the gym and

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feel a little bit of burn and then you will gain muscle so yeah uh yeah it

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burns calories but use the calories lift heavy right yeah love that

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Bubba okay so what right now um are your current goals well and we'll

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end with that [Music]

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building as much as possible and also

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enjoying uh more uh life in general

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going to the gym like three four times a week lifting heavy doing quality work

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and then I can walk my dog and be social and do everything uh as studying working and stuff like

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that that that's uh that is important for my life and so

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yeah building as much as possible but but also enjoying and not making it my

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whole life yeah like actually having a balance for once right yeah yeah is your

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boyfriend in the same boat right now then too yeah yeah that's great yeah

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awesome this was awesome I think this is a really good I love this episode yeah for

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sure just to have that diff just to have that different perspective and it's good because it again like so much of that

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translates over to just the typical gen pop you know so

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yeah thank you so much Hannah yeah no problem thank you I I really

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love this episode I thought it was really cool to kind of hear your site but the actual like the experience like

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how you felt and not just like the quick post on Instagram where people see that stuff

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where you're you know you're holding the the like the medals or whatever you know the prize it's like no actually the

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whole process like what it takes and I think a lot of people probably you

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know listening to this will be like oh [ __ ] that's what it takes you know yeah maybe uh maybe I won't try to get on stage you

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know maybe you know I'll adjust my goals to something more realistic but I think it's uh it's super cool yeah

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I was very happy when you you asked me because I've been dying to actually talk about

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it to normal people and explain that it's not just building muscle and that

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get and then getting lean it's it's much more threat and you can't really

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know what you're getting into before you're there but right but you don't do

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it if you if you're not capable of giving it 100

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all the time every hour of the day so yeah it's not

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just like a normal cat you you yeah right you give it everything yeah the

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expectations of what it takes is really important

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awesome right let's wrap it up thank you for listening guys great

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episode as always quick favor drop us a five-star rating overview or both

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whatever you want Merry Christmas in a couple days enjoy and go lift heavy weights after

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Christmas as well thanks guys use the food thank you for having me yeah

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thank you