what's up muscle & strength I'm Fouad Abiad and this is table talks actually
more like bar talks but hey it works
so on the agenda for today's bar talk is egg sandwiches I got I got three egg
sandwiches here two eggs per sandwich sp six whole eggs three slices of
cheese and six slices of bread so we got quite a bit of calories here I got my
glass of chocolate milk to wash it all down this is obviously an offseason
breakfast a good way for you guys to get in the calories and get yourself big that's
what it takes is a lot of calories to get big so your prep you look like you
were dialed in and really focused this year when I started my prep I was
terrified I hadn't competed in like two years I
honestly didn't think I had it anymore I started taking progress photos for the
prep and I was like things don't look right
like my body doesn't look right my physique doesn't look the way it should
I didn't want to post any photos and I was that like sixteen weeks
fourteen weeks I'm still like things still don't look right man I don't know
if I can still compete I don't if I can still hang with these guys I got young
guys that are hungry and coming up like maybe I can't compete anymore twelve weeks
fuck things still arent looking right why is my body not responding but I ignore the
thought and just keep training eight weeks comes around I'm like oh
okay this isn't bad like things are starting
to happen like waist is starting to get tighter body's getting actually bigger
and more volumize and my my strength was going up like I'm like okay I think I
still got something six weeks I'm like fuck this I can win this show my waist
was getting tight everything's getting even bigger I'm like benching 405 I'm
squatting four plates for like 20 reps I'm like just crushing it
five weeks I'm like I'm winning this show four weeks rolls around tear my
triceps and I had been dealing with sore elbows I was kind of bandating I was
putting a lot of tiger balm kind of all that shit and it just ripped and I had
surgery the very next day it's was a little disheartening you know
like I had videos to shoot I was pretty excited about the show I felt like I'd
finally kind of come back around and I just I don't know I'm like I'm very
injury prone you know this is the last three times I tried to prep when I get
the low body fat levels and people are like well you got to change the way you
train and I'm like what do you think I've been doing so this is where I'm at
now now I'm just gonna rehab and recover and I don't plan on giving up I just
want to get my body back to zero and then I can rebuild it from there anyway
what else you guys want to talk about
what's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you in the sport of
bodybuilding a guy called my home my hotel room in Houston and asked me my
shoe size I say who the fuck is this oh we're a shoe sponsor and we want to want
to get you like a pair of shoes and I don't know if it was adidas or Nike or
whatever shit he lied about I was like okay I'm like this is cool I'm like
I wear like an 11 and a half he's like well we can't just go by what you say we
have to come up with the size your foot and we have to like check the width and
everything and I'm like I'm kind of like alarm bells bit alarm bells went off a
little bit like I don't know dude I'm like I don't not really comfortable with
you coming to my room I'm like if you want to meet me at the show backstage you
know you can measure my foot there with like other people around it's all good
okay well we'll see you at the show so nobody shows up I don't see anybody in
my as a show that Houston Pro is finishing I think it's 2008 I see this
guy waiting at the like side of the thing where you come up from the
backstage hey hey I called you about your shoe do you mind if I size your
foot now and I'm looking at this guy doesn't have any like kind of business
shirt or anything from any company he's not with anybody I'm like just like weird
dude I'm like I don't know man I'm like that's okay I'm gonna
pass so I leave it right guy leaves me alone doesn't bother me go
on my way then I get a phone call at my house like two weeks later like is this
Fouad and I recognize the voice I'm like are you the guy from the fucking hotel room
who called my hotel room oh he gets all fucking weird I'm like look dude don't
call my fucking house all right like this is pretty fucking weird like I'm
uncomfortable don't call me here I don't know how I got my fucking phone number I
show up in Dallas at the Europa he's standing at the rope line where you go
into the backstage area hey Fouad I'm like holy fuck I got a
stalker I kind of like I'm embarrassed to say it
now but I freaked out a bit on him I kind of got in his face I was like dude
stop following me around it's not fuck I knew at that point he was obviously
wasn't a shoe salesman this a very fucking strange thing so anyway so you know
those things happen in bodybuilding but that was probably the most extreme case
it's gross now it's like cold I'm not eating this anymore that's it you're
done you guys are fuck you you're cut off I'm not biting it's gross now look
it's like cold fucking eggs I'm not eating this shit you fucking eat it so
what do you think about the concept of like balance and bodybuilding like some of the
guys we work with are about all or nothing like there is no balance you
have to be in a hundred percent to win do you feel like as somewhat of a
veteran in the sport you've you agree with that statement or you feel balanced
is important there's no balance you have to be unapologetically obsessed to be great
in this sport well what about my family what about my girlfriend what about my
wife what about my kids okay you have to make time obviously for kids you have to
make time obviously for your wife or girlfriend or you have to make time for
your family but they have to understand you're trying to reach a goal so if
you've met somebody or your family doesn't get it you have to make them get
it I'm trying to reach a pinnacle that not very many people can reach you guys
are either with me or we're gonna have problems
that was the ultimatum I don't care I have to reach a fucking goal and it
takes everything to get there and if you can't understand that you're probably
not gonna be part of my life there's no such thing as balance okay not when
you're trying and it's not just about bodybuilding
when you're trying to achieve the pinnacle of success whether it's you
want to get your masters in school your PhD your you want to run a small
business and you want it to succeed whatever it is you are gonna be obsessed
or else somebody else is gonna take your fucking spot some other motherfucker
that is obsessed is gonna eat your lunch now I will drink the rest of my
chocolate oh oh
chocolate milk so good it's gonna fuck with my stomach for sure but it's so
good when going when it's going down
okay guys thanks for watching table talks
I'm Fouad Abiad with kaged muscle and catch you guys in the next video