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- On actual show day in 2019 for the Olympia,
the pre-judging was probably the biggest moment for me,
when I just had this different mindset
that I hadn't had in the last few years,
where I was confident that I had the ability
to take it and I stepped on stage with that confidence,
and just the feeling of going through that
and through my poses,
and just that was like the best feeling overall,
just knowing everything had fallen into place,
all the work over the years,
everything has been leading up to this happened.
I hit it, my posing felt good,
everything just felt amazing
night show care kind of coming around.
And I was like back in my zone like super new.
And I was like, I have a chance of winning this.
Cut my head already with kind of listen to music
walking around and then did the routine that went through.
I was still kind of
in that super like mindset where I'm just feeling good.
And then it was the same kind
of situation as 2018, 2017
when you're sitting on stage and they're calling
out the names and SMI and Brianne beside each other.
And it's the same thing.
They call five, four
three, and then it's me and Brianne left them there alone.
And I remember just like, I don't think my
I literally think my mind went blank for awhile.
I was just kind of sitting there.
I put my head down.
I was just like
just like holding my breath pretty much nothing going
in my brain, Just like waiting for that moment.
- And the title of 2019 classic
Olympia champion Chris Bumstead.
- The first emotion I felt was just
like a sense of like relief.
When they say a weight lifted off your shoulders
that times a million, like it was just this like
feeling of just like freedom for a second.
I was just like
Holy shit, everything leading up to this, like right here.
It just paid off like that.
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- Yeah, no. So in 2018
it was without a doubt, the hardest and most
like shaping year of my life prep
especially like when I was thinking it was three
and a half weeks out, I hadn't just started to notice this
like crazy water retention on my body.
It didn't know what was going
on. I put on like some like 15 pounds
like in like 24 hours of just like water.
So I ended up going to hospital
and I was there for a total of six and a half days or so.
And they ended up doing,
a kidney biopsy at the end to kind of try
and just the last thing to like, figure out what's going
on. And they took the kidney biopsy.
They put me on some like diuretics
and I was in an IB sitting in there for that time.
And obviously that sucks. I was three
and a half weeks of prep from the Olympia had come second
last year and everything was like
perfect. But obviously even
with perfect, I was Salinas biggest I've ever started
out with healthy training heart.
Everything was just going so good.
I'd never looked so good in my entire life.
The kidney biopsy came
Back and it turns out I have an autoimmune disease
and it was something that hit me a few times earlier
in my life, but they never knew what was going on
and it was never this severe.
So then they were like, yeah, it's like autoimmune disease.
You got to take these like corticosteroids to
kind of suppress your immune system.
This, that it's totally manageable.
You just gotta be cautious and everything.
You're doing definitely a hell experience to go through.
But when I look back at it now it's
certainly like prepares me for a lot to in the future.
It makes me understand like how strong I am
what I'm capable of.
And it gives me strength to go through a lot more
Ottawa. Like this is where I was raised.
I was here my whole life.
It's a lot of government workers.
We've got the parliament back there.
I'm pretty like low paced city where
you kind of get your job working nine
to five and you just roll with it like that.
There isn't like the big fitness community
social media that just kind of like sneak it
in. You see someone blogging in public
and it's like weird.
being in a city like this can help.
It can almost drive you a little nuts when nothing's going
on. And you kind of feel like you're like alone
or like not a lot of people with similar interests
but when your goal is something that has to be so strict
and on point like bodybuilding meals
in training, prepping off season everything
and it has to be so regimented, it definitely does help.
And one thing I will say
and like getting this in three at a pretty young age
and being relatively successful when I was young
it's kind of like a molding period
in your life or depending who you surround yourself
with, who you're close with will morph you
into who you're meant to be or who you will become.
And me in that huge transition phase
with so much changing on my life, staying
in the town where I grew up with my high school friends
with my brother and my sister, my parents being here
it really kind of helped me stick to my core values
of who I am as a person and not falling into like a circle
of like other bodybuilders and fitness celebrities.
I stuck to like my friends who knew me
for who I was, and I've always liked me just for me.
- Just got off the phone with Chandler.
So he's doing some quick updates with the app.
So he's gonna have that
on phase two, ready to next, probably like a month or so.
Are they going to input
like weight and activity levels and like a bunch
of stuff and it will give them a rough estimate
of what they should be eating depending on their goal,
- Yes its only being based on percentages
at least for while we have, you know, between you and I
what we discussed, but yeah, so they're going to input like
you know, their activity level during the day
their age, their weight.
- Thing outside of bodybuilding
because it's such a monotonous daily routine where you just
you almost do have a lot
of free time, but you need that free time.
I have a lot of respect
for people to like chase kind of the entrepreneurial side
of things and do like a little bit more
in like creating their own thing.
And that's kind of what pushed me
into like a little bit more into the YouTube
which is a little bit more effort into that.
So through that, I want to share
with you guys as much as I could.
So a lot of people love seeing
workout material, and I wanted to
kind of give you guys something I never had coming
up the training in a little more structured program.
And it's truly look inside my day to day workouts.
And that's kind of where this app we came up
with where you guys literally see
what I'm doing every single day
or what I've trained the day before.
And you guys get to follow along the same program.
And the whole goal was to like build
a community where we can share my knowledge
and you guys again, learn from my mistakes and share each
other's knowledge.
And you kind of connect through the passion we all share
which is lifting and training
and eating and the whole body building aspect of it all.
It literally took me being
in second year of university and qualifying
for the Olympia coming second place, getting a sponsor
having a couple of hundred thousand followers
on Instagram to be like, Oh shit
maybe, that could actually make something of this life.
Maybe I can kind of like focus on this and then do it.
So it's definitely something I think getting into it.
It's gotta be for the right reasons.
The question people always ask me is like
what does it take to become like you?
Like, how do I get in your position?
How do I get, how do we get sponsored?
How do we get this and that?
And it's something that you can't
really get into the sport with that goal in mind to like
I want to be famous.
You can't want to be famous
especially if your goal is like, if you want to compete
you gotta love competing and you gotta love training.
The base has to be that you love fitness, you love training
and you have a story and you're sharing it.
You're being yourself.
And then everything else will either come or it won't.
I never had the intention when I started this
of ever really giving a shit
about social media or being famous or anything.
I love training.
I love competing.
I never even really thought
about going pro until like the year I did.
And then I never thought
of going into Olympia until the year I did.
It was kind of like one step at a time was ahead of me.
And just that love for training.
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