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- I think many people out there, if you're new to the sport,
you don't realize how long I've been doing this.
I've done over 20 pro shows.
I've competed in multiple divisions.
And just because you take two or three years off
doesn't mean you can't come back.
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You can't stay on the same chapter of the book
your entire life.
Things that once were important, aren't important.
You need to learn how to roll with the punches
because life is constantly changing.
And if you're not changing as a human,
if you're not progressing,
you're not evolving and you're not growing.
Today, we're increasing the water.
So I have these little Post-it notes to remind myself
two gallons of water daily, starting today.
And then we're gonna up the cardio
from 25 minutes to 35 minutes.
At this point, I won't lose muscle.
So I'll only keep on getting leaner.
If anything, I'll actually build muscle tissue.
So I'm not really worried about the intensity of the cardio.
It's not like I'm doing an hour or anything crazy.
So yeah, it's becoming crunch time.
(blender buzzes)
It's one of the troubles with training at 6:00 AM
when you have a baby at home,
you're trying to use the blender.
(Dan laughs)
You don't wanna wake up your baby, man.
- [Dan] You have to be really strategic then.
- Yeah, very strategic.
I had to close his door, close my wife's door,
make sure I only do it for a few minutes.
I never really appreciated it when I saw a bodybuilder
with a family with children, how difficult it is.
But now I have a new appreciation for it.
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It's so cold, like 20 degrees this morning.
(car revs)
Since the last time you guys seen me on What It Takes
a lot has changed.
The number one thing that changed is me as a man.
I have a family, I have child now, and I'm extremely driven.
Most athletes when they take two or three years off
they always come in worse. They never come in better.
And I didn't step away from the stage
'cause its competition was too tough
or because the training was too tough.
I stepped away from stage
because I had personal issues to take care of.
These are things that people on social media
they're quick have to comment, you know?
Oh, you gave up, you gave up on yourself, man.
You said you would win. Oh, look at you.
You can't beat this guy or you can't be that guy.
But they fail to remember that we have families.
We have things that are going on behind the scenes.
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- Push through, fight, fight, fight.
You can push it, come on.
We started together back in about 2012.
So 10 years now, a decade.
I wanna finish with the 80s.
Top set will be 80, all right?
- I don't know.
- [Mike] What do you mean you don't know?
- I've never done that.
- [Mike] Right. That's why you're welcome to today.
Great form.
To become a champion in any sport, it's the commitment.
Like are you willing to do everything that it takes
to get to that level and become a world champion,
whether it's pushing your body to the extreme
with nutrition, supplementation, or living in the gym
and making sure we're tweaking every part of our program
and getting information and applying it to make sure that
you're obtaining your goal of getting bigger and stronger.
- People will look at body building as an individual sport
because it's only you on stage hitting those poses,
but they don't see the team behind you.
My first ever coach and nutritionist was Kash Guidry.
We were working together for all four of my pro victories.
And since then I wanted to expand my wings
and try different coaches.
And I found myself full circle
with the guy that brought me there.
So I'm back with Kash.
And my original trainer ever was Dr. Mike Camp,
still with Mike Camp.
Kenny Wallock is still my posing coach.
So I know what works.
And I have a team of people that know my body
and we're just gonna roll through with what works
instead of trying to reinvent the wheel
and catch lightning in a bottle.
So what is this?
This is the,
this is the special sauce, the Chick-fil-A sauce.
The Chick-fil-A original sauce. (Dan chuckles)
This is sort of like a dermatogenic ab cream.
So men, we tend to carry around here and lower abdominals.
So I usually put this all over my midsection.
When I used to compete in classic physique,
I would actually put it all over my quads
and I really feel like it helped drive out
some of that water weight, made my skin tighter,
and helped me bring out the lines in conditioning.
And what I do is I wrap it with this waist trainer.
I picked this up on Amazon for like 19 bucks.
And the only reason we use this waist trainer
is because this stuff burns.
It's extremely like harsh
and I don't want it all over my clothes,
so this helps just keep it in one spot.
So this is something I do every single day.
Every single day.
- [Dan] Do you really feel like the waist trainer
and the cream make a difference just from your experience?
- Yeah, so
I absolutely do think these things make a difference,
but at this level of the sport,
we're talking about a fraction of a percentage.
And when you're this meticulous,
when you've been training for 16 years
and competing for so long,
a fraction of a percent difference
actually pays out huge dividends on stage.
So yeah, I do believe it.
It's not for everybody, but when you get to this level,
it's all about the minor details.
But when I first started out in men's physique
it was a totally different division.
We were smaller and then we started getting bigger,
about 180, then we were 190, then we're at 200.
And I feel like I took my body as far as I could
in the physique division.
There were really asking me to like,
Hey, don't get too big, hold yourself back.
But my body wanted to grow.
So I decided to switch to classic physique,
which I was successful there.
I've been top three in both divisions consecutively
at the Olympia back to back.
And that division started growing as well.
But while classic physique, they were growing in size,
men's physique started growing in size also.
With that being said, I think that
men's physique has actually caught up with my size
and that's a better fit for me.
I don't know if this is like the last thing I want to do.
After a hard workout, after you've been dieting,
after you've been low carbs,
you just wanna come home
and like rest your head and recover,
but you just gotta do more work.
And tomorrow you're gonna do more work,
and the next day, there's more work.
The time, you can never get the time back so.
You can't even skip a day.
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So I just literally posted this on YouTube
while I was doing like my 20th minute on the spin bike.
It took me like a matter of seconds and let's see.
Yeah, and here I am. - [Dan] Yeah!
- Kind of cardio and the best kinda cardio is the type
that's best for you.
So like a lot of people they think like, Hey Sadik,
like how do I get a name in the fitness industry?
Like what do I do? I wanna get sponsorships and...
Just about doing just a little bit of work.
That took me two minutes to do.
So just do the little tedious stuff when you have time.
And sure, I have multiple businesses,
I have a baby, I have a wife, have a family,
I have my own training, my own preparations,
but I will find time to do these little two minute things
which pay off greatly.
(Sadik sighs) That's not so bad.
You know, like these little veins coming.
Like I'll know I'm ready
because this whole thing is gonna be like a roadmap.
Soon it'll be veins everywhere.
But right now they're only starting to appear.
Not that veins dictates, like how well you're gonna look
but it does do something.
Woo!
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- Is your daddy crazy?
- [Dan] Has prep been different with a son?
- Yeah, it's been great.
It's been a lot different in terms of just waking up earlier
going to sleep earlier,
getting stuff done when he is sleeping.
But it's been more motivating, so for every drawback
there's like one step backwards, two steps forward.
So every day matters.
Every day I step in the gym
it's gotta be a hundred percent workout
because I don't wanna take away time from him.
- I've always said to be the best in the world.
There's no such thing as balance.
I still believe that that's true, but you need to have
laser focused precision with your time and energy.
Okay, so when I'm at home with my son,
my attention is a hundred percent my son,
it's laser focused, and then when I get in the gym,
it's just I flip that switch, man.
And when I'm in the gym and I'm dicking around,
I think about my son.
Hey, I'm so spending an hour in the gym
where I could be spending it with him,
I better give it everything I got.
Otherwise it's a disservice to him.
It's a disservice to my wife.
It's a disservice to my legacy.
So yeah, I believe that it only enhanced me as a man,
it made me work harder and really savor
that one or two hours in the weight room, on the cardio,
underneath the heavy bench press.
So it's all about redirecting your focus
and actually amplifying your focus to a level
you've never had before.
All right, so you guys see me in the gym with Mike Camp
almost every single day for every single prep,
but you guys haven't seen Mike at his office.
Yes you see him in the gym with me,
but you're never seen him here.
One of the best PTs on all of the tri-state area.
- [Mike] Sup brother. - Good to see you man.
- [Mike] You too. - Awesome, man.
- Come on back, let's get to work.
- Let's do this.
- On the back - Side.
- And if I push down, is it worse?
- No, it's not worse.
- Up to the ceiling.
How about that?
- Mm, not really.
- Cool. Hold, I'm gonna tilt to your right.
Any pain? - No.
- Up at an angle. - Nuh uh.
It's important that I recover.
It's important that I say injury free.
The worst thing a bodybuilder bill could do,
number one worst thing.
It's not overeating. It's not over training.
Number one thing is, is to let the injuries progress
and that's gonna halt your progress,
'cause you have to spend two or three months off.
I wanna continue progressing all the way to my 50s.
- Some people say there's a fine line with getting too lean.
If you like below a certain say 7% body fat,
if you go too extreme, there's always a trade off so.
The constant training when you're getting leaner,
possibly more risk of injuries, tearing muscle fibers
having a rupture of a tendon.
So the stress on the body is substantial.
And DC current is different from traditional stim
because it mimics the way the brain sends signals
out to the muscle tissue and receives it.
So we were scanning him, we found a trigger point here
and on his oblique.
So we're gonna reeducate that muscle
which is a hypersensitive which means his brain is sensing
or sending signals to create excessive tone
not allowing his muscle to contract normally.
So we found the spot here. We put a pad on.
Now comes the fun part,
Sadik is gonna basically just raise his arm up and down.
Okay, and what we're gonna do is turn up to the point
where he can't move.
And he's gotta fight that barrier
and he actually move through the machine.
- [Sadik] So it's like a workout.
- Yes, you ready?
- Oh man, I wasn't prepared.
I didn't take my pre workout. I didn't have my coffee.
- [Mike] So you're gonna take it through where
it's really like a 9 outta 10, then I'm gonna stop.
So the machine, if you come over here, Dan,
so we need to get intensity to 100. So he is at 34.
So we get him 100. - [Sadik] Ooh, ow, ow, ow!
- [Mike] So he's wimping out right now, he's only at 50.
- [Sadik] Ow, damn!
- [Mike] So can you move your arm?
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Raise up, raise up, raise up.
And as he moves, the signals will be sent to his brain
to not let the muscle come down, put it down.
Keep moving. 12 reps. Yep. - [Sadik] Ow!
- Two, keep moving.
Three.
Keep moving, and actually as you move,
it should get less intense. Yes?
- [Sadik] Yeah. - Good.
- [Sadik] Once I say still, it hurts a little more.
- Keep moving, keep moving.
Six.
Seven.
- [Sadik] Wow, this is incredible.
- Nine. Did it get less?
- [Sadik] Yeah it did. - Good, five more.
Four more.
- [Sadik] Hurts the most at the bottom range.
At the bottommost point.
- Three
- [Sadik] Competing at this level,
there's so many things you need to do on a daily basis.
On top of that, I have multiple businesses.
I have my online coaching business,
I have my sponsorships, which I'm very happy with
thank God, and I also have my own company.
I have a functional foods company,
it's called Chef Physique, it's a protein bar company.
So juggling all this and still being a good husband,
being a good father, being a good son, this is a lot to do.
And I'm happy I have this responsibility.
I'm happy I can juggle all these things.
And people see bodybuilder like like,
oh, what does this guy do? He just works out all day?
That's not what bodybuilding is.
That's the furthest thing from bodybuilding.
I mean, look at Arnold Schwarzenegger,
he took a career in body building,
he went into movies, he went into politics.
Amazing example for everyone out there.
And if you're watching this
and you wanna become a bodybuilder,
and you're saying you wanna dedicate your whole life to this
and you wanna only eat, sleep, and train.
You need to change the way you're looking at this sport.
It's not just eat, sleep, and training.
You'll still be a functional human.
When I was placing runner up at the Olympia,
I was working a full-time job, nine to five.
I was squeezing in the workouts and the meals when I can.
So you could be a multifaceted athlete.
And I think that's how this sport is evolving.
And that's definitely how I evolved as a man.
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I only have room to improve.
And for anyone that's counting me out,
if you're counting me out,
thank you, honestly. Thank you.
You know, because I put that in my gas tank.
I put everything in my gas tank.
I already have the attention. I have the sponsors.
I have the fame, that's great.
I ain't doing it for that stuff.
That's all noise. That's bullshit.
I'm doing this shit for me.
And that's why I'm coming back on stage.
I'm passionate about what I'm doing.
I know what I'm bringing and I wanna showcase my best.
So it's not a money play, this is not attention play,
this is not for my sponsors.
I'm doing this only for me.