what's up muscle and strength this is Phil Heath The Gift your five-time Mr
Olympia here over at beat concepts where I'm going to take you guys on a great
journey today all throughout different parts of Denver
I'm here with my boy Chris Wilson one of my great friends he does an amazing job
on all my cars he was the one that got me into this crazy machine we saw it was
about three years ago at one of your shops and Chris really knew what he was talking
about when he said I could put some real monster power in it
drive to the University of Denver where we're going to be Ryan Pat great guy
man like he's going to help show me a trip down memory lane you know with the
athletic department go see the new weight room the new Pat bowling training
center and go get to see Hamilton gymnasium and all the new additions that
the University of Denver has had a you know over the course of last year
back on campaign going to the University of Denver today seeing the Richard
Center Magness arena Hamilton gymnasium still trying to process it because you
know when I came out here I didn't have really any friends I didn't really know
anybody and it was the first time living away from home and you know I met a lot
of great people had a lot of cool teammates during practice we would do
what they call mini game mm-hmm so ten minutes running clock full-speed
game like situation right after that we did this thing called 3:16s now that's
when we would get to that sideline right there and we'd have to run to that
sideline back and forth 16 times within one minute and we had to do that three
times so three 16s in six minutes still got that speed right no way it started
reminding me like all the funny stories the pranks we used to pull on each other I
was like wow like this is where I scored you know my first basket at this is
where you know I watched one of my friends puke his brains out after it having to
run extra suicides this is where we started training the year after my was it
sophomore year after freshman year we came into this facility which originally
was designed just for all the teams to lift weights and so we'd do like our
power cleans hang cleans overhead squats it was the original weight room back in
the day and then we convert it into our indoor golf training facility along
these walls we would actually have your traditional squat racks I could put on
muscle really quick so you didn't to get too big because you get muscled down
playing hoops it's not going to work but right around there kind of had to
feeling like okay you know I'm gaining muscle faster than all the other guys if
I apply myself let's see what can happen so when I decided to body build it all
kind of made sense even to the people around campus they're like well he was
muscular when he played basketball so it was quite easy transition see I want
some kid that maybe not be tall enough may not be fast enough may not just be
skillful enough to say well I can be like him I can still lift weights and
maybe that person can lift weights better than everybody else
but he won't be inspired unless he sees someone that is already doing it they
can be champions too and anything they want to do they just have to come
together have purpose and maybe use what I'm doing as a perspective to say it can
be done memory lane my man thank you so much yeah
yeah I always glad to have you back
I'm going to go to one of my favorite spots Tokyo Joe's there's tons of them
here in Colorado and now they're starting to branch out into other areas
in the country but it's where I go get a lot of my food whether it be offseason
or pre contests they cook everything clean non-stop so we're gonna go get our
grub on there
so I do a big steak with extra steak and then I'll have white rice do spicy ahi
on the side I'll do broccoli avocado and hard-boiled egg please offseason I can
go anywhere from five to eight thousand calories in a day it just depends on
where I'm traveling to whereas pre-contest you know I start off at like
6,200 and then get down to like 4300 domestically I can find a lot of
different food companies a lot have been really awesome to me but internationally
it's always a little task because you have to figure out okay what can the
hotel do for you and can they do it round-the-clock because what if I'm jet lagged
can they do 24-hour room service and then of what Burgers and Fries I can't have that
you know I need to be able to have you know some chicken or steak offseason I
mean I'll have a cheat meal everyday at some point you know but a cheat meal for
me isn't like pizza and burgers and stuff normally it would be like sushi or
something comfortable for me is 275 280 is a little uncomfortable they
got up to 285 one year I believe that was in 2013 2014 I'll never do that
again taking that competitive killer instinct
that I had in basketball transfer that in the body building and that's what
created a Champions work ethic and that's why I'm here today is to show
that what was once considered impossible that you realize that no it's not
impossible so I want everybody out there to to find out what their gift is then
when it's your time to show it you inspire someone else
gotta go train now over armburst pro gym I love that gym you know Dylan Armburst
he got the gym quite some time ago and just made it my second home
so I've done every Olympia prep you guys have seen me train I do it there
whether it be morning noon or night
all the coolest things about living in Colorado is that I get a chance to train
Armburst Pro gym this is the mecca of the Midwest
no no question about it what's up man yea it's good
you know it's typical is now
I'm back here obviously trying to get a lift in you know this year I think was
different than last year or even maybe since I won my first Olympia the
intensity was a lot crazier and you know I had to come in here late
no no you know everybody kind of get me give you space
a little bit yeah but when you win with social media now like everybody's so
excited you ever wonder like cuz you're the first champ to deal with social media
basically yeah Ronnie Coleman didn't do it Jay Cutler maybe a little I
mean people like Lee Haney Dorian Yates when you win at this level being mr.
Olympia five times now there's only Dorian
Arnold Lee and Ronnie who have more that's four people in my way of being
the greatest of all time so that's part of my motivation to say that when it's
all said and done I I was one of the greatest a lot of people say well why
would you want a bodybuild like you don't get anything out of that they
could say well Phil Heath does not only was he you know Mr Olympia but
look what he did with that title he didn't just be the same as everybody
else he wasn't just the same gym rat he was different