if you don't have the attitude and the focus for something it's not gonna happen I probably always overdid things I never under that things always overdid things so I placed third at my first mr. Lippe contest in 2008 upon that night I realized it's possible but if wind and at first you say will win ok I did the third world now it's not about when it's about you know how many I just always wanted to be the most you know to find massive person on stage but move like smoke in the air we all in the same room ain't saying nothing each other everybody gain take right we join the war with each other the city itself is great but who was there any Jesus there the Brotherhood is there everybody's there for one reason try to get better as bodybuilders and we trying to do it as a team I really look at yourself in the mirror I mean for me I always try to do that and bodybuilding initially made me have to look at who I am as an individual I want to compete I'm an athlete I'm a sports person I want to compete I don't compete against the best and got to be a competition I've always prepared myself to be the very best that I possibly could be and if I know that I'm the very best as I possibly could be and I can't get any better at the time I'm good with that because coming back from a martial arts back on I understood I can learn from anyone it could be the guy in gym next door to me that's training and I was still different parts from everyone he could fit to me I'd take this part from this guy this part from that guys I want to train so hard that I'm trying to make a compelling argument with God in the universe that even if he says no he's gonna be like well I got to give it to him because he's just too damn stubborn [Music] it ain't nothing like having your hardwork fail because you know when I put myself to a task of doing something I go all out you know like when I work for police department I went all out you know I tried to do a bad job constituted when I was in college you know when I was in school I studied every single night in rambling on high school grounding oh god I know I didn't I think high school few say at all but they ground and I studied every single night you know I try to be the best I pasta to be when I was playing football there you know I was trying to be the best I pasta too you know and and you know it took a long time but I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish but like I said nothing happened overnight I'm an introvert so normally you know interprets or experts when they're on stage you know so I was very I was always uncomfortable on stage I'm uncomfortable in my skin but I learned at a young age that people find out their weakness if they'll use it against you so if I walk out on stage and I'm like then people gonna dig deeper I just want to say I see decide this but I walk out confident and arrogant they give me a once-over and and um pay attention kind of like if if I walked into this building and it smelled great but didn't look really clean from the smell of it I'm gonna relax um look around a little bit awesome mm-hmm but if the room really stunk it was spotless I'm gonna continue so that's the way it is on stage if you look confident people are going to give you a once-over and they're gonna kind of relax but if you up there very unconfident you look at yourself in your day ugh yeah they're gonna stare you down like okay you know what is it and they'll start picking things apart so that was kind of my thought on that whole thing I did get kind of emotional at times because when you're really going to the core of who you are not a lot of people ask yourself that question I would even ask you guys how many of you this morning looked at yourself in the mirror after you brush your teeth wash your face like really look at yourself in the mirror I mean for me I always try to do that and bodybuilding initially made me have to look at Who I am as an individual do I want to do the training okay fine I can train but do I really want to diet do I really want to give up time with friends do I want to be misunderstood am i okay with scrutiny because unlike a LeBron James or Kobe Bryant unlike anything else you could be criticized about performance in the office how you speak how you maybe how you dress that day or whatever you didn't close a deal we're talking about how you look without your clothes on you know a lot of people in here maybe switch outfits you talked to my fiance I mean she probably changes three four times sometimes you know did this look at this is good because you know they want to be perfect it's a good point but imagine your job is to be judged by a panel of judges fans around the world about how you look in just this little itty bitty posing trunks it's like your worst nightmare turned alive did you have a formula for a handling pain I know you said some things right now was pride behind the bull zero formula for I'm gonna focus on the goal yeah focus on the goal of the goal of that particular workout of that exercise which is all a microt of the macro which is the end of the year you're going to compete that's the ultimate goal for that Europe but breaking that down and so I would have the goal in mind before I went to the gym so I would sit down and analyze last week's workout so maybe I am data analyzing in my primitive way I've got my book there and I've written down last week's workout so I did eight reps last week with this weight I got to do nine this week I got to put five pounds on the bar or you know I got this so I've got a definite goal when I go in the gym but I've got to do and I've got a portion I gotta get through I'm gonna get to that and if I gotta go through pain to get there Soviet I'll go through the pain does that mindset bleed into every aspect of your life wasn't mainly one-dimensional anything physical I'll fall into that zone even now if I do it you know I'm riding my bike in the mountains in Spain but I still catch myself time on myself and seeing if it was better last week we still like to voices like when it's getting really difficult now before I just had one voice now I got to I got the one which I made a video one time put on my Instagram was like coming up with the mountain and I just got off a plane I feel tired and it's really tough and and I got this one T here on my shoulder and it's telling me listen man before you 1/6 mr. Olympus and if you're tired you don't need to go up that mountain today you can go you can stop man you can go that down and then the other one got a lion here's though you got to do it man you started now you can't stop you've got to finish it you got to do it so try to listen to the lion like 95% of the time you know bleed is uh I never looked at myself I never looked at myself it was all always about being in gym working out enjoying myself and having fun and being healthy it was never the way I looked so when I was like you know 25 to 95 on stage I already didn't notice anything well you know when I was 215 huh what do you mean when you say that I didn't know this is people people saw the way I looked I didn't see the way I looked and to us all pictures so you wouldn't go in front of mirror at the gym and poke nope never you know when you're doing squattin you're looking at something there's not a mirror in front of it's a wall no there is no mirror there if you see if you look if you look at the videos you'll see there's not a mirror right there in front of me there was there was there were times back miles backstage and I see a mirror I turn my head you know when I walk past it so that in one don't know how I looked because I wouldn't I was never any to to look a certain way you know I was in it to be good to be great but not to look a certain way that's why I was gonna tell you now that you know way I look back then you know there was all good and great but I wouldn't entity to look a certain way I was in it to be great so now then I'm not even competing anymore I'm still the same way I'm not in it to look a certain way I'm in it just for you know the enjoyment of being in the gym working out and being healthy so I'm not going for a certain look I've always just went in to the gym to have fun enjoy myself and you know just be in there but not to look a certain way I didn't know I had 22 inch arms until somebody told me and I ordered them down I know there's no way he's like well yeah tape measure yeah I prove it to you I'm like let's bring it out so he brought it out and showing us 22 inches I'm like wow you got to come in develop your physique completely as much as you can without because it's gonna benefit you down the road the more the more you come into the game and you want to come come bring complexity to it it's gonna it's not gonna make it easier it's gonna come make it more complicated cause you're throwing in more variables which means that your body has to deal with more variables which means there's so many other things that could change yeah so until you know the basis the foundation of how to build muscle how to burn fat why are you gonna over complicate this process which is already complicated and add another variable that changes the game dynamically emanated dramatically you know it's this you shouldn't do that you should learn your body know that you know how to properly train know that you know how to properly build muscle no - you do how to properly incorporate nutrition before you need an advantage there's no there's no way you're gonna need advantage before you don't do that because if you do if you do it the other way around you're gonna have to learn everything else over and over again once you hit that wall and you reach that level with those PD is not gonna do anything for you anymore except take more which makes you break you were talking picture it more risks so you don't have to start all over again and try to learn it right because you learned in Rome and that's what I tell a lot of guys especially in certain areas other cultures even in even the Middle East somewhere those guys they think the first thing they got to do okay I'm training out what I gotta take is like no that's that's not the route you want to go it's you training out learn your body learn how you respond we're all a little bit different once you learn those things then you can add a different dynamic that you can play with and it complicated even more but you're starting there's no need to complicate you see any need of doing it if you're not gonna be competing professionally you know what I'm saying I don't I don't see I don't see a reason to unless you aspire to go to a higher level right or unless you're doing it from some kind of antiaging benefit you know for your for your personal health sure absolutely well you know that's the that's really the only reason if it's not if it's not for competitors it's logical reasoning you got there I truly never believed that can be first number one in the world fear of failure fear of success hmm I'll probably say both both because both can be very damaging we both can devastate you I would say just fear cuz again I'm insecure and low self-esteem so it was just a fear of um possibly being that well I had a lot of pressure on me already because how good I was I was expected you know to look a certain way and you know a lot of us believed I was judged on my best not if I was better than other people on States so I remember you know one time I after my car accident I broke c5 and c6 and it's 94 yet 94 and I came back and I competed and February after breaking c5 and c6 and I I end up winning the Ironman and the next weekend I went senior on own that took second and when I had to car accident you know the company I was would I don't be disrespectful but everybody knows but while I was when I had to accident while I was in a car in the hospital they fired me so you know when I got home is a you know a facsimile there that you've been released for me contract due to blah blah blah I'm like I'm okay I'll be able to compete so I beg you know for them to keep me on City dance stated half my money that I was making and I went up one two Ironman and then I wanted the honor classic OKC I mean I took second down her classic and uh it's like Tina yeah you know I I won my first Pro chef my breaking my neck and you know then I took second you know on egos we'd expect you to do that you know we expect you to win look I beat all these people who've been healthy all year round and I come back from this devastating accident and I was that good it goes yeah but we expect more from you oh wow so it took a whole nother you know at the Olympia for them to reinstate me 100% so you know it's like a double that so it is kind of like all great athletes and I'm like I'm not calling myself great but you you look at their best or a model you look at their most beautiful or an actor or a singer you know the best song and I measure to that forever so one rare thing is I kind of came close in a 90 percentile my my second show ever so it was nowhere but either down or a little ways up from that so and I I just like a biorhythm up and down so I was always compared to that instead of getting better and better and better you know I came out what went on her class I went on oh called me that one of the best body builds in history that was my second Pro show ever you got a photographic memory yeah I do so y'all going to read books and we just remember the whole thing I'd have to read about three or four times I can remember eyes the whole thing that's it that's how I study for college I will read everything like three four times over like the night before I will stay up like sometimes all night you know you get you know you get you get into something and you just get focused on there and you lose track of time because you so focus on what you're doing that's you and I would look up my how many times over breakfast I'm having getting on something that happened a lot you know because like say I had that memory that if I read some enough I could memorize it you know it's so crazy that yourself Brandon Currie Phil Heath all out accounting majors yeah yeah did you know that or no yeah I had no idea yeah I know I do all three of your account so maybe the formula for bodybuilding is first go get a degree in accounting and then go compete exactly hey Trent is it all data to you or no oh yeah it's all data and analytics how that's it people don't know but you know I I kept up with everything I ate I'm way to measure everything I ate at night the same thing and I waited and you know I knew exactly how many carbs I was taking how many grams of protein I was taking everything and I wrote everything down do you have it till today yeah you're having today after till today you have the day Wow and they offered me something like 170 grand a year to go and be with that Federation some money at that time I had nothing green you had nothing crazy so I gone home to my wife and I said look they offered me this if I take this we can get a house we can do this we can do that when we're living in a still in a council place man I'm on Yonge turn pro but I'm still living in the ghetto right not much money I got $7,000 and much to her credit she said I'm out of this so I got nothing to say about this this is entirely your decision to make so you need to you know you need to make the decision why did she see that what's what's her reason if we're giving it to you because if she had I said do it let's take the money I probably would have maybe thought this to it I mean she's been behind me all this time the family needs something stand back you know you know the family's been behind me and now I got this and maybe I should do it for the family but she said no no you got to figure this out and then I was like you know what I really believe in myself and the Olympia is the Olympia and I got a feeling I got a bad feeling about this Wrestling Federation because the one thing that I was adamant about when I went there I was like I'm not a performer I'm not you know if this is gonna be like the wrestling where it's like you're a character and that winners already kind of chosen I'm not in for that my mom loves I'm and I want to compete I'm an athlete I'm a sports person I want to compete I want to compete against the best and it's got to be a competition and then you know mr. Olympia is everybody build his dream mm-hmm so I'd have to give up on that dream to go with the wrestler Federation so I made a tough decision and I said I'm gonna turn down this money because I got faith in myself and I will get that money and more if I stick to this path and I win mr. Olympia because I was happy then I got second place because you know what they do a second place your shit um one feel I had you went in everybody loves the underdog now everybody roots for the underdog the underdog is safe very interesting and you know what that does oh yeah yeah I should have known I should have won I didn't deserve to win because I didn't own them but I sure as hell went in front of those reporters man prior to the show I'm here to win I'm here to do this but in weather it was time to own it I punked out so that following year I said I'm not gonna do any promos nothing until I own it until I own it and that meant I don't have to talk about this I don't have to tell people what I'm doing I don't have to talk about what I'm doing tomorrow and this and that and screaming from the mountaintops and doing these Instagram videos and Facebook and this and I don't have to tell you shit I have to look in that mirror and I have to say it to myself one damn time and look at myself and be like man you ain't ready or are you ready really okay go do it so then when I won the Olympia in 2011 it's a different type of exhale close your eyes and then for some reason my life flashed before my eyes and that's when the tears come because you're like you know what all those little things got me here from the heartbreak to the to the lies to the to the deceit from others from the mistakes I made to this and that got me here like you just said I'm a passed ball player right back then but it got me here you damn right I'm happy so it was on will you talk about what kept me going that moment right there was like it's worth it no one else knows what that feels like in this sport because I was the 13th mr. Olympia champion so imagine only 13 people climb that mountain .