Mr. Olympia

So it would just be such an interesting relief to be able to give myself, to be like, "You are gonna be great.

You're gonna have all these things that you want, but you're also gonna realize that they're not as important as you think they are." You know? Like, you're gonna come to the realization where the relationships and your values and everything that you enjoy and the experiences, everything, aren't gonna come down to those spectacular moments on stage at the Olympia.

They're gonna be much more simpler than that.

They're just gonna be those moments where you're being yourself, and the people who love you for that is gonna be everything.

So we go do all these things, and there's just no need for any of it, you know? And I think when you are able to alleviate that pressure from it, like we were talking about the difference of, like, the extrinsic goals of trying to be the best in the world versus just trying to be my best self, you know, and setting authentic goals to myself.

Hmm.

What are my authentic goals? Winning the Olympia sometimes is a little more inauthentic than me truly trying to just push myself to be my best.

Do I still enjoy that? Absolutely.

More so the stress that leads to avoiding the adversity.

Because, you know, I th- and the, the other funny thing that I've thought about very related to this is going through adversity, you know, my life is very revolved around competing in Olympias.

When I go through adversity now, I'm like, "This could be a s- part of my speech," you know?

Mm.

Great quote.

[laughs] I, I based a lot of my life in the past about my definition of success and my definition of being a champion and my definition of winning, and I think it all just comes down to, you know, again, your values.

When I'm old, what's the end of this look like? You know? Uh, it, w- my v- values of being the best partner, father, person I can be, when I'm 50, if I have five or six or seven or eight or nine or 10 Olympias, are any of those affected by that? No.

So in this short-term goal of this moment of me wanting to win, is this very important? Yes.

[laughs]

We, we are in the beginning of what's to come for The Olympia now, which is obviously right after summer, and where everybody's gearing up for The Olympia.

We have some really cool, cool n- topics and announcements, and we have two big questions of the day.

It's actually one question, but it's super-

But, uh, we're here, we're debating, we're arguing about bodybuilders.

We're not trying to bring him down in any way whatsoever.

And, uh, this is Mr. Olympia, you know? We have to come in better.

Yes, his off-season look was great, but what's gonna be the finished product? I hope it's great, and I hope he, uh, proves me wrong.

So go in and check that out, please.

All right, the reigning Mr. Olympia champion, Derek Lunsford, has put up some progress picks.

He hasn't put up a lot of progress picks.

He's been putting up a lot of his leg progress picks.

I'm taking an educated guess.

I know a lot of people want to see Derek lose.

They don't like him as Mr. Olympia.

They don't think he deserved the title.

You know what I'm talking about, right? And they celebrate you.

I mean, I'm going to Olympia in a couple weeks.

People are going to be like, man, you're this, you're that.

And I'm like, that's great, and I truly appreciate that, but...

So if I say one bad thing, I am for sure that number one and I and I wear that crown.

Yeah.

And, you know, during that time, being pretty much the first social media Mr. Olympia, right? It was hard to champion that.

So there was going to be times where I'd be more outspoken.

I don't know.

What do you think, Lee? Is it a good idea to do a show before The Olympia when you're trying to win The Olympia?

Well, I think, I think so because we're, we're seeing it with James when his first show, and then even Joe was better in his second show.

Sometimes I think when you've had a little bit of time off, to get it right in your very first show is sometimes hard because-

'Cause okay, the first one you might just miss out a bit, so the second show you know what to change, so as you go along.

So I'm thinking Samson getting the cobwebs out in Germany could be a good thing 'cause if he goes in, he might try and go in a bit fuller and cut, not as shredded.

He'll see how he looks, what feedback he gets, and then he might know from that show that The Olympia's maybe gotta tighten up just that little bit more.

So I think it's a good move, not...

Uh, and job done, and then the rest is outside the gym, you know? Uh, even for Mr.

Olympia, I was doing four out of six.

What do you mean?

Four workouts out of six days-

You know? Yeah.

It's like a fucking in the sound [laughs] thing, you know? I'm, I'm, I'm getting ready for a Mr.

Olympia now.

All right, up the cardio, down the carbs, total calories down, start to lose.