 Hey what's going on everybody it's Jacob here, today's video I am going to answer a question that I've actually made up myself because of the fact that I found myself doing some pretty crazy slash stupid things whilst on a competition bodybuilding prep. The way that you feel mentally at certain points can push you to do certain things and that's what I'm discussing today. In the previous video I mentioned something relatively crazy that I did if you want to watch that please do but in this video I'm going to reference my level of steps per day every day for a four week period. So for the four weeks leading up to my second bodybuilding show of the year which I just did about two weeks ago I was so sick and tired of running like literally running jogging running sprinting whatever you may whatever you want to call it jogging running sprinting any form of running any form of activity that was that was that was faster in speed than six kilometers an hour I just wasn't into. So what I what I had to do to maintain my level of condition and my level of cardio was to obviously extend the sessions still still do the same amount of distance but just not the same amount of time. So what I found myself doing was still trying to you know complete I guess 25,000 steps per day but through walking only okay there's no running well there was running but it was only it was only whilst I was at the NZIS at my course so I was studying five days a week we probably did three cardio workouts and two weight training sessions there per week but you know additional cardio on top of that that I knew I had to do I had to maintain you know I had this figure in my head of 25,000 steps which I had been able to to do but that was with a lot of running not so much walking you know it takes a long time to do 25,000 steps if you're just walking so basically guys this video is about the fact that for four weeks straight I literally did at least two and a half hours of walking a day two hours to two and a half usually no more than that so it would be either an hour or 90 minutes in the morning maybe even 45 minutes then I'd get to course I'd do that obviously on the weekend is be a bit different I'd have some more spare time so it'd be easier but on a day that I I went to course I do an hours walk in the morning that'll be 10,000 steps I do possibly about three or four thousand steps throughout the day so that's up to 14 and then I'd have to do a specific second activity whether that be a walk certainly wasn't a run but it might have been a slow jog slash walk so basically to hit 25,000 steps I found myself having to do two at least two specific cardio workouts per day and when they were only walks you know they got real long real quick so shit man 25,000 steps a day every single day through walking sent me crazy and it was crazy and that's something I'm discussing today so that's a crazy thing that I did you know what I should have done right what I should have done was was man up be like well you know what Jacob fuck this don't spend two hours out there okay man up eat some carbohydrates and run for an hour you'll get far more calories burnt you'll feel so much better for it and you'll get a sweat up you know it's it's I didn't even sweat during these sessions which is weird you know I was going through sessions in the gym obviously you know I probably was sweating in my heart of sessions in the gym but as far as my cardio sessions I was not sweating which is weird you know you have to you do you should sweat it's good for your body and and post show I'm really enjoying you know jogging and and getting a sweat up so yeah I can I can safely say that walks are all good but as far as maintaining a 5% body fat condition whilst you know whilst maintaining a sanity I'd say that look if you're not going to run I'd say my my best you know I probably wasn't gonna run I wasn't gonna run you couldn't tell me to run you couldn't have fucking forced me to run so at that point what I should have done was probably jump on some form of bike like an assault bike or just an everyday you know stationary bike in the gym that I could push my legs but I was seated you know it wasn't gonna be that taxing so I think moving forward I might actually start to use a bike more so than than a treadmill if I'm in a gym but anyways keeping in keeping in theme with the crazy walks and the crazy amount of walks one day I realized that should have only done 15,000 steps today that's not many and it really played with my mind that night I didn't have a huge amount of energy so I thought no you know what I'm gonna get up in the morning and I'm gonna go and do my hours walk and just continue it well I literally could not sleep I could not sleep guys because when you get to a certain point in a prep that is all you think about it is consuming completely consuming you know it goes from fun to not so fun at a certain point and this was one of those points and I said to myself right you know what man you know what I'd actually dropped my car at course about three weeks prior and I'd left it there I'd got a ride home and then I'd used another car so my car was at course for three weeks and every single time I'd walk past it I'd be like fuck you know what I should do I should wake up early one morning and walk here come and grab it drive home and then drive back to course in my other car I said to myself basically when I'm ready when I'm feeling crazy enough I'm gonna walk here and get it and the time the time that I ended up feeling just crazy enough to go and do it was 2 a.m. I went to bed at 9 you know during the prep I was going to be a pretty fucking early because I was getting up early went to bed at 9 couldn't sleep rolled around until 2 in the morning and thought you know what fuck this I gotta go and get that car and I've got to get to my 25,000 steps so that's what I did I got up at 2 in the morning tried to be as quiet as possible as inconspicuous as inconspicuous as possible put my headphones in got the Google Maps going saw that I had 13 kilometers to walk and did it took me about two two and a half hours I arrived there at 4.30 in the morning grabbed the car came home fuck what did I do I think I lay down on the couch for an hour and then got up did my thing I don't think I went for a walk that morning and you know I had a little bit of breakfast because I was feeling tired and depleted I wasn't normally having breakfast but I did that morning and mate just guys I'm calling this a crazy thing I'm calling this one of the craziest things I did because the fact that I walked through town I walked through Christchurch at 2 3 in the morning I don't like doing that man that's fucking dodgy all by myself no one else around and I've got my headphones in so if I heard like a little a little noise if I saw something out the corner I'd fucking quickly take my headphones off and look around and be like no one's no one's following me are they because literally someone could have come up behind me and I would not have known a thing because my headphones are loud my headphones allowed I'm walking with a mission in mind I wouldn't know anything it was dodgy fucking dodgy crazy thing to do to in the morning walking two and a half hours to go pick up your car what an idiot but I got those 25,000 steps and that was the main thing that night anyways guys I hope you've enjoyed this video it's just a little bit of an insight and I like doing these things you know I like bringing my insights and my opinions to my channel so if you've enjoyed there's plenty more to come consider subscribing like the video and I'll see you soon peace out don't do what I did do what I say not what I did that's what they say isn't it