 Wow, yeah, I swear to God. I'm with it. I don't see nobody in my lane. It's quite go get it like Please don't me waste of my time with that business Hi guys What's going on? It's Jacob here. Welcome to another video. Welcome to the second installment of what it really feels like being 5% body fat I'm not saying I'm 5% body fat right now, but I'm I don't know probably I May not be big right now, but I'm feeling relatively lean and I certainly was 5% body fat if I'm not now then I was For a lengthy period of time probably at least 10 to 12 weeks And that was because I did two bodybuilding shows this year eight weeks apart so I'm sitting here three weeks post-show and I am doing my best to Delve into my prep. Honestly my YouTube channel Not only is it a way for me to spread a message and to make videos like this but it's also a way for me to work through certain things in my head and You know Usually once I've made the video. I've talked it out. I've gone and edited it which means I watch it again Usually that subject or whatever I'm talking about has sort of you know filtered through my brain I've done what I needed to do with it and I move on with life and that's exactly what we're going to do today So today's video I'm hoping we bring in a fair few Viewers, you know, any bodybuilding fans anyone out there that's that's looking at doing their first show I guess I will say Off the bat that I am natural. I'm a lifetime natural I've never taken any performance arts and drugs and I don't plan on it So my prep was done completely naturally through diet and training alone. And so that's that's how I'm gonna Be prefacing I am prefacing this video with that because that is that is the truth so You know in a previous video I talked about the positives as being shredded and and at the end of the day There's not many And it came down to three three times three moments of the day. The first was when I first first got up Okay, you look in the mirror You see yourself Shredded and you're instantly hit with a feeling of euphoria You know what I mean any any negatives that you might have felt or you might be feeling at the time go away Because you're like fuck man. I've put in so much work and this is the result the second moment that I'm You know you for it is in the gym when I've got a pump You know, you've you've gone in there in a hoodie You've sort of done a few sets you feel the pump coming if it comes Depending on you know when you five percent body fat if you don't have too many carbs in your system You ain't getting a pump. That's for sure. That would have to be one of the shit things In fact, we'll start it off. We'll start it off with that at five percent body fat If you haven't eaten if you haven't fueled yourself properly Which if you are continuing to cut you probably haven't but if you're trying to maintain a five percent body fat level You probably have you know, you won't be getting a pump in the gym or anything like what you what you're used to or what you could With full glycogen stores. So at the same time At that same moment when you're in the gym, you might not have a pump But you do feel the best you're gonna feel during that day. Okay, you've you've you've got volume in the muscle You're probably gonna be in some pretty decent lighting Depending on what gym you're at and you're gonna feel good So that's the second point of the day the third point of the day where I felt really good and Really productive and positive was during my fasting periods, believe it or not. So, you know you you Believe it or not in the eight hour or six hour period that I used each day to eat I was the most miserable because once I started eating. I Didn't want to stop You know what I mean? So I used those times those times where I was fasting To easily not think about food because I knew I knew that my next meal wasn't coming And I just didn't think about it But once I did start like two o'clock in the afternoon or whatever before I trained fuck man It was a it was a slippery slope and there was many nights where I couldn't handle it And I couldn't keep it together But you know we did our best and we ended up we ended up competing and that's that's the main thing So look when you're five percent body fat, I'm just gonna come out and say it every single thing Well, not every single thing But most of your thoughts most of your day is going to be based around Either eating Which doesn't last very long because he's so fucking hungry every meal goes goes down in about a minute flat Or when you can eat next so you're either going to be obsessing about But your whole fucking life starts to revolve around when you can eat or when you can't eat or how much you've eaten or Fuck I've eaten too much or mate It's eating disorder Conjusive it is conducive to developing eating disorders. I'm not gonna lie the longer you stay at five percent body fat the longer you've got the chance of Developing some form of either anxiety or depression around food or you know at the very least a You know some form of of eating disorder, you know what I mean some maybe maybe even a form of binging, you know It's it's serious. It is serious. It can can get pretty serious. So you've got to be careful You've just got to be aware that's all so with that in mind I tend to think that if I wasn't doing an intermittent fasting approach if I was beginning to eat At breakfast time when I woke up, which I should have been obviously the most efficient way of shredding down is eating small amounts at You know eating small amounts multiple times per day. That's something. I just can't do or I didn't want to do So, you know, I can't fuck man if I had have had my first meal at like seven in the morning and Had to obsess about when I was gonna eat for the rest of the whole day Nah, man. Nah, that wasn't gonna work. So that's why I decided to intermittent fast But obviously man, the overall thing I'm trying to get to here is that you will obsess about food It doesn't matter what approach you've got. You're gonna obsess about it It's just the way it is But then you wake up that next morning after going through all of that obsession and torture Mental torture the day before you wake up that morning. You see your shredded six pack and I'm telling you The positives outweigh the negatives, but we're talking about negatives today. So What is it? You know, what does it actually really feel like being five percent body fat? I'm not saying I'm five percent body fat right now, but I'm relatively lean and I feel flat. I am flat right now. So if I was to tense Have a pump under awesome lighting I would look a whole lot different right now if I went out and did 20 sets of side If I went out and did 20 sets of shoulder raises and 20 sets of tricep push-downs and then came and sit back down I'd look like a totally different person But that's what being five percent body fat does, you know, you're flat most of the time You're not holding, you know, a huge amount of glycogen at all times You don't have full glycogen stores at all times, which someone who's bulking Generally would you know if they're wanting to stay as anabolic as possible So, yeah, it sucks. You're flat a lot of the time. You are flat. I Am a lifetime natural. I've never taken any steroids. So I don't have that that full feeling, you know Unless I do it through nutrition, which is possible But it's not conducive to staying at five percent body fat So, yeah, I did use intermittent fasting and I did feel I Guess productive during those times, but at the same time, you know, I wasn't optimal I still had brain fog and it was still noticeable, you know When you get to seven six down to five percent body fat that fatigue factor really sets in Doesn't matter if I had a big breakfast two hours later. I'd still feel it You know, it doesn't matter if I had a big sleep two hours later. I would still feel it creeping in and Then you've got to go and train under that fatigue. I mean, it's you know, it's not easy Bodybuilding is not easy. So with the general loss of energy. I think that's where people start to talk about their loss of libido Okay, because my libido was fine. Like it still is it's it's never actually worried me You know, it's never come to the point where I can't get it up, you know I mean at the end of the day if if the energy is there and The stimulus is there. It still works So that's something I wanted to mention because you know a fair few bodybuilders out there Especially natural bodybuilders have been at five percent body fat or under for a lengthy period of time We'll say that their dick doesn't work and I'm like, okay, that's worrying I think I'd pull the pin at that point I think I'd be seriously considering whether it was worth it being five percent body fat You want to be five percent body fat to look better for the ladies yet? You can't use your dick. That's fucked up Right, that's fucked up. That is the biggest That just doesn't make sense so I'm led to believe through my Experience that the only reason why I would have a loss of libido as such would be just a loss of energy Okay, it's it's it's prioritizing what you want to use that energy for on a particular day and to think about Woman sex takes energy That then takes energy from your brain to your I don't know how it all works But look energy is energy and if your five percent body fat Consistently week after week after week having to do what you have to do to maintain that your energy ain't gonna be optimal That's not so certain things that might have been up here as a priority will start to to go down if we talk about sleep How does sleep change? How does sleep change? And I'm not gonna say this is a negative Although it is because it definitely for me I Don't operate on four hours sleep a night usually I'll operate on six and a half if not seven if not even a little bit More so I found that when I got to five percent body fat. I genuinely I just didn't need to sleep It's either I didn't need the sleep or my body couldn't stay asleep As long as usual, so I'd go to bed at 10 o'clock usual time, but I'd be up at 2 You know what I mean, and I'd wake up actually feeling refreshed, which is something I wasn't used to that was definitely Not the case usually so I was used to you know if I did wake up through the night, which I didn't normally but if I did My I'd feel quite heavy in the eyes, and I'll be like right now I'm definitely going back to sleep but during the prep when I was five percent body fat You wake up at two in the morning after knowing you've only slept for three or four hours, but your eyes are wide You know what I mean? You you are wired. You're ready to get up and go again. Well, that's how I felt So it was like is that my metabolism just burning burning and and I'm waking up through through hunger Or is that just I don't know your body going into survival mode like you guys tell me I'm not sure what exactly happens there, but I'm telling you You don't need as much sleep when you're shredded or your body doesn't think it needs as much or your body doesn't let you have As much sleep as if you've got a certain level of body fat. You know what I mean? So sleep's affected Strength, let's talk about strength. Strength is definitely going to be affected. You know if we're talking about compound lifts Which I'm happy to say I kept in my my routine throughout the entire prep So I was doing some form of bench press on Chester I was doing some form of a bent over row on Back day and I was doing squats every time plus lunges plus something else on leg day but my strength slowly but surely tapered down so It's gonna happen, especially on big things like that big lifts actually having a heavier body weight Even though some of that additional body weight is from fat is gonna cause you to be stronger. It just is it's gonna strengthen your entire body It's gonna put cushioning around joints and ligaments and tendons that you didn't have before You know you will feel not as lethargic you'll feel like you've got that you know a full tank of gas so to speak and So your performances will be better than if your 5% body fat always trying to stay shredded So if we're talking about numbers squats, I was doing sets with 140 at the start or 120 120 140 I went down I didn't go lower than 100 So I was still able to maintain sets of at least 12 10 to 12 with 100 kg even at my most fucking fatigued Which I felt okay about bench press My strength went down from hitting, you know a couple of reps few reps at 100 kg To bringing it down to 80 and getting like six to eight and then at the end there I was literally doing all my reps with 60 kgs on the bench press no more in fact, I'd go over to something like a Smith machine or I'd start on a peck fly to Pre-exhaust the muscle so that when I did go over to a compound lift Which I was always gonna include in the workout. I wouldn't have to use as heavy weight You know, there's there's ways and means around it overall your performance is gonna dip You know, what do you expect up one thing? I did notice and You know, I certainly noticed this at course when I was sitting in in the lecture room I'd be rugged up in this fucking hoodie and and Track pants and I boots and socks and everything and I'd still feel cold I'd still get these shivers and that's just through having a lower level of body fat You know fat is Insulation and having 5% body fat. You're gonna feel cold You're gonna feel the cold more so than others and then you take your body hair off for a body bodybuilding show and Holy motherfucking shit. It's like being out in the snow. Well, that's what I felt So a negative or you know, just a real so a negative I'd have to say was would be to feel the cold more so than than usual I mean, I'm a massive fan of winter, but not like that I would not want to be shredded as fuck trying to do a bodybuilding show in the middle of winter Fuck that don't do it guys get shredded in the summer man get bulk up in winter get shredded in summer Because the cold weather will not affect you so much. Okay, one thing. Okay, one thing. I'm actually dealing with right now. I Have a bony ass at the best. Well, do I I don't know but I certainly developed bony ass Through getting to 5% body fat. So when you sit on a hard surface You will feel your to your fucking tailbone. You'll feel what is it your bloody pelvis? You feel your pelvis Coming through the bottom of your ass cheeks Literally on a hard surface. So it's true what they say, you know, you can't get comfortable Unless you're cushioned and that's something I've dealt with I had to deal with that for weeks In fact, I started putting a cushion on this chair so that I could sit in front of my computer and not feel Well, it's not pain, but it's just uncomfortableness. It's it's You sit down and it's like two bones are sitting on the fucking piece of wood That's just the reality of being I guess 5% body fat So I thought I'd have to add that one in there because it was definitely a factor and I'm feeling it now I'm feeling it now. I'm honestly feeling it now. So anyways guys, I reckon that's pretty much it I reckon that's pretty much it. This is my entry into I guess Question-and-answer type videos as far as bodybuilding is concerned. I want to continue making them I get a lot of information from guys like Greg Doucet He's got a fairly Out there personality I feel I'm never gonna sort of be More on camera than I am off I'm always gonna be myself and this is me. So if you have enjoyed this video if you've enjoyed my take on What it really feels like to be shredded, please hit the like button Please share it with your mates and please subscribe. That would be absolutely amazing Thank you so much for watching. It's been a fairly lengthy video probably about 20 minutes But I did have a fair bit of information that I wanted to put across and I'm happy I have So what does it really feel like being 5% body fat? It feels incredible. It's not easily maintainable and there's certain factors I'm gonna call them negative factors that come along with being 5% body fat and we've just covered them Here so guys, thank you for watching. I'll see you in the next one. 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