 Right you guys what is going on and welcome back to the third update video of the day and Well, we're actually in central Christchurch. This is Battersea Street Amorat none other Then body core gym Which is actually on both sides of the road body core is my second gym My second gym membership. This is the gym that I've been meeting my coach My bodybuilding coach Steve Orton at once a week For the last 10 weeks and what we do is we come inside The the actual weight part of the the weights part of the gym is on that side of the road this side of the road is As you'll see the cardio area which is sick and The posing area so this is the cardio room. It's pretty decent size It's got everything you'd need loads of stuff and Heaps of space but in here as some of you may recognize this is the posing room So this is where Steve and I will meet He takes my body fat. I Turn around here Put the camera there and start filming and him and I run through my posing so basically The only reason I'm here guys Is not actually to do some posing But I want to discuss My bodybuilding plans. We've got some Where you go? Come here. So once I get that sorted. Are we good? Yes, we are okay Welcome welcome guys. Welcome to body core gym. I've become Yeah, quite well acquainted with this place over the last 10 weeks as I said I've been here every single Wednesday morning at 7 30 Right in this very room every single Wednesday morning There's been some mornings that I've woken up at 6 and thought I cannot be fucked But it's about consistency It's about showing up even on the days. You don't want to but you know if you start if you start feeling that way that the thing that sort of instantly gets your head back in the game is the fact that you are actually paying for this you're paying for the service and You know, there's a reason why you pay for that. It's worth it. It is worth it It's it's not me not only worth it for the the physical obviously Steve is you know He looks at my body physically and he he knows what he sees and he's helping me get into shape but mentally Having someone there that's done it all before Has been hugely helpful to my mental state my my my mindset my mindset, you know my mindset coming into this was was all for fun and You know, I think Steve saw that as okay. Yep. He's taken it for fun. I don't know how help how I don't know How this guy's gonna get into shape? But I'm gonna try and help him and at the end of the day You know your coach can help you as much as you like But you're the one that's gonna have to put in that work You're the one that's gonna have to suffer those nights when you want to eat something you're laying in bed pretty hungry, but you know you can't and It's those times That having a coach in your corner Even if you don't talk to them, you know Just knowing that they are there if you do need to talk to them if you are in that bad of a spot where you're like fuck Man, I'm about to eat the house down. What do I do? I never got to that point But I'm sure he would have helped me through it regardless now Guys, I have discussed with you earlier today the bodybuilding show that I did That was three weeks ago now. It was here in Christchurch. It was called the South Island Championships the NZ IFBB South Island champs now My mindset going to that show Was good it was extremely good up until about three weeks out when I realized that Look if I do want to You know, I guess have a good showing if I do want to You know try and do relatively well on this show and not just do it just for fun I'm gonna have to really step things up and that's what happened the last three weeks my fatigue went way up I was laying in bed hungry at times, which is a terrible feeling My sleep pattern was out of whack, you know, I was up at 2 3 in the morning some mornings because I literally I Mean, you don't need much sleep when you're that lean I mean, that's what your body's telling you, right? So I'll go to bed and I'll wake up refreshed as if it's been an eight-hour sleep But I've only been asleep for two or three hours Now that's weird, but that's what comes with getting really really lean apparently, you know I'm waking up in the morning after a if I eat carbs the veins start coming up in my my stomach You know what I mean? I've you can literally once you get to a certain level of body fat You can really start to understand and actually see visually what nutrition is doing to your body once you ingest it You know what I mean? So if I'm gonna lean enough state where I'm actually having veins up my stomach and I'm realizing that those veins come out more so after I've eaten certain things You know all of that that's knowledge that I'm getting you know about my body now And it's knowledge that you just don't have unless you're in a lean enough state. So anyways guys It's been a journey. It's been a fucking long journey It was 20 weeks from the start of my diet at about 96 or 97 kgs down to show day Where I was weighing in at about 88 kilograms So that's a 9 kg difference, but what I will say is that they have the hat There's definitely been some some muscle memory. There's definitely been a bit of a recomposition of sorts What I found is that I got myself from 97 down to about 90 kgs, and that's the point that I met up with Steve I was at 11% body fat. I've done it all on my own. I was pretty happy funnily enough from that moment Over the next 10 weeks, I only lost, you know, two and a half more kilograms But my condition went from 11% down to under 5% body fat Now that is all calculated on numbers that's calculated on my body weight as well as the skin fold, you know Skin body fat caliper tests that that Steve does consistently every week but what that tells me is that In that 10 weeks, I've lost the two and a half kg Which has effectively been, you know, five and a half percent body fat on my frame But what's actually happened as well as I've put on some muscle. I have. There's been some muscle memory there So in that 10 weeks, you know, my body's done what they call a recomposition And it's done it without me even really knowing, you know, how I've done it or why I've done it You know, all I've tried to do is get lean train hard and See what my body does and effectively what it's done My body weight got down to about 87 and a half kgs at its lowest. It did not want to go under there My body fat came down from probably about 20% down to about 11% 10 weeks ago And now it's down to just under 5% and you know, I'm six foot one So here we are 88 kg six foot one at 5% body fat and it's the best shape I've ever been in in my life I feel absolutely amazing. I feel active. I feel lighter my feet And I really feel like I you know, if you if anyone out there sees me as an actual bodybuilder I don't look like a bodybuilder Well, I don't I feel like I don't look like one. I feel like I look like a natural bodybuilder at best But what I've tried to do guys is really Just include all sorts of training in my prep, you know what I mean? I was I was doing rugby trainings. I was going out doing sprint training I was going out and doing, you know, long-distance running all sorts of agility type of work with rugby Then I started then I started then I started studying at the NZIS Started doing all sorts of shit there All sorts of fitness testing cardio workouts weight-based workouts outdoor workouts And you know, you include all of that into one and I was probably burning at least 5,000 calories a day You know what I mean? Doing at least 20 25,000 steps a day for 5,000 calories a day You know, it's it's it's gonna be tough to put on weight when you're doing that much activity and I guess that's Where I find myself, you know what I mean? I'm still just as active Since the show I have actually upped my calories. I've upped my carbohydrates quite considerably whilst trying to maintain that 5% body fat condition Because at the end of the day, I want to compete again Right now we're five weeks out And this is what this video is about right now. We are five weeks out from the NZIFBB natural national championships This is exactly one week after the NZIFBB National championships that is completely untested a week after that They have the exact same show Exact same format. It's just it's drug-tested Now the exciting part the most exciting part guys is that in both the nationals and the natural nationals They offer Pro Cards IFBB Pro Cards doesn't matter whether you competed in that one or that one. They're straight up IFBB Pro Cards For the overall winner in men's physique, classic physique and bodybuilding The show that I'm aiming for is the NZIFBB natural nationals. I am a drug-free athlete a Lifetime drug-free athlete and I'm proud of it and I am so so excited To have the opportunity to stand up on stage With a level playing field and to have an IFBB Pro Card on offer Wow the thought of Having a chance of Winning and IFBB Pro Card is just something I've never ever even fathomed I literally never thought that the only reason there's even a chance the only reason I'm pushing through I don't want to continue dieting right now I want to fucking eat the house down, but I can't because I've got this goal and If we can make this happen guys. Oh my god, this will be the cherry on the cake The cherry on the icing on the cake the cherry on top. I'm not sure This would be absolutely incredible guys if I could continue dieting get in the best shape in my life Jump up on stage in both men's physique and classic physique Get into the overall by winning your class and you're up there in the overall pose down Knowing that the winner receives an IFBB Pro Card just think about that for a second It's five weeks away It's covered There's gonna be fuck all competitors. This could be the best shot. I will ever have and we're gonna push through and do it now Those are all the words that have come out of my brain without me looking at my paper What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna pick up my little Book here and talk about it. This video is about my plans. This video is about my plans for the next show. This video is titled I'm gonna try and end my IFBB Pro Card in 2020 and this is how I'm going to do it and Basically guys, I've just told you exactly how I'm gonna do it. So for the next five weeks. I will be meeting with Steve I've actually already got two posing sessions on camera One at six and a half weeks out and one at five and a half weeks out So following this video, I will be chucking them up on the YouTube channel As well as that we've got four and a half three and a half two and a half one and a half and One week out posing videos that will be coming to the channel So for anyone that's wondering what my conditions like for anyone that wants to see if I can if I can improve it and For anyone that wants to continue following along because this journey is not completely over yet Please do I do want to say I do want to say that I you know for me to get my my my weight down Doesn't matter whether I've got this muscle memory happening or not. I need to get my weight down to 86 kilograms 86 for me to do that. I am going to have to track everything Through my fitness power and I will have to start manipulating my carbohydrates quite considerably Because I know that I can maintain a weight with a certain amount of carbs in my diet But for me to you know get stuck into that body fat once again and start really trying to try to lose more body fat I need to reduce those carbohydrates. It's just the way it is But it's been a real interesting journey, you know because you know this time dieting down I haven't gone low carb. I haven't gone keto. I've continued to have carbs in my diet In fact right up until right up until the last week of the show. I Would say I definitely have at least 300 grams of carbs a day in my diet But that is because like I mentioned before I've been so active. I've been able to burn it off It's not like I'm sitting at a desk the whole day. You know what I mean, so Yeah, it's Shit you're always learning right? I'm still constantly learning so I guess the only other thing I wanted to say wanted to touch on was was my cardio what I'm going to be using for cardio over the next five weeks Rugby is out because I we're finished you would have seen a video about that on this channel rugby is done for the season What an experience? Mint absolutely awesome. You guys saw that first video. I made After my first game back it was extremely emotional and You know the emotions are still there. It's we made the final we lost just the last second and Yeah, next year next year. So yeah, rugby's gone So we're not from a tangent there rugby as far as a form of cardio is gone I will be still doing my walks in the morning I will be still doing my runs on the weekends and I will still be studying at the end of day So we've still got the cardio based workouts We've still got the waste weight based workouts, and I'll still be training with weights at least five six times a week So that's the plan. I want to say Thanks so much for being here. I want to say I will be doing my very best to bring workout videos workout vlogs to the channel With Steve and the lead up to the show. I've never trained with Steve before So that could be good could be interesting or definitely interesting. Not sure not sure if it'd be fun But I'll give it my best shot And I think that could be some real cool content coming out to this channel. Jacob McDonald and Steve Aughton Training in the gym coach and athlete athlete and coach Anyways guys have a fantastic day. We're here at body core anyone in Christchurch that wants to come and check it out It's $10 a casual session But the best thing is is it's $10 a week as well So if you want to join up It's $10 a week if you want to come down for a casual session It's $10 if you want to come and train with me. Let me know hit me up on Instagram I'll meet you right here, and we'll go and smash a session. I'm all about that I'm all about collaborating and all about meeting up with as many people as possible networking That's what life's about Peace out guys. Have a great day. I'll see you in the next one. Let's go get this pro cup Imagine that Can you imagine? Stuff dreams are made of They been sleeping. That's why they storming