 My name's Jacob and welcome. Thank you, thank you very much for clicking on this video. And I welcome you into my house, into my home, and into my life. I don't particularly know what I'm gonna call this series, but what I do know is that I need something like this to keep my motivation high, keep it flowing. It's pretty high at the moment, but I know that if I'm gonna be sharing stuff with the world, and with YouTube, and with my subscribers, that it's gonna make it all the more better when things do work out. So yeah, thank you again. I've tried series before, my channel is fitness related, but I've got more to offer, man. I have more to offer. I have more things up in here that I wanna tell you guys than just fitness related stuff, all right? So, if you're new to the channel and you're not one of my previous subscribers, then welcome. My name's Jacob McDonald, and I'm living in Alice Springs in Central Australia right now. I'm from New Zealand. I've been in Australia for six years now. Fuck it flies, I'll tell you what, six years. I came over here at the age of 19 with absolutely nothing. In fact, I've just been fucked over back in New Zealand. I'd sold a car that I had a debt on to a friend, and I'll tell you what, never mix business and friends together. Don't do it. Long story short, he never paid me. I came over here with debt up to my eyeballs at age 19. I'd started a university degree, which I dropped out of, which in hindsight was the best thing I ever did because I knew in those first three months that university was not gonna be for me. I was a straight A student at school, but man, a university degree was not gonna get me to the place that I needed to get. So I've always had this inkling in my head that I would be successful. I mean, I wasn't gonna stop until I fucking made it, you know what I mean? So as far as my physique goes, I put those principles into action with that early on, and I've been consistently training. My diet's been on point for probably the last three to four years, and I've made some good gains, completely natural, and I'm proud of it. But I don't go and enter that half-natty, full-natty, fake-natty debate anymore because it's not worth it. If I really wanted some views on YouTube, I'd start calling people out saying they're fake-natty. But at the end of the day, guys, I'm a believer, man. I am a believer. If you tell me you're natural, fuck it, you might be. I've seen guys that are 250 pounds that have never lifted a fucking weight in their life. Now, if they actually dieted for once and cut down, they'd look like a fucking bodybuilder, and they've never trained in their entire lives. So how can you guys say that someone is not natural? When there's genetic freaks out there, it's just the way it is, guys. It's just the way it is. Now, I am certainly not genetically blessed, but I've worked with what I've got and I've built the physique I have. Now, I'm not gonna show you that right now, but in the future and future videos, I certainly will, because I don't know where this series is gonna end up, but I do know that I have some clear fitness, financial and freedom-related goals that I will be pursuing over the next few months, and I'm gonna bring you guys along with me. Now, this is not vanity. This is not trying to Skype. I firmly believe that I've got more to offer YouTube and I've got more to offer this channel and my subscribers, and we're all gonna make it, guys. We're all gonna fucking make it. So I'm sitting here in my own house. I bought it. I bought it last year at the age of 25. I bought my first house at the age of 25. Now, personally, it seems to me that people around my age, you know, my circle of friends, peers at work, even people older than me, they can't seem to grasp the notion of looking 5, 10, 15, even 20 years in advance as far as investments go, as far as your career path, as far as planning, because without planning, things just don't happen like that. I mean, to set up a multimillion dollar property portfolio, which is my goal, that's my financial goal, is to set up a financially free and independent life where I have a passive income from a property portfolio. So then when I reach a certain amount of passive income, I can quit my job, I can effectively retire and spend quality time with my family, my friends, my kids, and everything that comes in the future, because there's one thing that I don't wanna do, to a future wife or a future family, and that is bring them into a world where you worry about money all the time, you know, even my parents, they instill some really, really good values, really, really good financial values in me, but of course, as with a lot of sort of people from that generation, there wasn't much emphasis on, you know, it's a mediocre feel, it's a mediocre feel. People are happy, people are content in their lives at the moment, you know, people are comfortable, and that's not me, that's not me, you know, I've got ambitions, I'm an average guy with above average ambitions, I've always said that if I want something, I'm gonna get it, and I will find a fucking way, all right, so age 25 right now, who knows what's in the future, but there is some exciting stuff coming up, and I'm gonna bring you guys along for the ride, so, you know, feel free to like the video, subscribe if you haven't, my YouTube journey has been going for just over two years now, probably actually just over three years, and my first ever video was actually a rugby tutorial video, so I'm a huge fan of rugby, huge fan of rugby league, all sports actually, sport has been a huge part of my life, and that's probably what sort of pushed me into getting into the fitness industry was the fact that I was always good at sport, but I never had the actual physique to back it up, you know what I mean, so I'll be playing sports with all these fellas, and you know, I remember a couple of physiques in particular when I was probably aged about 16, 17 that I saw, and I was like, wow, you know, wow, I wanna look like that, like, I didn't even know what aesthetic meant, like this is before Ziz, this is before all of that shit, Ziz was certainly not my inspiration to get into training, I'll say that, I know he was an inspiration to a lot of people, and I mean, watching his videos now, he's a fucking good cunt, like, he's funny, and I can certainly understand where people get their motivation from, but he certainly wasn't. One person that has inspired me, and he would probably be like my version of Ziz, is Greg Plitt. Now, if you guys don't know who Greg Plitt is, I would recommend looking up some of his videos, some of his motivational videos. I competed in the IFBB and in the WBFF as a men's physique athlete and a fitness model competitor last year. And I'll tell you what, there was one guy who I listened to day in, day out while I was prepping, while, you know, those really, really tough days, you know, you've got no energy, you're just feeling like shit, and I put my headphones in my ears with Greg Plitt, and he'd get me going. And the fact that he died, you know, it makes him sort of like my Ziz, you know? I actually only found out about him just after he died. Well, actually, no, I knew about him, but I never really listened to his stuff until I found out that he passed away. And then I started listening to his stuff and it really, really struck a chord with me. So that was awesome. It's really inspired me. So, all right. This is the opening video. Okay, there's two things, there's two specific things that are gonna be happening within the next two months that I want to bring you guys along with the ride for, and I want to motivate myself through making this video, et cetera, et cetera. And they are, I am officially going to get in the best shape of my fucking life. I'm gonna get in the best shape of my life. I've said it many, many times before, even when I competed, I probably had no business being up there because I was not lean enough. I wasn't. I remember seeing this guy beside me, he said to, like, I was backstage by myself, this guy was covered up the entire time. Oh, I started pumping up. And he said to his coach, he'd been pumping up. He said to his coach, you think I'm ready, coach? Should I take the top off? And the coach is like, well, do you feel ready? And he's like, yeah. And I was like, okay, this is a bit serious. You know, what's he gonna look like? He took off his fucking top and I was blown away. I looked at him, I said, yeah, you're ready. It was absolutely insane. I've never seen physiques like that in person in my entire life. And so from that day, I thought, well, there's no business me being back here competing again unless I look something like that. So I do wanna compete again. I know that being a natural athlete, you're not gonna get the best gains possible unless you really give yourself a good year, two years, even more in a calorie surplus. But the will and the thing in the back of my head is just too strong. I can't, I can't bulk. I have to shred again. I have to do it. And I'm gonna bring you guys along for the ride. I'm keen to crack into cardio. I'm keen to be dieting. You know, I'm not keen to be eating a shitload at the moment. It's hot here in Alice Springs. So I think the time's come. It's March 14th, 2016. Monday, March 14th, 2016. And what I'm gonna do right now is I'm gonna head to the gym. We're gonna smash out the workout. The way I train, I go in there by feel. I always have, I don't have a specific diary. I wish I did. I wish I did have a diary that had all my sets, all my reps, everything so I could look back at it. But basically, I'm not that kind of guy. As far as dieting goes, I'm a flexible dieter. I will have sugar in my diet. I will have carbs in my diet. I will have fats in my diet. But insane that I stick to the sort of if it's a macros principle that probably 70% of my food is from clean, whole food sources, nothing processed. And then, 25, maybe 30% is from processed, basically shit foods that you'd find in the ice cream aisle or the lolly aisle or whatever. It's basically shit food, okay? So my dieting principles, my training principles have always been like that. I'm not the kind of guy that's gonna be really, really strict. But I do know what is necessary to lose body fat. And maintain muscle. And that's my goal over the next few months. So I guess that's it. Now, financial goals are a different kettle of fish completely and I have something really, really exciting that's happening in my life financially, like financial wise. And I'm just in the process of negotiating at the moment and yeah, I won't say too much else but it's very exciting for me because obviously I have that vision of retiring probably by age 40 if possible. And this is gonna be the first step on my road to retiring at 40. So yeah, you guys come along to the right. Who knows, man, who knows? YouTube will probably be fucking extinct by the time I'm 40. But we'll see what happens, we'll see what happens because I wanna help as many people as possible in as many ways as possible. So that's my vision and that's what I wanna do. So anyways, before I get, fuck man, how long have I talked for? Holy shit, 13 minutes. All right, so I hope I haven't bored you guys off. I hope you're excited. I hope I can continue these going. I mean, I'm pretty bad with starting series. I'm always starting them. And feeling like people aren't liking what I'm putting out. I'm not getting too many views, not getting too many likes and then I'll stop. But this one I'm determined and I'm actually not gonna release them for a few weeks. So this episode will not be coming out today on the 14th of March. It'll probably be coming out in about a month's time. And then hopefully I'll have the ball rolling by then and we'll continue rolling out these episodes and hopefully you can continue enjoying them. And yeah, it's gonna be a little bit different because I'm gonna be a month behind but I wanna make these episodes cool. I wanna make them informative. I wanna have good content and I wanna make a good go of this YouTube thing because there's been times, there's been times when I thought fuck this and I've gone and deleted a couple of videos thinking I'm gonna go through my whole library and delete every single one. And I don't in the end. And I'm glad I haven't because I'm here now and we're about to embark on a cool journey. So thank you again. Thank you very much for watching. Like, subscribe, share, do whatever you wanna do but I will be hitting the gym in about half an hour and I'm actually gonna get a bit of footage. I'm gonna make up a pre-workout and then we will be off and we'll see how I'm looking in the gym and some good lighting and that will be a starting point for my physique at least. So once again, thanks for watching. I'll catch you in the next one.