 Hi everyone at Bodybuilding.com, my name is Noah Banks and this is my submission for the 2018 Bodybuilding.com Spokesmodel Search. First off I'm going to get a little bit of a background about myself and then go ahead and answer the three questions of YTEAMBODYBUILDING.COM and why do I build my body and how do I inspire others to build their body. So to give a little brief overview about me, my name is Noah Banks as I stated earlier, 23 years old, living in New York, New York, but I'm also from Atlanta, Georgia Bulldog, Go Dogs. So to give a little bit of background about me, my fitness journey started back when I was in middle school actually. I was telling people, I look like YTEAMBODY, I had a big head, a nice little belly, ribs and skinny arms. And I was like, you know what, I need to start working out. So I started doing push-ups and sit-ups, but then once I got to high school I started really getting into sports, doing track, basketball, wrestling, and then a little stint and football. And I really needed to build my body a lot bigger than I had it. So I went to the gym at LA Fitness and walked in there and was like, I do not know any of this. So I went back home, looked on the computer, best arm workout and it came up. The first thing on the first search bar was actually bodybuilding.com was an arm workout. So I did it and it felt great. That started the whole addiction of using it every single workout that I needed to use it for. So that was kind of like my high school years. Once I got to college I was still using bodybuilding.com as a resource and I also wasn't tall enough to play basketball or big enough to play football. So I started really just diving deep into fitness and that's actually where I ended up getting my personal training certification once a lot of people started asking me how I did it myself. I started training people and once I graduated I actually created what my mission is right now which is hype. That's my lifestyle brand, my fitness lifestyle brand and it stands for healthy young professionals every day because fitness is actually not my full time job. I actually work as an analyst on Wall Street and my biggest thing with hype is I want to motivate young professionals to feel happy, youthful, productive and excited about their fitness, their nutrition and their lifestyle while working a 9-5 job. It's crucially important. So that's where my mission is, a little bit brief background about myself. Now to go ahead and answer the question of why team bodybuilding.com, first off I just think it's a great brand. It's what sparked my love for fitness and really understanding how to really train. It wasn't even like okay I want to get bigger, it was like you need to do this to really be the most effective with your body. So I really just connected with in the fact that they gave free stuff, like it was free workouts I was like man they really care about helping the little guy out, you know helping me out and really to really build my body. So to be a representative of such a giving brand and a brand that really cares about people's health and their body and making the best body of themselves is huge to me. Now why do I build my body? At first it was for very vain reasons. When I was in high school I did it for sports and for girls but now what I notice is growing my body is more than just my physical. It's actually helping me grow my mind and help me, I tell people right now like I'm bulking right I'm getting bigger but I'm not getting bigger just to you know look a little bit heavier in my suit or whatever. No it's because by growing bigger I know that one I'm staying consistent with something over time and then two I'm also growing bigger to pass barriers that are in my way. I have so many big dreams for a hype in my life and you know working out just helps me like look if you could do this in the gym grind to go for this goal you could do this in your life you know you could really grind and get this goal that you want in life and it's the there's so much correlations between fitness and your life and it's just amazing and that's why I build my body because it's a growth and it's passing a challenge that's in front of me. Now the last reason is you know how do I inspire others? Like I said I created hype, healthy young professionals every single day there's no S in there but it's healthy young professionals every day and the whole point is to provide people with the fitness knowledge, nutrition knowledge and the right behavior knowledge to basically be healthy and to live a healthy life and to make basically make tell them and motivate them like hey look it's possible you know I work a nine to five job and sometimes later sometimes work earlier and I still find a way to be fit let's motivate you and hey let's be fit together too many people trade health for wealth in the beginning of their life and then end up spending all the wealth to regain their health and at the end it's backwards you can't think like that so anyway that is my submission video again I just want to say thank you bodybuilder.com for changing my life and really invoking a passion within me and I love it and of course I want to be another George Bulldog with Leanna Carr and Lacey Don being in here and my mentor Amanda Bucci so that's also why I mean it's just awesome they love the opportunity and I'm excited so thank you so much and I'll catch you on the flip side.