 So I just finished like day-to-day and I was barely made out of the gym I was wobbling like Bambi, which is a good thing. I mean I had a really good workout and Before the gym I had a little protein with pineapples. That's what my coach is having me do daily now and then post-gym I have my protein shake post workout formula and then now we're on to breakfast So for breakfast, it's four eggs at the moment and then I'm gonna be making a little shake here in a minute Which I'll show you and the competition is gonna be I believe Saturday August 12th Muscle Beach Venice, California in LA So it's really local for me, which is awesome. It's really close I don't have to like get a hotel and do all that. I might I don't know. I don't think about that Just so that I don't have to like worry about commuting in the morning and driving and all that I don't know. I don't want you guys to think this is easy for me. This has never been easy for me It's like a day-to-day struggle. I'm gonna put this on low because I'm boiling now timer Yeah, and all honesty Dieting is the hardest part about getting competition ready It's it's not the training or anything else or the supplements or or the routine or getting enough rest or Having to go to work and being sore AF Those things are difficult. Yes, but the most difficult thing is by far the diet in large part because I'm eating the same thing multiple times a day often The thing that really just drives me nuts that I have to eat every day is this Broccoli broccoli is my good friend for getting in shape, but it is the bane of my existence For enjoying my meals. I I despise the taste of broccoli now I used to think it was alright, and I've just eaten it so much for so many years now That I despise I despise broccoli I feel like a little kid again like I want to put cheese on it or something just to make it palatable, it's it wouldn't be bad I I never disliked broccoli really until the point where I had to eat it multiple times a day every single day And now it's like just I just loathe Broccoli I don't think I could be any more clear about that All right time to make a smoothie all these guys are on low for the next 12 minutes So now it's smoothie time, and this is gonna go along with my eggs for my morning breakfast right now. It's called green vibrance Makes you vibrant Got cinnamon. I think this is the very last of it And I'm supposed to have a post workout banana I haven't had it yet, so I'm just gonna add it to my smoothie And then it'll be delicious Hey, Duke, come here, Bubba Come here, buddy as some of you know Duke loves bananas He gets a little bit. Come here, Bubba so Also as a lot of you know Duke suffers from anxiety and for some reason he doesn't really like the kitchen area I don't know if the owner who had him before you used to like punish him or or hurt him when he was near the kitchen So I have a hard time getting him into the kitchen and even if I talked to him sweetly and sometimes he'll just He'll pee himself and he did a little bit right now and that makes him even more anxious because he feels like he did something wrong And he knows it and he'll Like kind of like tower away, so I'm gonna clean that up real quick and then get back to it Oh, also, I'm gonna be moving so my surroundings will change It will I can just be creative and I can get my office area set up And I can do my vlogging my filming and have my equipment set up and not have to like put it up and tear down all The time and just have everything set up so that I can create the best quality content for you all Okay, I'm gonna add a little bit of water to this just so I can get good consistency. It's not too thick And that's that like European style way where you just take off the top of the shell Get a small spoon and eat it right out of the egg holder like that with some salt Just reminds me of home and it's Um, just a really comfort comforting way of eating eggs for me time to eat so Recently something that I've been thinking about is what it means to be coachable Because when I do my prep Um, as a lot of you know, I work in a restaurant as well. I bartend They're part-time and I get a lot of people when they're asking me about my prep Asking like what I eat And I basically explain that I'm eating the same thing often Multiple times a day and every day it's the exact same. They're like, well, why can't you eat? Why can't you have salmon instead or why can't you eat some kind of white fish or Why can't you eat chicken or this or that and my answer is because my coach Tells me what to eat and that's what I eat and they're like, oh, okay, but I don't get like Can't you just like switch it up or do something different and my answer Is I repeat my coach tells me exactly what to eat and that's what I eat And I think a lot of people have a hard time, um wrapping their heads around that because We have the tendency to want to say why and to To want to do things our way and if we get tired of something then we want to like switch it up But the reality is every athlete Amateur pro whatever every athlete at some point or another is going to need a coach and you have a coach for the sole purpose Of coaching you of telling you what to do how to do it when to do it and how much to do it, you know So for me, it's not a matter of why do I have to eat this certain these certain things at this certain time of day Every day repeatedly I you would never like if you're training for a sport and your coach says Go and run five laps. You're not gonna say well why five? Why can't can I just do three or Uh, can I do six because I have a lot of energy today or Whatever your coach gives you your regimen and that's what it is That's that's what I I pay for my coach and that's what I pay him to do So part of being coachable is just to you're you're relinquishing control And you're trusting that this person who is a professional and it knows what they're doing Is going to guide you to success in the most efficient and best way possible So when I have a coach and I'm getting ready for competition, that's exactly my mindset is my um My personal opinions my personal desires or wants are are not Are not on the table and don't matter. It's just a matter of my coach sending me my diet plan my cardio plan anything else supplements anything else that might be Pertinent and then following that to the tea as best as I can and going off of that following The the routine we're human so you know, um, we're gonna make mistakes. We're gonna mess up We're gonna not adhere like like we're supposed to so the next big part of being coachable Is uh being able to be accountable and the only way to do that is is honesty so you have to be able to Communicate and be honest when you cheat Or when you don't do all the cardio that you're supposed to do or the training or That's my phone or the supplements or anything You have to be able to communicate that because if you don't then the coach can't adjust Accordingly and that's so important And that's so crucial to accountability. Don't and if you're not honest about what it is You're doing or not doing then the only person that's that's gonna suffer or hurt from that is you So you're just cheating yourself in the end Who is blowing up my phone right now? So oh my god, that is four messages five Are we done are we done? Can I talk so the big takeaway that I want you guys to get for me when I'm getting ready for competition and having to to go through training and cardio and supplements and diet and all of that is My brain and my thinking kind of goes away and I just do as I'm told He says jump I say when how high how many times and what form do you want me to have? And that's that and and and the thing is I think this applies not only to other sports But it applies to any situation where you might be in where someone is mentoring you or coaching you or Helping you learn a skill A lot of times it might not make sense to us in a moment But it's best if we're going to trust a professional if we're going to trust a mentor if we're going to trust a coach Just to follow their lead. The worst that can happen is that it doesn't work out best for you And then you know for next time, but The first time around you got to do is they say just take it as it comes. So be coachable I'm going to eat now. I'm hungry