 All right everybody What is going on is Jacob here as you can see? We're actually Right outside snap fitness the palms. This has been my home gym For the last five months and it was the place that I spent the most time whilst getting ready for my my third Everbody building show which happened three weeks ago here in Christchurch This was a comeback show for me. This was just for fun I kept on telling everybody, you know what people kept on asking me. What are your goals? What are your major goals? Well, honestly, I had none. I had zero goals I was doing this just for fun and for my own mental strength To prove to myself that I could get back in shape to prove to myself and prove to anyone else not prove But you know motivate inspire it's not about proving anything really the only person I'm proving anything to is myself and if you're doing anything and if you're doing anything Trying to prove things to other people You know those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind So at the end of the day before I get into this I'm a bit out of practice. I haven't made a video for a long time I'm gonna get inside my car. I'm gonna grab my medals Because we do have some silverware, which is pretty awesome and I'm gonna get my little book I've got a couple of notes that I do want to make sure I touch on in this little talk. This is officially my recap of the 2020 Ended IFBB South Island Championships and it was a whole lot of fun. Busy day though Busy busy day. I've got to say That is that's actually how I wanted it. I wanted it to be a busy day I didn't want to you know have too much time to sort of be anxious Because I tell you I was a bit anxious So anyways guys, I'll put the medals down there Look, I don't know that I'm gonna cover everything I need to in this video But I do need to create this video because it's been three weeks and there are a few people that have been asking and It's about time that I I'll let you guys know it's you know, I did quite well. I actually I qualified for the Nationals so in but in two categories Classic physique and men's physique now. I actually competed in all three male divisions So you've got men's physique in your board shorts. You've got classic physique in your shorter Boxer kind of things and then you've got bodybuilding In your bodybuilding posing trunks, which I'd never tried on before I picked them up on the Thursday beforehand So, you know that whole week getting tanned again twice, you know shaving my body getting my trunks sorted Doing the carb up Water depletion a little bit of water manipulation not too much, but all of that that whole process that whole peak week process Was great, you know, it was it was exciting. It was it was you know new to me again I hadn't done it in so long. There were so many things that I'd actually forgotten about But at the end of the day guys, I made it to the stage In all three divisions and look before I get into anything else I will show you My number I was lucky number seven and Well, these are my three medals and they're pretty damn heavy. I've got to say I've got to say big ups to the NZ IFBB For making these medals because they're awesome and I'll keep them forever now what you can see guys I don't know if you can see but there's a gold medal there. That's a motherfucking gold medal It's actually a golden two silver. So let me run through the Let me run through the results first before I talk about how I thought and how I felt so the results are in black and white and In men's physique I Competed in the open division. There was two divisions novice and open In the open I won. That's where I got that gold medal What that meant is that I went into the men's physique overall posed down or comparison at the end of the show Against the winner of the novice category now. He was absolutely shredded But I do believe that my structure and my posing was slightly better although on the day he won so I got first in I got first in the men's physique open category and then I got Beaten in the overall which is fine. Okay, so now we now we move on to classic physique with the shorter shorts You can show you know you start to show your your legs and Classic physique as far as my posing as far as my body structure. I believe I'm probably best suited for that But this is an untested show Okay, so the two guys that I ended up going up against in the tall class for classic physique We're both six foot three 105 kg Absolute monsters and here I am six foot one eighty eight kilograms Natural trying to stand up against them. Well, I'll tell you what guys. I Bet one of them. I Got second out of three in the men's in the men's classic physique tall category at the end of AFBB South Island champs And that my friends is this medal Okay, so Two categories, right? I didn't get into the overall for that one, which is fine two categories and I've actually beaten two competitors Now I said I want to do this for fun, right? But the fact that I didn't actually come last, okay Really got my excitement going right and I was like fuck. I am really enjoying this right now Then we come to the third category. I Wade in on the day Sorry the day before we have a way in it's a registration day for two hours We come and weigh in for anyone who needs to weigh in for their category, right? So I came in I'd been like 87 87 and a half 88 kg Leading up to that on that day because I'd started my carb up quite early and I'd continued You know drinking water, which is what you do You don't cut out water completely You still drink water up to the day and then you just assess on the day as to how much you need So because I did that because I'd introduced carbs after you know depleting throughout the first half of the week My weight actually shot right up to 91 kg So I actually weighed in for the bodybuilding category from 90 to 100 kg when this whole time I was planning on being from 80 to 90 So anyway, it doesn't matter but at the end of the day There was only two there was only two competitors in the 90 to 100 kg bodybuilding class It was me and another guy Callum. He's actually a friend of mine Works at Snap Fitness and he beat me which is fine because he wants to be a bodybuilder And he's way leaner than me. So that was my third of three medals and that is this one here Three medals man three medals three classes Three lots of pre-judging three lots of finals six pump-ups in total Like my body was absolutely fried by the end of it, but I had a whole lot of fun. It was a fucking good day now I do have some notes here. I'm gonna try and run through them try and touch on everything that I need to And just explain how it went, you know, because like I said, there's way too much shit in my head right now I've got six videos to shoot today, and this is the first one So Look first of all, I want to thank Shit, I want to thank everybody involved. I want to thank you guys for your support on my posing videos Obviously those videos are not gonna They're not gonna introduce they're not gonna interest everybody But if you are watching this still, I am gonna say that following today I've got a four day block that's gonna allow me some time to get back into some reaction videos So if you are sitting here waiting for some rugby player reacts to football reaction videos, they are coming next week Hold tight. So my prep started on April the 12th. Okay, April the 12th This show happened on August the 29th now that is by my calculation May June July August That's four and a half months at least so let's say it was yeah 19 to 20 weeks 20 weeks. I died of the show the first 11 of those weeks I did on my own Completely not tracking a single calorie. In fact, I didn't track a single calorie throughout this whole prep And if anyone's got any questions about how I actually got myself into a state of 5% body fat without actually tracking anything And without being too hard on myself, you know, please ask it was a 20-week journey Nothing happens overnight and I did really ramp it up in the last four weeks. I will say that Because I had to otherwise I was gonna look way too soft up there But in the end I was happy with my package and I do have my coach Steve to thank for that You know, he kept my he kept my head in the game when I wanted to quit And he's he's been there and done it, you know, his professional bodybuilder. He's been on the Arnold classic stage three times His professional bodybuilder. I wanted him in my corner and I got him and it was a fantastic thing to do So we've been through the results competed in all three divisions Massive day, but I liked it. So the day started at 10 o'clock We arrived at the venue at 10 30. I got my tan my show tan now on the Wednesday and the Friday before that I'd actually got my my two basecoats, which is what you need to do Shave my body got everything ready a little bit of carb depletion Throughout the first half of the week then we ramped it up a little bit on the first day Friday Water was high throughout the whole week Took it down a little bit on the Friday and then had minimal water on the Saturday But my day on the show day started at 10 10 30 got the tan 11 30. We had the athletes meeting now. There was very limited Athletes, you know, I'm not gonna lie. There was there was not there weren't many athletes in this in this competition And the ones that did still push through coveted to compete You know, we're really appreciated. I'm not gonna lie. There was probably about 35 or 40 competitors as you saw I had number seven And well at 12 o'clock on the dot the show started We started with men's physique Following that was classic physique Then the three Women's divisions went and then last of all was men's bodybuilding So, you know, it was it was a pretty pretty busy day But what I will say is that they were so efficient. They were so efficient at putting the competitors through You know getting us ready getting us lined up behind backstage You know, there wasn't too many competitors to get ready, which was good This would never happen unless it was through coveted, but you know, I was I was pretty happy to be part of this experience. The show started at 12 I was out of there after having competed in three Divisions three classes I was out of there at three. So it was a three hour show for me Um, it probably continued about another hour after that to get the overalls back on stage, you know, um, etc But yeah, let's say a you know, a four hour show One show format from 12 to four Absolutely fantastic. Loved it. And I want to say a massive massive thanks to Mo Elmasawi The NZ IFBB president, um, he's been in that role for about 10 years I met him for the first time five years back in Wellington when I competed in my first show I vividly remember it I said to him, I'm competing in the novice men's physique. Should I do open? He said, why not? I said sweet, bro. I'll do it Yeah, lo and behold, there was only two guys in the open class then as well and the other guy Tom Shit, what was his name and Tom Tom something Anyway, he was massive massive come Absolutely shredded and put me to shame. So I learned my lesson But this time I trust my instinct. I went to the open class again and actually beat the other guy. So there you go There you go. Anyway massive thanks to Mo for putting this on because Not many people would have you know, pretty much every other bodybuilding show around this time in New Zealand And around the world was either cancelled postponed So thank you so much to Mo for for continuing to support the NZ IFBB You know, he was there He was he must have been there from six in the morning that venue, you know, he was doing everything himself There was no one else there. I mean, he's already losing money, right? So for him to hire other staff to do things for him. It just wouldn't have worked He's running a business. He's a businessman. He's an entrepreneur. He understands He understands business, but he also understands bodybuilding. He understands the culture. He understands How much it means to the competitors and he was never ever going to let that show get cancelled. So thank you so much, Mo Thank you You gave me an opportunity to complete this journey come back And and jump on the stage again and I absolutely loved it. Thanks, mate So, you know, I've got a few things here that I actually wanted to talk about but I think I'll make separate videos And I'm just going to run through them, you know talking about feeling talking about not tracking a single calorie whilst I was dieting And literally not tracking a single calorie until the last week You know, and that is intuition that is experience and this is things that I'd like to talk about because I know there's some people out there They'd love to get in shape. They just think it's too hard. Well, it's not Okay, you need a bit of discipline And take each day as it comes Now I also wanted to talk about, you know, the negative effects of of being so lean And the couple that come to mind where my sleeping patterns were fucked for a while there, you know I feel cold in certain situations where no one else is feeling cold because my body fat's so low Um, yeah When you start getting low on carbs, you start getting angry. You start, you know, your temper starts Shortening things like that Things like that an overall Lack of energy Okay, these are certain things I'm still dealing with now because I haven't put on any body fat for the last three weeks Because my plan is actually to continue dieting for another show but we'll get into that In another video Um, I wanted to talk about what backstage was like You know, I It was awesome. There was heaps of space because there wasn't there wasn't many competitors We we did it at a place called the aurora center, which is the performing arts center at a massive high school here in christ Church called burnside high school. I think it's like the Either second or third largest high school by numbers in the southern hemisphere So you can imagine how awesome the theater was it was Fantastic the lighting was great loads of space Loads of space to pump up. Although I will say there was only one single tiny little mirror So for anyone about to go out on stage once you've pumped up you sort of want to hit a few poses You want to check yourself out? There was one single mirror and that is the one thing they could have They could have improved on although I could have just bought one myself You know at the end of the day if you're a competitor you want to you want to bring your own equipment Bring your own food bring your own pump up pump up stuff towel you know Extra tan everything like that and I didn't have a lot of it. I didn't have any of it to be honest. I just bought myself But that's all you need So I wanted to talk about the prep process tan shaving. I think I've done that I wanted to talk about the last week with a little bit of carb depletion. I'm not going to go into You know specific numbers. I think everybody's body is different So that would would not be the right thing to do um Yep, Monday to Thursday a bit higher water tan Wednesday Friday Carb up Okay, yep on Saturday. I think I've covered everything on Saturday. Basically my nutrition was Two carb meals in the morning. I woke up at eight. I had one At 10 I had my second meal and that was it. I had minimal amounts of water throughout that so that was just adding you know adding more carbohydrates minimal fats minimal proteins and minimal water just to try and fill out my muscles a little bit more Um without you know spilling over but I honestly at that point I did not have anything to worry about as far as spilling over because my best look Was probably as they always say on the sunday or the monday after you know having eaten a few things My vascularity had come out but my midsection was just as tight So those are some factors, you know things that you you learn with your coach. My coach was there backstage steve Thank you. Thank you so much. I gave him a hug I gave him this can't I gave this guy a hug bro after the thing. I was like bro. I have to give you a hug This journey has been amazing. Thank you so much for your help. I'd finished my third, you know, my third category Um, it was all over at that point. I was like, oh my god. Thank you, bro. So once again steve Thank you so much. We're going to continue working together and I look forward to it and um within The sorry between prejudging of finals. I did eat something else. I wanted some salt some sodium um, I wanted some some quick acting carbs And some some slow acting carbs and the way that I did that is I ate some dry oats with some honey and some brown sugar with some banana And on the salt side of things as well as a little bit of protein. I had half a fillet of salmon With extra salt that I put on there earlier and I brought it in a little plastic container and ate it I sat there on the step with my with my fork, you know in my bodybuilding shit eating my salmon A couple people looked to me weird, but I'm like bro, we're at a bodybuilding show. Nothing literally nothing could be weird right now You know what I mean? This is basically the the epitome of weirdness For the general public and not for me. Anyway, I had a fantastic day And that was my friends my update on the 2020 NZ IFBB South Island Championships Lucky number seven And um, yeah, your boy Jacob was pretty proud pretty proud to get the day done pretty uh Oh Jesus I will say I was pretty um, what is the word? Relieved definitely relieved to get the day done My anxiety levels were up here at the start They slowly but surely tapered off throughout the day and by the end of it. I was completely comfortable Now talking about the future. I do want to do another show. In fact, I'm still dieting for another show It's in five more weeks. I will give you more information on that in the next video But I'm hoping that my anxiety levels at that show You know will not start from such a high level. I feel like I'm going to start here this time They may spike slightly but I feel like Overall, I'm going to be more prepared for this next show and and and and lucky I am because this next show Is the one that I'm actually taking seriously You know, I've said multiple times this first show was just for fun and it was fun We had whole we had a whole heap of fun whole heap of fun But this next show I'm taking seriously and this next show pro card as a natural but I'm gonna get into that so if you've been here this whole entire video I want to say thanks so much if you like bodybuilding stick around it's not going anywhere I love bodybuilding now I'm competing as well again five years on from my last show so it's all good I hope you all have a fantastic weekend this video has been going for about 23 minutes and I want to say thank you peace out my friends have a great day