 alright guys what is going on welcome to another episode of making gains and I'd like to welcome you to the question and answer video the 5,000 subscriber question and answer video now I would be lying look guys I'd be lying if I said I wasn't slightly disappointed in the amount of views and comments that I got but you know what I will say is that the ones that I did get I really appreciate you know I guess 5,000 subscribers seems like a lot but when you're still struggling to get you know 150 200 views per video you know what can you expect I did get some good questions last night before making this video hang on we're gonna focus this up again focus on me guys last night before making this video I thought you know what fuck it I'm gonna put my dignity on the line I'm gonna put my neck on the line and make a post on Instagram asking for some questions now that's something that terrifies me to do for the simple fact that I'm scared I'm not gonna get anyone asking me any questions now luckily I got three additional questions so we've got probably about eight or nine from my YouTube video I've also got these three from the Instagram post so with that being said I'm going to head outside and find a little place to sit the camera down sit outside in the crystal clear blue sky as you guys know it's a stunner of a day and we're gonna get into this so you know I've been putting it off because I didn't have enough questions so I don't know how long the video is gonna be it's probably well it's about two minutes long already so there you go I'm gonna get a coffee I'll see you guys outside in a minute and crack into this piece the fuck have I done here oh well that'll do we're gonna sit guys that's the next question that looks like that looks pretty comfy dinner yeah we'll sit on that site behind the scenes guys we're gonna stick the camera on top of that it's a more height here you know can't have it too low can we this whole time I've lived here I thought this was a fucking muffler from a car but it seems as if it's a some sort of medicine ball bag all right coffee I'll be back next minute all right guys now before I start this I want to say that it is completely off the cuff I haven't I honestly haven't looked at the questions for ages since I've posted that video probably a couple of weeks ago subscribers right now this current time I think it's about 5,080 so we're still climbing you know it's it's certainly not as fast as what it has been in the past but you know I realized that I'd be getting sick of this series if I was you guys to I mean it's been 300 fucking 65 days of you know the same sort of stuff I'm looking forward to branching out into different topics once I've closed the book on this series but you know like like they say one book closes another opens and I'm sure I'll be on to something you know even better after this so with that said we're gonna we're gonna have a look at the YouTube comments let's do this I just checked my 5,000 subscriber Q&A video someone's giving me a dislike what the fuck man who would dislike it shit there's only a hundred and six views anyway so anyway alright so how many comments we got we got nine comments all right well we'll go from the bottom stranger what's up stranger question number one why don't you get I could do a joking answer I could I could answer this seriously seriously because I'm shit scared man I'm shit scared of looking different fucking I guess I scared myself by getting that you know extremely dark tan with my comp that was the first spray tan I'd ever got it was a fucking competition tan so I think I scared the shit out of myself but you know if you're ripped if you defined you know having a tan is good if you're not I'm not that fucking you know ripped right now so it's not an issue for me but obviously being here in such a sunny place you know you'd think I would get a tan from the Sun but I don't because it gets so hot throughout the summer here that everyone is inside everything you know every single workplace is air conditioned fucking you just run from your car inside it's so hot outside but you know I got a feel for the guys who work construction and shit I couldn't do that here man but anyway answer your question God I read that's the first question a fucking ram question number one why don't you get a tan I'm scared man it'll happen question number two how's it going with the girls well well though this guy stranger comment me your real name bruh I've seen you I've seen you around the channel a bit so question number two from the same guy how's it going with the girls well I'm single let's put it that way the girl that you've heard me talk about in the past she's not in my life right now and I'm better off for it like I like I kept saying in the previous videos you know if you start putting all of your effort into one person you start forgetting about yourself from what you know what goals and dreams you are going to achieve yourself and you know yeah I'm feeling I'm feeling a lot more positive now girls but I have some girls over here and there but uh you know it's nothing serious right now so we'll leave it at that holy shit he's got five questions okay number three what's your plan about gyno will you ever do surgery or did you get over it you never talk or complain about it well quite honestly guys I'm over it man how fucking am you know maybe I had to you know wear certain tops certain cuts to sort of hide it a little bit I am conscious of it I'm not gonna lie like you know every morning I wake up and I look at it there's no doubt that's it's been something that I've done and looked at for fucking years and that's not gonna change with that being said you know I would like the surgery it's it's a big cost it's like six grand you know seven grand if you want to go to a reputable our surgeon around here so and plus it's the travel to get it done it's gonna put me out of the gym for you know three or four weeks it's like is it really worth it I think if I was gonna you know try and jump on stage again it would be worth it I'm not prepared to get on stage again with gyno showing it's it's you know it didn't show as bad as probably what it could because I didn't get as lean as what I could have for my shows but if I did get to a true 5% body fat fucking hell it'd be really obvious and I'm especially under those lights and stuff so if I was gonna compete I'll probably get it done once again it's a huge cost but you know it's it's it's not bothering me man it's really not and in the future I will be making another gynecomastia video you know just moral support for you guys out there because the other one that I did make did go really well so I was really happy with the amount of comments and support I got through that so I will be you know in turn giving the support back and making another video so look out for that one number four is your future in bodybuilding contests or crossfit well like I said before I would like to compete again but you know I'm not big man I'm not fucking big I don't have the genetics to hold a lot of muscle at a lean body fat percentage so I would like to compete as a natural a lifetime natural once more before you know stepping over that dark side but with that said you know for me to do that I'd have to get my gyno sorted so I'll let you guys know whether it's gonna be crossfit or bodybuilding I haven't had the I haven't gone down to crossfit for four weeks I've actually put it on hold just because of the fact that I've wanted to just get back into my gym training you know get back to my bodybuilding stuff start trying to put on some size again that I'd lost but you know I love crossfit I really do but that's the most fun I had so thinking about it now I will be going back to crossfit we're like in here in a body building stage who knows who knows and number five do you waste your time with video games no that's an easy one if I do play video games it's not by myself I enjoy playing against someone and my favorite games are sports games so FIFA NBA rugby you know Madden even golf like honestly I'm sports obsessed and that's the way it goes for when I play video games as well but that's that's the last question from him he says you're the best man hope your channel grows much more people that are real like you deserve much more and I want to say thank you mate thank you very much for that all right second question second person hello Barnett what do you do for a job well I am a disability support worker that's what I started as so what that means is you know you'll have whether it's physical disabilities or intellectual disabilities these people will live in you know a specific house together and we go in as shift workers you know 12-hour shifts so I'll either start 12 at 7 in the morning till 7 at night or 7 at night till 7 in the morning and I'll probably do three four even five shifts a week and what we'll do is we just care for them look after them basically you know our mission statement is to provide these guys who are restricted due to their disabilities with an unrestricted life you know we want them to integrate into the community whereas you know otherwise without us they couldn't do that the guys that I look after are intellectually disabled so they're not physically disabled they can walk around you know they've got fully functioning a fully functioning body it's just up here it's not fully functioning now whether that's due to birth defects whether that's drug induced during their early years or alcohol induced you know we've got a few a fair few different cases and I can't really delve into too much because it's it's it's a government position I work from the Northern Territory government there's plenty of NGOs out there which is non-government organizations which you know have have houses throughout Alice Springs I work for the government agency doing the same sort of thing so yeah I started as a disability support worker at the bottom then you've got a supervisor as well and then on top of that we've got the management team so so first of all I worked for it about a year and a half as a support worker trying my best you know improve my my skills and impress the place and then after a year and a half I got a promotion to a supervisor and that is where I'm where I'm at right now so I've been there for over four years now so I've been in the current role as a supervisor for over two and a half years I've learned a hell of a lot it's prepared it's you know it's grown me up I started in this job and I was 22 I was a kid now I'm nearly 27 and I feel like I've matured a lot I've learned a lot I've come into my own a little bit and when I do decide to move on I think I've got a really good skill set there as far as you know patience empathy you know communication is key I'm working with guys who can't communicate properly you know how are you gonna communicate with someone who can't communicate properly you've got to think of different ways you've got to you know learn their vocabulary it's cool it's a really cool job you know we have fun take them out on it excursions we take them out to the movies to you know to see family things like that it's cool it's a cool job I'd have to recommend it but yeah disability support that's where I work next question Daniel Hayward will you ever do a full cut again by full cut I assume you mean cut to the stage or cut to you know 5% body fat which I've never been to before will I ever do that well like I said in the previous question I want to with when they'll be or you know what federation that will be in I couldn't tell you man I want to I want to get really shredded again but it's not gonna happen any time soon okay next question will hang on let me have a drink alright next question will there ever be another rugby video now that you're a big fucker well thanks for that mate I wouldn't call myself that big but will there ever be another rugby video well I'm glad you asked because I get asked that on a daily basis I really do you know mine if you look at my most popular videos they're all rugby videos so I'd be stupid to say no wouldn't I I want to keep growing my channel you know I think that is my niche is rugby and so with that being said once I close the book on this series making games I will be making some more rugby videos so that's gonna be fun I'll fucking love rugby you guys know that I could talk all day about rugby so if you want that that's what I'll do anyways next question Sam Schofield Flynn when did you start lifting and what motivated you to start this is interesting isn't it I'm finally getting asked these bloody questions that I see all of my other fitness youtubers get asked well it all comes back when I was five years old and I picked up my first body building magazine I saw he man in the stores no no no that's that's not not at all I think that you know as a teenager I always played rugby as a teenager I started you know looking around and seeing muscular guys and thinking shit you know my friend I've got you know quite wide shoulders and stuff I wonder if I could ever look like that and so at age 14 I got my first gym membership I made my dad take me to the gym it was a gym that allowed young people to come in it was actually a boxing gym in Christchurch called Kraton Cobbers and I went there at age 14 me and a friend from school we used to scooter there at age 15 and then I stopped but you know back then it wasn't a passion I didn't know about what I didn't know about bodybuilding I actually had I had no idea I'd never seen a bodybuilding show I'd never seen someone on stage so at that point it was just because I played sport I remember actually enjoying the pump oh I think all we did is train arms anyway so that was 14 and 15 from there I sort of let it go till I was about 18 so throughout school I was still playing sport rugby soccer basketball touch those are probably my main force at about the age of 18 I went out into the workforce and you know I never had the thing about me is that none of my mates ever wanted to go to the gym I remember age 18 you know on a Saturday a Saturday afternoon we're all getting ready to go out drinking because that's what we did every weekend but I was I was at the gym and I had to get my session in before I went out drinking because you know that's what I wanted to do I was I was getting passionate about it I was starting my that fire was starting inside so that was age 18 age 19 I let it go you know at this point I had not watched any YouTube videos I'd just started taking progress pictures so you know I knew that I knew that I could change my body I just didn't know how so I was just I was going here in there you know I wasn't I wasn't committed I didn't really know what I was doing and then halfway through age 19 I moved to Australia so about the first three months I didn't train when I came to Australia so I'd lost everything so you know age 19 at age 19 it came to Australia I'd lost all my games you know I was pretty pretty skinny probably about 84 85 kg skinny fat at six foot tall and then so I started working at the gym I'd still had that passion I knew I wanted to go to the gym and I started working at the gym behind the desk you know being surrounded by guys I'd look at guys come in the door and think fuck he looks good how did you do that and you know it was being surrounded by that environment that really got my passion going and so that was at age 19 and three quarters and so following that you know for about six months I worked there and you know every single night after I closed the door at nine o'clock I'd go go into the weight room by myself I'd lock the door I'd I'd steal a protein shake from the fucking fridge that we sold I'd go into the gym and train the house down for an hour by myself in this gym and I thought holy shit man that is so cool so you know I was passionate back now I trained hard you know I wanted to make games I was really I was really into it and then I met a girl I met my the only girlfriend the only serious girlfriend I've had her in Alice Springs so well in Australia and so at age of 20 we moved down to Adelaide and I stopped training I lost everything so at the age of 21 I moved from Adelaide back to Alice Springs I'm 26 now and I'm gonna show you guys pictures of when I was 21 I moved back to Alice Springs and this is when I first went back into the gym I took these progress pictures and I'm so happy I did because you know now I've got something to look back on so I'm gonna show you guys three pictures one from the front the back and the side this is at age 21 from there that's when my passion really ignited again and I started going every single day and that's what I've done since then so it's been five five and a half years of consistent training watching YouTube learning as much as I can even the first two years of those six years was still shit but honestly in the last three or four it's been really consistent my nutrition's been on point I've known what I'm doing and that's been through YouTube and through educating myself like you guys are so that's that God I talk a lot I really probably shouldn't be drinking this on at the same time but anyway I hope you guys are enjoying what mode let me get back to the fucking question when did I start lifting well 14 for a year then I dropped it went back at 18 for a year dropped it went back at 21 for five years and here we are what motivated what motivated me to start well you know definitely working in that gym and seeing the physique sport past me motivated me to start educating myself and that's where it all fucking started so carry on let's go alright next question this isn't a question I just wanted to say how much I loved your videos thank you mate that that makes me feel really happy thank you next question rider sharp shooter what was your best rugby try jeez what a question what a question I really like that question thanks for asking so it's gonna have it's gonna you know force me to wrap my brain but have I ever got the winning try okay no no it's not my best right I don't know there's been plenty of tries you know I'm on the wing or at full back predominantly so you know most of my tries are sort of just you know coming around the outside and finishing off a move or I might get the ball and do it you know one foot step inside the last fender and score which is always a nice feeling if you score without being touched it's it's a nice feeling but what I will say is that when I came to Australia I started playing rugby league and I played for a team called the Vikings and we won it in 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 and we lost it last year so in 2014 which was my final year of playing I haven't played for the last two years in the final 40 all and the siren had gone okay so it's 40 all grand final we're going for the fifth in a row I believe and the other team got a penalty kick so they got a penalty to about 40 meters they got a fucking gun kicker the whistles blown we'll we're all like fuck you know he's gonna kick this we're gonna lose 42 to 40 anyways the game was on fucking on video as well so we all got to see this at the end but this was fucking epic so he took the kick it missed to the side of the post it didn't go dead we grabbed it okay when this week yeah the team's full of fucking superstar runners so we went this side of the field it's it was like rugby sevens past about this side of the field just looking for a gap we passed at this side of the field and honestly this this you know tackle this one tackle because obviously once we get tackled it's all over this tackle lasted about a minute a minute and 30 seconds so we went this side this side this side this side and look I don't know how the hell it happened but we went the length of the field after full time and scored okay and the whole team touched the ball I'm not even joking we've got 13 players on the field this is the best team try you will ever see in your life and it happened after the final whistle so if that's not epic I don't know what fuck is so that would have to be my favorite try of all time man to win the grand final after the final whistle thinking you're gonna lose it and then on the last tackle just making it all out the field everyone touched the ball it was like every single pass that was given off it's like don't drop it don't drop it and then we scored and it was just amazing so anyways that would have to be my favorite try and I I didn't even score okay and the last question from YouTube Baron out or I Baron I when do you plan on competing again anything you're gonna change going into it well when do I plan on competing I've answered that in the future sometime I couldn't say when I do want to do it but you know we're gonna have to get that surgery done so anything you to change going into it well for one the gyno surgery I assume unless I just really don't give a fuck and I just get out there anyway the only reason I wouldn't is for people to think I'm taking steroids so I don't care about that then I don't give a shit I might get up there but anything you're gonna change going into it well oh my diet you know the ability to refrain from cheating I achieved a lot on my last diet I'm not gonna lie so anything I'm gonna change probably the length of time you know I probably want at least 16 weeks and whether I do it naturally or not I'm not sure I couldn't say so read between the lines there guys I don't know anyway that was that was all the questions on that particular video and now I'm gonna go to my Instagram post look at that first question Harry Jackal when did you start lifting well I've answered that one haven't I sorry Rock and Fests 313 what did you decide about going back to school now I assume this guy's talking about personal training stuff it's something I think about every day still I still want to do it you know I I want to do it but I know that I don't want to do it the traditional way I don't want to work at a gym you know waking up at 4 in the morning getting home at fucking 9 at night you know I don't want to do that I'd rather stay in my job and do personal training on the side with that being said I'd love to be an online trainer man I'd love to be you know work for myself take my laptop with me and be able to work anywhere that is a dream that's a real goal and I'm gonna do whatever I can to make it happen with that being said the first thing I need to do is get qualified so I do want to go back to school when that's gonna be all right so last question keep it up mate you'll make it this question from Johnny Russell can you explain your method of training it's not the typical regimen from what I've seen cheers well no it's not it's really not a typical regimen in fact you know the one thing I do say to people when they ask me about my training style and things is I go by feel and it's what I've always done I don't know it's it's as far as it is for something like a bench press if you really wanting to try and increase strength and progress at the best rate possible I think going by feel is not what you want to do I think you really do want a program a specific program for reps and sets to follow I have never done that it's something I know I probably should do but like I said man I go by feel it's just my personality it's just the way it is I'll roll up to the gym not knowing what muscle group I'm going to train you know and I have to think about it and I'll have to think well what what haven't I trained for the last four days and that's pretty much what determines what I'm going to train so that's as far as picking the muscle whether I'm doing a five-day split a four-day split a three-day split it's you know I I vary a three-day split would be a push pull legs or day split for example might be you know chest and triceps back and biceps legs shoulders and traps a five-day split would be biceps triceps legs chest and back and then I throw shoulders in there somewhere it might even be a six day split so you know depending on that it's going to determine how many reps and sets I'm going to do for each muscle group with that being said my most common training split would have to be a five-day split and that's going to be biceps and triceps on one day it's going to be chest on one day it's going to be back on one day it's legs on one day it's going to be shoulders on one day so all of those muscle groups I want to hit with the most intensity after a big back session I'm not going to want to go and do biceps I'm too fatigued I don't want to do that I've been in the gym for at least an hour and you know I'm going to leave so as far as the exercises I do I don't know I'm going to go for at least one if not two compound exercises following that I'm going to go for at least one if not two isolation type exercises and that's how I do it each exercise I'm going to want anywhere from two three four even five hard balls to the wall working sets so let's say we start off with a bento of a row I might do a set of 20 to warm up I might do another set of 15 to warm up and then we'll start adding the weight and then you know I'll go down to three working sets of 10 to 12 at the end I'll do a drop set that'll be the first exercise done and I'll move on to the next following that I might go to a seated cable row I'll do once again two warm-up sets 20 reps 15 reps in the weight starts adding up and I'll go from three good hard-working sets at 10 to 12 reps with a drop set to finish following that we'll move on to the next exercise which is going to be an isolation movement possibly a pull-down it could be you know a it could be a really wide row it could be God it could be a well if you call it a bento of a barbell a bento of a dumbbell row and isolation exercise anything unilateral is pretty pretty much sort of an isolation exercise as far as I'm concerned you're trying to isolate that one part of the back it's not like a big compound fitness exercise but anyways most probably I'd go for a bento of a row with a barbell I'd go for a seated cable row and then I'd go for some sort of lap pull down so once again lap pull down last exercise isolation we're gonna go 20 20 reps 15 reps and then three even four working sets balls to the wall by this point I'm fucking fatigued as you can imagine you know even bento of a rose hard sets of bento of a rose they're very fatigued especially on the lower back and you know whether I whether I do deadlifts or bento of a rose that's up to me but following that you know that's how I'd structure it so three exercises you know 12 15 working sets that's hard bucket balls to the world working set and as well as the you know six warm-up sets and as well as the three drop sets so yeah you can see you know the volume there is a lot of volume and that's why I'd like to step to one muscle group on that particular day if I do it in the morning I can come home I can feel feel recovered eat and then go back to the gym in the afternoon that happens quite often if I've got a day off but usually I'll go to work I'll come home 7 30 I'll be at the gym I'll train till 8 45 and then I'll come home and have a meal post-workout meal at 9 o'clock and fucking before I know it's 12 o'clock and I've got to go to bed so I got to get up for work the next day so that is a question-and-answer video wow I hope you've learned something guys I really do I've enjoyed it we're looking forward to it 10,000 subs I have to say we're probably the next opportunity to do a question and answer video and I'm hoping by then I have some some more questions you know I could have made up some questions for this personal ones that you guys would probably find interesting I might be able to click-bait the title but really you know I'm not about that I'm about being as transparent as possible being real with you guys as you guys know I think that's what you appreciate and it's what we're gonna do continuing on from here so with that being said I'm gonna call it a day say peace to you guys and continue on with what I'm gonna do which I have no idea what I'm gonna do I've got a day off which is always a great feeling I probably be safe to say I'm gonna go to the gym hope you guys have a fantastic day train hard eat well all that good stuff and I will see you guys in the next one