 what is going on without further ado I'm just gonna crack into this today's video is titled four weeks out and the four reasons why I can't compete now I know some of my viewers have been following along you may be competing yourself you may have thought about competing and you're looking to me for inspiration well before I do tell you guys any of these reasons I want to say one thing this whole bodybuilding thing whether it's you know the training aspects whether it's the dieting aspect and whether you take it to the absolute extreme and actually jump on a bodybuilding stage all of this shit has to be for you you need to be doing it for yourself you need to be you know you need to have that fire deep inside burning so that you can punish yourself when no one else is watching you know that's the key and at the moment guys if I was to compete in four weeks time it would be completely and utterly for you guys it would not be for me not only that but I think the person who I feel like I'm letting down the most by making this video is my my mate Dylan down in Adelaide I know you'll be watching this man this guy this guy it's gonna be his first time on stage he's come in absolutely shredded he's stuck to the diet 110% from the start it's his first time he wants to absolutely fucking kill it and he's going to my first time you know I was a rookie I thought I was in good shape but I found out very very quickly what kind of shape you really really needed to get in to jump up on that stage and do well and to get yourself in that kind of condition as week after week after week of hardcore fucking dieting and once you think you're lean you've still got 5% body fat to lose and at the moment guys this brings me into my first point I'm not gonna be ready okay first and foremost I am not going to be ready in four weeks there is absolutely no way I'm looking at guys like Dylan I'm looking at other competitors I'm thinking you know what I'm thinking right now I'm not thinking oh shit he's gonna beat me I'm just thinking well done you know kudos to you you fucking done it you've knuckled down I can't do that I can't do it and especially not in four weeks if I am going to suck myself down being a natural in the next four weeks for this show I'm gonna look like a fucking stick not only that but these four weeks are just gonna be absolutely horrible they're gonna be terrible but I've done it to myself because I haven't got in shape in time and that's what you need to do that would have to be the major reason why I'm not competing in four weeks I just can't get ready secondly some of you guys may know if you follow my journey for a while I own two properties I've got a car that I'm paying off I've got credit cards to pay off etc etc etc I'm not gonna go into it but basically guys look I live in Alice Springs it's a remote area we don't have a local show here if we did I may have done it for the last three years but we don't so what that means is that every time we travel out of Alice Springs it's gonna cost at least 300 each way wherever you want to go any major city plus accommodation plus food entry fees I've got tanning fees all up it's probably at least gonna cost me about 1500 dollars for this you know four or five day trip like you guys know I've just got back from Thailand that was a cost you know I've got rates coming in I've got bills coming in it's not impossible for me to get down there but the fact is is that that credit card that slowly slowly going down is just gonna be thrown right back up and I'm not prepared to do that for a $5 plastic trophy I think that's what it really comes down to unfortunately you know I know that's harsh but you know all of this hard work for a $5 plastic trophy that doesn't even have your name on it man I don't know and 30 look don't let me deprice you guys too much right now we're gonna talk about the third reason and that is the IMBA now I thought I honestly thought the IMBA was a fantastic organization and I still do but looking through the rules online now let me get my computer here I'm gonna read you guys this straight from the horse's mouth now some of you guys may have come to my channel because you've seen my gyno video I have struggled with gynecomastia since puberty it hasn't gone away it's not gonna go away the leaner I get the more pronounced it gets especially underneath those lights with with the tan if you're doing an ab shot or something like that you can literally see a circle of tissue around your nipple and it shows up so badly and I just want to read you this extract from the rulebook from the IMBA website now you listen to this and tell me what you do okay so signs of drug use a competitor who displays any sign of using drugs ie bitch tits and they've literally written bitch tits all right a competitor who displays any sign of using drugs ie bitch tits is encouraged not to compete until they have rectified the problem this is regardless of their drug-free status the credibility of the naturals and the competitor themselves is undermined when the audience see what they believe is the result of drug use on stage in a natural contest and I can completely understand I saw a guy out there you know with pronounced gyno with a with an impressive physique what are you gonna think anyways the judges will be notified to treat any sign of drug use as a substantial fault and mark the competitor down so guys without getting into it without giving my opinion on the matter that is the third reason why I'm not competing and number four guys number four is is it's inside me all right it's nothing physical it's nothing you know monetary it's nothing it's it's what's inside me and right now guys I'm gonna I'm gonna give you guys a bit of a history lesson all right first cut down in January of 2014 from 102 kilo down to about 90 and I thought sweet I'm in great shape that was about April of 2014 so we're talking over two years ago right from there I bulked up to about 98 came back down to about 90 I've bulked up to 96 down to 90 up to 98 again at Christmas time down to 90 and honestly for the last six months I've been umming and houring about competing my weight has stayed between 89 and 92 kilos for the last six months I haven't made any strength gains my body the way I see it my body has a sticking point it's got a plateau and that is at around about 90 kilograms my body just does not want to go under 90 kilograms it's gonna take it's gonna take weeks and weeks of hardcore dieting like I said just to get me under that point and then to go on from there you know 88 kilo 87 to get to like 85 which has always been my stage weight that I thought I'd be really impressively lean at you know I can get myself to 88 kilo and I'm struggling man like you've seen in this prep you know I got I got myself to 88 kilo and I was feeling lean I was feeling fucking good and I was faced with another you know six to eight weeks of dieting on less than 200 carbs a day you know less than 60 fat a day to get myself into shape and mentally mentally man after the last two years of just struggling and struggling and struggling and killing myself inside telling myself I needed to get leaner and then you know going on these bulks and just doing it way way too fast putting on the fat you know eight kilos in eight weeks is what I've done a couple of times natural we're talking about that's not muscle gain guys that's mostly fat gain and if I could have only put on two kilos in those eight weeks I'd be in such a better position to continue bulking like I know I should after my come after my first competition last year we're talking October 2015 it's nearly a year ago now I said to myself I said to social media I told all you guys I've got to go on a year bulk I've got to do it a year a whole year I'm gonna stick to I'm gonna stick to it I'm gonna bolt for a year and then I may have built some muscle probably up to about a hundred kgs again and I'll be in a fantastic position to cut back down and do another show well guess what guys I jumped on stage at 87 kilo last year by Christmas time this is 10 weeks later I was at 98 kilograms once again I'd smash the food I said fuck it I was eating shit food every single night I was dirty bulking to the absolute max and that's what happens guys that's what happens I thought I was I thought I was immune once again to fat gain well each and every time I've found out very rudely that I'm not and and with that being said guys with that being said this time because I am transitioning back into a bulk this last week since the last video that I made five weeks out I've basically been you know slowly increasing my calories not going stupid and you know filling my body out again with carbohydrates filling my glycogen stores up and honestly guys last night I went and trained some arms and I had literally forgotten what a pump felt like it was amazing it was fucking amazing finally I'm training in the gym with the nutrients I need and with the nutrients my body needs and you know being natural to have a really amazing pump and to have a have a great workout an amazing workout where you feel like you're getting a few extra reps and you know you're feeling stronger and stuff that's an amazing feeling because while you're cutting man you don't feel that you just do not feel that that's a feeling you forget you literally do like I felt like it was normal not getting much of a pump and and that's that's fucking dangerous man that's that shit and that feeling guys of the pump is addictive as fuck just like Arnold said the pump is almost as good as coming I'm not gonna go there but you know it is pretty fucking addictive and I tell you what the feeling I got last night that just can because like obviously this week before I made this video I still wasn't completely sure what I was gonna do but it's come to the point where it's four weeks out and there's just no way I can do it because of those other reasons too but fuck man I had a good day of carbohydrates all throughout the day I was all full up the glycogen stores were full I went to the gym I smashed some arms biceps and tris that pump was amazing I thought how the fuck could I have pumps like this in the gym and then go back to a low carb hydrate diet and and start dieting again I just can't I'm on the gain train now well and truly for you guys who are on the gain train too fucking welcome me in because I'm coming back I'm going to get back to what I do best which is eat train hard and build some fucking muscle because it's been way too long so with that being said guys that was my video four weeks out and the four reasons why I can't compete I hope you got something out of it I was really surprised with the inba with that rule that they put there that that that was the first thing I read that sort of put down to my mind from there I've realized I can't afford it I'm not going to be ready in time but I'm throwing my hundred and fifty percent support behind Dylan Thorpe down in Adelaide I believe he's gonna fucking kill it he's looking shredded I'm just really sorry mate that I can't get down there fundamentally mate finances is the ruler of all isn't it I mean when you go on holidays when you've got houses to pay credit cards to pay a car to pay off it's it's just not fathomable if they had a local show I'd be inviting people to Alice Springs to compete with me but anyways guys with all that being said I hope you've enjoyed the content lately more content to come I will be starting a new series I want it to you know force me to stick to a surplus for a year and with that being said I do believe that the new title of the series is going to be 365 days of games day one day five day 14 you know etc etc just like Big Rich Piana did but it's going to be a natural version and it's going to be me your mate from Alice Springs Jacob McDonald I'm going to be bringing you along on my journey from around about 89 to 90 kilograms which is where I am right now well over a hundred I'm thinking about 105 kilo in a year's time and we'll see we're out there I'm going to be a lot bigger I'm going to be filled out I'm not going to look skinny anymore I'm not going to feel fucking stringy in the gym the pumps are going to be amazing hopefully my strength is going to go up that's one thing that hasn't gone up fuck all in the last two years which I'm really pissed about but you know if I if I I mean in the last video five weeks out I said I want to be a professional natural bodybuilder to compete in this state show down in South Australia regardless of any of the other reasons would not be would not be putting me in a position to become that as soon as possible I need to build my physique I need to get bigger I need to get denser I need my muscles to mature I just need to make some gains man so come along with me the first episode of 365 days of gains will be out shortly I'm not sure when it will be out but I'm going to start the filming today so until next time guys train hard have a great day and I'll see you guys in the next one