 Today is the day that we leave to Ohio. You excited? Um, you know, I've been saying this for the last two days. I'm excited to get it over with. It's just like, you know, the build up, but everything is so, it's also high stress. Where did you get first place? No, I'm not gonna, there's no way. It's just, this is my first article, so I'm not too stressed about it. But there's so many people who are competing in it, who've been doing this for a long time. Now like they've been pros for a minute, they like have gone to all these big meets for years now and I just, I'm, I'm glad that I'll be able to even like be there with them and compete on the same stage, same platform, same like me, so that's cool already, but to take first is like, let's be a realist. My expectations, hey, yeah, yeah. I know five, I'm five minutes late and Abbie bit my head off. Um, no, no, no, 20 minutes, 20 minutes late. We said leave, nine, 45. Alright, alright, now since we're doing camera confessions, how many times have I been late ever? I will say it's not your fault. Okay, thank you. I just get stressed. I get stressed in these situations. And then that's why I'm here. Home, cool and collected, baby. I get flight anxiety. You? I don't. But like, like to be on time type of stuff, it's not a, yeah, you're gonna die. I get that from sports. I just, I just, we're flowing now. I'm a different guy. I'm a different guy, you know, like water, you know, like water, like water, no, I'm not rapping. That's called Bruce Lee. Be like water. Just flow around. I'm a brick bro. You are. Yeah, yes, yes. Every sense of the word. I'm a brick. I know this. I know this. I don't like it. It's not fun. But that's just you. And then I'm gonna break into water. Who knows? Good luck. What? What? What? Surprisingly full. Just ate a bunch of shit. I don't know. You ate shit? You ate shit? Yeah, I saw my rice. It was brown. I put chocolate in my rice. You should be eating that. I put, I had chocolate because I can eat chocolate. And it's like low sodium low fiber right now. It's a very limited to foods that can eat. But I got white rice. And then I had chocolate flour. And I was like, this white rice is pretty blank. So I took the chocolate inside the rice. And then I got nasty after a while. And then just a bunch of liquids. That kid that takes that drink from each drink. It's good. I swear it's good. Dry it. I just, there's some about a hotel that I love. And there's some about an Airbnb I don't love. Yeah. Creep on you, bro. Creep on you. Yeah. I just felt crept on. Even though this one's fairly nice. And basically because we got the crew. It is cool to like travel as like a family. I do enjoy that aspect of it. Because it's a little different in a hotel. True. So like to travel as the family feels good. We got Abby's coach coming into March. Like who's gonna join the family. I've never met him but Abby knows him. We're in Columbus, Ohio by the way. I don't even know what time it is. 11. 36. Don't look at that logo. You guys didn't see that. And I'm almost a little crash. So I'm gonna turn on this little Netflix up here. My little eye mask on. A lot of little things. But we made it. I haven't been to this thing since 2018. So five years. And Jim's probably the same. And the kids are never been here. So I'm gonna venture around a good amount. I don't know what's wrong with my backpack is stuck. But yeah, that's it. So get some sleep in. All we really got is to help Abby check in tomorrow. So probably vlog that. I know Jim wants to explore the expo. I don't know if I'm gonna explore the expo tomorrow or wait till Sunday. But we'll kind of see where the wind takes us a little bit. A little bit up in there. Hopefully you guys show you what the Arnold's like. A lot of y'all may be new to the channel. You might be new to fitness space. And the Arnold is the biggest fitness expo on the planet. This one in particular. They travel now. They have the Arnold Australia, the Arnold Europe. But this is the original OG big dog. So I heard it was a little slower than it used to be. It used to be crazy. But we're gonna catch up and see what it's like. I'll catch you all in the morning, man. Day two technically Arnold. Day one of us. We got Abby kitted up with the grocery store. What'd you get? Rice Krispie treats? Yeah, some stuff for tomorrow. I still have like a gallon. One point six gallons today. And then some chips, snacks, whatever. Carby stuff for post-way ins. And a red bull. Yeah, red bull. You got a little water cut and a gut cut. So like molecular weight of food within like two or three days matters much more than the caloric. Yes, to lose body fat and to lose weight, calories matter. But if you can get the same amount of calories with less literal molecular weight, then it's gonna sit less than your gut. So she'll weigh a little bit lighter. And that's all that matters. She needs calories in and to weigh light. So she can be tomorrow at about 11. We're gonna go get her pass and then probably get stopped by 100,000 homies and just say, what's up with the people? We're even the grocery store. Saw Nick from RP. Shout out to Renaissance Periodization. And see what's happening. Probably find Nadine and JP. And we'll see what the day takes us. Outskirts. 2017 was crazy. But inside here we're all with a celebrity named JP. So she gets real crazy. I feel like I'm walking through the Emmys with fucking Michael Jackson. We're heading south. We're heading south. We've got about 10 minutes, about eight bogeys all the way. But we'll get them there. We'll get them there on time. Abby weighed in 122.7. Poor thing was spitting all weekend, but she made it. So she's refueling in the back with Coach Mike. Coach Joe. I'm out here being a coach. So I'm a Mike and I'm really holding down the fort. Our job is important. Yes, we matter. I'm getting caffeinated to try to get hype. We've got a lot of homies lifting this one. Solana, Danny Mello, Avi. Bunch of cool lifters. It's the pro day of the pro-am. So literally all these lifters are pro. And this is kind of the first two years that there's such thing as pro-powerlifting. And basically you have to earn that by winning certain events. I suppose it looks like it's moving, actually. Sundays typically are really slow, but it looks like we're live out here. Not the same as yesterday, right? Probably for now. Yeah, we haven't been in that expo, but we'll see. So we're going to cheer on Abby, get some food, see what the day brings. We've got a bunch of homies that are going to come kick it and cheer on Abby too, man. A lot of love in our small community. It's just kind of cool to see. I talked about it when we ran the meet, but it is just so true. We try to live what we preach. We don't just want to scream out about good company this, good company that, community this, culture that. But it's growing. You know, JP and the Deemer out here to help support Abby. My boy, a pure bullfits in town. He's going to come support Abby. So everyone's kind of coming together and we're chilling. I'm going to show up some caffeine. Try to get these waters to the team. Enjoy Abby smashing weights. Hit the B roll. All right, what's up, vlog? So I'm helping handle Abby right now. I wanted to tell everybody. So going into deadlifts, she's basically tied with a girl. They had the exact same deadlift opener. It's going to come down to the very last pull. But if Abby pulls this off, she's going to win. So stay tuned. It's going to be sweet. Boy, it's true for one homie, but Abby won, I guess. At least she got first on the pro amp, which is dope. This is her second big meet ever, which is insane. And it looked like she had fun. So she smiled at it. It was good time, man. A little tired, a little emotional. She's like being a coach still. Not her coach. She's like seeing it all because it was a little emotional. Yeah, I'm just stoked she had a good time. So we've got a fat group with us. Hopefully we'll go eat or chill or see the Expo. Give Abby a big old hug. I think she's getting drug tested. But I think she ended up squatting like, 5'60, bench two, hold 4'30. Sorry, not 5'60. 3'60, she absolutely killed it. All of them are P8.5'9. So hopefully she's not too beat up after that cut and everything. So hopefully we'll chat with her. I know we got some footage. Hope you guys enjoyed it. She went down with me, man. It's finally here. It's all over. We're done. I was kind of waiting for this moment for a while now. Let's see. The week itself, weekend itself was really, I think pretty chaotic and I'll move kind of fast. Like a lot of it was a blur, especially because like on Saturday, Friday, like I couldn't relax, couldn't really do much. And then it was mostly to prepare for Sunday. And then after Sunday, everything was just like, I was tired and I still am pretty tired. I woke up this morning. I sat up and like, holy shit. I feel like I got fucking like, I was telling Mike. I feel like I fell down the flight of stairs. So yeah, at this moment, I think I still, maybe when I get back home, and I'm feel grounded and I'm like in my room and it's quiet and I have nothing to do and nothing to think about, I will finally maybe recap everything in my brain. But as of now, I feel like, you know, you can't relax fully yet because we still need to pack and get out of here and with a fly back, go another layover. It's a long flight day, packing and all that stuff. So it's not done done yet until you get home and sleep in your own bed type of thing. And then the whole next day, I think it'll just be a recovery day for the entire team. Like, yeah, I need a minute. After these big meets, like I never really know how to feel. A lot of times it's confusing. And it's like, I feel like I should be feeling these things. Everyone's asking me how do I feel. It feels weird to be like, oh, yeah, it's cool. But also it's like, I think I need a second still. And then, because JP was so excited yesterday asking me and I'm like, it's like, how do you feel? I'm like, I feel about what? He's like, what do you mean? And I'm like, oh, yeah, it's cool. And then today he's probably like, did it hit you yet? I'm like, I don't know. I don't think so. There's a lot to process. Just not only the performance itself and the placing and everything, but I think the most that I've felt about this emotionally was just how supportive I am. The support and love from everyone back home is so cool. Just the love and support right now is what I'm mostly feeling and absorbing as for my performance itself and how I feel about all of that and the meet and the pro series. We kind of talked about it on the podcast we did this morning, Feed the Percent Facts. So yeah, plug. If you want to hear more about what we said about the federation or just how this pro meet was ran, listen to that when it comes out next week or something. So we talked about that and it gets me thinking what makes this pro meet, what makes it different from a local meet? What do they do for me as this pro who won this pro series, not this pro series, they didn't win the pro series, but who won first place at that meet? What does that mean and how did they make me feel as a pro? What does being a pro feel like? And I think it's maybe interesting to hear my insight on that because there's only so many people in the pro who is a proud and pro and a lot of people don't know about it. I barely know anything about it so if you can hear my biased opinion I could shed some light on it that got me thinking about some stuff. But anyways, I feel like I'm rambling. 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