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i've been doing it 12 years
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hi guys ryan terry here ifbb pro in the
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men's physique division
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and i'm here to talk to you a little bit
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about the olympia placings and what i've
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so currently i have placed second in the
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or we'll go backwards we'll go sixth
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and second place my last placing was
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as you all know i'm not too pleased
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about but that was down on me
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and that's what i'm gonna talk to you
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about now so the olympia is classed as
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the biggest show in the world
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and that's because it's the best of the
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competed in their regionals their
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countries and they're all
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congregating at the end of the year in
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which what is the biggest show in the
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world and it's basically the test of
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is going to be the best out of the best
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so um it's been going 50 odd years
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you've got the likes of arnold
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has graced that stage and yeah there's
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what what is close to that is he in shot
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make step back so typically when i'm
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prepping for the olympia
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um it's a 16 week prep but four weeks
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before that i will really ramp my
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calories up which i'll try and get to
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four and a half five thousand calories
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so that my body gets used to dieting on
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and when i start to basically drop the
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my body's used to higher calories so i
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have more to play with as i get closer
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so for those who don't know in order to
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compete on the olympia stage you have to
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of qualifications rounds so as an
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amateur you need to win
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a regional show then you'll go to
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nationals which then you'll go to
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and then you'll get your pro card but
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you have to win those shows or overall
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once you've got your pro card you're
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then into the pro circuit which
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is all over the world is pro shows and
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to the olympia you have to win a pro
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on average you've got between 40 and 50
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men's physique competitors in each show
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so the the standard is phenomenal
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it's just getting better and better and
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then the best of the best so you've
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50 to 60 um pro shows around the world
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those top winners will then qualify for
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the olympia and that's how you get to
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it's quite um a grueling task to get
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but once you've for me once you've
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stepped on the limit stage and you wear
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that's enough drive for the next year to
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go and get that jack again i've got
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i've been very fortunate to get six
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olympia jackets and they're all framed
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in my office um and yeah biggest
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you know i nearly said that
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yeah you said you said ambassador
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sorry i've said that way too many times
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so stepping on the mr olympia stage is
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the best feeling in the world and any
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competitor that is the ultimate goal is
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to step on that stage and
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i didn't realize how much i don't know
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how to explain it you just
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feel so honored and like you you walk
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out and there's thousands of people
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the lights are going crazy and you just
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know all your hard work
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has got you to this um and it's your
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i'm naturally a very nervous person um
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even when i work when i compete and the
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moment i step on stage like it's a bit
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of an alter ego comes out and
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my confidence everything i've lacked in
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previous years when i stepped on stage
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that all gets forgotten
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and i'm there to do a job and that's
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what i've always done and
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like i say i've been on the olympic
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so a lot of people have been asking on
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my social media will i be competing at
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what what do i need to change in order
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and for me i feel like i need to find
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for stepping on the olympia stage and
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i've never taken it for granted
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because i still to this day feel very
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honored to have been step stepping on
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for so long i just i don't know i
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probably lost a little bit confidence in
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i got sidetracked with with life
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had my son now and i got married in the
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last couple of years so
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things bodybuilding's took a back seat
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if anybody who competes knows it's a
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very selfish sport and to be
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the best in that sport you have to be
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eat your meals when you do you have to
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sleep 8 to 10 hours a day
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and nothing else comes before that so if
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i'm to be competitive or if i'm to step
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back on the olympic stage i need to find
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that balance of family life
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as well as my bodybuilding life he's got
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he's got right idea taking his trainers
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so i started my working career as a
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and when i was 16 left school got into
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i've trained since i was 14 and if i'm
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brutally honest i started training
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because of self-confidence issues
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um i always thought i was overweight as
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a kid and i didn't have the confidence i
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getting in the gym transforming my body
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building confidence so that just went
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with plumbing and it was a hobby of mine
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when i was 20 years old um i was very
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fortunate to want to win
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a show which was mr june calendar thing
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and i then went on to win mr great
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britain and mr international which
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was more in like the beauty pageant male
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uh realm and that whisked me off
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to indonesia and then i traveled the
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world for a year representing
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the the federation so that kind of took
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me away from plumbing
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and to full-time modelling i was doing
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and a lot of tv work and adverts and
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my passion was always bodybuilding so in
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the background i was still training i
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was as i was traveling around the world
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but it got to a point where i was at a
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decide to carry on doing tv commercial
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work or do i go down the sports route
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and put more size on and
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that was when i decided to go into men's
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physique right that's it guys
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