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Pro athlete and professional bodybuilder, @ryanjterry juggles family life and day to day bodybuilding routines to focus on his biggest competition after 9 years.
Competing at Mr Olympia is Ryan's 2nd home. A home in which he can reap the benefits of finally winning the 2023 Mr Olympia Men's Physique category. His 1st home, a support system of a loving wife and 2 beautiful children, to motivate him to win. Ryan talks about his prep and lead up to the biggest stage of his career.
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people always said to me you wouldn't be
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a good bodybuilder or a good dad you
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can't be both um and I I'd like to to
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challenge
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that I didn't have a dad growing up so
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when I became a dad that was really
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important to me to make sure I'm present
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and I'm there for my
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kids so this will be my 10th Olympia
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this prep so far has hand on heart been
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the hardest prep to date and the reason
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for that is just had my second child
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newborn she's uh six weeks old uh to
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throw in and building the gym at the
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minute as well so workwise I'm building
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a 20,000 ft gym facility which I'm
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project
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managing my family basically comprises
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of myself my wife Amy and our two kids
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we've got Alfie and Elsie and I've got a
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dog Rocky we can't forget him okay that
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like butter wouldn't melt she a night
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hour whilst the wife's watching Bake Off
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British Bake Off while I'm eating
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chicken and rice so the biggest
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challenge I have is having that balance
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between my family life and business look
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who's here L hello have you had a good
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day yeah I just have to prioritize um
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and methodically think out my day where
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what's the most important thing I need
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to be present for for my family and
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what's the most important things I need
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to check off my to-do list for
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business Ryan and I like to be very kind
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of like strict with the schedule we like
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routine both of us I think if you speak
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to any parent with a newborn you'll know
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that routine is totally out of the
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window that is one of the biggest things
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we have both struggled with um because
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Ryan has to stick to some sort of
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schedule with his job because it's a
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given he has to with bodybuilding it's a
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very selfish sport no matter how you
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look at it you you have to train sleep
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eat at the times that are required being
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a dad is the most important job role so
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I never want to sacrifice that so that
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always comes first and everything else
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will fit around it how exciting is this
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young man look at
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this what do we do in here got a
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muscles yeah show me your best squat
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what's your squat
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nice and I've got amazing family who
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understand what I have to do um and we
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just work it out together as a team
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I uh oh not on camera
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cut so the reason I compete people say
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like you've been competing for 10 years
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you stay lean all year there's certain
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things you do what most other athletes
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don't do and for me it's my coping
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mechanism of probably back in the day of
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feeling overweight feeling that body
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dysmorph and never wanting to ever feel
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like that and I don't see as as an
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obsession where it's unhealthy because I
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enjoy what I do and I'm comfortable in
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my own skin now with we at the stage now
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where the carbs are getting dropped
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quite a lot the calories are coming down
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quite a lot um and I'm really starting
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to feel it when it comes to like hunger
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uh and that sort of thing but this is
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what kind of separates the uh the men
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from the boys I've had my first meal
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which is like oatmeal uh whey protein
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blueberries almonds that sort of thing
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now we're getting meal 2 in I'm going to
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eat meal 2 and I'm going to prep my
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meals for the rest today as well just to
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show you and give you an insight into
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what I'm
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consuming so most of my meals what I
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consume in a day they'll consume of a
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carb sauce like a complex carb sauce an
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essential fat and a good bioavailable
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protein rice cakes for carbs eggs which
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we've got fats and protein and then
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we've got some essential fats as well in
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the
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avocado so I've always prepped my own
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meals um and the reason for that is
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prepping my own meals and stuff when I
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when I was younger and obviously I
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didn't have the the money to be able to
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have like a chef for or have prep
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companies make my meals that was when I
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was at my best because I knew everything
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I was consuming I did try it I don't
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know I couldn't get my head around
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somebody else making my meals it's just
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Peace of Mind knowing that I've uh I've
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done them
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myself right so meal 2 done we're now
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going to prep the rest of the meals for
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the
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day that's all fillet steak that's all
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salmon fets few gam there but that's all
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Chi chicken breast normally but I'm I'm
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running low so I need to put an order in
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as we get closer things change so we've
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now had to reduce this the uh the red
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meat oats in the morning with whey eggs
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my second meal two chicken meals and
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then it's salmon salmon steak salmon
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salmon
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steak one of the things I really do miss
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is sitting with the family at night and
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having that meal we do it in the morning
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we have our breakfast in the morning
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morning together okay it's a little bit
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harder now we've got Elsie who is 8
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weeks old she's a bit more demanding on
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Amy so it's dependent on her if all four
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of us sit together I don't get too
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consumed with numbers and statistics and
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stuff and I can just fit it around my
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family life and it's really easy to to
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prep that way um I did do nearly two
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years of counting calories looking at
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every the times of when I eat in the day
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um tablets to go with certain meals at
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certain times and it just became so
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monotonous and so regimented it took the
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enjoyment of out of why I do what I do
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but yeah there you have it guys easily
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done in less than 13 minutes you've got
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six chicken breasts cooked off you could
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easily get six meals out of that uh
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quite comfortably when people say they
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haven't got time to prep the
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meals I beg to differ I bet you you're
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on your Instagram or on social media
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more than 13 minutes a day right let's
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go
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so yeah this is going to be my 10th year
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uh at the Mr Olympia and in those 10
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years um I've evolved physically and
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maturely mentally as well um and what I
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mean by that is over the years I've
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learned how to adapt and how to train
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more smart uh instead of um too
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erratically should we say so that's just
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comes with age um obviously you're naive
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when you're younger and you just you
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think pushing heavier and harder is is
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the way forward and that's not the
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case check this
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out so now it's all arriving so we got
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the tread M turn we' got six of these
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Arctic lorries turning up over the next
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couple of
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days
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okay look at
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that And So It
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Begins what
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anticlimax the gym slogan which I'm
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having everywhere is get comfortable
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being uncomfortable and that is
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something I've done massively so to step
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out of your comfort zone and in order to
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keep progressing in life you have to
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step out of your comfort Z and really
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push yourself and the only way you're
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ever going to do that is getting into
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uncomfortable situations and that's
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where I am right now I've uh I've got
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five businesses I've got a newborn baby
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we're building the gym and we're
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prepping for the biggest uh show in the
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world you're right I did pick a heavy
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one out
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wow check that
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out so I made this logo back in
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2013 people often ask me what was the
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Pinnacle Point of my career what was the
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changing point for me it was winning the
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British championships which is why this
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this man's stood right here in the
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background um so I feel like I owe a lot
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to that show um and that's the reason 10
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years on um I'm actually the head
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sponsor of that show and it's now called
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the Rin Terry British championships um
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and for me it's really important just to
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show my gratitude show my appreciation
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to that show and it's the biggest
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amateur show in the UK I feel massively
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honored and proud about that um and I
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just really hope people appreciate why
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I'm doing it people come to me now
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because I am experienced and because I
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have done 10 years competing and I've
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been training over 20 years so there are
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things that I've learned along the way
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which I I do like to give to the younger
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generation if they want to know I'm not
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someone who wants to preach and tell
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them here's what how you should do it
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but if anyone ever comes to me I'll
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always try and guide them in the right
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direction and basically stop them from
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making the same mistakes I did and for
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instance I do a lot of free posing
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classes
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now you hold for
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seconds
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thank you mate good to see you as always
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my goal has always been to be number one
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in the world and that's what drives me
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that's what gets me up every day that's
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what makes me train the way I do eat the
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way I do the discipline everything is
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going into this show like you wouldn't
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believe I've left no stone on turn so
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far we've got a few more weeks of prep
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and then I'm going to Showcase what I'm
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made of this year the Olympic champion
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if you don't win it don't come back here
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I know
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it we're on the plane a see in
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America Unfortunately they don't have
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chocolate nor or chocolate orange out in
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the states so I went for Fruity cereal
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as well so as you can see we're starting
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the uh the tanning process now so it's
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early Friday morning I've got my spray
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tan in a couple of hours but I'm just
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going to get a few base coats on
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tomorrow we're going to have the tan
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perfect carbon up perfect we going be as
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full as a house as conditioned as
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possible got the posing on on point and
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we're just going to go and enjoy
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[Music]
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it game day the morning of 2023 Mr
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Olympia here in Orlando we are ready to
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go as you can
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see tand up I'm dressed up ready for
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battle to Daddy Ryan what a prep I
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honestly don't know where to start with
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everything you you've had to you had
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going on but all I can say is that
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almost everyone would have quit in your
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situation but not
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you we love you and miss you come back
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safe lots of love from Amy Alfie and
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Elsie and so my aspirations every year
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is to to win the Olympia like I've never
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been somebody who goes in just wanting
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to make the numbers up or be a top five
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finisher my goal has always been to be
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number one in the
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[Music]
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world
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what I got so much to tell you but I I
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won't be able to hear you but I just
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wanted to touch banks for you but we'll
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have a proper catch up
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tomorrow it's been a tradition since
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2015 smoke gas Burger as my cheese food
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straight after training straight after
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[Music]
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competing this I got wet sock I got wet
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sock it's okay
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A
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I missed you is this for Daddy yeah
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thank you so
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mucho wow look at this the champion
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wel oh she doesn't see do to see Daddy
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does she she's not that to see she's got
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more important things to
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