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my name is zach george i'm 30 years old
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born and bred in leicester
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owner of crossfit bfg and last year's
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crown the uk's fittest man
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i first found functional fitness when my
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dad showed me a youtube video of the
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games and he said i think you're gonna
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enjoy this and he'd be pretty good at
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so i watched it and was instantly hooked
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i just saw athletes doing
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all sorts of crazy stuff they were
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ups really good olympic weightlifting
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and it just looked so much fun and
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it was my goal to one day compete at the
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all those athletes back then who i
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watched at the games have inspired me
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my proudest achievement is by far
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being crowned the uk's fittest man and
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at the games in 2020 it was a seven year
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to to compete the games and to qualify
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for it and i finally did
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but unfortunately due to the pandemic i
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wasn't able to actually compete at the
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but um yeah that's definitely by far my
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proudest achievement what keeps me
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is the goal that i set so my main goal
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and has always been to compete at the
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i've had lots of little goals along the
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way that i tick off and achieve and that
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keeps me motivated along the journey
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i find it it can be quite daunting if
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you have a goal that you're aiming for
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in two or three years time
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it's very important to set little goals
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along that way which keeps you motivated
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and for me those little goals were
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little competitions to win
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or to compete at competitions around the
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and eventually over the years i worked
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hard enough every single day to to
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finally achieve the goal of qualifying
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kovid's had a big impact on my trading
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more so than my training i'd say but
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unfortunately due to kovid
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i wasn't able to compete at the game so
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that was a big setback
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and it was quite hard at the time but
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for me i'm extremely positive person
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and there's a lot of other people
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affected by covert worse than i was
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people losing their jobs a lot of people
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losing their lives due to the pandemic
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for me just not being able to to compete
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at the games in the grand scheme of
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a big deal but i wanted to turn it into
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a positive and i hope that i could
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inspire as many people in a tough
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situation during that time
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nutrition is extremely important for any
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athlete and any human being really
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i luckily have a nutrition coach that
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looks after all my nutritional
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macro needs that's empty performance and
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i put all my trust into my coach
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and he tells me how many macros i should
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it's very easy for me to hit those
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macros throughout the day
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the best thing for me about competing is
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the amazing feeling it gives me but then
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i also love performing in front of a
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crowd in front of the fans and
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i'm really buzzing off their energy and
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it's hard to describe it it's something
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amazing when you're on the floor you're
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you're busting your gut you're working
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as hard as you possibly can
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and you're severely in that pain cave
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you can see in the crowd everyone's
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cheering for everyone's chain for your
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name everyone wants you to do as well as
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that is such an amazing feeling
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atmosphere to be involved in
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and it's something that's very hard to
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replicate having to pull out during the
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2021 season was extremely tough call
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mentally and physically but injuries
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you've got to be willing to take that on
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the chin it was a hip injury that i
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sustained probably a couple of weeks
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before the quarterfinals
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and i was trying to get my my body ready
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i was seeing the physio every single day
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and it was a slight tear my tfl which
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was then given me a lot of it band
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i just couldn't squat any sort of decent
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weight past 60 kilos so i needed good
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workouts in the quarter finals to come
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up that weren't very squat dominant
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and uh there was workouts with a four
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match front squat there was 180 pistols
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so i tried to do the format's front
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squat just to see if i could push
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and i couldn't even get past 100 110
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i'd normally be hitting around 170 for
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that sort of ford mac so
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i knew straight away i wasn't in good
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enough shape to to complete these
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yeah it was a very tough call uh it was
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and for those three or four days i was
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on the sofa eating chocolate and sweets
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processing that i'm not going to be
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competing this season and i think it's
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very important to go through that
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of letting yourself wallow and and sulk
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and and just let people know that you're
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not okay and you need to get through
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and i gave myself a couple days just
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just let it all sink in and then
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after those couple days uh i felt much
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better i sat down with my team i said
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let's put a solid plan in place let's
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readjust these goals that we've had for
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we're going to focus on different
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competition the end of this year which
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is going to be a big competition
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and then we're going to get a great plan
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in place again so i'm even fit a
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and a better athlete for next year and
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next season it's not just
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all doom and gloom if you have a setback
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you've got to overcome it
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set yourself different goals and go and
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