Prepping to Prep: Health First

now with the prepping the prep stuff um i kind of i started coming up with this years ago and i i talked about it started started talking about it at swiss in canada in 2015 and i did a bigger lecture on it in 2018 and it's kind of on the premise of if you aren't healthy first you don't need to focus on performance and the reason I got into it is because I'm sick and tired of fixing people that are going to bodybuilding coaches and they have no reason to start a prep and they start a prep anyways so then they do you know 12 16 week prep they do a contest they've had to starve themselves because they weren't they weren even lean enough to start their prep in the first place you get girls with 34 body fat and they try to shred it down to 14 to 16 over 12 weeks Can you do it Absolutely But you going to have to pay a price because the more you push the body to an extreme, the more extremely it pushes back on you. And so we get girls that they never stop competing because once they get lean, they don't want to be anything. Once you've been dick skin lean, anything above that is fat to you, which is completely irrational. If you've been as a guy, sub four or 5%, 8% is fat to you, which is so fucked up. But that's the truth. That's the, that's the psychology of things. Now you're going to do yourself. Um, you're going to do yourself a better service. If you focus on getting certain metrics in order first, before you start bashing yourself in the gym.