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Asians get Hella leine and I don't know
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why the last question is like what what
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do I do to get that seab buum look like
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if you you all you have is your body you
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don't have anybody else's body I never
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look for anyone who didn't look kind of
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like what I could not necessar what I
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could achieve but like that looks
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similar to what I have what is up and
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welcome back to the channel I'm actually
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in Mike studio so thank you Mike for
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letting me use your studio to do my
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content on your property in your house
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the hospitality has been great Johnny
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it's been great having you here man
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appreciate it thank
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you guys we're going to talk about race
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and bodybuilding what are the main are
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there any differences there's a bunch of
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rumors apparently I can jump well it
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doesn't really matter if I can jump in
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bodybuilding but but there all those
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rumors that black people can jump higher
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because they have extra fibers and
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longer Shin bones and their skin just
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makes it easier to jump higher I don't
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know that's dope I love that is that the
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extra Fiers s is BS but there are some
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differences between the races that are
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pertinent for sport performance for sure
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and pertinent for physical appearance
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and potential in
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bodybuilding so to make this
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conversation simpler we can split the
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world up into the three major races
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there is time to find out if I get
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canceled for these uh for these uh names
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they're actually the technical names
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yeah coccoid [ __ ] and I don't even
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have to say it was starts with an end
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negro
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and of the three major races now of
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course there's a bunch of more minor
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coid coid cocko that sounds like a
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Godzilla in a porno movie A cocko oh
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stop all right um there's definitely uh
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you know folks that are various
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combinations of those there are folks
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that are outside of that realm almost
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entirely for example the peoples of
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oceanana Polynesians Etc I don't really
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Fe fit neatly into any of those
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categories but just to keep it simple
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because
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a huge fraction of the world splits into
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some of those we can talk about
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generally what has ended up being what
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the competitive landscape looks like and
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also what we can observe about body
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structure differences and also what is
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corroborated by some research don't do a
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lot of research on this anymore because
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it's how you get canceled doing research
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like that strange world we live in but
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uh there's some good stuff out there so
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a couple things to say um about the
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three major races so there's definitely
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body proportion differences yeah Asians
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are technically the most cold adapted of
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all of the major races so their bodies
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tend to have the largest ratios of torso
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size to limb size so they have shorter
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Limbs and bigger torsos for any given
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height on average very much on average
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tons of
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exceptions um the Caucasians white white
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folks as we call them somewhere in the
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middle huge variation of course and uh
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then there are the folks of African
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ancestry that tend to be the most heat
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adapted which means uh they got a couple
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things going on one of the things they
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have going on is they actually have
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smaller and shorter torsos and longer
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limbs relative to Any Given height one
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of the reasons for that is like if you
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have a big torso it core temperature
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goes up and it's really hard AO to
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regulate on the other hand if we put
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someone who looks like a [ __ ] spider
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into the North Pole they're going to die
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real soon po Bears little short little
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limbs thick bodies seals same thing
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penguin same thing so applies to animals
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humans are animals in fact and if you
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ever like visited Nigeria you better be
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real good at uh heat regulation cuz you
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only going to last a [ __ ] is like 95
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degrees and humid 247 that all heat
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regulation stuff doesn't really have any
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real world implications cuz we all live
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in air conditioning now but it does make
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the body shape differently and
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bodybuilding does definitely in some
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cases reward having more mus muscular
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limbs than it does torsos specifically
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with like you ever seen [ __ ]
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with like really long torsos and really
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short Limbs and they're hit that front
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double and you're
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like yeah you got extra set of ABS or
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some [ __ ] you know if we could crunch
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you down it look better and their legs
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can't really ever get that big because
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there's just not enough femur length to
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put big quads on but on the other hand
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if you're of African ancestry and of
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course tons of genetic variation between
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the probability that you look more
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Ronnie Coleman like because if you think
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about a Ronnie Coleman's like sitting
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height like the length of a so it's not
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so impressive got pretty [ __ ] long
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arms and pretty long legs for for his
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height and you can slap a crap load of
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beef onto that another thing is that
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people of heat adaptive climates African
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descent have muscles uh parts of their
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body that are more externally spherical
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because uh with the sphere shape you can
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dissipate more
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heat um if you have Bubble muscles and
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you're in the cold you're going to
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freeze to death yeah if you have Bubble
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muscles and you're in the heat the
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muscles can still function without
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overheating as much that doesn't have
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dick to do with Aesthetics directly but
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it's a different look yeah and if you
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have Bubble muscles that are really good
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to dissipating heat they look sweet
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aesthetically and you know like you know
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the black guy look like just like round
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everything like yeah that's genetic and
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that's related to heat adaptation so
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just on those two things alone limb
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proportions and on the bubbliness of
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muscles you all of a sudden have a
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pretty distinct African advantage
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and well I kind of explain 90% of what
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you see in a bodybuilding stage cuz like
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yeah if there's a black dude in your
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class you're probably taking second
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that's how I feel about it so there's
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the uh theory that um and most people
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probably heard it that you know black
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people have thicker skin it's harder for
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them to get that you know transparent
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dick skin s like someone like yourself
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or you Branch sh the branch War Ian
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valir you know what I mean I don't
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really I don't know know yeah I I heard
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him like ah there's there's I don't
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really know if that's a true but like
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what is there any Merit to that I don't
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I saw a couple things I don't know for
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sure I speculate there you go
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speculation I'm speculating that that's
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not the case as a matter of fact I would
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speculate that's the opposite of the
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case the utility of having thicker skin
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which is to say a large propensity to
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deposit body fat underneath the skin for
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Northern adapted populations is quite
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High because like you want the fat there
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protecting your dumbass from freezing to
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death but if you are more heat adapted
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you might not be prone to storing first
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of all as much body fat because here's
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another consideration heat adapted
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populations generally live in climates
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in which food though maybe not highly
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available is more consistently available
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but if you are cold adapted for
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generations and generations and
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thousands of years there's a time when
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it's warmer when there's hella of food
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and there's the winter when there's not
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much food and your ability to eat a
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crapload when there's a lot of food
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store a bunch of fat keep that fat on
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you not lose all of it because you would
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die in the end of winter that is highly
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selected evolutionarily so I think that
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there is much more of a selective
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pressure for folks of African descent to
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have less subcutaneous body fat less
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body fat Under the Skin and in some
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cases maybe even store less body fat
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overall so I actually think that gives
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people of African ancestry a distinct
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advantage in bodybuilding yeah um and
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that whole thing about like the dick
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skin thing I honestly think that's
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mostly skin tone because like if you're
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pale skinned enough get them little blue
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veins everywhere it's a [ __ ] look man
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it's a Trippy look but if you're dark
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skinned I don't even can't see your
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veins I can see your shape veins like
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well you don't basically have any veins
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at all anyway you got that J Cutler
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okay back to the show it's a different
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look uh but I'll tell you this like
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anyone who thinks that black people have
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trouble getting leaner or really really
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freaky shredded I don't know man look at
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all the black competitors they don't
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seem like they have a problem with that
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Sean Clarita done run out of body fat in
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2009 or some [ __ ] never gained it back
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now that's just one person but I don't
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make the observation in general that
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black guys have trouble getting into
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shape any more than white dudes do um I
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will say just from cursory
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observations Asians get Hella lean and I
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don't know why but Asians get ripped bro
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yeah and they don't really also obesity
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rates are very low in the Asian
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populations yes relative to the rest of
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us and that means that they probably if
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they want a bodybuild they often start
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from a much lower body fat set point and
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that's very convenient now that's true
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for a bunch of individuals in all the
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races but the probability that you'll
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have like a real Husky sort of thicker
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white guy or thicker black guy you know
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like a like a like a d lineman look for
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a black dude some titties and [ __ ] you
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like he's an athlete but that really
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going to be bodybuilding anytime soon
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how many Asians you know like that like
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most of them like they're pretty [ __ ]
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lean to begin with and that's a big
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Advantage another thing that comes to
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mind this is quite common this is low
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hanging fruit but uh especially in West
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African populations almost all
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African-Americans African Canadians are
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West African in
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origin and uh they have have relatively
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small calf muscles and the tendon makes
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up more of the shin length than the
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muscle than in Caucasian populations and
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buy a long shot than an Asians cuz like
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an Asian with amazing calfs is just like
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the lady who Wasing walking down the
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street there's some Chinese lady serving
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you [ __ ] Chinese food that has like
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diamond calves and you're like what the
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[ __ ] how yeah they just got it but that
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long tendon is designed to be springier
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than your muscles would be and thus uh
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people of African ancestry on average
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tend to excel in sprinting and in
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jumping which because they get a
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crapload of rebound energy from each hop
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um that's dope for a sports sports yeah
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um but for bodybuilding if you're black
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and your calves are small and they're
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small not because they're skinny but
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they're small because you look at your
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muscle and it's mostly tended in a tiny
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bit of muscle if you grow your calves as
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big as possible they're still going to
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be bunched up towards the top and
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they're never going to look that
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impressive so there's a like um a thing
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like about calves where you calvs are
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really genetic and that's not entirely
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wrong so if you have really small calvs
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and you happen to be a West African
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origin you got to do your best but you
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better start early and you better you
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better Hammer them shits because you
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will be giving you'll be getting no
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gifts on the other hand Asians on
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average you look at an Asian's Cals
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about they're bodybuilder small Cals in
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an Asian are almost unheard of and some
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of them have just straight up freaky
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Cals um another thing I've personally
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observed with Asian bodybuilders the
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size of their gluteus maximus muscles
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tends to be smaller than the other two
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races nobody's talking [ __ ] about black
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booty size that's the standard right
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there Ronnie Coleman 2003 Jes his glutes
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had glutes yeah and uh but with Asians
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sometimes the glutes just aren't very
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large which I just don't think is a big
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deal aesthetically I don't think most
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judges really give a [ __ ] uh they don't
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care how big it is cuz Asians get them
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stried glutes like everybody else but
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there is a difference in size there say
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other thing is because of that uh
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muscles tend to want to dissipate more
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heat they're kind of they're more bubbly
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and more dis still on the limb we lower
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down you'll get a higher probability if
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you're African that your triceps have
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that Kevin lone hang and your biceps sit
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further down and bubbly versus if you're
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Asian at The Other Extreme your muscles
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are more bunched towards your core so
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even if you're really jacked you throw
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that front double up the bicep kind of
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sits low and it's flush the tricep sits
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back here and it's more flush overall
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you look it's same size muscular arm but
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there's just more pop with with African
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athletes so that's some of the stuff
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that comes to mind right off hand and I
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guess like one of the things people may
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ask about this is like okay that was fun
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thanks Neel the grass for that [ __ ]
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science tour what do I do about it and
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the answer is you know with current
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technology either way you just do your
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best yeah and uh you know most of the
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people I looked up to in bodybuilding
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when I was coming up were black dudes
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cuz they're the best and because I love
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their physiques so a lot of people are
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like well like if I don't have black eye
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genetics I shouldn't look up to black
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people and it's like you're not going to
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look like Branch Warren either
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[ __ ] you're not going to look
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like seum you're only ever going to look
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like a better version of herself so for
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me when I pick my heroes I don't look at
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race I got all all the major races I
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have my bodybuilding Heroes no matter
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what like one of my favorite looks of
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all time is like Kevin Levon yeah he's
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black or at least half or some [ __ ] uh
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Flex wheeler his 1993 Arnold Classic or
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whatever I think it's like a revolution
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this is like that's what the statue
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looks like when they give you the trophy
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that's what that's supposed to look like
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he's black it doesn't bother me at all
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in the sense of like I'm not like well
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if I can't achieve that like why can't
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achieve that anyway it doesn't matter
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well most all all black people
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exclusively unless you're Flex wheeler
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can't achieve that anyway no so it's
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like can you imagine just telling some a
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young black kid be like hey you could be
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like this be like don't tell that [ __ ]
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next you'll be like Jordan and LeBron
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get out of here so at the end of the day
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like it's fun to talk about racial
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differences and it's cool to see it on
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stage because it's noticeable right but
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at the end of the day you just have to
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do the best with what you have and
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there's no reason to fret or worry about
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it or really even dig into it a ton it's
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interesting just like geeking out but
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it's like if you if you don't have a car
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and you like learn about cars you can
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learn about all them and have fun at the
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end of the day you go to sleep in your
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[ __ ] car-shaped bed at home you don't
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have a car it doesn't matter so if you
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you all you have is your body you don't
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have anybody else's body you know like
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people why am I saying that because I
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think a lot of people not to switch
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topics entirely but it's kind of part of
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it is people like to have their Heroes
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and their Idols they look up to but at
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some point they try to like like look as
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much like their Idols as possible but I
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think it's a huge misinterpretation of
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how things are supposed to go you're
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just trying to become the best version
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of yourself I look at kean's physique
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Keon Prodigy uh what's this Keon Pearson
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yeah and I like I'm like this is the
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greatest physique of all time I
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legitimately believe this is the
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greatest physique of all time it's the
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most beautiful physique I've ever seen
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I'm not going to look like Keon but I
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can still look at his physique as a
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piece of art and be inspired yes and I'm
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just a lot of folks out there like
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they'll ask questions like what what do
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I do to get that seab buum look like
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become more muscular and more lean and
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try to work on your upper body a lot
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that's it and like what about more
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specifics like well there are no more
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specifics the rest is up to your
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genetics yeah I think it's like cuz
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that's going to bring us kind of talk
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but I think it's the thing is looking at
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you know like yourself not you're not
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very look like Keon Pearson ever right
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but you can look at him as inspiration
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like that motivates you to want to be
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the best you they lose in that and look
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want to look like they're you know
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they're Idol yeah the same way that
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someone looks at say like can now go
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into that Natty not thing that that
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person's on steroids and now I know that
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what I can achieve because he's now told
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the truth it's like well you don't have
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to look at them as more for like
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inspiration doesn't mean like you know
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whatever they're doing doesn't matter
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it's like if that's going to make fuel
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you to want to work your ass off great
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but it shouldn't fuel you to want to
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look like that and that's where people
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get lost and also you can take
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inspiration from their physique
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component wise yes so you can say like I
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love looking at a picture of Keon
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Pearson and then go into the bathroom
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and just you know what I'm saying oh
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wait sorry wrong video so when I look at
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Keon what I get from that is like first
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of all just art like appreciation you
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know I don't look at [ __ ] Le nard D
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Vinci [ __ ] and like I'm going to paint
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the [ __ ] Mona Lisa or something like
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but it's beautiful but I'm like I'm good
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Keon [ __ ] I look at his physique and I'm
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like I want a smaller waist not like his
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cuz his is nuts yeah but his tiny waste
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inspires me to bring the smallest waste
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I can so I die it harder or some [ __ ] or
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dieet longer SM more consistently I want
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bigger arms his [ __ ] is comical mine
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isn't but I want just mine a little bit
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bigger so I can so I can sniff that key
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on air just a little bit more like I'm
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not trying to climb on Everest but if
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I'm climbing uphill hiking in this
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little Top's pretty far away I'm
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thinking avarest kind of like to
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motivate my ass yeah I don't want to get
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all the way to the top I can't I'm not
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in that kind of shape but on my way to
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climbing my own Hill I can feel inspired
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to be just a little bit more like crazy
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Mount Everest climbing who are always
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white dudes anyway cuz they're nuts
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there's the first um black a group of
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all black that one the other day H and
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faster of course faster I don't know FAS
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enough but I assume it they actually
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just jumped jumped to the mountain
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straight they like they didn't climb
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they just jumping yeah Dragon Ball Z
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Style Just it dope yeah but uh yeah I
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mean like you know who who were you
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looking up to when you were coming up in
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bodybuilding so I so I would pick people
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that I kind of looked like yeah okay
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right so and so you were just straight
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racist about the [ __ ] straight up and
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like Johnny Jackson was one of the first
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guys cuz like first of all he had the
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same name as me yeah and then he had
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massive traps the biggest yeah and so I
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was and I had traps when I was younger
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so I would be in the gym arms and traps
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training and doing you know um he was
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one um when will bonut came in the scene
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I favored his physique a lot cuz we kind
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of very similar physique but he was a
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little more he's a little more thicker
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than I am at the bottom a little more
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streamline in the way size but like
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thickness like we're good friends too
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but like just seeing him like person
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being the same height relative same
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height and whatnot that you know guys
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like that motivated me I never look for
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and anyone who didn't look kind of like
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what I could not necessar what I could
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achieve but like that looks similar to
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what I had but you're a pro so it's
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different for you yeah you actually hit
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a real shot of looking like these
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[ __ ] the rest of us might not
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see I didn't know that at the time
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though okay so for for me it was never
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like like my best friend was he had he
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has a 46 in vert ran a 429 went to
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Syracuse my buddy played it you know um
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these are black folks yeah girl Brothers
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right all them and they all were like
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better than me I was I was you know I
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always shine in the work ethic and I was
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strong yeah and I was like if you put
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all of us in one group I was fast
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average for them yeah maybe fast for
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everyone else but in that group I wasn't
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the fastest but outside the group I'm
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really fast so I really know any of that
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until like literally until like recently
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till like coming off of steroids and
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everything else then being like holy
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[ __ ] like I'm still jacked look like
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this and not really doing much to
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achieve this if I come off steroids I'll
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just disappear straight up that's fig
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Steve said I'm saw you like I came off I
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don't look like you man I'm
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like you got to change that skin tone
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big homie you're welcome yeah anyway
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hopefully that was useful to some people
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let's see if it's gets canceled it we
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get cancel first one damn it I don't
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know if I left my door open is your dog
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going to eat my kid's Minnie Mouse
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yeah you want me to go up I can go up I
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got to you sure yeah I can use a step
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run his hold his
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way run hold his
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way on his way