RAWTALK - HOW 16 YEAR OLD TRISTYN LEE GOT SHREDDED! THE TRUTH!

Episode Date: May 9, 2019

The truth behind how the most shredded 15 year old in the world (now 16 year old) really did it! Tristyn lee dives into his diet specifics, mind set, and how he got started.

all right i hope the audio is better i hope the audio is better this time i know some people been complaining about it in the comments um before i get into this i just want to say i'm happy to have you back number one thank you tristan number two to everyone listening um i apologize because i have not been consistent with the podcast and uh shame on me for that and part of the reason is i got kind of overwhelmed with everything that i was doing so this kind of took just basically a fall off of like my priority list and I want to tell everybody that I apologize because it's what I shouldn't have done because ultimately it's something that I really enjoyed doing. I just couldn't find the time to get this done and like all the other things

I was doing so but I'm telling you right now this is this is me telling everyone who's watching to subscribe to turn the post notifications because I'm going to be posting not like I was before but I'm going to be posting once a week and I do have like how many do we got like eight eight or nine yeah like eight or nine already done that I just hadn't been uploading um so to everyone listening and I will be uploading those uh consistently every week and doing my best to film with someone at least once every other week so it should it should just continue on once a week so if you guys still want to be a part of it you still want to listen and please do um but since our last podcast was one of the most viral podcast that I did

because is the fucking it's still amazing to me how in shape you are at the age that you're at and everyone I think wants to know after watching that podcast they still want to know they'd be like how did Tristan really get shredded

how did you really do it there's a big topic it's always in the comment section it's always the questions right? Yeah there's like I mean I see it just on the internet in general people are always like they're automatically assuming like steroids right What is it? Is it some secret that we don't know about?

Secret tip, yeah. So what is it? So, I mean, over the years, I've been mastering my diet, mastering my training techniques, learning from, like, top level bodybuilders, top level athletes and just doctors over time. So I've sort of fine-tuned my diet and my workouts just so that I'm able to cut the extra body fat that a lot of people can't lose, you know, whether you be at like 7, 8%, or even up to 10%. and you're just trying to cut that last bit. When you're focusing on your diet,

you've got to, like, understand that each body is different. So if you look at one study, it maybe won't apply to you. So with me, since I eat a ketogenic diet, which is, like, high fat, moderate protein, low carbs, I've realized that, like, I'm able to, like, whatever I make sense, I'm doing so much training load. I'm training maybe two, like, two times a day, two, three times a day, even when I was in Spain for soccer,

that I can increase my protein and still be in a state of what they call ketosis and still be losing body fat and maintaining that high level of performance. Yeah. So, but what's interesting, though, is that at your age, how old are you now? I'm 16, yeah, 2017 and August. You're turning 17 in August. So you're 16 now. The thing that's amazing, though, is that most people who train, it takes them, the fact

that you're 16, 17, it takes people years to figure out what works for them. I'm not necessarily saying that, like, it's because, I don't know, people think, honestly, I think what happens most people, they do something and then they don't stick to it long enough to know if it works or not. And then they switch because their bro was like, do this, bro, this works better. And then they're like, oh, I'm doing that now. And then they don't stick to that. And then it's like they're bouncing.

Yeah, on and off. And they never really find out what actually works. So I guess the question is like then what at such a young, age because you've been doing this now for how long like you've been on social for how long you've been impressive for like a year like a year yeah you've been impressive for longer than a year though it's started like really last last January maybe that's when it really started to explode up yeah yeah okay so I guess the question that I have is how did you figure it out so quickly the

training diet yeah what works for you so I mean my two one two older brothers are both into the training and I I don't know if it was like a I just want you to talk closer, Mike. I'm sorry, I just watch you. Because I don't want them to fucking be like, the audio. Yeah, so I don't know if it was something that was just lucky and blessed with good genetics for this, that I was able to select the right diet. But I really, like, as soon as I went in, I went in.

Like, I was driving back from a tournament and, like, for soccer the year before, before I started doing this diet. And something clicked. And I was like, well, I want to take my performance to the next level. And I went all in. So when you're trying to take it to be the best, you have to go all in or else it's not like you can't be half and half especially with a like a diet like ketogenic where you have to get into this certain state it takes time to get into that state it takes time to get in that state so when you're bouncing back and forth whether it be like cheating or all that then you're not able to fully get into that state and get that benefit that you want yeah so okay but i guess it's still i still have this question in my head i'm like how did you figure out so quickly what it works for you because if you're talking about you did this in a year and a half yeah it's like i'm like this shit it's took me a while to be like oh this works for me i i don't know like i just started doing more

and more research into it and finding what works for my body because what uh like what really clicked with me was when i was feeling like clear and i was able to like perform at my mentally clear mentally clear yeah okay so when i did more research into the diet and like fine-tune certain things like little things you wouldn't know like micronutrients whatever maybe training techniques small like extremely minute things that's when you're able to perfect the diet or perfect the training and get the results you want. But when you're jumping from one end of the spectrum, which may be whatever, high carb or whatever it is, high protein, whatever,

and you're going to the other end of the spectrum, which is high fat, your body really doesn't know and can't adapt to whatever one it is and can't throw. So, okay, we'll talk more about that too, but I want to talk about two things you said. The minute details, what are those? And number two, because this is really what it's going to come down to, I think, for people listening. the fact that you are aware of the simple thing that you said a second ago that like some people I don't even think are really aware of it happening or not happening that that clearheadedness because I remember when I first but this was I had been lifting since I was like 15 bullshit lifting 16 more serious 17 very serious 18 all the way like since 17 on very serious so like about 18 before like before I turned 19 I remember being like I tried an intermittent

fasting and I stuck to it like to the tea and I remember my workouts were always when I was fasting so I hadn't had any food and I did in the morning like full on strength training workouts and I remember that like oh damn I have this like this super focus yeah but then I think I was just drinking green tea for my pre-workout it was no there was no like that was caffeine but it wasn't like a pre-workout yeah it was in back of that day there wasn't many pre-workouts um but that I was drinking green tea because I was reading about the benefits of the EGCG and all this and I remember that clearheadedness and I was like oh shit this feels amazing but my point is it took me a while to like pinpoint to know what that was because my thing is what I'm trying to get you to everyone

listening and what I want to get from you is how did you learn to be so attentive to your body because I think that's one of the number one things when it comes to bodybuilding is like listening how are you react how do you feel yeah I think a lot of people go into this for thinking like, well, they may not have the best mental state right then so they don't really know what like the best they can be is. So slowly like you say whatever, you decrease this like this micronutrient or increase this micronutrient, decreased amount of sugar you have and you see that you physically feel more mentally clear when you're training, when you're working out, when you're just in your daily

life because sometimes it's not always just about being in the gym. They then like once they see those results, they start. Well, you don't live in a gym. No. Oh, fuck, dude. I'm doing it wrong. You living here? No, yeah.

Yeah, there's an extra room, a secret room. You guys got to come to the gym and find out. Find the secret room. Okay, we'll find it. Yeah. I'm pretty sure, like, I thought you slept in the gym. No, I don't. I thought everyone slept like you were born in a gym.

I thought that was the story. That's how the story went. Oh, like, you tell that story? No, that's how your story. Remember they're like, he was born in a gym? You know how like Jesus was born in a stable? You were born in a gym? He just came out, Jack?

No? No. Okay. Okay, shit. that's going around the internet right now you know how things are on the internet i better throw that up that i wasn't born in the gym um so when do you start to like how do you because i don't know it's so it's so uh personal yeah like how do you realize how do you realize like when do you start to realize oh this is how i feel like how do you put your finger on it at such a young

age is what i'm saying so with me i like instantly because okay so here's the thing so a lot of people go into the gym and they're just no diet, no training, like, no, like, information starting off. So if they go directly into it, it's a huge flip. That's what I did. So when I was with my diet, I was eating, like, like, prior to starting the ketogenic diet, like three years, like when I started training, really, weight, training hard. I was eating sugar.

I was eating candy. I was eating all of this, you know, just like a normal kid would. But as soon as I flipped. What's your favorite candy? I love Skittles before when I was, when I was. Nice. Nice. I was a Sour Patch guy. Oh, okay.

Yeah. What's your favorite? Sorry, it's a little sidetrack. What's your favorite candy? Yeah, that's my fucking guy. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, fuck you. I don't know why. Steve, what's your favorite candy? Reesis. God, I don't like, I like Reesis's, though.

I like Reesis. Yo, that's why you fuck those cookies up. That's why he was. He's like, I remember I came. One day he's texting, he's like, yo, can we have this cookie, right? Listen, this is a funny story. Because my boy sent me these, like, crazy cookies,

the big cookies amazing cookies I didn't call like I don't know fuck what's the name of the cookies fat what's fat and ugly fat and ugly right anyways

he texts me and he goes sorry I'm sidetracking right now guys I have to though this is important this cookie story from diet of cookies yeah he text me he was like hey can we have some of this cookie

and I was like no because I wanted to eat this cookie and he texts me he's like oh there's still some left like he had already had the cookie it makes sense though That's his favorite candy. It's all good.

But chocolate, that's a, it's so basic, dude. I think it's why I don't like the answer. Yeah. That's okay. Skittles, sour patch. Fuck yeah. Okay, so, sorry, sidetrack. I'm just trying to learn.

We're trying to learn how to, like, because for everyone listening, some people might not even know what to look at, like, how to figure out how they, you know, I think people know how they feel. Yeah. Like, people know, like, oh, I feel good or I don't feel good. But there's, like, those other levels of, like, oh, I noticed that when I eat, these things and this I'm just trying to tell people to be trying to be more aware of when you eat an hour later two hours later how do you feel yeah like do you feel clear so when did you start this

when I started doing that it was when I really like like when I started feeling noticing how I was feeling better was when I started like tracking each thing and I know it's like it's like it's like seems pretty it's OCD it seems pretty all in right yeah um I mean I was I was like set from the beginning that I was gonna do this and I'm if I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do it right so I was tracking each thing and like I think that the key is when you're starting is implementing certain things just small things like saying okay so for this day I'm going to add a little bit of more sodium before my workout you see if the pump is better right and then maybe the next day you're saying like okay I'm going to have a little bit less carbohydrates today and I'm going to drop them down

and increase my protein and then you see how you feel that day how your sleep is you know how you're feeling how your mental clarity is and those little details are what make the big difference when I started going when I went off sugar which was talking about with the diet yeah I went full flip right so obviously when I go full flip I feel a huge difference because my body is like well at first it's like whoa like what's going on I'm trying to find like sugar to run off of and then all of a sudden I'm flipping to using fats or the glucose to run off of so my body goes into a little bit of a state of shock and what helped me with that little adaptation period I guess where most people fail because they're not able to

to push past that point where they feel, maybe feel a little bit shitty. Yeah, because what's happening is like your, your brain is the one thing in your body that needs to run off of sugar. Yeah. So it needs to convert through like gluconeogenesis. It needs to convert other like fats or proteins into sugar for your brain to use. Yeah. And for people are like, that, that's the awkward phase.

I think it normally it's like for one to two weeks in of like trying that diet. Your body finally flips and it's like, okay, now it's starting to make sense for me. But that feels just so you guys, if you ever try it, like once you start to. get into it you'll know if you start to get into it because like you just feel weird you feel kind of sluggish you feel kind of like cloudy but then on the other side of that you're like oh shit it's completely clear yeah so go ahead so with uh with that flip what's i gonna say no because yeah you how you got through it right yeah so okay so um a lot of people don't realize that obviously when you're depriving yourself of sugar you're gonna find another you need to find another

resource to run off of like your body's not just gonna run off nothing and it feels like it's it's almost chasing to find some fuel source. Yeah. So when you're running off of like of fats and you finally get that flip, it's like your body's finally adapted. And the little micronutrients and stuff, your body may be getting them from the sugary foods that you're eating at the beginning, right? Yeah. So like if you'll, I don't know if you're having burgers and stuff, you're getting, you're still getting the sodium, right? And when you flip to what I'm doing, which is eating high fat, your body's flushing sodium.

and water so fast that you actually need to increase your sodium and that's why some people don't feel as good during this period because their sodium's actually low and then once they finally realize that they're able to get that with the fats they just increase their sodium they feel way more clear yeah I think I think that could be people's biggest problem some of people's biggest problems when they go into this uh just changing a diet in general but it's also like for especially for keto people I don't know why this happens but I know I came when I tried keto I came from a higher carb diet and I was like okay I'm just I want to try this I dropped out all my carbs like damn near nothing yeah but then I didn't increase my fat enough

yeah and I didn't so then I was like I was just running off a protein yeah and my body was like oh I hate this and I just felt foggy all the time so you do you when you cut your you cut your carbs down you obviously you have to increase your fat yeah so how much fat do you have so with keto generally speaking like so if you're not a high performance athlete ketogenic diet is usually 70% fat and then like 25 for 20% protein and then 5% cards which is like nothing so main fat sources you eat yeah so uh I'll have like lots of red meats that will have like like fatty steaks and rib eyes and stuff like that so um so I can get the fats and then for other stuff you can have like avocado avocado that's one of my favorites

yeah so like since with people that aren't high performance athletes or who are just like may not be doing like super super intense like the highs of intensities that that would be good but as i've learned is that well one i'm still growing right i'm still 16 yeah you got taller since i last seen you yeah so i'm increased my protein because i realized that i still need that for uh for fuel for rebuilding for the amount of training that i'm doing and all of that and i'm still remaining in a state of ketosis due to like the high level of training and the continuous training and yeah efficiency of using the ketones so you think the normal uh normal person on why I say it like that, but someone who's not as a high performance, because you, when I say high

performance, like, you fucking play soccer, which we'll talk about in a second. Like, you play soccer at a high level. And, like, to maintain the muscle mass you have and play soccer, you need a, that's a lot of activity. That's very high performance. So, let's say someone who's like just trying to start out, and they just train in the gym, maybe not as much cardio-intensive stuff, where do you think they should put their fats? Their fats? That's where I'm saying that you want to increase your fats to like 70, 75%, because that's just the general rule. And then at the beginning, increasing your fats and just keeping your protein at a moderate state is good because then that pushes you into the state of ketosis.

And then slowly, that's what I was talking about with adapting, is that you need to learn your body because what they call a protein threshold is like how much protein you can have while staying in a state of ketosis or being able to use the ketones efficiently. So maybe at the beginning, your protein is lower. But then you learn, okay, well, while I'm training, my body needs more protein to rebuild and refuel. So I'm going to add in this amount of protein and just continue on until you basically reach your point where we feel, okay, it's too much protein. This is the thing that I keep, it's like, because I'm not a fucking scientist when it comes to this. I'm not claiming to be an expert.

I just know, I know how it works. I may not know every detail exactly how or why it works. But the thing that I think is it keeps coming back to for everyone listening, because I don't think everyone listening is like, damn, I'm going to become a scientist. and like figure out exactly these details. I think the thing that that's most important that you keep saying that I know that I want to reiterate right now is like you have to listen. You have to learn. The most important thing is learning how you feel. Like learning like the triggers like when do you feel good at this time of the day?

Do you feel good at this time of the day? So is there a way that you track that? Because it for for anything to work, right, you need to like I said, you can't bounce around. You can't be like, oh, I'm going to try this and then try that. you have to gradually like do some sort of increase yeah yeah and you have to be like because but time is crazy because time for me and time for you can be completely different and time for everyone else the room obviously it's the same we're talking about seconds or time in a day but time for me let's say it takes me three days to like try eating in a certain fashion to get a

result versus someone to eat you know in five six days to get the same result exactly um so it's you got to have patience and you got to pay attention what did you pay attention to like Did you write down anything? I used, like, I don't know if you use the Fitpal app. So that's, it's like, you just, you just calculate. It just holds, like, all the stats for, like, your macros, your micronutrients and all that. So at the beginning, I was really intensive about seeing what's in each of the foods. So that and then tracking that and then seeing, adjusting time of day that I eat.

So with, with keto, it's like you eat to you're satiated and you eat when you're hungry. So I say, like, let's say I wake up in the morning. I feel like I need something before I go and go and train. So that's the time when I feel like I'm hungry. And I've noticed which times I'm, which times throughout the day, I'm hungry and track that. And then see what, basically, experiment on yourself, self-experiment, what you feel best doing. So tracking like micronutrients, micro-nutrients, time of day you're eating, how much sleep you're getting, all of that is very important. So macros, explain.

So macros, protein, fat, carbs, just so everyone knows, micros are all like the salts, everything else. Electrolites, yeah. electrolyize every sodium potassium all this stuff dude so that i mean that's detail and i would definitely say to everyone listening i've done and i know whenever i talk to anyone about like dieting or especially gaining weight because a lot of guys that hit me like i'm skinny or like you know i'm a hard gainer and it's really hard for me to gain weight the number one thing i tell anyone first and foremost is like because i did this spend at least a week every single day writing down everything yeah writing down how much protein carbs fats and any other um micros that you can

that you can get out of that nutrition label with everything else, write it all down. And if after a week goes by, because what's going to happen, I feel like 90% of the time, 99% of the time, the person who's like, I can't gain weight, they'll write a week, and they'll realize, oh, shit, I'm not even eating close to enough. Yeah. Number one, like, I think so, whether it's, you want to burn body fat and you want to get leaner or you're a hard gain, and you say it's really hard for you to gain weight and you eat so much, because everyone goes, I eat so much, I don't gain weight.

I'm like, just because you feel full does not mean you. you met what you needed for your body to gain weight. Because that's what I was thinking. I was like, oh, but I'm full. So I eat so much, right?

I just have a shitty appetite where, like, my body's naturally like trying to fucking stay skinny. It's not trying to stay skinny. It's like not trying to eat tons of food. It's like, oh, I get satiated very quickly.

Okay. So those levels leptin and ghrelin that like my body's very like efficient with, I've ate it enough and I feel full, right? Yeah. So everyone listening, spend a week, whether you want to burn fat,

you want to build muscle, write down everything you eat, look at it, and then figure out, obviously you've got to figure out what your BMR is, your basal metabolic rate, figure out how many calories you actually need day and day out. Your BMR is going to be the thing that your body, even if you didn't do anything, like lay in the bed all day, your body needs just to function its organs, like just function properly, efficiently. And then you've got to add calories based on your activity, whether it be like, if you work a manual labor job or your activity in the gym, how many hours you work out.

so you have to add all that up to figure out what's your number off that bmr your basal rate like i said that number that is just what you need at rest and then figure out what's your goal like okay i want to gain this much muscle are you then adding more calories so that's how you kind of figure out that's the formula and it goes both ways whether it's losing body fat or not it's but you need to know and i think people just don't know yeah people just don't track like i think uh like even some of my friends that i've tried to talk to you about diet and stuff They're just like, look, I'm eating so much. Like, I feel so full every meal, but I'm not getting any size.

And, like, you write down what it is and, like, I don't know what they're eating. Maybe basic bodybuilder diet with chicken rice, right? Which is, can be low calorie. Super fucking low calorie. Because it's super lean, right? Yeah. So they're eating that. They're like, oh, I'm eating so much of this and it fills you up fast because it's just like, I don't know.

It's nutrient dense, yeah. But I'm only, you're only really having, let's say, like, 2100 calories or something like that. in a day, whereas you should be having $3,000 or $2,900, wherever maybe. It's super common, man. Like, that's one of the most commonly asked questions I get on the Internet. Yeah. Is I eat so much.

And I can relate to that because I was the same exact way when I was younger. So the thing I keep trying to drive home is, like, it is important to pick, like, because certain foods are going to make you feel better, are going to make me feel better. It's going to make us feel different. Yep. And everyone listening.

And then understanding that and then being like, okay, where do you want to try, sticking with that and then tracking it for sure and then on top of those three things is then listen to your fucking body and so then but then you say that to people and they're like the fuck does that mean so it's like what are some ways because i have some but i want because obviously i want from your perspective right now because if people clicked on this video they want to know your secrets they're like what is it just tell us about steroids um so well from your experience right what are the things that you paid attention to the most when you were like going

this learning process and still i guess you still pay attention to them with me um sleep is a huge thing i mean how much you're sleeping like like a lot of people will i know like almost everybody is woken up some morning and felt like felt like crap they've just been like okay but they don't look at why they felt like crap what did they do the previous day or before they went to bed so um what i really focused on is making sure that i'm getting enough sleep and getting good quality sleep which a lot of people don't do you know dude you know what man last night oh my god oh i want to share this story it's it's actually has to do exactly what he said but um i was like the last two nights i had a really hard time sleeping i was like fuck what is this why is this so

difficult and it's like i always know the fucking answer i was like this is what i'm going to do i'm going to stop being on my fucking phone at night that blue light is keeping my melatonin from not producing itself and i'm literally sitting there like fucking scrolling Instagram, like wondering why I don't have enough views or likes, right? Or whatever you guys struggle or stress about or what are you guys doing on Instagram? We all have different struggles. But anyways, I'm looking at it and two nights. That was the last two nights.

So last night I was like, fuck this shit, turning my phone off at like 10 o'clock. And then I'm going to like lay down on the floor. I'm going to meditate. I'm going to relax. I put some incense on, you know, made it like super vibe in my room by myself. But I still anyways, it's super calm But it turned on, you know, my salt lamps I felt real good

And I let about 45 minutes go by So it's like So 11, well yeah, almost 11 So like 1045 I'm like in bed And I'm super relaxed I wake up this morning I feel amazing Yeah, this is exactly it

You gotta pay attention to shit like this And I would say number fucking one Well number one is water Number two is sleep And then all this other stuff that we worry about Like diet's very important no going to be wrong, but I feel like water, obviously you can't fucking live without it, sleep, you can't live without it, diet, like you can figure things out.

I feel like the most important things are drinking enough water daily, that's going to make you feel like a different person, and then getting enough sleep nightly, that's going to make you feel amazing. Like those two things will change your physique, I guarantee it, before anything else, and then the diet, and then you get into all the niceties about what kind of diet, what works for you, how much, how often, like, what kind of training, what kind of training, those are the things all come following um and yeah so you've seemed to have mastered this at such a young age and that's really impressive thank you that's really impressive um but tell us the fucking

secrets bro what are the fucking secrets dog you know they're out there like we want the secrets yeah i know that's what i mean a lot of people want like one specific trick right yeah it's just one thing there's but there's nobody knows exactly how your body works either than you you got of you don't you got to figure it out so sticking with staying consistent with one thing and seeing how it works for you it may take a while and i know a lot of people don't want to hear that but it are just being real yeah is that it does take what like you've been training since you said you're 15 16 yeah and and i'm about to be fucking 30 next this what fucking day is it fucking like 20 some days bro how many days steve i don't know steve i'm may i may 22nd

oh that's what's right when we're leaving yeah i'm about to be fucking 30, dude. Holy shit. You're fucking, how old are you? Fucking, God damn it. This motherfucker's almost half my age.

Oh, shit. It's all good. I love it, actually. But, no, you're 100% right. Like, this is, this is all the truth. Like, I've done so many years of doing this.

And, like, the thing that I realize the most is that no matter what your circumstances are, no matter what you do, like, steroids, not steroids, all this shit. I think it's really important

tell people listening that all of it matters and people like to think that it's some one thing that oh if you just do this or you do that one thing and there's going to be some magic thing the thing is if we're all one person then yes we figure out what one thing works for all of us but we're all not yeah and understanding the individuality and all this is the most important thing and listening to your fucking body no matter what you do no matter what path you take no matter where you are like you need to learn if you want to maximize your physique what you feel like what when when you're giving you you're giving your body basically food nutrients sleep water these things it's giving you feedback all throughout the day and it's being able to

listen to that and like how do you listen to it yeah um so you were saying a few things about how you do it and then i probably cut you off with some stupid-ass story i don't know but yeah something about age but let's give us give them more insight on the things that you pay attention to the most daily daily yeah so right when i wake up in the morning i make sure that and i mean supplementation sometimes you need to like sometimes you need to supplement uh the micronutrients and stuff because you may not be able to get like enough from i don't know who wants to eat three packs of spinach a day or something like that so um making sure that you're getting those like i thought you just popped the cans and they just shot up and you've seen pop out right yeah okay i know

you're very young but that's you still know he like just you just grab the can and it just shoots yeah and it's just fat that's not what you do no that's what I do so you got the one yeah I just yeah I got all the tricks bro I'm fucking about to be 30 damn I pop the thing and it shoots him out it's done game over yeah easy yeah go ahead sorry so it's like I can sit here and talk about this for hours honestly no I want to I want to the things that you focus on that's because that's that's what people can actually benefit from it they're willing to listen to this So, I mean, as we said, the sleep, the water, try to think what else is specific to just making sure that also eating frequency is a huge thing.

So, I mean, a lot of people will eat six, seven meals, which, I mean, it's okay, you're trying to eat as it's just a different type of diet. With me personally, since I'm eating ketogenic, eating frequency is like a huge thing is that you want to give your body enough time and your digestive system enough time to recover because it's not just like. Don't not just training that your body physically needs to recover. It's also your digestive system. So when I'm eating three meals a day and then within a 12-hour period, that's what I focus on is that I'm giving my body enough time to rest. I'm giving enough time to recover so that the next day I can come back and just kill my workout, eat the right foods I need to eat, and not feel like crap.

Yeah. So, okay, so not feeling like crap. I'm trying to think of the things that I do. man i've done a lot since i've gotten older um do you ever do you ever like do you ever meditate um lifting's like a form of meditation it's like it's never really like uh targeted you know sometimes i'll just relax and just focus on just whatever i'm going to be and just doing nothing yeah or when i'm in the gym obviously yeah it's a form of relaxation it gets you have you ever noticed because you've been doing the social for a while like a year and a half now yeah

does this fuck you up oh 100% so like like I mean it's uh it's hard because like you're just once your life is

like once you do it a lot yeah you're just naturally you're picking up your phone so like I mean I don't know comments reading comments looking at likes

looking at views and it really can mess with your mind fucks you so making sure that you just get the time to just be by yourself or do whatever you actually just love to do Like, I know you just, sometimes I'm sure you just go in and just train because you love it.

Yes. And I'm the same way is that sometimes you just need to set the phone down, set the camera down, and just do it. That's what, and hey, isn't it, I, I already, I know my answer to this. I wonder what yours is. When you do that, you put everything away, are your workouts better? Oh, 100%. Oh, my God. Oh, like, it's crazy because when I started all this shit, this wasn't a thing.

Like this was not a thing Social wasn't a thing I just trained because it fucking felt good And I noticed along my whole journey Like that was the thing that That kind of just kept me the most sane And it was a thing that I didn't get to do the most Because it was always about then

Trying to make content Trying to give views Trying to get likes Trying to like further everything that I was doing And I'm absolutely 100% grateful For everything that I was able to create And I want to make it better I just noticed that there's moments

Where I'm like fuck some part of me wishes it could just be that way but then again like that's life and life doesn't work that way it's like adapting to what you have um so how have you adapted to this new thing okay so the past two months just before i came here a couple weeks before i came here i was in spain yeah for two months playing soccer yeah we got to talk about this i sat down uh well i still i still posted just not as frequently like right now i'm posting once twice a day on my instagram and then working opposing twice a day god damn you shitting on me and uh fuck and like i've gone back into it but i was there and i needed that period of time

where i was just able to just focus on what i love doing and just training and then and just really developing my skill and i just regain that love for it again yeah that's kind of that's that's that's where i feel like i'm starting to yeah get to like want to want to do it more because at some point if something if something feels like you have to do it just like when you're in fucking school you're like the teacher's like you gotta read this book you're like fuck that book but then your friends like yo's books dope you should read it what the fuck was i saying uh sorry excuse do you remember where we saw that was like a the audio messed up they're talking on youtube and stuff oh yeah you went fucking viral that video

went viral yeah that shit went viral viral like stoo like 10 million yeah it's like 12 million now it's crazy dude you and i was and i was looking at your page it was like a lot of your shit goes viral decent amount of it yeah just did you think it's just because the look uh i think it's just something like i mean there's not a lot of kids my age fucking me this i mean there's a lot of kids your age there's definitely not a lot of kids you do this or even yeah like not at all yeah that's right zero or one you yeah so i i i really just don't it's just something different right i guess people like watching something that's different and being original to yourself and creating your own content and not just looking

off of other people's stuff it's i it's allowed me to develop my own personal confidence and skills and in the work I do and the editing the talking the filming the training everything you enjoy it yeah but you enjoy soccer more yeah so tell me about Spain Spain was uh definitely an experience was my first time going over to Europe so the whole level of play was like completely different right were they better yeah they were a lot better like a lot better yeah like a lot better oh shit so uh it's just I I I was training so what happened usually was I would train three times a day yeah two times a day with the team and then I do my own personal gym session just to keep a two times a day with the team

what kind of training is that usually it's either two field sessions so that's like intensive cardio intensive running drills sprints drills all that tactical work two sessions like that two of those or one gym session and one one team session so what's it how does a gym session with the team different from your gym session? A lot of it is just more for like functionality, recovery and just appropriate, obsessive stuff, single leg stuff? Yeah, okay. First like bodybuilding. Yeah. Okay. And I mean, it's a little bit different, but there's still some implementation of strength training and bodybuilding stuff just to make sure body's working properly and stuff. Okay. What did you find most challenging? Definitely playing with players from other countries. Like, uh,

My, the academy I'm playing with is actually from, it's from Sweden. Okay. But we went to Spain and there was kids from Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad, and in the States. Yeah. So playing, me being a smaller player, playing against a six foot, six foot tall. I was going to say, because soccer players traditionally are fucking tall, aren't they? Some of them, but a lot of defenders are tall. So the physicality aspect was definitely something that was different and I wasn't used to.

Yeah, because the range on, like, someone, you said, how tall? Six foot, one, two, like, most of them. Yeah, a lot of them. And so then the range, like, because for me to reach to a ball over there, then you to reach to the same ball is different. Exactly, and sprinting. It's like basketball, when you're, like, you know, you're playing, and then you look at the NBA and you realize, wait, like,

these guys are seven foot tall, and they go from here to here, like, real quickly, real differently. Mm-hmm. It makes a difference, for sure. But also at the same time, in Canada, where we play, the style plays a lot more like we we play with height right in Canada and rather than playing with skill so even though these wait a second you play with what with height height yeah rather than playing with skill what does that mean so uh I don't know shit about I know I know there's a goal and then everyone fucking yells goal and they make it it's like

lit I know I don't know much else a lot of the coaches and managers and in Canada will tend to pick the tallest players so they'll put them they'll put them up top and they'll kick the ball up and they'll just run for the ball like just like in sort of like in hockey they'll they'll just use the tallest players and try to get them to body everyone else off the ball in europe it's different where it's more about playing uh playing tactical and play technical so the ball's more on the ground and the smaller smaller players seems like more finesse yeah versus so okay so you're saying in europe it's more finesse in canada it's more like it seems like physicality yeah so you're used to that then you're more used to that then yeah i was i was used to it uh

but the speed of play and the aggression from the players from the other countries was a lot higher. Oh, shit. A lot higher. So what, anything crazy happened? Nothing super crazy. I mean, a few opportunities. So we played against this team called RCD, Español. And it's actually like, it's like a first-tier team.

We did pretty well against them. We ended up losing one to one, but still played pretty well considering we'd only been training together for a few months. I actually got the opportunity now So I'm here for a month until the 22nd As I said Yeah And then I'm back home for about a month And then at the beginning of July

I believe I'm going I'm going to be going over to Sweden To train with a second division That's dope Team for a couple weeks Or second tier team Which is like the second level To train with them for a couple weeks

And then I'm over to Portugal For three or four more months To do To training underneath SE Braga, which is like a first-year team in, in Portugal. So they're still fucking with you? Yeah. Because I don't know, I don't know how that goes,

but obviously if they're still moving you around to go do this stuff. It's a good thing. Yeah, it's like, it's a good thing because right now I'm in that stage where I'm trying to get just into the system, right? Yeah, pay your dues probably. Yeah, and like that, okay. So like going into training underneath SCBraga is like, it's like an academy, right? So the root is directly to the top level, which is good.

Okay. So you're killing it then? I think so. I don't know. You can be humble, but I just, I don't know enough to be like, oh, he's killing it. Because I would just say if you were, but he's doing good then. That's what this means? Yeah, like, there's still a long way to go.

Still long. Of course. You really get the attention to the situation when he does get the opportunity, but he's definitely making steps in the right direction. My man, fuck yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Okay. So you're going to be.

here for like another month till the 22nd to your birthday so when my oh yes fuck uh when my when my my weak ass arm recovers which i feel like today you know no not today maybe like two days it'll be perfect um we got to film some more content for sure yeah we got to make some more viral content some more 12 million yeah i'll be me and then um i'll come out with uh just a belt on and small shorts and then i'll get a tan and i'll be larry and we'll just film it So it'll be like me, and then we'll film to the side, then we'll cut it, and then it'll be me but larry me. And then also squat 200 more, 300 more pounds than I normally do.

And then so then we'll make another viral video. And then slam your belt on the ground. Yeah, throw the belt out, yeah. And then we'll make another viral video, no problem. This was awesome, man. This was, I think this was better than the first one. I think so, too. Yeah.

You're able to talk about it a little bit more and give a little more detail. All the secrets, the secrets. But I really appreciate you coming I appreciate you doing this again Thank you for having us You're always fucking awesome man Like I want you to know Whatever, I don't know your parents

I know your parents are awesome I talk to them for a long time too You guys are just Super fucking respectful Super cool like About what you're doing And I appreciate you coming And I'm glad to call you a friend

And hopefully next time we do this There's more that you come back Because it's one of these days I want to put you on here And you're like the fucking man Doing sark Because that's what you really want to do it's the soccer thing last time we were here yeah just thinking about going to

yeah and then uh that's what i'm saying man i want one of these times come on and be like yo i'm fucking signed to like you know i don't know i don't know what it would exactly that'd be that'd be that'd be amazing man and i hope you have that thank you and i think i think and i know just from some talking you definitely have the work ethic like if it's there for you you'll get there thank you so i appreciate you man thank you so much make sure you guys subscribe to the youtube turn on the post notifications check tristan out um on all his shows you got Instagram, he has YouTube. You can just Google YouTube.

Interestingly, you'll find it with a Y. And then, yeah, to everyone listening again, I'm going to be posting these once a week. I'm thinking, once you a day, like Friday? Not Friday. Wednesday? I think every Wednesday. What do you think, Steve?

Every Wednesday. Every Wednesday. Steve has helped me with this stuff on the back end, by the way. So shout out to Steve. I appreciate the help, man. Yeah, I'm fucking back. Yeah. I'm all the way. You're going to see too. Just wait. I got all the secrets.

Anyways, I love you guys. I appreciate all the support. I'll see you soon.