Becoming an IFBB Pro Takes MORE Than PEDs - Rico Rivas || MBPP Ep. 968
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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In Episode 968, IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Rico Rivas, Mark Bell, Nsima Inyang, and Andrew Zaragoza talk about the difficult lifestyle of a Pro Bodybuilder and what it takes to become an IFBB Pro.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Believe it or no, I was 87 or 85 pounds. |
| 0:03.0 | I was super skinny as a teenager. |
| 0:05.2 | People say, oh, bodybuilder's dying. |
| 0:07.1 | Oh, everybody can get a pro card. |
| 0:08.8 | Oh, it's easy to get a pro card. |
| 0:10.2 | Oh, it's too many shows. |
| 0:11.6 | It's not like that. |
| 0:12.4 | Bodybuilder is not for everybody. |
| 0:13.8 | A lot of people think, oh, no, I am booking. |
| 0:15.6 | I am obsessed with it. |
| 0:16.6 | No, you're not. |
| 0:17.6 | You know, you're just fat. |
| 0:19.1 | That's what it is. |
| 0:20.4 | And our pros are supposed to compete more often. |
| 0:22.2 | We need the pros to compete more often. |
| 0:24.3 | So I'm doing seven meals a day. |
| 0:26.0 | Right now, I have no fans, and I start with fish, |
| 0:28.7 | and I need the fish. |
| 0:30.0 | We have to be very creative. |
| 0:31.1 | I try to do a fish nugget. |
| 0:32.5 | I try to do a fried fish. |
| 0:33.8 | I try to do burned the fish, boiling the fish, whatever. |
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