You're going to. What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the real bodybuilding podcast. This is

episode number 149 and I'm here with the most talked about man and bodybuilding or one of Mark

Hector how are you man I'm good thank you how are you dude we have been talking about I'm good we have been talking about, I'm good, we've been talking about you, mostly because of me, I'm sorry, every episode for like the last four

episodes because we're expecting like really big things.

Is that putting more pressure on you or do you enjoy the press?

To be honest, I've been getting quite a few people send me through

links saying you've been talked about again on the podcast and to be honest I do really appreciate it but in terms of pressure I don't really feel no pressure for me if anything it's it's giving me extra motivation yeah I think

because I'm preparing well for my show I've got my own expectations of myself what I

want to achieve anything from the outside I don't really see that as a pressure. It's just do what I need to do following the plan and I'm sure everything will land exactly where it should be.

Are you always like that Mark or do you ever get the sense of like is it because you're still new and you're still kind of under the radar or is it like do you ever feel pressure is it just this time around things are different so there's not that much pressure?

I think this time is completely different because normally when I compete I'm the sort of person who don't really put much content out. I'm happy to do this normally go along the prep, not really share what I'm looking like, not really talk about what I'm doing,

not putting that much content where I thought this time around the way social media is going as well, I think it's important to put yourself out there so people can see what I'm doing.

So for me, I wouldn't say that there's necessarily like a pressure on myself or anything like that. It's just I just wanted to put more out there so people know what I'm doing.

What happened? What was the what was the change?

Why decide to put yourself out there more than previous shows?

Well, the last time I competed was 2020.

Yeah.

And I took 2021 off to put on more size and I think after I competed in 2020

it's quite good because people were talking about me and there was I would say there was a little bit of a hype and then

2021 it's almost like you've forgotten about no one see you compete, no really know what's going on so

it's almost like you're forgotten about bodybuilder again.

I think this time around I wanted to to put more out there so people know exactly what I'm doing, what I'm

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