Welcome, everyone to the R.B. Strength podcast. I am Nick Shaw and join now by always on Dr. Mike. What's up, man? How are you?

Mr. Nick Shaw, I'm doing well. I hear that you are very close to a competition in men's physique and you are depleted and le miserable, no.

It's really interesting because you kind of think you get to like the last week and you're like,

God, man, I can't wait for that last week.

It's going to be like just so much better because you're not dieting.

You're just carrying around so much fatigue that you're like,

fuck, when does it get better?

Cumulative fatigue is a very interesting animal.

I've been ruminating on this actually lately because today, really,

if you count in macros is my first day of a delode where I go back to maintenance,

as I've been doing in all delodes on this contest prep, and it's been serving me like a huge world of benefit. And that first day

of higher macros and much lower activity and relaxation, it seems psychologically, you would

think like, you know, the ah effect, like when you finish a big exam at school, you're like, ah, like you get that psychologically, sort of, but it's like this like just wind blowing over the desert for a second. And you're like, I'm expecting a hurricane. Like, nope, that's all you get. And the rest of it, you get that effect slowly over the next three or four days because fatigue really does accumulate. It really does take days to fall. Like yesterday, I was hanging out with some friends and I was technically already on deal with it, but I was just like nervous and so tired and brain dead. And they were like, well, you're done, right, for a little while?

And I was like, yeah. But it's like, you know, I'm still here. It's like, you know, the hero in the movie that saves the day and gets a bunch of cuts and bruises and a gunshot. And like, you know, the terrorists are all done and the police and fire a rescue come. And they're like, how are you doing? And he just sitting in the back of the plane like coughs up blood.

It's like, you know, yeah, we won, but take me to the hospital. I watched John Wick too, like recently. What a treat. Dude, he just, I mean, he gets shot numerous times and he just keeps going, like, unfazed. He just like puts his hand on his side and he just keeps shooting people in the

head i'm like all right i guess very well gunshots don't do anything to john wick yeah you got to think

if you're like like a c grade uh henchman and you see like three people get killed by him one guy

shoots him and he still gets killed i just like throw my gun away and raise my hand to be like

john listen i'm not that's not my day today, man. Just feel free to just, just go around me. No beef here, sir. Just dive on the floor and pretend you got shot too. Like he's shooting so many people. Doesn't matter. Um, real, real quick, back to the cumulative, um, fatigue. So you're a couple weeks after.

You're just doing a little mini-delode before you get back out of for like two more weeks?

I pushed it accidentally a little bit too hard.

And I was going to take a delode a little later.

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