What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the real bodybuilding podcast. This is episode number 112 and I'm here with Mr Nicholas Blyu.

Hey, what's up? How are you man? What's going on? I'm fine. Thank you. I appreciate the invitation. Yeah, I'm happy to have you on. I wanted to have you on for a while. I've always thought your physique was pretty incredible.

The first time I saw your physique was,

I believe when you competed against haughty.

Was it haughty at the? What show was it? Yeah, that was the Portugal Pro. That was in 2018.

Yeah, I think I remember you getting ready for that show and I remember watching the buildup of you getting ready for that show on your Instagram and I'm like nobody's gonna beat this guy. I was like this I couldn't believe the physique I was seeing and then haughty showed up and the rest is history but so I want to get into a couple different things but I think the reason mainly I want to get you on was you recently announced your retirement. Yeah, that's.

Do you want to, I want to talk a little bit about that because I think it kind of came as a shocker to everybody because

we're all waiting for you to kind of come back to the stage and

then all of a sudden this and this announcement came up so do you want to talk a

little bit about that?

Yeah I mean I can understand the fact that people feel like shocked by the new.

The thing is, it's something I actually thought about it

for almost two years because after the olympia in 2018 that was my

last show we have decided with Patrick tour we have decided to take a break the year after and in order to drop some weight because my big struggle was the weight.

Okay. Because I would drop too much weight and yeah, that was a lot of work, a lot of pressure.

So we said, okay, let's do one year off, you know, and let's drop some weight and that's actually what I did and yeah I stepped

away for almost a year and I had a normal life for a year.

So, I mean, I was going to the gym, of course, and I was doing my thing that it's not the same.

I mean, when you prep and when you just train. So that was pretty hard to come back because I wanted to compete the year after so that was last year in 2020 yeah and honestly I needed like

probably four months just to mentally be on track because I was away too much from

this sensation, you know, like being a machine every day when you wake up and so I had to work on that for almost four months just to get back. And then my physics started to change a bit,

so everything was coming back slowly.

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