The Career-Ending Mistake Bodybuilders Often Make When They Find Fame & Success | Mike O'Hearn Show

[Music] I've learned a lot over the four Decades of health and fitness and being in the trenches with the greatest in the world and one of those things I've learned a lot more about and how to build better muscle is nutrition and how it has changed over the decades and that's why I have the Titan meal plan for you guys out there that are confused about nutrition I'm going to set you straight get a hold of me today the link will be in the comments down below for you guys everybody get over to the Titan meal plan and I'll see you in the Titan crew where I will fine-tune any difficulties that you're having it seems like you and I had the same experience about when I dropped I dropped because my my mom died and he was one of the was the first person and only person that was there for me at that time and and uh I I struggled through this uh broken heart but I could see myself and I said I need to go through this myself and don't let others pull me out and find out what my passion and and reason for life again is and it was a hardship uh but it was a cool thing that I could I I think I understand that you're saying that I could see myself going yeah you're hurt you're broken and all this stuff but just stay true to who you are and find even more passion for who you are um instead of being blinded by it and being an ass to everybody cuz feel bad for me everybody feel bad for me cuz this happened to me and I think that's that's a beautiful thing to where you take the responsibility yourself going I'm not going to use this as a crutch I'm not going to try to get sympathy from it I'm just going to move forward and appreciate that she raised a good son and and she was a great mother in that sense we had the continuation of our parents right yeah I mean like uh just imagine that let's say if we are uh let's say an an iPhones I mean our parents is let's say uh iPhone 4 we are a iPhone 15 so it's like we are the continuation of our parents the way I look at it it's just like when I see my dad when I see my late dad my late moms when I see them it's just like I see good in them so I just pick that those things and then I put it in myself uh they are now living in every sell of my body so it's just like I'm the iPhone 15 the latest one so I'll make make sure that I'm I'm just taking that the what do you call it it's like a estet like a like a stick estet like like now is is is it's your turn to you're Le yeah to continue you the stick you know you run with it yeah yeah their hopes their dreams so through you so sometimes if you're miss or anything you just talk to yourself just like sometimes I I I find my mom's favorite food and then I eat it and I enjoy it it's just like I want to share with her it's just like hey Mom this is like because my mom lives here because you're the continuation you're the the latest iPhone all the good things from the iPhone I love that it's a new so it's nice no and I fully agree with that because and I've talked about this before Josh Barnett uh did a phone call Josh Barnett was the youngest UFC fighter at the time to win the heavyweights and he called me and he said uh I get it this is hard do move forward for your last name now represent them represent and and and I understand I un that hit me and I go oh okay now I was doing I was maybe a selfish young kid at the time maybe maybe that's why I was doing what I was doing and I love the hype and all that and that just completely changed me and I came out a different person when he said this do the last name so not everybody has that and I know that and I know that uh Co was hard for everybody and that and and I want people to know that Clark going through this process but because of the go also I mean it's blessing in this guys right we get together even closer so yeah when we look at the bright side if you are confused about training do not worry that's what the Titan training plan is for for you guys to subscribe to this plan you also get the additional coaching from me in the Titan private group get in there today and I cannot wait to start working with you and making your dreams come true let's get back to the show today to me is a blessing I get to sit down with a couple people and I and I said this to Tito and I said I said I don't know if this will happen again I don't know if we'll all be sitting down again but I I'm taking this day to sit down with a couple friends and go man I got this moment I got at this time so more than a podcast or anything else I'm just happy to be in the room with you guys at the same time and be able to talk about a journey a freaking Journey that we're not always together but we see each other moderately right but I know that you're that individual that puts in the work as hard as I do that's a huge thing to go I I know he's training today I know he's doing his things and I know he's got battles and I know he's got battles and and it's cool that I know I can count on those guys and talk to those guys that's that's the threadline right that holds it together even though it's on the internet because there's the mutual respect and appreciation back to the point that my daughter's boyfriend made of how many guys actually are still in shape well the ones that haven't died yet because they did it the wrong way the ones that haven't given up yet because they weren no longer in the Limelight and winning the shows and they said it's not worth it to me anymore because that's the main focus of what I wanted we can see each other and have a reunion like this with the appreciation and just come in you know just smoothly with an understanding of even 7,000 miles away we know what's going on because it's similar it's basic it's every single day and then whatever happens at a result of that how we're motivating and encouraging people might differ a little bit but it's all birthed from the same consistent effort of I don't care how old I am I don't care what the world says I don't care how many people tell me it's not possible I'm going to be that guy who inspires a nation who inspires Millions who inspires people with cancer whatever the definition is at that point of your life that's what we're focusing on and I love the fact that as we get older I think we can all agree that the focus gets more narrow and narrow and narrow and narrow and the blinders become more and more it's just like that and just straight ahead because as youngsters it's easy to get sidetracked and you know with the fame and the fortune and all the things so man so many directions we could go I had a really good opportunity with my dad with respect to losing you're talking about the Legacy and the next version and seeing the good in them and taking that and running with it I got to sit next to my dad as he was moving on to the next version of his life and my dad always taught us to keep our fingernails clean and and look nice and and we would have to show him our fingernails when he would pick us up on the weekend I love that yeah holy cow so I sat with my Dad such a weird little but I understand reason yeah when I saw my little brother the first thing he did to me was this and I knew what it was he knew what it was and nobody El because if we did this and our fingernails were dirty we had to go back in the house and clean them and then he would take us for the weekend but as I sat there with my dad as he was passing on I said listen your legacy will live on in me don't look at anything you feel like you've done wrong don't feel like I am nothing but a good man because of you and our name will continue to go on because I'm a good man I'm a good business businessman I'm a good husband I'm a good father and it's because of all of what you taught me so move on to the next life whatever that is and you will not be forgotten because all of what you taught me will go down to the next version and right there the gift that you got Mike is so thoughtful and what it brought tears to my eyes is because this is exactly what we're talking about it's that that is it it's summarized in a gift it's that time again to get my blood work done to see where my numbers are again the one big thing for me is I'm keeping track of it so precise you know I competed in body building and powerlifting and martials but that was all over decades ago and so how can I continue to keep this physique and be this strong at this stage and so that is by optimizing my health with Titan medical it all stems from one thing your blood work what's going on inside of you and that's the main thing that I'm focused about is see how I can continue to not just be in the game I don't want to be that guy I don't want to be a weekend warrior I don't want to say you got a dad bot I want to be the Pinnacle of the health and fitness industry decades after I competed and I've always said this too you got so many of these guys that were with me in the 80s and 90s and they keep putting the pictures up from the 80s and 90s I don't want to be that guy I like the fact that I can still put up pictures of me today even though I won the universe back in the '90s that's the the goal for me I don't know what your goal is but I can tell you this I know you want to live and I know you want to live your best life and that starts with blood work over at Titan medical start today so who's this for my son yeah it was not a gift for me it was a gift for my son and and the reason I could see that you did that and it hit me too is because of the uh uh uh we're here for a moment and we're getting to that point of tomorrow's definitely not promised for me um and and and I'm a I'm a late Father which I so appreciate I'm I'm glad that I get to be a late father and I get this this time with him but yeah handing down those things teaching others about health and fitness and you talk about you know the muscularity and and that strength will help you stay healthy because let's let's clear this in no way 54 in no way 60 in no way you know you should look like this is not how you should look this is no way you should be looking like this fighting cancer at 60 years it just doesn't have you're one of 8 billion really unique unique standouts because you Mo you guys motivate the motivators you know what I I mean there's the elites but you're the guys are outside of that motivating the elites do you ever just think about that and your responsibilities and is it too much at times or how do you approach this 100% 100% for me I'll go real quick when I see another man wearing cbx Clark bartrum systems on his chest I am blown away every single time how can a grown man look at another grown man with enough respect and admiration and appreciation like you said these guys own hundred million doll companies they've exited billion doll companies they're running large in and some are working day-to-day 95s but they're still a grown man with success in their life and I am literally blown away and I'm like why me how did this happen and I love the humility of that because it helps me stay grounded like I'm not special or unique in the sense of other than the discipline that I've been able and that's what they respect the consistency and the discipline so that's how I'm able to accept where I'm at but it's a healthy balance for me of really and okay I got to I got to I got to keep doing what I'm doing you know and now especially this opportunity that I find myself with is is helping me level up and it's going to that's where the focus is getting greater and greater but it anyway is it ever too much that your whole they look at you and look at you as a leader cuz they do I don't know if you know that I mean does he does he even know that the world looks at him as a leader and and someone to go to yeah is kind of humble guy yeah yeah yeah uh I mean um I grew up uh being taught that uh I mean never attached to the fruit of Your Action right so I mean it's like if I can do it and then it's uh I mean it's impact others I think we should be we should be just grateful but it's the same thing like if you want to give something to to others is not because of the like like you're expecting what is it after that I mean h how you going to use the money that I gave it to you you know it's like not not my problem so so I'm just focusing on what what I'm doing if it's give it to other it's nice uh to me I mean the the biggest Hunger is not the hungry of uh of the food or staring because of the food it is hunger of of of of meaning so that's why I mean like uh I can't I can't deal with you knowledge bomb after knowledge bomb I I speak about you and I speak of who you are and it just you just radiate that the the hunger is not the food hunger but it's how you live and we can see that and we've seen that for years and decades what I'm trying to say is just like uh let's if they said is the secret of living is for forgiving right forgiving is means like a secret of living is forgiving so it's just like when you born you didn't bring anything and then when you're pass away later you didn't bring anything so when you look at that situation you feel like what is in this Incarnation is what what I doing if you didn't bring anything and then later on you didn't bring anything also so that means during that time it's it's all about giving unless if you bring something when you die that means life is about accumulating it's about taking so what I'm trying to say is like if you're a bodybuilder what is it that you can give it to others I think one of them is a motivation so that's why when when you're uh back to our conversation when we are doing uh posing for example it's a simple things right we just doing posing like some people doing posing for self orgasm right it's just like they just wanted for themselves right yeah but actually I mean if there's some meaning behind that presentation it's just like you use your your presentation to motivate others it's just like you are teaching them by example you're the example it's just like people can get motivated by you so that's why I think that's what it's all about and then you don't take credit of that you just you're just doing it because it's just like you don't attach to the fruit or your action so I mean like I mean I always feels like that I I I mean like it's kind of nice when you feel like you're special right but to me I mean everybody's special but the thing this is just the conf conversation between me and myself I call it intrapersonal communication I think that's where where the motivation is all about uh every time I I always ask uh like a hard question to myself for example like sometimes I I'm I'm I'm just grateful that people praising me or what I'm doing and everything and then suddenly I feel like oh wow it's just like overwhelmed with all those things yeah but I I realized that it's just like true independency is like when you can be independent from from the good opinions of others I mean like you can be independent from the bad opinions of others is like hey they they say bad things about you and then you said like oh yeah it's okay it's fine don't worry about it people can say whatever they like about you right but that's the the the first level but the second level is just like when you can be independent from the good opinion of others that means like when they say good great about you I means it's like you can be fine it's okay why because it's just like Mike you're your your your shirt is like uh it's red right yeah it's like oh wow it's a nice red it's like your shirt is red it's nice red like like you heard that all the time it's just like yeah I know it's red yeah so I mean you don't get overwhelmed or anything it's just like it's just red it's fine so it's the same thing also I think when you look at the meaning of the purpose of Our Lives it's just like we want to we are here because we want to give others so if if that things success succeed then it's kind of nice it's like I think that's that's that's what it's all about I'm I'm learning here right now I I just learned I'm stuck on a video game at level one and I can't get over other people talking trash about I always want to fight that yeah no I mean that what you are focusing that's that's where the energy flows right I mean like uh our body is the accumulation of the food that you will get your mind is the accumulation of the data then and and information that that you are get so everybody have their own their own data and information especially about you which is limited so they can say whatever they say about you but based on their data it's true you're not that great to them or you're not that nice to them so why B we are like why convince them like like you try to strug struggling to convince them that you're okay yeah it's just like a I love but struggling struggling to fly like like a fish struggling to to to swim so I don't want to struggle myself to tell people is that I'm good so why why about absolutely love that that's my takeaway for the day that was literally I needed to hear that more I hear a lot from other guys that I can't quite receive it from as well as I can receive it from you cuz I do that I do struggle too much with trying to I'm like hey I'm a nice guy what's your problem then I find myself but last night I will tell you I had a good one cuz I started I I I'm like dude why are you saying this you don't even know me and then I'm like no I'm going to erase it and I erased it and I moved on yeah and I'm still fine I'm still here

Channel: Generation Iron Fitness & Bodybuilding Network

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Keywords: bodybuilding, bodybuilding mistake, success, fame, Mike O'Hearn, Mike O'Hearn bodybuilder, Mike O'Hearn Show, fitness, weight training, Ade Rai, Ade Rai bodybuilder, Generation Iron, podcast

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Length: 19min 55sec (1195 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 26 2024