Fake copyright claim finetunes11/6/2023 Last year I didn’t get near the condition I needed. “It was not! It was way harder this time. Surely this year, Jason’s approach to the competition was easier because he had done it before and knew what was required? But that experience drove me on to train even harder for this year,” he said. “I competed in the same competition last year but, as it was my first time, I made many mistakes and didn’t get anywhere near the condition I had hoped. Last year, he entered his first competition but realised quickly that he was utterly unprepared. It consumed my life, I loved it so much,” he added. It is a way of living, not just a matter of going to the gym for an hour a day. As time went by then I started to grasp the nutritional side of it and how important that side of it is. I loved pushing myself and seeing little changes in the mirror every couple of weeks and learning new things about bodybuilding, like new training methods. “When I took it up I just loved it from the start. It is not that it bothered me or affected me but I decided that I would go on a holiday with friends and one of my mates was in to going to the gym, so I just got onto him and went along and was bitten by the bug,” he recalled. Jason took up bodybuilding about four years ago. There are times I would arrive at friend’s house and they would be laughing at me because I’d land in with a bag of food and a weighing scales,” he outlined. It gets to the stage that if you walk past the chipper and smelled the chips or tasted it on your lips, you would have to account for it. The thing about the preparation is if you can’t weight it, you can’t eat it. “If anything came up, like a wedding, you couldn’t eat the dinner. ![]() You have to take a step back and ask ‘how badly do you want this’? The competition preparation really pushes you at certain stages. It affects everything, like your sleep, your mood – ask my family or friends, I was a pain in the behind some of the time. “There were some days when you would question is it actually worth it, because there is no prize-money in this, it is just about a love of the sport. ![]() That said, he takes bodybuilding very seriously indeed. If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at,” he said. They were all looking at this guy with his bronze face and red beard. The competition was on in Cork and I went down to get some food and I think I stopped everyone in their tracks. I was so dark last year and I have a red beard and red hair. A friend of mine did a full body wax on me before the competition last year but I shaved this year because I couldn’t do it again. “I am quite light-hearted so I got a laugh out of the tan and oil and that. Jason doesn’t take himself too seriously, something that is vital for some of the elements of his chosen sport. I have kind of an addictive personality around this sort of thing but I love it. I love it though, I don’t’ know what it is about it. Everything, down to putting a squirt of ketchup on your food, has to be accounted for. If you know you will be going somewhere the next day, you could be up for hours the night before, weighing rice, weighing pasta, weighing salad leaves and calculating it all out on the computer. It is a matter of weighing out all your different foods to make sure you are hitting the numbers, so your body is getting enough of what you need in each category. Every day I have macro nutrients, protein, fat and carbohydrates that I have to hit. ![]() “Every day has to be planned out with surgical precision. You are only giving yourself enough nutrients to maintain muscle and to give you the energy to train, with the intensity to maintain that muscle mass but there has to be a deficit of calories to bring down the body fat and to get the condition,” he explained. The respect I have gained for my mind and body to be able to get up and train and do that when I did on such low food. “Physically and mentally, I can’t stress enough what I went through – I can’t describe it. The last six to eight weeks of the prep tested me, mentally and physically, in a way I never thought possible but to hear my name called out in second place on the day made every bead of sweat shed worth it,” he said. This involved weight training, cardio, weighting out and keeping records of every piece of food that I put in my body, right down to a single salad leaf. ![]() “I had to diet for 20 weeks to get my body in the shape that I was in on the day of the competition. “It is not for everyone,” Jason Morris told The Clare Champion, after coming second in his class at the Natural Bodybuilding Federation of Ireland competition held in Cork recently. The gruelling, and lengthy, process was to prepare him to stand in front of an audience, wearing little more than fake tan and a smile, with every muscle in his body aching. A TOONAGH man spent five months weighing every item of food that passed his lips in a regime so strict, he said it tested his physical and mental ability.
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