Speaker 1: You got all these shredded on bleeds, all that stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: what you be doing? Man? Look at that man? You
Speaker 1: got a leg out and then then all shit all See,
Speaker 1: I'm done all my life and grinding all my life. Sacrifice, hustle,
Speaker 1: bad pricing, Want a slice? Got the bron dice to
Speaker 1: swad all my life. I've been grinding all my life
Speaker 1: all my life, been running all my life, sacrifice, hustle,
Speaker 1: bag to pricing, Want a slice, got the dice to
Speaker 1: swath all my life. I've been grinding all my life.
Speaker 1: Feel thanks for the workout. I really appreciate that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've heard of football players becoming professional bodybuilders, police officer
Speaker 1: forming police officers becoming bodybuilders, but basketball players. How Why
Speaker 1: did you want to become a professional bodybuilder? Primarily because
Speaker 1: I needed a new challenge right and I had to
Speaker 1: acknowledge at some point in time and playing basketball and
Speaker 1: card getting not getting to burn that I wanted that
Speaker 1: those hoop dreams are gonna come to an end pretty soon.
Speaker 1: And fortunately I had a friend that was already competing
Speaker 1: amateur and I was able to go to a competitions
Speaker 1: next year. You know, I have a guest poser there
Speaker 1: and saying that I should try it, right, So I say, Okay,
Speaker 1: what the heck, what's the worst thing that can happen
Speaker 1: if I try to do bodyguard. I'm gonna get in shape, right, Cool,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get in shape, right. And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I can get in one of these men's health
Speaker 1: magazines and stuff, because I thought I was being real
Speaker 1: man light skiing green eyes with a little bit of muscles.
Speaker 1: I might be able to make it work. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I started doing it, and next ye you know, I
Speaker 1: was very blessed making a career. You're from Seattle, you
Speaker 1: grew up with Jamal Crawford, Nate Burrows and Corey Dialon,
Speaker 1: Jason Terry. You got a basketball scholarship to the University
Speaker 1: of Denver, so obviously, and I tell people this all
Speaker 1: the time. If you play high school sport, you have
Speaker 1: aspirations normally to go into college. And if you played
Speaker 1: college sport, you probably want to play professional sports. Correct.
Speaker 1: When did you realize that? You know what I think,
Speaker 1: giving my height and given the situations, I don't really
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be able to play at the NBA.
Speaker 1: The sophomore year. Sophomore year, I started seeing that transition happened.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of new guys come in and
Speaker 1: a couple of Drew Cold transfers this and now, and
Speaker 1: I'm like this, and then the writings on the wall
Speaker 1: with the playing time right, when your minutes go down
Speaker 1: and your production isn't the same, and no, not getting
Speaker 1: the game reps right. The coach is making the decision right.
Speaker 1: And as much as I want to fight that and
Speaker 1: work harder and ask more questions of coach, what do
Speaker 1: I need to do? I was that guy, what do
Speaker 1: I need to do? What do I need to do?
Speaker 1: And I would do it and still didn't work out.
Speaker 1: I had to recognize that this is the team, not
Speaker 1: Phil Heats. You know team right, And I will say
Speaker 1: or coach didn't get fired at junior years, so I
Speaker 1: was like, well, maybe he was wrong, maybe I should
Speaker 1: have played. But at that point, new coaching staff come
Speaker 1: in my senior year, and what helped me make the
Speaker 1: transition was that coach was routing ly honest. He said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't know what happened, but if
Speaker 1: it were me and your freshman year, you would have
Speaker 1: already been doing X, Y Z for me. What I
Speaker 1: need you to do is be a leader to these
Speaker 1: younger people. You're a senior, you are groomed, you understand.
Speaker 1: Film helped me out, and I will make sure that
Speaker 1: you graduate. Where there's four years, five years, you want
Speaker 1: to be a grand assistant, I'll help you get a
Speaker 1: coaching gig. And I thought, okay, what's your alternative. Well,
Speaker 1: he said, I'll make it life. Hell, I said, I'm
Speaker 1: choosing option one. That's gonna make that happen. And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, you know, comparing myself to people like Jamal,
Speaker 1: you know, you know other guys with Jet and everybody else.
Speaker 1: That was tough seeing you see them make it. You
Speaker 1: played against them, Yeah, you think, well why not me?
Speaker 1: And I didn't let my height be something because I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I had a forty years vertical I was. I was
Speaker 1: an athlete, but I had to be real. I had
Speaker 1: to be real and that that was very depressing at
Speaker 1: one moment. But you know, God makes no mistakes, man.
Speaker 1: So I thought, well, let's just see what happens if
Speaker 1: I close that door, because it's definitely gonna close. That's
Speaker 1: accepting to move on, Like I said, bodybuilding opened up,
Speaker 1: and man, I trust me I didn't know I was
Speaker 1: gonna make a profession out of it going in. I
Speaker 1: just knew that it was gonna help me deal with
Speaker 1: the depression that I had not making it to the
Speaker 1: league for let alone going overseas. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I had to make a conscious effort of saying, what's
Speaker 1: the best case scenario for me? That would have been, Okay, Phil,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go play ball overseas. Let's say five years now,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven years old. Twenty eight years old with
Speaker 1: no job experience. Why did I get these two degrees?
Speaker 1: For now? The people that I graduated college with are
Speaker 1: gonna be my boss when I should know. No, there's
Speaker 1: more millionaires at Microsoft than there are, you know, in
Speaker 1: the NBA. At the time, and that was when the
Speaker 1: glea was going on. I said, this ain't gonna work, man, right, this,
Speaker 1: this ain't gonna work. You were a shooting guard, who
Speaker 1: would you compare your game too? D Fish? Derek Fisher? Okay?
Speaker 1: All my homies was to be like, that's d Fish
Speaker 1: right there? Man, Like uh, playing with a with a
Speaker 1: pro in high school with Jamal of course he's getting
Speaker 1: them off of you. And I'd be left wide open.
Speaker 1: I knocked down the jumper because I knew wouldn't getting
Speaker 1: that ball back if I didn't, so I made sure
Speaker 1: that I could protect the ball. I was a really
Speaker 1: good defender. I was very strong. I could pass well,
Speaker 1: and I could get defenders off of me with you know,
Speaker 1: my handle was good. It wasn't spectacular, but it was
Speaker 1: good enough to not turn the ball over and run
Speaker 1: the offense. And I wasn't never a liability on defense, right,
Speaker 1: So that's what where my game was. You're the only
Speaker 1: Eggs basketball player that I know that turned bodybuilder professional bodybuilders?
Speaker 1: Do you think any other basketball players who do you
Speaker 1: think would make a great bodybuilder? Man? Nate Robinson would
Speaker 1: have been dope when he was That would have been
Speaker 1: easy for him. Right, current guys Dame Dollar could do it.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, some of the guys are too tall.
Speaker 1: I believe you know, majority of him are too tall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to be. Yeah, majority of him are
Speaker 1: too tall. But I would say, you know, I always thought,
Speaker 1: like back when Tony Allen was playing, he was he
Speaker 1: was a specimen. I could do it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: You know there were some guys back in the day
Speaker 1: like you know Kevin Willison, David your shoulders and yeah,
Speaker 1: what Cam still works out like that? Uh, he's in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know, Shaq is really strong. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think Shack could be a bodybuilder. He's just too tall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's strong. He could put easily put muscle on. Yep.
Speaker 1: You hear these stories about Will Chamberlain and about how
Speaker 1: strong he was. We know he was a great athlete. Yes,
Speaker 1: he ran track in college. He high jumped, he long jumped,
Speaker 1: he ran to Open four. Do you think he well,
Speaker 1: he's too tall to be a bodybuilder. But what have
Speaker 1: you heard about Will? Because I think Will I actually,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, before he passed, I was
Speaker 1: out here and I saw him passed right by this
Speaker 1: very street that goes gems On and uh threw my
Speaker 1: hand up. He waved back. Yeah. But do you think
Speaker 1: guys like that? Because I'm thinking in my mind, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're a professional athlete, obviously you got disciplined. Yes,
Speaker 1: obviously you know what sacrifice two of the major things
Speaker 1: that you have to have to be a professional bodybuild.
Speaker 1: Will would have been dope just to see I would
Speaker 1: have loved to just see him try because you know
Speaker 1: me growing up watching him in those Conan movies, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you know he was still built. Yeah he was.
Speaker 1: You know, back to other athletes, maybe not in basketball,
Speaker 1: but like what about football player? What football players? You say,
Speaker 1: Kwan all Days could easily do it those legs that
Speaker 1: everybody fonds over and stuff. I mean Adrian Peterson for sure,
Speaker 1: Leon Bell, no question, DK Come on, He's the only
Speaker 1: told dude that could probably easily do with right, like
Speaker 1: with ease. Uh you know obviously I come from the
Speaker 1: air like growing up seeing Adon Sanders, you could have
Speaker 1: done it for sure, bow Jackson for sure, Herschel. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, man, you because now they have different categories now,
Speaker 1: so like where you may not do open class behind
Speaker 1: ye want to do the bos or something. I want
Speaker 1: to do the board shown. You could do that, Yeah, Chandy,
Speaker 1: you can actually you could do that. Now I can
Speaker 1: do the boy shorts, let me do I can do
Speaker 1: the board shorts. Yeah, we can do that. Uh do
Speaker 1: you train? Do you train athletes? Do you want to
Speaker 1: get that? You know, train for training other professional athletes
Speaker 1: like basketball players, football players. Uh. The the issue I
Speaker 1: have with that is the ego with their crew. It's
Speaker 1: the crew that want to dictate what they do, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to disrupt anything they have going on. Now.
Speaker 1: I have some friends and you know in NFL, MLB,
Speaker 1: this and that that of DN me, Hey, what do
Speaker 1: you think of this? This and this? I'm there for them.
Speaker 1: You know. One of my really good friends is Tim Grover.
Speaker 1: We talk you talk to some of his clients as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: would I want to do that. I believe the person
Speaker 1: has to be extremely culturable. And I'm not saying this
Speaker 1: for from an egotistical standpoint. They would have to come
Speaker 1: to me. I'm a man of service. So if they say, hey, Phil, like,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm thinking, or if they let's say
Speaker 1: they were getting ready for a photoshoot for a magazine,
Speaker 1: you know, digital magazine or something, this is what I've
Speaker 1: been told. What do you think? Where can I meet you? Fine?
Speaker 1: I got you. But yeah, to say that's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do now, no, because the egos man like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna deal with some egos, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're going to accept the diet as well and then
Speaker 1: not party in anymore. Because look, we already know the
Speaker 1: stuff that you guys talk about on your show, these
Speaker 1: guys go out and it's hard, you know. I've talked
Speaker 1: to different rappers and entertainers and stuff. I'll give them
Speaker 1: the diet, it's on them the train, but then I
Speaker 1: see on the IG they're out three four in the morning. Right,
Speaker 1: So it's a waste of my time. And I don't
Speaker 1: like waste of my time. Yeah, but I think it's
Speaker 1: it would be really hard for you, someone that's so
Speaker 1: focused and to because people won't inst the gratification they want.
Speaker 1: You give them a program, you train them and in
Speaker 1: two weeks, but I don't. I don't see any different, right,
Speaker 1: And then they got their friends telling them all, you
Speaker 1: don't need that you do this, and I'm like, really
Speaker 1: it takes time, brother, Like let's let's let's think about this.
Speaker 1: But what I will say is more athletes who are
Speaker 1: now retired have come forward because they want to maintain
Speaker 1: and they recognize that hey, I played football, I played baseball,
Speaker 1: I'm interested in just getting healthier. This is what I heard.
Speaker 1: What do you think? And I'm like, yeah, I can
Speaker 1: be your consultant now. Yeah, how difficult is it to
Speaker 1: now that you're not competing competitively for you to maintain
Speaker 1: your weight, maintained like, Okay, he was a bodybuild. I
Speaker 1: can I can see even though he's not competing, I
Speaker 1: can see that he was a bodybuild. Yeah, souse. Do
Speaker 1: you see a lot of athletes football, fastball players and
Speaker 1: they just that's a lack of discipline. I think I
Speaker 1: think they also put their identity in just that sport.
Speaker 1: For me, yeah, I won seven mister Olympic titles. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm in my era. I'm definitely the goal in my era.
Speaker 1: I know that. But that's not who Pheil Heath is. Right,
Speaker 1: It's not gonna read on my headstone one day, Right,
Speaker 1: It's gonna read just my name and what my contributions
Speaker 1: are to the world. My biggest thing is I always
Speaker 1: want to live a healthy lifestyle. I want to I
Speaker 1: always would say I want to be the black Jack Lelane.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to do at all. Right,
Speaker 1: I want to show that just like I pivoted from
Speaker 1: basketball to bodybuilding, I should be able to lose weight,
Speaker 1: which I did. I lost thirty five pounds. I'm like
Speaker 1: two forty five, two fifty five that I say. And
Speaker 1: that's my comfort right now. If I wanted to do
Speaker 1: another show. I can easily blow up back up to
Speaker 1: two seventy five and then come back down if I
Speaker 1: want to. If I want to run a five k,
Speaker 1: that's one of my goals. I want to. Oh, I
Speaker 1: want to be able to do it by the time
Speaker 1: I turned fifteen years old. I'm forty two now. I
Speaker 1: want to be able to say I want to be
Speaker 1: able to run a five K. I want to be
Speaker 1: able to do different stuff. There's different feats of strength
Speaker 1: that I want to exhibit to show that I can do.
Speaker 1: I'm an athlete for the rest of my life. You
Speaker 1: know what. I was just thinking the guy that would
Speaker 1: probably be the best body builder of them all, of
Speaker 1: all the guys we mentioned, TiO. I think I think TiO.
Speaker 1: I think TiO has the best gifts. I think so too,
Speaker 1: and I know, given the right motivation, he would do
Speaker 1: the work. Yeah. Oh yeah, he very He's very motivated,
Speaker 1: very motivated. Chip on the shoulder. Ye, he'll do it. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know he's want Yeah, I didn't even think about
Speaker 1: that sport. Sorry, yeah, sorry about that too, But yeah,
Speaker 1: what about boxing? Mike Tyson Dean. I think Deantre Widder
Speaker 1: has at Walder with but so long he is long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyson for sure, easily, Yeah, Spence maybe, Roy Roy Hagler easily.
Speaker 1: Haggler for sure. He was one of my favorites. Uh,
Speaker 1: because he was just thick, right, you know, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of some other cats man Like it's that's
Speaker 1: tough because you don't have to be shredded to box.
Speaker 1: But I for a Vander yes for sure. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he had those round deals. I mean he was and
Speaker 1: he you could tell that he was strong. Yes, you
Speaker 1: could tell he was. He worked out me Lee Lee
Speaker 1: Lee Haney trained it for a while and then he
Speaker 1: got too bustle about it. He needed to get away
Speaker 1: from that type of training. Yeah, who's your favorite team?
Speaker 1: When you watch sport football? Who's your favorite football team?
Speaker 1: You know? It just happened this last week with Seattle
Speaker 1: and Denver Man. I'm from Seattle. I got a root
Speaker 1: for both. I'm fortunate that they're not playing in the
Speaker 1: same you know conference, I know, and being from Seattle
Speaker 1: watching our bus get whooped every time, I mean we
Speaker 1: didn't have a squat at all. So it was great
Speaker 1: for me. It was great to move to Colorado and
Speaker 1: see you win a Super Bowl and then still live
Speaker 1: there and see another Super Bowl and then see Seattle
Speaker 1: win one. I'm happy those are my teams. Like I
Speaker 1: always tell myself, you're born in one, you resided in one,
Speaker 1: you can have to as long as they're not in
Speaker 1: the same conference, I can pick them. But I've met
Speaker 1: so many of these athletes from different teams. I root
Speaker 1: for the individuals NonStop. You know, I just want them
Speaker 1: to I want them all to win. I truly do,
Speaker 1: and I want them to do it the right way
Speaker 1: and stay healthy as much as they can. You know,
Speaker 1: we want them to take care of their bodies, especially
Speaker 1: the off season, you know, more and less time on
Speaker 1: the social media's right. Yeah? What about basketball? Who's your team?
Speaker 1: Who's your player? Oh? My gosh, all time or just
Speaker 1: now now now? Oh now, that's tough, man, because I
Speaker 1: love Lebron man, He's dope. I've always been a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: even though growing up Seattle. But they took my team away.
Speaker 1: So you know, they took my team away. I'd say Lebron,
Speaker 1: But then also I like Dame Dollar Man. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a dog bro. Like he's sticking with Portland, Like that's
Speaker 1: the closest team from my hometown that I can rock with.
Speaker 1: You know, I had season taken for the Nugget for
Speaker 1: the years, so I got to see a lot of
Speaker 1: good players. But I respect the champions. I respect, you know,
Speaker 1: guys like Greek Freak, you know K D. Lebron. These
Speaker 1: are guys that I mean god given talent. Steph Curry
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean I've been fortunate to see his
Speaker 1: game evolved because I'm old enough to say it. He's
Speaker 1: not a defensive liability. He shows so much confidence and
Speaker 1: in fact, he's made more people believe in themselves for
Speaker 1: shooting that jump shot as far as he can. So
Speaker 1: I mean those are like guys that I that I
Speaker 1: paid a watch the all time favorite players who Jordan
Speaker 1: or all time? I mean, for me, it's it's I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: never thought of seeing. I was able to see him, yeah,
Speaker 1: play against the Sonics one time. My stepdad had tickets
Speaker 1: and I got to see. It's like my jaw drop.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just incredible. You know, maybe young kids
Speaker 1: don't know, but like it was, it was just an
Speaker 1: era yea. And what I loved about Jordan is that
Speaker 1: he prevented epic guys from getting a title. Epic guys,
Speaker 1: he shut it down any but number my one, that's
Speaker 1: my one, A my one bs COVID. Yeah, because just
Speaker 1: the like fearless. Yeah, he's fearless, Like he's like no
Speaker 1: and you knew it. Like ultimate competitor, Ultimate competitor. I
Speaker 1: just love high competitive people that will that will put
Speaker 1: it on the line all the time and tell you
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do and they do it. Feel all
Speaker 1: my life and running all my life. Sacrifice Hustle Bay
Speaker 1: the Price, Wanna Slice? Got the roller Diceess why all
Speaker 1: my life? I've been running all my life, all my
Speaker 1: life and running all my life? Sacrifice Hustle Bay, the Price,
Speaker 1: Wanna Slice, Got the rolling dice? Thats whait all my life?
Speaker 1: I've been running all my life.