WEBVTT - Bodybuilding For Beginners w/ Ivy Sims & Rashad McDade 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.400 What's up everybody. I'm Gammy and this is Positively gam. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.120 As you all know, I love working out and something 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.200 I've always been fascinated by his body building. It really 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.560 takes a different level of commitment to do body building 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.479 and compete in shows. So today I have two girls 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.240 who are going to take us into this world. First, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:33.839 we have Ivy Sims. We have a friend in common 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.440 and that is Kizzy Martin. Kizi introduced me to Ivy 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.680 and so we stepped together and we also rod skate together, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.600 both of which I was really new as Ivy recently 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:52.199 competed in her first MPC bikini show and placed in 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:57.480 all four classes. We're also joined by one of her coaches, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.200 Rashad mcdaide. He is the fai under an owner of 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.240 the Hidden Gym and brings nearly two decades of experience 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:10.360 in nutrition and fitness planning, including having directed numerous fitness 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:15.480 and conditioning programs for collegiate level Division one and Division 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:21.399 two athletics. Welcome Ivy and Rasha to positively gam. So 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.160 today I want to talk about working out and getting 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.120 in shape, but really I just want to focus on 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.920 Ivy and this amazing win and body building. I mean 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.679 it was crazy. So to start off, Ivy, what led 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.600 you to getting involved with body building? I never saw it. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.400 I never saw it coming. So first, let me say 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.600 so happy to see your face and here that'd be 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:54.360 more accent, and thanks for having me on. So okay, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.680 so in a nutshale, I've been working out and you 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.880 just never know, like who you inspire, who's watching you, right, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.359 and like how social media really truly is an influence. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.760 So a couple of years ago, Selena Johnson posted that 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.280 she had dropped sixty pounds um and did a figure 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.320 competition and that was like a thought for me where 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:21.920 it ended up in the back of my head like 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.440 maybe I could, but it wouldn't be something that I 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.320 would probably commit to, but it was just a thought. Um, 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:34.200 Selena Johnson, is that the singer Selena Ja? Okay? Yeah, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.720 she posted on her Instagram and then I'm gues estimating 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.280 maybe about nine months later, Rashane Ali I believe Selena 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.320 posted a picture of Rashane Ali and her first competition, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.760 and I started paying attention, like she and I are 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:55.440 by same age or by same body type, and for 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.280 me it was like, now I'm seeing somebody that looks 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.840 like me doing it right, and so that started to 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.320 plant the seed. And then I just kind of followed 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.200 her journey on social media and I saw that she 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:15.519 had some medals and our screened shot at her win 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.840 and I was like, if I ever do this. I 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.720 was like, she's got a winning team, and that's the 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.760 team that I want. So I held onto it for 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.840 about a year. Okay, so you've been thinking about it 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:31.840 for a year before you decided to do it. Yeah, okay, okay, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.480 and ra shot. How did you get into coaching? Well, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.960 I started or thanks for having me. First of all, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.600 I started about twenty years ago. I used to run 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.760 track and I got into trek and field coaching ever 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.320 at clark Landy Diversity some other universities, and I got 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.560 into personal training and ever since then, I got into 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.960 the bodybuilding world about I want to see about seven 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.120 eight years ago, and I started my journey. Uh, wanted 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.400 to try to find a different challenge instead of running track. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.000 I want to always be still compete and bodybuilding was 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.840 one of the forms of competition I want to look into. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.360 So started doing compete myself and then after I did 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.040 a couple of shows and learn the business and learn 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.560 how to train athletes. That's when I started coaching. So 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.320 everybody's different. And one thing I've learned in my process 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.760 is everybody's body type is different, everybody's personalities different. So 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.880 I had to adapt in the last few years in 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.920 regards to how to train athletes. So so let me 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.400 let me ask this too, because like just just training 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.919 in the gym, because I mean, I trained with the trainer, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.000 you know, and I've done that for years, like over 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.239 ten or twenty years, I've I've trained with the trainer, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.520 different trainers, but bodybuilding and that kind of training is 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:59.279 really really different. It is really um like, so describe 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.040 what what that is like? Well, it's it's it depends. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.000 Everybody is different, right, So a lot of times I 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.200 would consider you a lifestyle client, right, So a lot 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.000 of times you have a different Everybody has different lifestyles, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:16.480 so you have to kind of transition people from the 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.000 lifestyle world to the body building work. So everybody trans 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.120 is gonna be different, whether it's your social life, whether 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.200 your mother or four mother or two, or you have 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.520 a four time job. So uh, in that process, you 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.480 have to make sure that each athlete has their own walk. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.560 If that makes sense. So let's say Fransas, Ivy, for instance, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.800 when we first met, uh, it was one of the 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.480 things that we had a conversation. In our conversation, it's 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.440 gonna be like, Okay, you work, sometimes you travel, and 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.360 you have to take all that consideration without a consideration. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.680 You have to move accordingly and set the programs accordingly, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.600 depend on everybody's uh individual lifestyle. And once you make 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:00.479 that transition, it's a different commitment. There's a whole different uh. 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.560 It becomes a lonely sport sometimes and you have to 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.919 make some sacrifices. You have to be very disciplined in 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.440 that process. That process can take it over between nine, twelve, sixteen, 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.160 sometimes twenty four weeks to get to the final goal. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.880 So let me ask you, Ivy, because first of all, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.800 I want to know how you found Rashade. Then I 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:28.000 want to know I'm really queuing in on what Rashad 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.719 is talking about that it's a lonely journey. Because even 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:36.160 for me when I first my my journey into just 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:43.120 fitness was very connected to my um my journey into recovery, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.600 and so I used fitness to help me as I 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.360 was trying to get clean right and nobody. None of 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.000 my other girlfriends were working out. That was a decision 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.920 that I made, a decision I had always been kind 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.960 of interested in and a nice tone, fit body, and 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.840 so I didn't have anybody to to go on that 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.880 journey with me. But once again, that body building commitment 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.760 is whoa that That is like when it comes to 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:19.320 eating and just the level of commitment it takes it 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.600 like you were in that by yourself. It's no question 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:28.480 about that. Yeah. So first let me say, I'm going 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.640 to go a lot of precursors. You've been on my 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:37.440 vision board for your ABS, so just say okay um. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.560 And so the first question that you asked was how 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:45.520 I find ra Shote. So when Rashane Alieve posted so 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.880 she was former host of Sister Circle I Believe with 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:53.240 Selena Johnson, and so when she posted hers, she gave 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:58.200 a shout out to Rashote and also to opposing coach Ashley. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.400 And when I screamed out that I had talked to 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.760 some other coaches. But really, I say, and I tell 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.560 Rashide this this was all in divine order because and 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.720 I get emotional because this was not something that I 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.680 was going searching for. This was something that It was 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.960 like a thought, a seed planet, you know, I acted 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.880 on that seed and I talked to a couple of 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.400 other coaches, but really, truly, in my mind, I felt 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.240 like was my coach. I felt like Ashley was my coach. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.640 And um though I talked to a couple of other 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.080 people like Rashide and I think we played phone tag 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.640 for like a week. And I was in North Carolina 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.480 and I had decided like I'm gonna go ahead and 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.680 do this because I had learned how to come my macros. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.320 I had a body fat percentage goal for myself to 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:51.720 get down to seventeen per cent, and I what is 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:56.640 that account? Macros? What? What is that? It's in a 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.160 in a easy way to describe it, think about own 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.480 in calories, but instead of counting calories, you're counting your facts, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.600 your carves, and your proteins. So you're you're just counting 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.920 your calories with you're counting them in a series of proteins, carves, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.160 and facts, so your body can take in only what 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:21.400 it needs to be ever to Like Lou, just thinking 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:26.480 about that, like I can't even count calories. Seriously, I 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.600 don't know how to count calories. It just that's the 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.199 reason why you hire a coach for you. You know 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.559 you gotta do it, just fall the plan. Yeah, yes, yes, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.280 we do the homework for you, and we set up 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.280 your mill plans, we set up your workout plans, and 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.240 then you know, all you gotta do is fall the program. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.440 A lot of times we always say trust the process. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.280 But but you're saying, Ivy, that you learned how to 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.439 do that. How did you learn how to count macros? 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.239 You know, I've done a lot of research, and I um, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.200 I think I bought a program like off Instagram to 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.960 do a workout, and she had a whole like the 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.240 person that I bought it from had a whole section 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.439 on macros and I just like did research to figure 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.719 it out. And once I got it figured out, I 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.240 was like losing my body fat percentage. But then I 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.840 hit seventeen point three and I kind of felt like 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:24.240 a climax and or plateaued I should say um. And 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.360 so at that point I started thinking, like, if I'm 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.560 not sure if I can get me there, why don't 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.920 I have somebody else help me get there? Because I'm 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.640 not getting younger, I'm getting older, I might as well 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.920 like just take the next step and just see if 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.120 I you know, see if I can do it. And 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.800 I remember he and I first talked and I said 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.120 I have a body fat percentage gold of seventeen and 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.960 he was like, but get that sevente. He was like, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.640 we're gonna be way being a seven. You know, so 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.320 you wanted it lower than seventeen, and shot, yes, yes, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.160 especially you want to compete on the NPC level. She 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.679 has to get lord in the seventeen. Then what does 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:06.160 MPC stand for a National Physic Competition? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.400 so that's the it's a governing body for amateurs to 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.880 get It's an amateur level where you can go and 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.079 get your pro card usually later on once you get 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.520 to go through a couple of shows. Okay, Now the 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:23.319 other thing that that really shocked me is that you guys, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:29.680 we're doing all of this virtually. Yes, so I understand 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.840 how you could do the plan, you know, the the 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:37.319 nutrition plan virtually, but how are you working out virtually? 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:42.040 So training her virtually, But we use the app and 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.920 within the app, um you can program all the workouts. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.560 You can put the meal plan there, you can set 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.600 the calendar for all the workouts, whether it's cardio. Uh, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.240 you wait room workouts and we do a virtual on 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.480 Saturdays and Sundays, we'll do a workout at her gym, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.240 local gym, and so she pretty much have a tripod 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.560 of and I walk her through the gym of which 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:08.040 machines to get on which and all that good stuff. So, uh, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.120 there have been moments where you know, I wish I 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.120 was physically there through those fourth reps a lot of times. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:15.880 You know how it is, when you're starting to burn 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.400 and start to hurt, you want to stop. So sometimes 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.079 I get fresh fight. I wish I was physically there 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.360 to kind of push the way for her. But we 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:23.840 had a couple of moments I was like, you gotta 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.520 work through it. You gotta work through it. But um, 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.640 she did everything. She did everything she's supposed to do 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.800 from the time we started to the time we completed. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.400 So and they say, this is what I'm talking about 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.839 when I'm talking about commitment, because I know what it's 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.240 like to be in the gym and not feel like 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.200 doing it. And especially that food part. Man, the food 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:46.840 part that the nutrition plan is just insane. You can't nothing, nothing, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.880 You're want to be consistent, right because a lot of times. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.720 That's why you pretty much eat someone eat the same 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.079 thing over and over again, because once you introduce something 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.080 new to your body, you don't know what it's gonna do. Right. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.880 So let's say if you decided two, if you're doing 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.200 creamer rice and you want to do oatmeal because it 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.200 tastes better, you might blow by oatmeal. You don't know 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.439 that it could be healthy, but your body might digest 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.880 it differently than I would with open Does that make 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.360 sense yes, So that's where you want to be consistent 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.559 and make slight changes as you go along. Just something 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.080 to ask, So Adrian, Like the last time that I 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.760 saw you, I was, I believe two and a half, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.280 three weeks into training, because I started training November one. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.480 I think we saw each other like that November sixt weekend, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:39.120 and I had all my meals prepped in the room 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.800 that weekend because I remember asking him. He said, don't 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.080 go crazy. But when you talk about it is a 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:52.880 lonely sport. Um. It is something that like in the gym, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.760 I can talk to you for a hot second, but 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.679 I gotta keep moving because and this is you know, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.320 I'm sure because I was new to it and like 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.080 trying to figure out all of the work involved. But 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.720 it would be times that I would be in the 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.880 gym three and a half hours a night, you know, 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.240 so I don't have time to have conversations at the 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.880 gym because everybody else can leave when they want to. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.240 I can't leave, you know. And and let me tell you, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.520 I would ask him for days off. But I was 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.520 pretty much in the gym seven days a week for 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.080 six months. And you know, I think when I saw you, Ivy, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.840 I don't I don't think that I knew you were 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.240 preparing for a contest. I thought you were just on 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.560 the fitness journey. But I think I mentioned it at 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.760 the tail end because I remember saying pray for me, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:41.320 because okay, because I didn't know, you know, you just 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.160 don't know. I mean, in my head, I was committed, 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.520 like I never wanna ask somebody for health not follow through. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.800 So it was a long time that I didn't say 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.160 anything to anybody because I wanted to make sure that 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.200 like I was committed to myself, you know. And I 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.640 just it's just where you feel like a submarine, like 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:06.400 deep diving into a zone and you just kind of become, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.640 you know, get up to make the donuts kind of thing. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.840 You just gotta go to the jam. It's not anything 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.720 you can really think about. You just gotta do it right. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:20.080 And I also I also understand and and the fact 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.680 that people will try to talk you out of it 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.200 or try to act like why are you doing that? 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.880 You're doing what? Why are you doing that? Girl? Please 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.400 all of that, you know what I mean. And your 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.320 journey is your journey, you know, and you you know 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.200 this was a decision that you made for you, you know, 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.440 So I give you. I give you props for actually 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.440 keeping that close to your chest and not allowing any 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.720 of that negative energy to seep into, you know, get 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.880 you off track. So I think that's important. That's important. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:00.560 So you all didn't actually even meet in person until 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.320 competition day. That's crazy to be that, I mean, that's 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.840 so insane. And I guess a lot of that was 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:13.359 because of the pandemic too, right, Well, no, not necessarily, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.479 because I mean we were gonna train online completely anyway. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.240 And even when we got to show time, Rashaw said, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.280 you know, I don't wanna come to the back. I 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.680 want you to figure out like backstage. I want you 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.000 to figure out like when it's your time, you know, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.920 and you are paying attention to that. So that we 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.720 we didn't meet until I think the show started at ten. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.360 We didn't meet until about one thirty PM, and we 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.520 did are you would you would go through a pump 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.680 just to get the blood flowing through your muscles before 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:47.240 you go on stage, and we did that over Instagram video. Um, 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:48.880 And I think it's just because he wanted me to 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.640 take ownership of what I was doing, you know, So 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.440 we didn't meet until, you know, after first round. What 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:00.200 I mean, listen, I'm still kind of flabbergas because us 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.080 You're going to a show. You've never even been to 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.960 a show to watch a show, you know, to witness 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.320 the show before. Now you're competing and you're there on 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.240 on your It just seems like an awful lot. Can 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.440 you walk us through that? That day, I got up 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:23.000 I think probably around four AM something like that, so 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.960 I could eat my first meal and then we had 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.720 to go. So I got ten the night before and 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.760 then you go get a touch up tan in the morning, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.600 so I think about six o'clock I went down, got 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.720 a touch up tan, came back up, the makeup artist 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.679 met me in my room. To do my makeup. I 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.920 think maybe I might have eaten another meal headed over 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.040 to the show. I'll also point out, like, you don't 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:49.240 get no water that day, uh, Like I think I 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.800 got less than eight houses of water on that day 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:57.120 in the morning. And because it just bloats you, yep, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.280 because I found out, correct me if I'm wrong, But 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.600 you have water that fecia organs, and then you have 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.159 water that lives right up under your skin, so you 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.960 want to dehydrate that water so it's not bloating you 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.200 was you know, right up on the ester. Yeah, you. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.679 So you don't want to look puffy anywhere, right, Yeah. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.400 So we were at the end of all of the divisions, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.639 me and then women, So it was a long wait 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.359 m So it's obviously like nerves going on, you know, um, 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:35.040 trying to make sure that everything stays intact while you're waiting. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.159 I mean, for the most part, I think I was 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.959 in my suit and just waiting. Um. Sometimes you can 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.400 go back and you know, check out who's on stage, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.879 but it is a lot of waiting to start. And 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:50.640 then I was first one out on my class, so 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.000 I can look at all of the other women, including myself, 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.680 and were also cleaning our little legs shaking. We're looking 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.520 like chicken out on the stage. But um, you know 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:07.760 it's crazy because my personality would be I would want 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:09.720 to be on stage, but I'm like, I'm a little 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.120 too introvert for that. Yeah. And when I walked out 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.040 on stage, because I was the first one out, um, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.200 and I can hear my posing coach in my head, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.200 you know, while we were practicing, because the shot told 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.639 me like, I know you want to have things together. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.679 So he suggested that I started posing early. So I 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:31.800 started posing practice three months prior, and which was like 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.720 a god seeing because it put me in such a 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.920 great position. Um. And so while I was out there 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.359 and I hit my front pose and made my transition 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.640 to my back pose, and I could hear my opposing 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.000 coach in my head saying, make sure you do this, 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.640 make sure you do that, And I hit my back 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.560 pose and he then let me tear like my pop 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.439 of the shock like ten times through the roof, and 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.359 I was like, oh my god, I love things. I 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.639 wouldn't have never known that. I you know that that 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.560 would have been something that would have fed me like that. Yeah, yeah, 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.280 I feel you because I feel like my back. I mean, 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.720 everybody talks about my ass. My ass are fat and 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.080 flabby now, but I always felt like my back was 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.840 the best part of my body. Oh. I always felt like, 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.160 what place did you get? Because you competed in four 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:24.040 four different categories? Right, yeah, so run it run it down, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.800 run it down. Okay, I got that tr around four. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:36.160 My first place win was Masters thirty five years enough, 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.240 My second first place win was Masters forty five years enough. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.200 My third place win was true Novice. So that's all 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.240 of us competing for the very first time. And then 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.320 my uh fourth place win was open. So and which 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.800 I will correct me if I'm wrong, but open is 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.399 if you win first place and all your categories and 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.480 you are are your classes, and you win open, then 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.160 you have the opportunity to compete in nationals to try 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.600 to go pro. Is that correct? That's if it's a 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.119 national qualifying show, so you have certain shows as national 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.359 qualifying shows. So so she's Class A, she wins Class A, 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.959 and then there's if it's Class A through D, they 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.040 take all the class winners. Once all the class winners win, 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.960 they're go on stage and they'll do a pose down. 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.720 Once they to depose down with the wind. Overall, if 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.320 it's a national qualifier, you can qualify for nationals, whether 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.320 it's in Miami or Vegas or where is that that 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.240 particular year. Awesome, Awesome, And I think the audience needs 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.880 to realize just what an introvert you really are. Ivy 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:45.600 is a very quiet, suite uh person, you know what 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.720 I mean. So this, it just really seems so much 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.600 out of out of character for you. I'm just so 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.359 proud and and happy for you because you know, it's 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:58.399 it just goes to show you that just a regular person. 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.600 You know, you just a a little sweet sweetheart, and 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:06.040 this is a decision that you made for you in 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.760 your life and you and you did it, you accomplished it. 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.679 So last question, is this something that you think that 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.680 you want to do again? Are you going to compete again? 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:22.560 So if you would ask this, let's say a month ago, 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:24.280 I would have been like, let me get through the 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.159 first show. I don't know, it was just a bucket 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:34.600 list item. And after you know, mom winds uh uh, 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.200 We're gonna do another show where targeting July, and if 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:42.040 I can hang on a little bit more than we'll 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:47.760 potentially target a show in November. Oh man, that's exciting. Wow, 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:52.520 I'm surprised because I know people that that have competed 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:57.280 and just you know, they competed, they won, and they're 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.880 good and they have, you know, because it is so rigorous. 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:03.679 So to hear you say that you're gonna continue on 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:09.040 this joint journey, Wow, kudos to you, says kudos to you. 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.439 You got that. But I might have to talk to 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:18.000 you rashot about getting me a nutrition. Playing together. It 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.159 was a one a challenge that I met, you know, 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:23.880 for myself. So you know, I'm I just say I'm 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:26.639 so proud of me. You know that I was able 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:33.359 to start and finish. And I am proud of for 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.119 because I used to say, when I'm gonna get some legs, 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.240 like when I'm gonna get some legs, I'm no muscles 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.800 in my legs. And I remember when I started posing 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:46.720 and I started posing practice and I was videoing and 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:49.399 as I made just a slight move, like a muscles 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.840 popped out of my legs and I was like, you 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:57.800