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you know what I mean?

So this is something

you can control.

You can work on that.

- You can show him.

- Yeah, of course.

You're here, please help.

Now pull it down,

like you do a lat pulldown,

and now open up...

there you go.

See, now he has

some movement going on.

The judge told me this was not coming out,

and that's why.

You know how you bring that out?

Just try this one time.

Instead of going

right into something like this,

try to go up, pull it down,

then open up, cause you create music.

This is the again what I'm saying,

you move, eyes on you.

Always start from the bottom,

legs, hamstrings, glutes.

Now arms, all the way,

straight up.

Just like... that's it,

just like that!

That's what I want him to do,

see the difference?

- You see that?

- Yeah.

Our third-place finalist,

representing Germany,

number two,

Ronny Rockel.

Let's take

the first runner-up award

and present that to...

by way of Poland, number eight,

Robert Piotrkowicz.

The first-place prize,

and moving on

to the Mr. Olympia contest...

Roelly Winklaar!

- Finally!

- Finally!

Nice job!

This what we worked so hard for!

Hey, finally...

Finally, we made it through.

Yes, finally.

We are...

up to the...

- Mr. O.

- O, nice!

The Martinez family moved

to Washington Heights, NY,

from the Dominican Republic

when Victor was six years old.

He grew up in a house

with seven sisters,

two brothers,

an overbearing mother,

and a strict,

unsupportive father.

That lack of support

and understanding

has plagued Victor's ambitions

his entire career.

Getting smaller, man!

What's up...

you're not working out, man!

Trying to,

I'm gonna get to the gym, man.

Good, good, good.

Get me a ticket or something,

I'll go!

Yeah, all right.

In 2009, Victor's sister,

Iridania, was murdered.

Iridania always cooked

meals for Victor

before his competitions.

Her absence affects him

to this day.

You say "Daddy"?

No...

So you want ice cream?

No?

I know you want...

Oh!

What was that kiss for?

That was all for me?

Victor loves returning

to his old neighborhood,

where everything seems

so familiar.

Familiar faces, familiar places.

This is a place he will always

call home in his heart,

mostly because of his daughter,

who still resides here

with her mother.

Quitting has not been a choice,

only because I cannot see myself

explaining this to my kids.

Right now,

I have to provide for my family.

I need bodybuilding to survive.

- Goddamn!

- All right, bro.

How are you doin', bro?

Fast!

Killing yourself down here,

already?

Yeah, I have to, man.

- The only way to go, bro!

- No doubt!

I'm very proud of you,

you hear me?

God bless you, bro!

My judgment day

will be seeing Steve Weinberger.

Seeing the judge,

and him telling me

if I'm ready

for the Olympia stage or not.

Yeah, look at your hamstrings.

I'm telling you, Victor,

you have a lot of work to do

before you see Steve.

Can I get two pounds?

- Two pounds?

- Yes, sir.

It's pretty intense.

It's always intense.

Somebody may ask you,

"Is it that serious?"

It's always that serious.

I'm a professional at what I do.

I'm not a fan,

I'm not a spectator,

I'm not the person at home,

I'm the man living this,

if I don't eat like this,

I don't make

conscious food choices

when it's time to make them,

every day, all day,

then the goods won't be there

when I need them to be.

This is the easy part.

If you can't do the easy stuff,

then what do you do

when life happens?

Things will come and test you.

A loved one goes

to the hospital.

It's abrupt.

You feel obligated or compelled

to want to be there.

You still gotta be in the gym

at six o'clock in the morning.

You still gotta

start your meals,

so for you to stay focused,

it's not a sacrifice,

it has to be a lifestyle.

When you're training for

the competition, it consumes

your whole day...

bodybuilders, by definition,

most of 'em will tell you are

very self-centered and selfish.

Even if you're not that type of person,

you become that kind of person,

because you never

get away from it,

because your nutrition,

when you dieting,

for Mr. Olympia,

you can't eat out,

because you have

to weigh your food,

you have to have so many carbs,

so much protein, so much water...

you have to control

what's in the food.

- What you got?

- We got beef, chicken,

turkey, beans,

potato salad and coleslaw.

Like a bunch of marinade

and things on it?

Not it's just...

salt.

Cool, man.

Damn, ain't gonna be getting

none of that today.

You can eat seven, eight times

a day, like some people.

I'm like, "Yeah, you gotta

eat a lot of clean food."

And then the mom will say,

"Yeah, my son eats,

he eats everything..."

yeah, he's eating everything.

That's why he's not lean.

Suppose to mix this in a drink,

but goes down fine

just like this, so why not?

Most other people, they go to the store,

they'll buy some product.

They just...

and hoping for the best.

They don't know

how that actually works.

They don't know the science

behind those supplements.

They don't care,

and they're not supposed to,

I get that...

but, yeah, we're the dumb-dumbs.

We're the people

that don't know anything,

but just bein' a box of rocks

with weights,

and all this other stuff,

we're the meatheads,

we're the idiots...

we're able to do something

that 99.8 percent of the people

on the Earth can do,

which is lose fat and gain

muscle, at the same time.

They don't know

that we eat seven, eight,

nine thousand calories a day.

They don't know that we're in the gym

two, three times a day, six days a week.

Right away, they want

to just diminish your work.

By going to that one

little thing and brush it off,

they're saying, "You know what,

it's because they're taking steroids."

The overall perception

of steroids, obviously,

is something that

cheaters only use.

We are realizing now

that the truth of the matter

is any athlete

at the professional

or world-class level...

is likely using some form

of performance-enhancing drugs.

Anabolic steroids don't make

what professional bodybuilders

do easier.

It simply allows them to take it

to that extreme level.

Anabolic steroids

are basically testosterone,

or testosterone derivatives.

So in the body,

when you take a synthetic form,

it basically gets into

the muscle cell,

attaches to receptors

that are in that cell,

and then that turns on genes

in the muscle cell

that produce more protein.

That's the way

it enhances muscle size.

Many of the athletes simply

refuse to talk on the subject.

It's taboo.

Others are willing

to engage in the conversation.

Because people...

take too much of this stuff,

and don't know how to use it,

that gives bodybuilding

a bad, bad name.

The media likes to portray it

as being very sensational

but steroids aren't addictive,

steroids never killed anybody.

There's no physiological proof,

it's never been shown,

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