"(SCRATCHING)" "PHIL HEATH:" "If it was easy, everybody'd be good." "I was told that a long time ago by a coach." "If you want something you never had before, you've got to be willing to do something you've never done before." "That's what I live by." "I want to be two-time Mr. Olympia." "I have to be willing to do whatever it takes." "You know, the record is eight Mr. Olympia titles held by Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman." "Arnold Schwarzenegger won seven." "Jay Cutler won four." "I think, for me, it's just I'm already the best at what I do." "I had to ask myself a serious question... which was," ""Can I get better than what I just did?"" "And it was like the next day at a photo shoot, I knew" "I don't like the way I look right there." "And people would say, "Are you crazy?" "You just beat everybody." "You won with a perfect score."" "But in my heart, I knew." "I was like, "Phil, this is just the beginning." "Your legacy is not going to be dictated on winning one Olympia." "It's gonna be dictated on how many."" "NARRATOR:" "For all the bodybuilders, the experience is similar." "They are an oddity." "Stares." "Pointed fingers." "They're in a freak show with no circus tent to hide away in." "For the 32-year-old champ, it's an honor." "An honor that fuels his drive to secure position as the greatest bodybuilder of his day." "To prove that his win was no fluke." " HEATH:" "All right." " KIDS:" "Thank you." "HEATH:" "There's a lot of people out there wondering, "Can he do it again?"" "So it's my job to remind them and the world that I am the champion." "And I'm gonna be here for a while." "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ Falling down, knocked out ♪" "♪ On my knees, a breakdown ♪" "♪ But I'm holding on, holding on ♪" "♪ Holding on ♪" "♪ Pouring out my heart ♪" "♪ Digging out my soul ♪" "♪ As I'm holding on, holding on ♪" "♪ Holding on ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ You know, it's no pain, no gain ♪" "♪ Go hard till the end, what's the use of playing a game ♪" "♪ If you ain't aiming to win ♪" "♪ My feet planted in the concrete, wings to the wind ♪" "♪ Quitters never finish, finishers only win ♪" "♪ Ain't no time for no compromise, grind to the top ♪" "♪ Coming from the bottom where the sunshine stop ♪" "♪ Where dreams get diminished and the daytime's dark ♪" "♪ And the only light we see is what's believed in the heart ♪" "♪ Against all odds, all on God, might I mention ♪" "♪ Ambitions and wishes beat the crushing competition, hooray ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need. ♪" "(CHEERING)" "ANNOUNCER:" "Please take the first place award, the Olympia gold medal, the Sandow Bronze Award, and the title of 2011 Mr. Olympia... to our winner tonight..." "Phil Heath!" "(CHEERING)" "Bodybuilding falls into this unique category of, you know, being a sport, being entertainment, being a way of life, and being also art." "So you have to really have the sense of a sculptor to really sculpt and mold your body." "The only difference is that we in bodybuilding use a certain machine to train the front deltoid if it's missing or certain machines to train the serratus or the intercostals and an artist or a sculptor uses a chisel and a hammer." "But it's all about what is your vision about the way you should look like as the finished product and how do you get it there." "HEATH:" "You're trying to take your body and sculpt it to where everything is in proportion, everything from right side to the left side is equal." "And just being a true work of art." "I think the main motivation for me with this whole bodybuilding experience is knowing that there's no such thing as the perfect body." "But I'm gonna chase it as hard as I can." "Joe Weider was really the father of fitness." "And he created the Mr. Olympia contest." "And created the International Federation of Bodybuilders." "And the Mr. Olympia became the Super Bowl of bodybuilding." "JAY CUTLER:" "What does it mean to be Mr. Olympia?" "It means to be the best of the best." "A great champion is a lot of things." "You have to be a role model to a lot of people." "You have to carry yourself as a professional all the time." "You have to go in and have to train at 100%." "You have to go to bed every night and say," ""Am I fulfilling the task of being the best at what I do?"" "Like in any sport, you could win it and relax a little bit or you could win it and stay hungry." "He really wants to win it more than once, but it's never a guarantee." "It comes down to the mind, the will, the determination, the discipline, and the motivation." "And you have that fierce drive that nothing's gonna stop you." "That's what makes you a champion." "When you're a champion, you never think you're gonna lose." "This is your life and this is your job." "This is your number one responsibility." "Your number one priority in life." "So all you got to do is just continue to do what you've done before." "Let them follow you." "You don't have to follow them." "So if I try to change up my training system... why?" "Why would I change?" "I am who I am." "They are who they are." "They may try to change to do what I'm doing because I have proven that it worked." "I'm the leader." "I'm the man." "Not you, me." "And it's okay because I look good." "I think that Phil has the look, the physique, the mindset." "I think he has the fire in the belly to be a champion, which is something he wants to do for the next several years." "So I think we'll have the next Ronnie Coleman." "NARRATOR:" "Phil Heath, also known as "The Gift,"" "is the image of confidence." "The Olympia competition is still weeks away." "Some of his contenders have yet to qualify, yet he has no qualms about having a suit tailored for his victory." "HEATH:" "I'm not gonna lie." "I mean, I kind of like knowing that when I win, not only did I outshine them onstage, but then offstage." "Because I know that I'm covering every angle to be better than them." "If I go out on the town with the missus or if I'm going out with the guys, I'm wearing button-downs." "You know, I'm wearing the same stuff." "The guy will be like, "How did you fit in that?"" "It's like, "Well, I got it tailored, bro."" "NARRATOR:" "There are always contenders waiting to rise." "Waiting for the perfect moment to take advantage of a misstep." "An unseen weakness." "This is Kai Greene, his nemesis, his enemy." "Studying every pose, he has 11 weeks to prepare." "(SIGNAL BUZZES)" "GREENE:" "For me, winning the Olympia is a celebration for a lot of people that at least can share in the idea that," ""Wow, you know, maybe I wasn't born with the best genetics,"" "or "maybe I wasn't born with, you know, the most dashing good looks, but there's something to be said for hard work."" "So, you know, we can say, "Keep your 'gifts.'" "I work hard." "I know how to work real hard."" "Even if I tear a bicep, I'm still gonna stay on my discipline." "Look at me from every angle." "You're not gonna see one piece of my body that's undeveloped." "I'm gonna develop symmetry, conditioning, and I am going to whup the ass of anyone that stands there believing that all it takes is genetics." "HEATH:" "Hard work beats talent all the time." "Well, that's what he's thinking." "He thinks that hard work is going to beat talent." "(LAUGHS)" "When talent actually works hard, it's over," "There's nothing that that other person can do about it." "NARRATOR:" "That confidence has led Phil to achieve a greatness few can dream of." "But pride and arrogance have been the downfall of many great men." "Kai never had a family." "His mother abandoned him when he was a teenager." "And from that point on, he was raised by various foster parents, moving from home to home." "Kai grew angry and aggressive over time." "Before long, he found himself in a juvenile detention facility." "His story would have ended there if he hadn't discovered bodybuilding." "GREENE:" "The feelings of being unsafe, of feeling unsafe, constantly under threat." "I remember I was in a process of being restrained." "While fighting, my shirt had gotten torn." "In the midst of the whole demonstration, you know, taking the rest of the shirt and throwing it off..." ""Fuck that." "What?"" "You know, you go through this whole display of "I'm powerful." "I'm angry." "I don't care."" "And you go through this thing." "It was some time after that the teacher..." "I had bumped into him again maybe a week or so back in population." "He had said, "Hey, you got a physique on you." "How'd you like to think about competing against teenagers your own age?"" "I thought it was a joke." "Back then, I never even used to think that I would probably ever even get out of being in institutional placement." "It's a lot easier for me to have been identified as an animal." "Going to the gym and training, it was probably the single most important therapeutic choice I could make on my own." "And the people that were in my life have long since moved on." "The one thing that's remained consistent is still you focus towards achieving this ultimate goal." "NARRATOR:" "Texas." "Wide plains." "Open spaces." "(FLIES BUZZING)" "Scorching heat." "Branch Warren leads a simple life away from the hustle and bustle of the city." "WARREN:" "I tore my quadriceps and they completely detached." "No one's ever come back from injury, that injury especially, that fast." "Most people, it ends their career." "I did it in six months." "INTERVIEWER:" "And that was an accident, right?" "I was walking in the parking lot in a thunderstorm... and I slipped and fell." "So you never know what kind of curveball life is gonna throw at you, right?" "Some people cry and bitch about it like little girls." "You know, and be babies about it." "A man, he has issues." "He sets it aside, he focuses on what his job is and gets it done." "I put my faith in God." "I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and ain't nobody gonna give you a damn thing." "But you can have anything you want if you work hard enough for it." "Oh, what's up?" "Got to take care of business in the gym." "You're with the boys, so you got to do what you got to do." "When you come home, you don't bring that home to your family." "(LAUGHING)" "Bzzz." "Bzzz." "NARRATOR:" "Metroflex Gym." "Built inside an old warehouse, it produced many of Texas' greatest bodybuilders." "Including the great Ronnie Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia." "Now it serves as a training camp for Branch Warren and his training partner Johnnie Jackson." "JACKSON:" "Yeah, baby." "One more to go." "Let's go!" "Come on, get some." "Nobody beats you." "Huh?" "I grew up in that gym." "I learned how to fight, how to train, how to be a man." "(MAN SHOUTING)" "I don't think there's one bodybuilder on this planet that's competed or even dreamed of competing that hasn't dreamed of being Mr. Olympia." "For 20 years, I go to bed at night thinking about it and I wake up in the morning thinking about it." "I think about it when I train." "I've accomplished everything in this sport I set out to accomplish." "I've got one contest left to win." "(GRUNTING)" "I'll eat dirt if I have to eat dirt to win this show." "I don't care." "You're going against the 15, 20 best bodybuilders on the planet." "We all want to win." "I'm doing everything in my power to make sure I win." "Get out." "Move." "Out of my face." "Let's go." "Branch is one of those guys who just I've never seen do anything right." "Or efficiently." "He just works hard at everything." "You look at him training, you're like, "Man, I don't know how you still have any joints left."" "That's why it's easy to pick on him." "There's just no intelligence." "It's pure work ethic, man, which is great." "And that's probably nine of the top 10 guys in the IFBB." "They're doing the same crap day in, day out, year in, year out." "Not getting any better, but then they think the result is gonna be better." "Well, newsflash for you." "It's not gonna happen." "Take a smarter approach." "Take a different approach." "You know, get better at it." "Which is why I need, if I want to compete with these guys and beat these guys, I need to take the most precise, educated, scientific approach possible." "The great thing about this machine is it's gonna give us any ounce of fat that he loses, any ounce of muscle that he gains, it's gonna track it." "It's extremely sensitive." "Ben's faith in his scientific approach to bodybuilding is complete and unquestioning." "He has no shame in comparing the failure of his opponents' training philosophies to the efficiency of his own." "You ask him to push himself to a certain level and he finds a way to push past that." "And we're trying to kill him in the gym." "You know, we're really trying to push him mentally." "That's perfect." "That's perfect right there." "Squeeze harder." "That's it, squeeze harder." " (GASPING)" " That's it." "Perfect." "That's exactly what we want, man." "Those last three, four reps, you were activating maximum amount of muscle." "That's exactly what we need for growth." "Bodybuilding is the most fascinating sport there is in the world." "And, in fact, this whole laboratory is dedicated to studying bodybuilding." "We have an NFL lineman, and they get big." "And they get a lot of muscle." "But how in the world can you get massive and get shredded at the same time?" "This is completely counterintuitive to even science." "So to study how do you do that is phenomenal." "PAKULSKI:" "I remember it clear as day." ""Flex" magazine, I was 15 years old at the YMCA in Toronto." "The guy sitting at the front desk brought one in." "I looked at the cover of it and I was like," ""Man, that's disgusting." "That's gross." "Man, I never want to look like that."" "For me, it was more along the lines of," ""Well, I achieved my goal and now what's next?" "Then I achieved my goal and what's next?"" "So first, I want to be 190 pounds with abs." "Did it." "Want to be 210 with abs." "Did it." "Then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing it." "I guess I was just never content, never happy with my body." "That's really where it started for me." "Myself as a bodybuilder should be someone constantly striving to be 1% better every day." "Whether it be in your workouts, in your approach to life, in your mentality, in your nutrition, in how meticulous you are with your nutrition, just being better and better, pushing every aspect of your life." "I've always known that Mr. Olympia was something I could do." "If I want it and I set my mind to it, there's nothing that could stand in my way." "There you go, man." "No pain." "Come on, hit it!" "Here we go!" "Drive it!" "You think this is fancy?" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "There's always somebody trying to reinvent the wheel." "I don't care what kind of scientific formulas or whatever it is you come up with or nutrition or whatever, there's no substitute for hard, hard work." "The pain and the sacrifice, the sweat, all the hard work, man, when they announce you winner, it's all worth it." "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "Heavy clouds loom over Tampa, Florida." "Roelly Winklaar arrives from Rotterdam, Holland, with his trainer Sibil Peeters." "In the industry, she's known as "Grandma."" "But those who've trained with her know her as the "trainer from hell."" "(SILENT)" "The two always share a bedroom during their travels." "The mobile kitchen and key ingredients traveling along with them everywhere they go." "Sibil herself used to be a professional bodybuilder." "But after the tragic death of her husband, she dedicated her life to training others." "(WINKLAAR SPEAKING)" "(LAUGHS)" "(PEETERS SPEAKING)" "Tomorrow, in accordance to the IFBB point system," "Roelly must place first or second in order to qualify for the Olympia stage." "(PEETERS SPEAKING)" "(PEETERS SPEAKING)" "(HUMMING)" "Hidetada Yamagishi has also yet to qualify." "Hide must place in the top two in order to advance." "If he didn't have a tan, you wouldn't see his definition onstage." "You wouldn't see his striations, his vascularity." "Anything." "He would just wash out under the bright lights." "You really got to be dark when you get on that stage." "(PEETERS SPEAKING)" "Seven." "Eight." "I got nine, Jason." "I got 10." "That's here." "Vince, here." "I got 11." "I got 12." "I got 13." "I got 14." "I got 15." "I'm missing 16." "Shawn?" "Shawn still down there?" "The bodybuilder takes the human form to its utmost visual extreme." "The development of muscles isn't just a game of measurements." "Perfect symmetry is equally important." "♪ I've been up, hit the ground ♪" "♪ Tasted the dirt, hear the sound ♪" "♪ In my head spinning 'round ♪" "♪ But still, there's no place to go ♪" "♪ No place to go ♪" "♪ I've been up, hit the ground ♪" "♪ Tasted the dirt, hear the sound ♪" "♪ In my head spinning 'round ♪" "♪ But still, there's no place to go... ♪" "If I can have our top five onstage at this time." "♪ Some say ♪" "♪ I'm lost and never found my way ♪" "♪ And it makes me want to lay here with you ♪" "♪ But I'm always gone... ♪" "Please take the fourth place award, the check for $1,000 to our fourth place finisher Roelly Winklaar." "The road to success isn't always straight or clear in this sport." "Another loss like Tampa would mean months and years of training have been wasted." "This means the loss of prize money and perhaps even a sponsor, the support line for any bodybuilder." "Lonely nights, familiar hotel rooms." "Long-distance calls are the only way to keep in touch with loved ones." "At times when the family can't be reached, the trainer is the only person to talk to." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hey, bro." "Congratulations." "Yeah, me, too." "I mean, I knew you were gonna do it, but now it's official." "So we got six weeks to train hard." "Okay, bro, keep in touch and thanks for calling." "Roelly has trouble sleeping most nights." "Moments ago, he was told he has one more chance to qualify, but he'll have to travel back to Europe to compete at the Nordic Pro." "NARRATOR:" "Unless he places first, his journey will end before it begins." "(EXHALES)" "(GUNSHOTS POP)" "Victor Martinez wasn't always an inmate." "He was a star." "A star bodybuilder on his way to conquer the Olympia title." "He was incarcerated for an immigration charge as a result of his arrest for a controlled substance years ago." "MARTINEZ:" "To actually be in jail and want to live or think of outside, it just makes it all difficult." "I had to shut down." "There's no making up this lost time." "That's it." "I was disappearing." "His stint in jail has left him far behind his competitors." "And mounting emotional and financial problems won't make his return any easier." "A six-month sentence is a lifetime for a bodybuilder." "You're at war right now with other competitors." "MARTINEZ:" "Yeah." "And when you do what you have to do from now to the Mr. Olympia," " you do what you have to do to win." " Yeah." "And as long as you know you did what you had to do to win, nobody can ever say anything bad about you." " Yeah." " Ever." "Ever." "Because you know in your heart you gave it your all." "Coming back now preparing for the Olympia is..." "I don't have that feeling like I'm ready." "Can't say I walked in and had the best workout." "First time I went in, it was horrible." "I'm touching the weights and it's... there's no connection." "I didn't really eat in there." "700-800 calories." "Most of it was through bread and junk food." "Snickers bar." "Right now, every workout I do is important." "NARRATOR:" "Between meals and training, between court-ordered appointments, between his separation from his girlfriend, between all these things, he tries to maintain his sanity." "He tries to find time to be a father to his four children... two boys, which are autistic, and two young girls, all from different mothers." "MARTINEZ:" "I'm backed up on child support." "I'm still gonna take care of my kids, but they freeze your bank account." "You know, they suspend your license." "Yes, I'm driving illegally right now." "So what?" "What can you do, you know?" "(GRUNTING)" "Let's warm up." "After this, we've got to pick it up." "MARTINEZ:" "I'm not mentally ready." "It's bothersome." "Really, every single day it's bothering because I'm working on it every day." "You know, I'm preparing myself." "Pick up your spirit." "Let's go." "Come on, man." "We got to do this." "Come on." "Great set." "Can't keep going like this." "I've got to pick it up, man." "Playing with the big boys, man." "That's why we've got to push." "You'll get back there again." "Come on, man." "Up." "Push it." "That's it." "Come on." "You can do this." "If you're gonna do this, man, you've got to stay focused." "I mean, you want to be on that stage again, right?" "MARTINEZ:" "Yeah, of course." "My entire life is the freakin' stock market, man." "Right now I'm in a recession." "(CHUCKLES)" "NARRATOR:" "Dennis Wolf wanders through the halls of NBC Networks." "This is a dream come true for the bodybuilder from Germany." "A moment of classic American celebrity." "An interview on a nationalized television show." "This is his time." "His moment to grasp ahold of fame." "Welcome back to "The Morning Blend."" "They're fit, they're strong, but there can only be one." "The world's top bodybuilders are competing to bring home the coveted title of Mr. Olympia." "I was a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger and bodybuilding." "I fell in love right away when I walked out... you know, walked in first time to the gym." "That was my thing." "WOLF:" "People are going to America to have success." "The first six months was hard because people are," ""Oh, look at this guy." "He's probably just lifting weights and that's it." "Dumb, stupid."" "'Cause people have no idea what is bodybuilding." "You need someone who can push you." "And it's not easy to find someone who can push me, you know?" "That's why I have Dennis, you know?" "Every time we train together, he finishes me." "You know, he's finishing me." "You know, I'm sore for days." " (WOLF GROANING)" " Come on, one more." "Come on." " Too big pump." " Come on." "That's what we're here for." "We're gonna pump the iron." "Come on." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(GROANS)" "Up." "Up" " Up." " (GROANS)" "(WEIGHTS RATTLING)" "(PANTING)" " JAMES:" "How you guys feel?" "Good?" " Good." "Anybody ready to break dance?" "NARRATOR:" "Germany with its cold and oppressive rain stands in stark contrast to Vegas's glaring sunshine." "To him, America is the chance to become one of the greats, to become an Arnold, and become a star." "Wolf's stepdaughter visits him as often as she can." "Their relationship is as strong as iron despite the lack of blood ties." "I saw him every day." "It's... yeah." "I didn't think, "He's big."" "It's normal for me." "Every day I saw him." "(BARKING)" "Everybody should place where they deserve." "It's hard when you have so many judges and you have so many great athletes where the standard is so close, you could throw a coin." "You know, apples or oranges, what do you like?" "It is that close sometimes." "I mean, you know, "He was great." "Wow." "Wow." "Wow."" "You know, how do you judge?" "Well, he has a better smile." "He has green eyes." "He has blue eyes." "He has brown eyes." "You know what I mean?" "It's hard." "It's not easy." "WOLF:" "Every muscle part must be completely perfect." "No weak points." "We get judged by weak points." "If you don't have the better symmetry or the better muscle maturity, muscle quality as Mr. Olympia, you don't win." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "GREENE: "Weird hairstyle." "He's got to be gay." "Something wrong." "Oh, it's just something's wrong with that guy." "He's just so different." "You'll never be a champion." "Might win a show, but you'll never be Mr. Olympia."" "(LAUGHS)" "Where others would celebrate, you know, achieving masters and Ph.Ds..." "I won bodybuilding competitions." "Now I stand here at the top of this experience looking at winning the highest title in the bodybuilding world." "MAN:" "Pull it tight." "That's hamstrings." "Pull it tight." "Pull." "Pull." "Pull it." "Pull it." "A little bit more." "There we go." "Pop the hamstring out." "Squeeze all the way down." "Wrong, this here." "Pull it tight." "Hamstrings up." "GREENE:" "Posing is a very valuable tool to build a physique." "To build a physique that is historically the physique that is bodybuilding." "It's not just enough to go to the gym and just train and lift weights." "There's an internal connection with the contractions that your muscles make." "What I'm really talking about is the presence of the artistic mind that ultimately sculpts the physique." "(SPEAKING DUTCH)" "(SPEAKING ENGLISH)" "JAMES:" "What's up, champ?" "NARRATOR:" "Dennis James, a retired bodybuilder and mentor in the eyes of most athletes, doesn't sugarcoat criticism." "From posing to diet to training, his astute eye can identify any problem." "So this time, you have to really, really go out there and you have to nail it." "And I talked to a judge who said that you'll lose two spots on his sheet because of the way you pose." "You know what I mean?" "So this is something you can control." "You can work on that." "Yeah, of course." "Now pull it down like you do a lat pull-down." "And now open up." "There you go." "See, now he has some movement going on." "Know what I'm saying?" "(PEETERS SPEAKING)" "You know how you bring that out?" "Just try this one time." "Instead of going right into a shot like this, try to go up." "Pull it down, and then open up." "'Cause you create music." "This is again what I'm saying." "You move, eyes on you." "Always start from the bottom." "Legs, hamstrings, glutes." "Now all the way... arms all the way straight up." "Just like... that's it." "Just like that." "That's what I want him to do." "You see the difference?" " JAMES:" "You see that?" " PEETERS:" "Yep." "(CHEERING)" "ANNOUNCER:" "Our third place finalist, representing Germany, number two, Ronny Rockel." "(AUDIENCE CHEERING)" "Let's take the first runner-up award and present that to..." "by way of Poland, number eight, Robert Piotrkowicz." "(CHEERING)" "First place prize and moving on to the Mr. Olympia contest," "Roelly Winklaar." "Whoo!" "(CHEERING)" "Whoo-hoo!" "NARRATOR:" "The Martinez family moved to Washington Heights, New York, 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?" "Networking out, man?" "Trying to." "I'm gonna get to the gym." "You look good, man." "Get me a ticket and I'll go." "Yeah?" "All right. (LAUGHS)" "NARRATOR:" "In 2009, Victor's sister Eridania was murdered." "Eridania always cooked meals for Victor before his competitions." "Her absence affects him to this day." "Yeah." "You see Daddy?" "You want that ice cream?" " No." " No?" "I know." "You want..." "Oh, what was that kiss for?" "Those all for me?" "NARRATOR:" "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's 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." " God damn." " All right, bro." "How you doing, brother?" "Fast." "You killing yourself down here already?" "Yeah, I have to, man." "The only way to go." "No doubt." "Very proud of you, you hear me?" "God bless you, bro." "MARTINEZ:" "My judgment day will be seeing Steven Weinberger." "Seeing the judge and him telling me if I'm ready for the Olympia stage or not." "(GRUNTING)" "Yeah, look at your hamstrings." "I'm telling you, Victor, you have a lot of work to do before you see Steve." "GREENE:" "Can I get two pounds?" " Two pounds?" " Yes." "GREENE:" "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, if 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 got to be in the gym at 6:00 in the morning." "You still got to start your meals." "So for you to stay focused, it's not a sacrifice." "It has to be a lifestyle." "WARREN:" "When you're training for that competition, it consumes your whole day." "Bodybuilders by definition, most of them 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 of your nutrition." "When you're dieting toward Olympia, you can't eat out 'cause 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?" "Got beef, chicken, turkey, beans, potato salad, and coleslaw." "You got, like, a bunch of marinade and things on it?" "No, this is all that." "Oh, all right." "Cool, man." "Damn, ain't gonna be getting none of that today." "HEATH:" "You can eat seven, eight times a day." "Some people, they eat like..." "I'm like, "Yeah, you got to eat a lot." "You got to eat a lot of clean food."" "And the mom will say, "Yeah, my son eats." "He eats everything." "He eats..."" "Yeah, he's eating everything." "That's why he's not lean." "Supposed to mix this in a drink, but it goes down fine just like this." "You know, so why not?" "Most other people, they go to the store, they'll go 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 dum-dums and we're the people that don't know anything." "Just being a box of rocks with weights." "We're the meatheads." "We're the idiots." "We're able to do something that 99.8% of the people on the Earth can't do, which is lose fat and gain muscle at the same time." "MARTINEZ:" "They don't know that we eat, you know, 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 calories a day." "They don't know that we're in the gym two or 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 as saying," ""You know what?" "It's because they're taking steroids."" "DR. JIM STOPPANI:" "The overall perception of steroids, obviously, is something that "cheaters" only use." "We're realizing now that the truth of the matter is that 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." "And that's the way it enhances muscle size." "NARRATOR:" "Many of the athletes simply refuse to talk on the subject." "It's taboo." "Others are willing to engage in the conversation." "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." "It's all what the media wants you to see." "NARRATOR:" "Society's reaction to steroids is often hypocritical and judgmental." "I think it's a contradiction, to be honest." "'Cause most bodybuilders that I know and that I've met are on steroids or have done steroids and that's, for somebody who wants to portray themself as a fit and healthy person, that's not at all healthy." "People go, "Oh, steroids!"" "Man, nobody can do that." "Like, it's not easy to do." "People don't respect it." ""Oh, I could do that with steroids." No, you couldn't." "No, you couldn't." "You couldn't do what I do." "I mean, anytime that you're using performance enhancers, you know, particularly when we haven't studied them in the lab to the level that they can be used, certainly there can be negative side effects." "There is issues with kidney damage." "There is... what we do know is that the heart size increases because the heart is a muscle." "There's liver issues." "It's quite toxic." "Especially the oral drugs." "That's why injectables are one of the preferred drugs for minimizing health risks." "I think the best answer is to allow the athletes to use the drugs, but provide medical treatment." "You get a group of very competitive athletes together, everyone wants to win, and you've got large sums of money up for grabs, guys are gonna do whatever it takes to win." "The bodybuilders and the professional sport of bodybuilding has gone to the next step where all of a sudden the body does not look as acceptable simply because it's too big and it doesn't have any talent behind it." "And the neck is 23 inches and the calves are 18." "The proportion is gone." "MARTINEZ:" "The audience wants to see a spectacle." "When they go to see a show, they don't want to see someone that looks like them." "They want to see something extreme." "So we have to get huge." "We have to go to the next level." "You know, is there a limit to growth?" "Certainly there's a limit, but I don't know that we've found it." "They asked the Olympic athletes, if you could take a drug right now that would kill you in, I think it was five years, but it'd guarantee you a gold medal, would you take it?" "More than 50% said yes." "They would take it even knowing it would kill them five years later." "This is what these athletes do." "This is their lives, this is their livelihood." "This is how they make money." "This is everything they know." "Do you really think you're gonna convince them to stop?" "NARRATOR:" "As time progresses, the science of bodybuilding advances faster and faster." "And with it, the size of the muscles." "MAN:" "One more means the title this year." "One down, one to go." "Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine." "(SHOUTS) 10!" "MAN:" "Whoo." "Heavy rep count." "Heavy rep, come on." "Bring the pain." "Fight it." "My physique that I bring to the Olympia this year, it's not the product of three months of hard work, it's the product of over 20 years of hard work." "(PARTNER GRUNTING)" "Come on!" "I thought I'd be retired by now originally." "I thought by 36... 35, 36, I'd be retired." "But, you know, I think I've had so many injuries..." "I've had four significant injuries since I've been pro, and I think that set me back." "NARRATOR:" "Due to injuries, Branch had to skip the 2010 and 2011 Olympias." "Despite this, he continues to live his life to the fullest." "INTERVIEWER:" "Branch, a few of your competitors said that if you're gonna keep working out the way you do in a gym, you're gonna get injured before the big competition." "What do you think about that?" "They're entitled to their opinion." "But, you know, I can imagine who that was." "And they ain't gonna beat me anyway, so they don't really matter." "And the thing is, the past two injuries I've had weren't in the gym, they were outside the gym." "So I haven't been hurt in the gym since... 2003." "Come on." "Let's go." "Come on." " (WHINNIES)" " Whoa!" "God damn!" "(GRUNTS)" "Oh, you son of a bitch." "God damn, guys." "NARRATOR:" "The filming stops." "Branch's hamstring is injured." "His future at the Olympia is now uncertain." "I just know that the end of a bodybuilding career is one injury away." "Just one major injury and you're toast." "No matter how hard you work and how perfect you are, one injury and you're done." "HEATH:" "You know, the days of being in a dungeon, training with your hoodie on, you know, grunt-and-cuss bodybuilder that eats, sleeps, and trains, that's all he does, are over." "You have to be able to do other things." "Hello?" "WOLF:" "I'm more focused now on my career." "But, of course, I think about, you know, the years after it." "Because I don't want to be like, "Okay, now it's over, so let's think about what I can do now."" "Of course, it would be nice if I can get some, you know, roles in the movies or things like this." "Yeah, I just got a call for a casting tomorrow for an action film." "So we'll see." " They're gonna fly me in..." " A movie star." "With a jet." "With a private jet." "I don't want to waste my time trying to be an actor or something if I don't have the talent for this." "SCHWARZENEGGER:" "There's some that have the personality." "When I started doing interviews in the '70s, you know, the media always says," ""Finally, there's someone that loves to talk about the sport." "Because for years we tried to get interviews and everyone just said, 'No, I'm not gonna talk' because they all were shy characters and they lived in a dungeon and did their workout." "They were very impressive, but they didn't want to talk." "They just felt too shy about it."" "HEATH:" "All these guys say they want to be like Arnold and be in the movies and stuff like that." "Sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get these guys to talk." "So imagine they give 'em a script that they actually have to read." " Hi." " Hi." "How you doing?" "Oh!" " Dennis." "Nice to meet you." " Nice to meet you." "So, you know, Emilio Ferrari is directing this movie and we're gonna start shooting it in October." "But it is a comedy and it's kind of like" ""Private Benjamin" meets "Legally Blonde."" "So we can have fun with this." "And if you have... if you want to try something new or, you know, have improv or anything, just don't... don't feel that you don't have... that you can't do that, okay?" "And so you're reading for Robert." " Robert, right." " Yeah, so, okay." "Hello, I'm Robert..." "hello, I'm Robert Starkey." "Wow, you really love this country." " So here's what he's..." " The United States." "Yeah. (LAUGHS)" " I'm sorry." " Let's try it again." "Now there's some parts where you are coughing and mumbling." " Yeah, I know." " You know, like you're... (COUGHS)" "You know, so play that a little bit." "(SIGHS)" "Hello, I'm Robert Starkey." "If you sign this right now, I can guarantee... ahem..." "I can guarantee by this time tomorrow, you will be in sunny Puerto Rico." "Um, that was really good." "And, you know, we're probably gonna have callbacks, which I'm gonna bring you back to the director." "And that was funny." "So just take it and work on it and, you know, we'll see each other later." "Thank you very much." "I appreciate it." "It was great." " It was amazing." "Nice to meet you." " It was nice meeting you." " All right." "Take care." " Thank you." "NARRATOR:" "While playing basketball in college," "Phil realized that he would never play professionally." "But there was potential in his genes." "Potential that led him to another sport." " That's right." " (LAUGHS)" "I would say quitting basketball..." "I mean, it wasn't really quitting." "It was just, I'll be honest, I just wasn't good enough to play at the next level." "Those dreams, as far playing in the NBA, they were just squashed." " This is Phil Heath." " Nice to meet you." "Good to meet you." "NARRATOR:" "At times, nostalgia kicks in." "He loved to play ball just as much as he loves bodybuilding now." "When the opportunity presents itself," "Phil enjoys to return to the court and shoot some hoops." "HEATH:" "When I decided to be a bodybuilder and quit basketball, I actually marked down the date." "It was October 8, 2002." "And then the rest is pretty much history." "I got bit by that bug and it was just an amazing feeling to know that coming from a team sport, you know, you're being more concerned with not just yourself, but your teammates all the time and going against a different type" "of opposition playing basketball, as opposed to bodybuilding where it's really just all about my effort." "You know, for me, as Mr. Olympia, it's not about beating your competition." "It's about crushing those dreams of those other guys." "You know, and that's what I've got to do." "I've got to crush their dreams." "NARRATOR:" "It's a gloomy afternoon." "Victor travels to the Bev Francis Powerhouse Gym in Syosset, New York, to see a legend, his mentor Steve Weinberger." "Today is his judgment day." " Hey, what's up, Steve?" " What's going on, brother?" " How you doing?" " Good, good." "How you doing?" "I'm okay." "How you feel?" "I've felt better." "Yeah?" "How's it coming along?" "I don't feel confident." "Let me close the door." "Too much noise out there." "Soon as I got out, I started training and getting back on my regiment." "The training's been good." "Everything's been good." "You know, no injuries." "You know, and everything's good." "It's just is it Olympia good?" "Is it Olympia ready?" "Let's see what you look like." "All right." "For Rikers Island, you look great, Vic." "But for the Olympia..." "I don't think you're gonna have enough time, honestly." "I'm sorry." "If I was you, I would shut it down and just concentrate on next year." "I don't think there's enough time." "I'm sorry." "INTERVIEWER:" "How you feeling, Victor?" "I just don't want to talk right now." "Please, come on." "Hey, Vic." "Yeah, I just saw Steve." "Yeah, decided I'm not doing the show." "WEINBERGER:" "He's a guy that's gotten no breaks." "I mean, with his sister getting murdered and this is his second time in jail." "And just all of these problems, it just seems that... you never know why some good people never get breaks and some bad people get breaks." "And Victor's one of those good guys that never get a break." "I feel bad for him." "I really do." "Hide does the solitary life in Venice, California, near the beach." "When he looks across the water, he sometimes imagines he can see home." "Though he is married, he spends most of his time separate from his wife, who often travels to Japan to take care of his family, a family that has never fully accepted his life path nor fully understood it." "Nice." "Are you gonna win?" "Say yes." "Yeah, say "I'm gonna win the Olympia."" "PAKULSKI:" "There's always that pressure, man." "You got to be the best..." "you got to be your best 'cause you're only as good as your last contest in our sport." "You know, so no matter how well you place at the last show, if you do poorly at this one, this is the one everybody remembers." "I think that's why a lot of guys fail is 'cause there's so much pressure." "Sponsors drop you." "I better be ready, you know?" "I better be ready to bring it." "There you go, Ben." "Fight it." "Perfect." "Make him groan." "Here we go." " (MACHINE BEEPING)" " No pain." "Fight it." "That's it." "You got this, Ben." "No pain." "As the competition looms in the near future, the pressure builds." "Training and rigorous routines take atoll on the body as well as the mind." "Each bodybuilder seeks out different ways to alleviate the stress." "So is there anybody that you're worried about competing against?" "There's probably two guys in the world who I think if they bring their best and I bring my best, they could beat me." "Other than that, nobody's gonna beat me." "So I just got to come with my best." "And I want everybody to bring their A game." "If somebody beats me, I'll shake his hand 'cause he outworked me, but I don't see it happening." "I met Phil at a mutual friend's restaurant after his second bodybuilding competition that he won his class, but he didn't take the overall." "And I just knew." "Like, I just saw what he was working for, that he was gonna become great and everything was gonna go for him." "And he's like, "Really?" "You really think I'm gonna make it that big?"" "And I said, "Absolutely." "I think you're gonna go all the way."" "I'm glad I have a family that can go on this journey with me." "I'm not going at this separate and them just watching." "They're there." "They'll be there." "I'll have the list for tickets for you by tomorrow." "Did you spell my name right?" "I'm just kidding." "So here's the thing with Phil and I." "We've always gotten along, man." "I've never had a problem with him." "I was in Denver last year." "We went out to dinner." "And then I leave and I hear he's talking shit." "And I was like, "Okay, you're a scumbag." "You're gonna say one thing to my face and something else to my back?"" "That's fine." "To me, that says he's insecure and he's scared." "I don't respect his work ethic." "I don't respect him as a person with his attitude." "But he's become an excellent bodybuilder." "He's not a very good role model for the sport." "Is he as dominant as everyone thinks he is?" "No, he's not." "But I've seen him train and I'm like, "Man, his back sucks." "His calves suck." "His hamstrings suck." Man, that stuff, you fix it like this." "I can't build muscle nearly as easily as that guy and yet I'm doing it, you know?" "It ain't all talk when you're on that stage, man." "GREENE:" "Phil Heath has had a lot of gifts." "He's a gift." "He's "The Gift."" "I don't represent gifts." "I really don't." "He's had a lot of help." "A lot of help." "It's not like I had people handing me money and stuff." "When I first came to this sport, I was working two jobs, unlike him." "I don't even know if he has a resume." "I don't even know if he knows what that is." "(GRUNTING) Easy." "Easy." "HEATH:" "Guess what, Kai?" "You've been bodybuilding for 20 years." "I'm already better than you." "You know it." "But now you're making an excuse saying, "Oh, he got this." "He got that."" "GREENE:" "Each man's body will represent years of focus and concentration." "It'll be a great event." "You're one injury away from your career being over." "I fought too hard to get where I'm at to slide back down." "You know, I'm not one to lay down and cry about it." "I was like, "I'm gonna take this thing by the horns and I'm gonna overcome it."" "I'm doing everything I can do." "Now I'm 100%." "Have a dream." "Everybody needs to have a dream." "Have a dream and go after it with everything you got." "Whoo!" "Time to make Phil look small, bro." "Come on." " Make 'em all look small." " Yup." "They're gonna announce my name." "Crowds gonna go crazy." "I'm gonna hit my frontal bicep, this and that." "Crowds gonna go, "Whoa!" And I'm just gonna just..." "I'm gonna feel like a true Adonis, man." "Like a god." "(CHUCKLES)" "But this trophy is mine." "Come on, take your shirt off." "Who do you think was the best ever?" " Best ever?" " Yeah..." "Arnold or Lee?" " Arnold." " Arnold was better than Lee Haney?" "Of course. (LAUGHS)" "That's a big statement to say on camera." "How many Olympias Arnold got?" " Seven." " How many Lee got?" " Eight." " Eight." "Oh." " So who would be better?" " Arnold." "Still Arnold." " Wait a minute." " Still Arnold." "So we go back... then you got to go with what century you was in." "It doesn't matter how many Olympias you won." " It doesn't matter?" " Doesn't matter." "Who's had the best... what year... who had the best chilled body ever?" " Ronnie Coleman." " Ronnie Coleman?" "He was a good one." "All right." "Hold on, one thing." "Let's arm wrestle." "Oh, you lost." "Oh!" "(LAUGHING)" "NARRATOR:" "Olympia." "A plain in Greece on the western Peloponnese." "The ancient Olympic games were said to be played on this stretch of ground." "And it held the chief sanctuary of the supreme god Zeus." "Now on a stage in Vegas, the supreme man," "Mr. Olympia, will be crowned." "When I go back and I think of the Olympia," "I go back and I think of Arnold Schwarzenegger when the first prize money was $1,000." "And then today, in the 48th Olympia, we're hoping to give out prize money of $1 million." "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen." "Welcome to Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend 2012." "NARRATOR:" "Just before the competition, the contenders begin their pre-show preparations." "The most agonizing is dropping the water weight." "We always need to lose a little bit of water in the last couple of hours before the show because onstage with all this light and the tan and the oil, you still look a little watery." "If you lose water, it makes you look onstage much, much drier because all the cuts, all the separation coming through more and more, you know?" "And I'm gonna introduce the 19 competitors here vying for the title of Mr. Olympia." "NARRATOR:" "Before Olympia, a press conference is held for the contenders." "For the first time, but not the last, they are onstage together." "(CHEERING)" "What do you think about people saying Phil can't be beaten at this year's Olympia tomorrow night?" "(CROWD SHOUTING)" "I don't give a damn what they say." "(CHEERING)" "I think I'm a better poser than Branch." "Well, I think I'm a better bodybuilder than Dennis." "And this is a bodybuilding contest, not a dance contest, baby." "Boo!" "Going into tomorrow night, I'm just crossing my fingers, praying to God that I can be at my best because my best will be good enough to win another Sandow, no question." "(CHEERING)" "We'll see the best package you've ever seen tomorrow." "If you and Phil Heath are 100% on game day, who wins?" "(CROWD SHOUTING)" "I expect to be the last man standing this year." "(CHEERING)" "A fallen warrior arrives in Las Vegas." "It pains him to be a spectator." "But this sport and its contenders have been his most constant family." "My phone used to ring off the hook, you know?" "Now it's a little quiet." "It's the game, you know." "Am I taking it personal?" "You really can't." "You know, it's what it is." "Remember, it's a business." "And if you're not producing, they could just drop you." "That's something I might have to do as well." "You know, go into my next show without a sponsor and that's gonna be one of the biggest challenges of my life." "Not just coming back from injury or coming back from seven months of being incarcerated, it's gonna be competing as a free agent." "That goes into the whole question of does politics exist in bodybuilding." "It's alive and well." "The hypocrisy is part of the business." "It's part of it." "The makings of a champion are elusive." "Is it in the genes?" "Are some destined for greatness while others doomed to mediocrity?" "Or is a warrior made, forged out of steel, honed from oak and chiseled from the stone by skilled hands?" "The Mr. Olympia competition has been sanctioned by the IFBB since 1965." "It alone decides who is the best in the world." "I mean, look at this." "This is what Mr. Olympia should look like." "Thank you." "I appreciate it." " I saw your wife yesterday." " Yeah, yeah, she told me." "Yeah, for sure." "My mom said she saw you, too." "Yeah, you know, we're huge fans of yours, trust me." "We're back at the 2012 Mr. Olympia." "I'm Layne Norton with my coho-st Larry Pepe." "And, Larry, we talked about is this the beginning of a run for Phil?" "If he hits it tonight, do you think he starts to put these guys more in his rear view and start to build on that momentum and maybe get three, four, five, six Mr. Olympias?" "I think coming in, we thought the question for Phil is is this gonna be that type of performance where you just look up there, you see him, and you say it's him and everybody else kind of battling out for second." "I think we now feel that it's him and Kai Greene." "ANNOUNCER:" "Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, the Mr. Olympia final results will be based on a combination of both tonight's and tomorrow's scores." "NARRATOR:" "The lights flash." "The pre-judging begins." "One by one, the athletes pose on stage." "Their bodies are exposed and ridiculed for any failure in symmetry and conditioning." "There's just something to be said for the dude that can... man, he can, you know, he can run up in there with an arm tied behind his back and he's still... he's still a deadly dude, you know?" "Man, you still got to watch out for him." "And even with that, this dude is still fighting for his life." "And then... slowly... persuade the masses to start to favor him." "When you line up the best in the world, it's so easy to judge." "When you're right there in person, you see everything." "Sometimes a photographer will take a picture and Phil's looking great and Jay doesn't look great or Kai or Branch." "You need to see it all together." "And also, it's not the clearest of quality on the Internet." "Not like in living color." "Being there and seeing it, it's pretty easy." "Phil Heath and Kai Greene right off the bat seemed to separate themselves from the pack." "Those two clearly number one and number two." "If there was any question, we answered that in the final callout when they were the only two brought back center stage." "I think there's a lot of support out there for Kai Greene." "There's a lot of people who think that he's winning this contest." "It's Mr. Olympia." "The best of the best." " I'll be... you saw it." " Yeah." " Once you start..." " That was getting close." " With the whole Kai thing." " Kai starts good." " Yeah." "Yeah." " His stuff is getting better." "Until it becomes great, and then... and then you shave it down to the top guys." "And those top guys were Phil and Kai." "The drama came in there." "First you go, "Okay, yeah, Phil's walking away with this."" "Then you look, you go, "Wait a minute." "This is getting closer than I think."" "The more you look, the closer it got." "(PERINE SPEAKING)" "If anything, I like to be the guy that smiles, you know." "Plays nicely, you know." "But I'm trying to take your head off just like everybody else." "Don't sleep. (LAUGHS)" "Okay." "Now I am starting to get irritated." "Like, I can't deal with that shit right now." "You know what I'm saying." "I can't think like that right now." "That shit has no importance whatsoever to me winning this, so..." "We won last year with a perfect score." "It'd be nice to try to do it again." "It would be nice." "I mean, I don't know if that's Hany's goal." "That's mine." " It's always the goal to try to win." " It's to win a perfect score." "I mean, this is definitely a hard focus right now, you know?" "There's no soft focus at all." "Like, this is definitely very serious." "And when you start stressing, your body starts changing." "And just a lot of people who have done competitions have looked absolutely amazing and then all of a sudden the stress hormone kicks in and their bodies just kind of fade away and they don't understand what happened." "This is not where you let off the gas, either." "We're gonna have to get going." "Catch your breath." "Catch your breath." " Huh?" " Catch your breath." " (GRUNTING)" " Come on!" "Yeah." "It's what you want." "HEATH:" "I know I'm the champ." "I don't have to keep saying it." "They know I'm the champ, too." "My title is Mr. Olympia." "Their's isn't." "And they're trying to get there." "They've got to fight me all day." "There's no way I'm gonna lose." "NARRATOR:" "The champ takes a moment to drive through the streets of Vegas to clear his head." "The most important battle of his life lies here moments away." "The battle that will define him as a competitor forever." "As you know, it's Olympia weekend." "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, bodybuilding fans from around the world, welcome to the 48th edition of the Fall Classic." " The Mr. Olympia." " (APPLAUSE)" "To those that were here last night, you saw one of the most exciting pre-judgings in Olympia history." "Because once again, folks, only one person can hold the Sandow and only one man will be crowned Mr. Olympia." "PAKULSKI:" "Mr. Olympia is my dream." "My life dream." "I can't think of anything else that will ever happen to me again in my life that will mean as much to me because it was nothing but sheer will, determination, and stubbornness." "You know, I knew from the time I was 18 what I wanted to do in life." "I set goals for myself." "I've accomplished every goal I set out for myself except for one." "And that's win the Mr. Olympia." "WOLF:" "I'm training for this title." "I want to win this title." "My daughter's my biggest fan." "She's always at the Olympia." "She always wants to be there." "I won my first show where my wife and my daughter were together there watching us." "That, you know... it was amazing, you know?" "To see your girls crying, you know, because they're so happy, it's amazing." "(YAMAGISHI SPEAKING)" "(WINKLAAR SPEAKING)" "From Brooklyn, New York, comes a predator." "Ladies and gentlemen, Kai Greene." "(APPLAUSE)" "GREENE:" "When I was younger," "I'd leave the cold institutional facility, go to a bodybuilding show and I'd stand there onstage with athletes, teenagers that had people at home vested in seeing them succeed." "You'd hear a very proud mom or pop sitting in the third or fourth row." "And then there was you." "There'd be no mom, no dad." "There's nobody gonna be sitting in the audience proud of you." "But you were proud." "And you took pleasure in beating those guys that did." "He's your reigning and current Mr. Olympia." ""The Gift" Phil Heath." "(APPLAUSE)" "HEATH:" "They only nitpick the best." "They only criticize the best." "They do." "In all sports they do." "'Cause it's hard for someone to say," ""He's just perfect and we'll never talk about him."" "They have to say something." "(APPLAUSE)" "As I call you out, that means you're in the top 10." "If you need to go see Pro Tan, get greased up, go down and do it, then we'll get you up there." "In numeric order, please, gentlemen." "Can I have Branch Warren," "Toney Freeman, Johnnie Jackson," "Evan Centopani," "Lionel Beyeke," "Dexter Jackson, Shawn Rhoden," "Dennis Wolf, Kai Greene, and Phil Heath?" "Once again, Branch, Toney, Johnnie, Evan," "Lionel, Dexter, Shawn, Dennis, Kai, and Phil." "That's our top 10." "Thank you, gentlemen." "We should have you onstage in roughly 20 minutes." "Roelly, sorry, brother." "Fuel for next year, baby." "Come back next year." "All right, let's bring out our top 10 back onstage." "Gentlemen." "WOMAN:" "Okay, we've got one more call." "I need Phil and Kai back." "WOMAN:" "That's gonna be it." "Okay, now." "Quarter turn to... no, wait." "Hold on." "Stop it." "No, wait." "Stay back on the line, both of you." "And do me a favor." "Take two steps to your... two steps to your right." "Okay, now do me a favor." "Take a step apart from each other." "There's plenty of room." "You got to stay on the same side." "Come on, a little bit of room between you." "Come on, Phil." "Take one more... yup, thank you." "Okay, now front." "Front double bicep." "Come on, now." "Front double bicep." "And relax." "Relax." "Front lat spread." "Okay, both front lat spread." "And relax." "Either side for side chest." "(AUDIENCE CHEERING)" " HEATH:" "Yeah!" " WOMAN:" "And relax." "Back double bicep." "And relax." "Face forward." "Your favorite most muscular." "Boom!" "Yeah!" "WOMAN:" "And relax." "And relax." "Okay, thank you very much." "This concludes our confirmation round." "All right, folks, here we go." "Are we ready for the awards?" "Please take the sixth place award to our sixth place finisher..." "Dennis "Big Bad" Wolf." "The fifth place award, Branch Warren." "The fourth place award, "The Blade" Dexter Jackson." "The third place award, "Flexatron" Shawn Rhoden." "And now, ladies and gentlemen, in Olympia tradition," "Kai Greene, Phil Heath, center stage, please." "Ladies and gentlemen, we had a one-point decision." "Ladies and gentlemen, the next name I announce will be the winner of the 2012 Mr. Olympia." "Come on, baby." "When I did find myself in institutional placement, a cold, oppressive feeling of like... like you don't matter and you may never, ever, ever matter again." "I began to talk about competing in the Olympia one day." "I really did not develop a plan B." "But I didn't..." "I didn't..." "I didn't just talk about it." "It's like..." "I really believed that it was gonna happen." "ANNOUNCER:" "Phil Heath." "(CHEERING)" "(CHEERING CONTINUES)" "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Olympia Phil Heath." "I didn't get any sleep, trust me, over the past 48 hours because I knew that these guys were all champions." "I think they were bringing it." "Man, I feels freakin' good to be king up in here, man." "I can't even lie." "Did you feel nervous, like it was close?" "Did you feel at any point nervous?" "I think I was more nervous yesterday 'cause I felt that after the first round," "I thought it was lights out and I kind of eased up off the gas." "And that kind of allowed Kai to get more confidence and to start making up ground on me." "And it showed." "I mean, I could tell." "And it was like the power was going to him." "Well, today I realized what his game plan was and I just figured I got to let it all hang out." "This is my town, this is my show, this is my title, this is my throne, and I refuse to give it to anybody." "They're gonna have to fight me for it." "I know that I pushed him to his best look." "And I knew I'm gonna go against their biggest punch." "But, like I said, wait till I punch back." "What's next for Phil Heath?" "What are you gonna do?" "We're gonna party tonight, man." "We're gonna party." "(CHEERING)" "(CHEERING)" "NARRATOR:" "The title was within his grasp." "A point away." "The smell of victory teased his nostrils." "You know, no one's gonna give you anything." "You're gonna have to work for it." "You know?" "I didn't come there expecting gifts." "I came there willing to work for it." "And..." "I believe that any man that is willing to work hard and labor long can obtain their goal as long as it's realistic." "I've seen enough feedback that lets me know that this is not unrealistic, it's not impossible." "You know, we got a chance to see the champ bleed." "And he bled." "He's still bleeding." "Whatever can be forced to bleed against its own will can be killed, it can die, it can be beaten." "And, you know... we got more work to do." "You know?" "We got more work to do." "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ Falling down, knocked out ♪" "♪ On my knees, a breakdown ♪" "♪ But I'm holding on, holding on ♪" "♪ Holding on ♪" "♪ Pouring out my heart ♪" "♪ Digging out my soul ♪" "♪ As I'm holding on, holding on ♪" "♪ Holding on ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ Shaking out myself ♪" "♪ Listening to me ♪" "♪ Breathing out, breathing in ♪" "♪ Breathing out ♪" "♪ Closing my eyes ♪" "♪ Looking inside ♪" "♪ To see again, to feel again ♪" " ♪ To live again ♪ - ♪ Live again ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I want ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Till I get what I need ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Never gonna, never gonna stop ♪" "♪ Never gonna stop. ♪" "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "(WHISTLING)" "♪ I've been up, hit the ground ♪" "♪ Tasted dirt, hear the sound ♪" "♪ In my head spinning 'round ♪" "♪ But still, there's no place to go ♪" "♪ No place to go ♪" "♪ I've been up, hit the ground ♪" "♪ Tasted dirt, hear the sound ♪" "♪ In my head spinning 'round ♪" "♪ But still, there's no place to go ♪" "♪ No place to go ♪" "♪ Some say ♪" "♪ I'm lost and never found my way ♪" "♪ And it makes me want to lay here with you ♪" "♪ But I'm always gone ♪" "♪ I pray ♪" "♪ Take these demons far away ♪" "♪ Put them in the ground with my fear and doubt ♪" "♪ But they always stay ♪" "♪ Always ♪" "♪ Ah ♪" "♪ I've been up, hit the ground ♪" "♪ Tasted dirt, hear the sound ♪" "♪ In my head spinning 'round ♪" "♪ But still, there's no place to go ♪" "♪ No place to go. ♪" "(WHISTLING)" "I've gone to every one of the vendors and I can't find it." "Can't find my T-shirt." "But when I find it, I'm gonna put it on eBay and some bodybuilder will pay maybe a few dollars for it"