I wanted to do something, I...
I wanted to do something for myself.
Ididn't want to...
to follow the masses.
Doing the same as everybody else.
I wanted to do something...
that makes me happy.
I wanted to change.
And I did change.
physical
and - especially - psychic. From the inside.
My goal was... to suffer everyday. I just wanted to suffer.
And to me training was kind of therapy.
My own encounter group with only me being there.
And everytime I trained, I felt better, faterwards.
I needed that pain during the training.
I think a lot of people feel that way...
after you've lost everything you've had...
you...
that you doubt yourself.
You ask yourself: 'Why do I still get up in the morning?'
Why am I doing this at all?
What do I get to work for? Why am I learning at all? What for?
Someday you'll be six feet underground, alone, anybody alive should be aware of it.
The chance that we have is to make the best out of our lives. To make the thing that makes you happy.
After finishing school it was hard for me to get a job.
I wanted to do an apprenticeship, something mercantile...
even though I don't REALLY like to do something like that.
So I applied and only got rejections.
So I entered the army with 19...
and did all kind of advanced military education.
I did basic education, corporal education, sergeant education.
After that I started an apprenticeship as a businessman.
During that time my relationship vanished.
And then I realized, that...
this was not what I wanted.
I realized, that most of the people there - and I don't want to traduce anybody, but MOST of the people there
are only drinking alcohol everyday, talking about shit while living in their own reality.
They don't accomplish anything. They only sit in their barrack room, fucking their girlfriend in the shower and don't clean up the mess.
They piss in front of the rooms, they piss in the sink, they are drunk every weekend and are always talking about shit.
Yeah, it would be stupid if I wouldn't say a few words.
Rene, you know, we know each other since 2014.
We met in the army, just like he mentioned before.
And we both really drew the short straw.
If you don't smoke, you're not drinking alcohol... you're really not part of the 'team'.
And we, being normal people doing sports, immediately found each other.
We were lucky to have the same educational classes. Being in the same unit & post.
So we really had each other when we 'walked through hell'.
We pulled off all of the educational classes together.
This made us brothers. We really just head each other and that was enough.
We didn't need anyone else.
In 2015 something evolved as Irealized that being in the army was not was I imagined it to be.
I just wanted to finish the preparation for my first competition, just when you met Linda.
And I saw, you changed as well and you realized, what's REALLY important.
You chose, what's important for YOU and  when I wasn't there anymore,
while you were still part of the unit, not having any free time at all, except for the weekend, you ALWAYS tried to be with your wife.
You always tried to be with her. You drove thousands of miles, just to be with her.
While all the others in our unit just drunk themselves to death, only talking shit, you were there for your wife.
I think THAT is what it means to be a man.
To everybody who still has got something to drink, raise your glasses to Linda &René Seuß! Salut!
When I was in the army I met a really good human being, named Renè.
We both left the army. When he left the army, he married his wife and found a way to live a happy life.
And I decided to focus on my sport... walking down another path.
He was the only normal person among thousands of people that I've met there.
And we're still close to each other.
Everybody knows these days, when you wake up... and all you think is: 'Fuck...'
'Fuck it, I'll stay in bed.'
'I'm not going to train today.'
'I'll do it tomorrow.'
That's exactly when you should stand up.
That's the most important thing...
to transform the frustration and turn it into something good.
That's the art.
I was deserted. Betrayed. Used. Abused. And left in the dirt.
I had to learn to walk again.
I used to be very very skinny.
I locked myself up for three years and I only ate and trained and I gained 37 kilos.
Where many used to say, I'd use anabolic steroids, which is totally ridiculous.
I wanted to prove to peole that you can achieve something without the use of anabolic steroids.
My father presented me a bench. And we used to have a free room in our house, so I started to use it is a weight room.
I had a bench...
a pullup bar,
motivational posters,
a mirror, stereo,
two dumbbells, an EZ curl bar and enough weights.
So I just started training there.
I really enjoy the reminiscence of my old training room. That's where it all started.
I really felt very comfortable in there.
I think what Temple Gym has been for Dorian Yates, a dungeon, was my training room to me - my dungeon.
There I could be me. I could shape the room the way I wanted to shape it.
And this room always motivated me. I could put posters on the walls, that motivated me.
And I had the greatest success in there and I started to train in a proper way.
I started to change my looks and I got stronger every week.
It was perfect for me. It was enough for me. I didn't need any fancy stuff, I had free weights and that was all I needed.
It was like my own world, I could sink into. It was a dream.
Today is leg day.
Legs is always a pretty special day, because...
you've 'gotta torture yourself again and again, every time you train.
I feel pretty bad to be honest. I really messed up my nutritional diet the last few days.
And with my metabolism, when I don't eat enough calories, my bodyweight drops down instantly.
It just drops down.
So I'm going to eat something before my workout, which is set to be in half an hour.
And then, it's leg day.
And these are always the moments,
when you're tired & feel weak, when you don't want to go and work out.
Like 'Uhhh... I'd rather stay in bed, I don't do anything except jerking off and I'm just going to stay in bed or going to shower and back to bed.'
NO!
NO.
These are exactly the moments when you should stand the fuck up and go train.
No matter how late or how early it is.
The only important thing to me now is to eat to be able to bring the performance I want to bring.
Here we go!
I didn't want to be this person anymore.
Because I really used to feign, just to be liked by people.
I ran after people.
I was on my knees.
I reigned, I wasn't me.
Intensity is pretty important for me while training.
It was important for me to always have enough calories.
And I always wanted to weigh more than the evening before, because I used to check my bodyweight in the evening.
I got up at night. My girlfriend back then was always bugged by it, because she wanted to sleep at 3 am.
But I wanted it like that, I had to do it. Because my dream was to stand on that stage, just for once.
When you pay attention to that kind of stuff everyday and you watch all of these videos everyday and you think about what you're doing this for...
Well, yes of course, you want to change, but you want to achieve something for yourself at the same time.
I know, I won't change the world through it, but I would change MY world.
I say it like Arnold Schwarzenegger; 'I want to be a bodybuilding champion.'
And I work my ass off and I will reach my goal, no matter how long it'll take. It just doesn't matter how long it'll take.
I've got a goal and I work for it.
And it took years. Years...
And you can't lose sight of the big picture.
Even if nobody believes in you.
Even if everyone tells you that it's ridiculous.
You always have to go on.
I realized that this was my path.
And that I wanted to step on stage one day.
It didn't matter to me if I got first or last. I just wanted to live this whole-heartedly.
I got more discipline - well aware of my goals.
And like I said, through frustration I got better and better.
I just go through every pose.
ANBF - third place.
Almost exactly one year ago.
I'm going to be back on stage this saturday.
Would be great if there's a second or first place on that trophy.
This one's from the NAC. Fifth place, not that spectacular, yet it's the biggest one.
And... yeah well... it's a nice reminder...
But the most important trophy is from my father.
He gave it to me last year.
And since I got this trophy...
I lost this urge to go after trophies.
At least it doesn't matter that much to me anymore, because this is the most important one for me.
And it probably always be the most important one.
And that's my father! The little one!
My grandmother and my grandfather.
An old family portrait from the 50's.
58!
I loved watching films with my father back in the day! I love movies!
I love old movies, my father used to show me the best movies back then.
We used to stay up late just to watch movies during the week and on the other day I was so tired in school, but it was totally worth it!
We watched so many movies together.
It started with the old James Bond movies,
Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
all these movies from Jackie Chan,
Indiana Jones... I loved it.
And I still love watching movies with him to this day.
I was shaped by my father, my sister was shaped by my father - we were both shaped by him.
He showed us the world since we were little children.
Unfiltered. He just told the truth.
That's why we were never into drugs and alcohol.
Becoming addicted to something.
We always had a strong aversion to that kind of stuff.
We just went outside when we were young, played with the dogs, went for a walk, walked through the forrest.
We played video games, Super Nintendo, Playstation 2.
I like to cherish these things.
I can't change that.
Because such things are really important to me.
To other people other things matter, but for me, these things matter.
It's a nice feeling, like listening to an old song which you haven't heard for quite awhile.
It's always such a comfortable and calming feeling.
And I like it. I don't ignore it. I love this feeling.
It's like one of these... you guys have seen Michael Bay...
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Yeah exactly! Right at the beginning of this movie
Yeah when he's being butchered!
It's just like that.
It's good we're filming this. So we can put it into the new video... from Always Massive.
Yes, he's really going to create a video about all of this.
For real?
Yeah, for real. About preparation...
One last time...
have a look at the place were everything began. One las time...
visiting the house where I grew up.
The place where I spent my childhood.
I experienced a lot there.
Wher I used to laugh and I used to cry a lot.
Everything ends.
And I was in that house for the very last time.
Time to say goodbye.
Now, the house is gone.
But it was nice being in there for one last time.
Because the memories will stay forever.
But everyone's 'gotta be aware of the fact that there's no going back.
Someday everything dies or vanishes.
Nothing lasts forever. Even if we'd like it that way.
But it was really a very good time.
This used to be my life.
Every place got it's very own unique charme.
There's always some kind of aura, a feeling you experience when you're in there.
Some like it and some don't like it.
And this was a place where I was... just... home.
Oh man, I really loved christmas in there.
The breakfast.
Breakfast together, every weekend.
How I used to run through the kitchen as a child, how I burnt my fingers on the stove.
How I played with the dogs, ran through the rooms and how I played hike and seek with my sister.
How I used to play soccer with my dad with a tennis ball in the kitchen...
And how I used to watch movies in the living room, listening to music, listening to queen.
It was... unique.
This is the room where I locked myself up for three years.
I didn't do anything except for working out like a sick mf.
Oh man... this room...
It all began eight years ago in 2011.
When my father gave that bench to me and I didn't even know how to train properly.
I just started benching and got the knowledge day after day. And I shaped myself which a lot of people didn't understand but it was comforting for me.
This used to be the old room from my grandfather. Later on my step-brother's room. And this room means the world to me.
I had the most progress in there.
In that room I gained 37 kilos of mass.
That was something from the old house that will always be important for me.
Working out with my cousin was always a great time.
It was a mixture of going hard - ambition - and having fun, kind of Arnold & Franco, because we
had to laugh a lot - especially during benching.
That used to be sketchy, for real. We almost killed each other because of laughing, because
he couldn't push anymore and I couldn't spot anymore because we laughed so hard. but it really was a wonderful time.
It was important for me seeing him for once before the competition and to train with him on that old bench, with the weights I started with.
Just because I needed that feeling from back in the day again.
We always motivated each other and training has brought us closer after not having contact for several years.
We're going to sit down right here.
Posing always has something calming.
You've got to concentrate, you've got to feel the muscle. You don't see everything a 100% because you only can look through these small holes.
You try to keep cool.
'Now I know how I can earn money!' -Not with flowers, but with a man! 'He really got some muscles, though! Look!'
Only feeling the contraction of the muscle and enjoying the fresh air. It was kind of cold, but it was worth experiencing.
Refreshing.
At the same time it was kind of a preparation for the stage, because there you're being looked at as well.
And you've 'gotta learn to keep the containment of your body.
Being concentrated even though you're kind of distracted from what's happening around you. It felt good.
'What do you think of how much work it is to have a body like that.'
Posing on that bridge was something special for me, because I was in Rothenburg again, after one year of not being there.
And somehow everything's changed there. Most of the people I didn't even know, even though I grew up there.
When you get rid of the clothes and put on the mask, you're just by yourself and everything that surrounds you isn't there for you.
Except if you perceive the reaction of the people - but that wasn't negative at all.
The feedback was more like... they were surprised! I think they didn't see something like that in that small town before.
But I felt comfortable and I was focused on myself.
And I could display what I built up over years.
Fuck!
Woooooooooooooo!
Fuck you, Rothenburg!
Fuck you, duck!
I've 'gotta say...
it's pleasant!
Just all of the algae... kind of disgusting.
I have no idea how it'll look if I pose now!
What are we going to start with?
I regret that we never cooked together back in the day.
Yeah, right?
Are the ten minutes over?
Doesn't stop raining.
Still?
Most of the time I only see my mother on birthdays & holidays, if I see her at all.
But this time I felt like I want to see her before the competition.
Especially because I was already nearby.
So I just wanted to take chance as it is always pretty emotional when I see her.
If I wanted to, I could cry all the time.
There's still so much from the past, when I look at her, stuff that encases me, but... it was nice seeing her.
And my sister was there as well.
It's always a pleasure seeing her and we cooked together which we didn't do very often back in the day.
I try to enjoy the time I spent with her a lot more now.
And I really appreciate the time with her.
She always gave me the feeling of safety.
I could just put my mind to rest.
Back in the day, there used to be a radio turned on, when we went to sleep. And I really liked that feeling of protection and I forgot what it felt like for a long time.
I think she doesn't know how much love I received from her.
She shouldn't forget that.
It was nice.
Yes! and yummy.
Yummy food.
And thank you...
There's nothing to thank for.
Thank you for... everything.
There's nothing to thank for.
Alright... OFF!
I was in Totenburg for the weekend.
There's a fucking thunderstorm at the moment.
It's raining for the whole time I'm driving.
I visited my cousin, trained with him & posed with him in the city afterwards.
Made a few pictures.
After that I paid a short visit to an old friend.
At the Breitenbacher Lake, where I used to be very often with people from the past.
I went into the lake as well... at the end of september.
It's not long before the competitions start.
Three weeks until the german championship.
I'm good. I feel energized. Right after that, I visited my mother.
Didn't see her for over a year now.
It was pretty nice, we cooked and we talked a lot.
We ate.
My sister was also there.
I just drove her home.
Now I'm driving to my father to Frankfurt.
Who I'm going to meet for the last time before the competition.
I'm really looking forward to it.
How long is this fucking tunnel?!
In 2015 I had my first competition.
In 2017 I started again at the GNBF and I got the fourth place, so I got a better placement. But that one really bugged me, as it were only two points behind the third place.
I was angry and Iwas unhappy about the placement.
This placement was the reason for me, that in 2017 I decided to enter the championship again in 2018,
even though it doesn't make a lot of sense being a natural bodybuilder because you can't build a lot of mass within one year.
So it's not realistic to have more mass, yet  being harder on stage. But I didn't give a fuck.
For this season, I want to try
to turn the unrealistic, into reality.
Stepping on stage with more mass, so to speak being heavier, yet at the same time more shredded.
I just try to be better. Being a better me than the year before.
I want to thank my father
that he's always been supporting me since I live.
Til today.
Who...
drove miles
to work things out. He's the only one to rely on a hundred percent.
He...
doesn't think of himself for a second.
He tries to help as much as he can, it's insane.
Sadly so many people forget when people have helped them, or they don't even see it. And you say rarely thank you.
Furthermore he's still the strongest man on earth to me.
I want to thank my sister... who...
always worries about me.
I had a really nice childhood with her and we'll always be close to each other. I think we never really argued with each other, we were always pretty close.
I'm always glad to see her, it's always something special, it's...
a feeling that I rarely have, because...
most of the people come and go, but she's there.
That I can rely on.
For this season I want to attack one more time. I'm starting again at the GNBF.
Starting at the GNBF as well as the ANBF.
At the NAC & the DBFV.
But I'm focused on the ANBF & especially on the german championship.
Because there I want to improve my placement.
Here, the last remains.
Almost better than the finished brownies.
Like Rami Malek as Freddy Mercury.
So, a little bit above the lip.
Hair's still long on the sides.
Well let's find out if I can make it.
So, what are you going to do the next days?
Today only few calories.
1700 calories.
Tomorrow I start to load. The biggest day with 450 grams of carbohydrates.
Fewer carbs on friday.
And then we're going to drive six hours to austria on friday, so that's going to be very stressfull.
But I don't have to drive.
So, what are you expecting from austria? What do you think, you can accomplish over there? what's your goal?
My goal is top three.
I got third last year already.
Well, second or first would definitely better... at least it would be an improvement.
So my goal is definitely top three.
If I place less than third, I think I'm ending up in depression.
Winning... is more of a dream than a goal.
But you can't affect those things.
But I'm going to give my very best on stage. I will hold my poses, I'm doing my routine,
which I will be practise again this evening.
As well as tomorrow and then, it should be fine.
The good thing about the posing routine is, that people don't know what you've practised, which means you can...
just work out something to the music when you're on stage.
You can improvise.
It never has been received in a bad way, before.
The main thing is having fun on stage.
I never had the feeling of being nervous or under pressure. Of course you've got a little pressure, because you want to reach your goal.
But...
let's just see what happens.
Maybe a little message for ANIMAL, right into the camera?
Yeah... what am I supposed to say...
Sponsor me?
Sponsor me, yes...
nooooooooooooooooooooooot.
Now we're going to train!
What are you listening to working out?
Well I listen to the same stuff I've listened to in my old room in Totenburg.
Most of it was rock music.
Rock and even soundtracks.
I listened to a lot of Hans Zimmer.
Calm music and even oldies that reminded me of certain things.
I thing everyone has it's own style.
But at the moment, I switch things pretty fast. I listen to almost everything that pushes me.
Hip Hop, Rock, 90's, Alternative stuff.
Then again 80's retro music, like Rocky, you know.
But sometimes I don't need any music at all. Sometimes I don't give a fuck what music is playing.
But now at the end of the diet, I need it a little more.
Wow! She was small, for real!
I mean, I'm small myself, but she... she's smaller than Danny DeVito.
Very 'mini' here.
Basically a diet is, especially in prep for a competition, pure self destruction.
Your body devours itself.
And day after day your face is becoming smaller.
You have less fat on you.
You try to hold your performance during the training, but it's getting harder.
And you become very sensitive about your instincts.
When you're going through super markets and you see the sweets and stuff, the flesh, you perceive the smell of everything like an animal.
There you realize you have a very feral side in you, as soon as the hunger sets in.
You need absolute power over yoursef.
Don't go crazy.
Stick to your diet.
Do it.
Go on. You've got a goal, you've got a fixed date for it and day after day you work towards it.
And that's something not a lot of people can endure.
And not everyone will understand it. Sometimes I wish that other people would have this feeling as well,
just to understand how you feel, but I can't  demand something like that.
But I guarantee you...
after that, you're going to appreciate a lot more in your life. You will enjoy every bit. You won't waste anything. You're going to appreciate everything that you've got.
I became very minimalistig through all the shit that happened to me in my life.
I appreciate the thing I've got.
I've still a few things from the old house.
The kitchen clock.
It looks like shit, broke a lot of times, but to me it's worth more than money.
That's something more precious to me than any fucking expensive car which I don't need.
One more to go.
With my first contest prep, which was really hard, I just wanted to proof to myself that I'm still worth something and I got fifth.
You had to place at least fifth to get to the finals and I did it. It was my dream back then.
And now...
I just wanted to try.
I just want to try, I want to make it and I want to see... what I can accomplish.
It's awkward, I don't even feel ready for the competition right now.
You can check the arm, Tobi.
Yeah, it's pretty easy that way, it's like wallpaper.
Just rolling.
If there's too much and the color starts to flow down, just  spread it again. Just don't let the drops dry, because then, you'll have stripes there.
Spread it consistently.
Just spreading it consistently, until we say, it's enough.
Yeah it is what it is... there could also be  porn on TV... it is what it is.
Eventually, after this long journey of working your ass off, you come to that moment,
Where you're entering the backstage area and set up a camp, waiting for the whole thing to start.
I think from the outside you might think this is a place for homeless people.
Everything smells like pro tan.
You've already got your first layer of color on you and you smell on your own skin.
You're checking your shape, but when this moment has arrived, you don't have to blame yourself for anything anymore.
Many are going crazy, some are getting nervous, but to me... I was pretty calm at that point, there was nothing I could blame myself for.
I reached that moment and the journey is going to end pretty soon.
You almost through with everything and you're finally able to load.
You've got to refill your glycogen and you're allowed to eat carbohydrates.
The whole area smells like ricecakes & sweets and you feel that tight atmosphere. Honey. Marmelade. Fluff. Basically all these kinds of sweets.
You're dehydrated but at the same time, you're strong as well, because you know it's going to start any minute.
The only thing stressing you is this uncertainty when it's going to start exactly.
But you've made it already. 99%.
Now it's time to eat, for real!
I'm going to get myself some ice cream later!
Yeah, for sure!
The german championship title at the GNBF is my main goal for this season. It's the contest, I did all this for.
That's what I've worked my ass off for. What I've tortured myself for half a year.
Properly speaking I've prepared myself for this contest for the last seven years.
I used to watch the GNBF and the championship of natural bodybuilding and I... thought like: 'Wow! Would be nice to make it to participate in that contest one day.'
And now... the day has finally come. I definitely focused on this contest.
And it's the most important contest for me as well.
Properly speaking, I've prepared myself for this championship, because I've started there in 2017 as well, but in this preparation, I really  gave it my all, every single day.
I thought of that competition every single day. There wasn't any second where I was somewhere else - distracted.
And what's also been important to me, was that my sister would be there. That my father would be there.
My family.
These two persons where there last year as well and I felt like I let them down, because I... well... it was unlikely, I can't even explain it properly.
But this time, it felt right.
I just had a better feeling than the year before.
I...
was...
I just felt more comfortable. I felt more confident. My goal appeared much clearer in front of me.
I just wanted to give it my all, everything I've had.
You always downplay yourself. You always think that you aren't enough and that there are better ones.
And you say to yourself: 'It's the taking part that counts!' But that just isn't right.
If you set a goal for yourself and you're having that vision everyday - reaching your goal... then it's definitely possible.
You just don't stop believing in yourself, that's the key.
Even though no one else is going to believe in you. Some are going to sneer at you.
To most it won't matter but you've gotta stay focused.
And that's not just in this sport, but in life.
This championship taught me that.
Tenacity pays off.
When I reminiscent, how I started training,
locking myself up for three years, only training...
everything makes sense now.
Every repetition, every training session, I did precisely for this competition.
In the beginning, it was subconscious, but then I got that focus.
And I'm being aware of it now.
What was it? Licking, drinking, biting?
Exactly!
What for?
For tomorrow's competition.
Alright.
Bic Mac with fries!
And a diet coke.
About two hours before the competition.
Ketchup as well!
It's alright Daniel, come in! It's only me... not a big star or anything.
Just having a look at the shape.
Are you next?
No, not yet. Just checking once more.
Good lightning?
Well it's okay. Legs are looking pretty bad in here, but you can already see where it's going.
I guess the more serious part begins when you're getting the last layer of color.
And you start pumping up, because you know, the class right before your class is next.
Tobi was there, Julia was there.
They put that last layer of color on me and they did it very well.
And you've 'gotta really retain control and keep cool.
Pumping up, having devoured enough carbohydrates.
And it's going to start any moment. It's going to start any moment. It's going to start any moment. You must not be afraid.
You've 'gotta stay relaxed.
When I finally realized that I got first...
I felt like I couldn't breath anymore.
And at the same time everything let go of me.
I did a lot of thinking. I thought of this moment for the last two years and this was my first try at the german  championship.
In 2015 I was there, completely on my own and I got placed fifth.
In 2017 I entered that competition again and got fourth. And that placement...
destroyed me, even though that sounds ridiculous. There are people being glad about becoming fourth.
But I wanted more. Because I knew I had more to give. And I was told so many times that I can't make it.
I wanted to make it and that feeling... of accomlishing that one thing, felt...
you can't even describe it, because for that moment, it feels absolutely unreal.
But I was well aware of my dad being there and my sister being there. And both of the saw that I made it, after all I've been through the last years.
I was hurt many times and many times I didn't have the will to go on because so many things went wrong.
But in these seconds I felt felicity fulfilling me after all these years of training. Because I accomplished what I dreamed of.
Everyone knows that feeling, when you watch a motivational video and you think: 'Hey, that dude got first. I want to be first myself just for once, as well.'
I LIVED that experience in that very moment.
And the most important people in my life were there with me.
Well what's left to say...
What did bodybuilding give to me...?
Actually everything I wanted to accomplish during that time and I build my whole life around it.
And I reached that goal.
I'm excited for what future holds.
It won't be the last time for me being on stage, but...
there are other things for me to focus on for now.
It's about time. To push forward in life as well.
Not only in sports.
'We'll meet again, in another life.
When we're both cats.'
David, dude! Incredible! You really did it!
You won the german title and even in austria you got a good placement.
Really cool!
But I've 'gotta say, the real highlight with you, in the prep & at the competitions,
was seeing you so happy on stage. Seeing you laughing on stage. Shining.
No matter what placement you'd eventually get! You stood there like a professional!
And you clearly earned that status!
Definitely!
Despite all the removals, chaos at home & all the difficulties you had to face.
We did it.
And if you think about it...
being there with four people in one hotel room, a year before...
all these removals... boxing everything, unboxing everything... upstairs, downstairs...
And despite of all of the struggles, you made it. And you should keep in mind, that you can achieve everything you want to.
You're a strong guy...
and I really admire your performance. You looked great!
And I was really proud that our team could accompany you.
And I hope it wasn't the last time.
Yeah well, what better place for some last words than the one, where Separation is being finished in this very moment.
David, right behind me, the final render has started and I hope it'll work so that Separation is officially finished.
We've started this project, just as a thought in 2015.
But it was some kind of promise to ourselves as well.
That we're going to produce this film.
Doesn't matter how long it'll take and when it's going to be released.
In 2018 you got that first place at the german championship which was enough to finally bring that idea into reality.
We did it, we gave it our all. You know.
Holy shit. It really was hard work, but we did it.
And with that first place you got, you also prove that you're going to get what belongs to you.
I hope you will continue to do so for the rest of your life.
You know how it works. We move on. We move until we finally drop dead.
Well big one... congratulations to the german title from us as well!
You made it, hellyes!
You've 'gotta be good to accomplish this. I'd say it was a pretty successfull season.
I learned a lot about you. I learned a lot about bodybuilding.
And I wish you the best of luck for everything that's coming your way.
It was a great honor being able to accompany you, for me as well, David.
And I'm sure it wasn't your last successfull competition.
Dear David, I want to tell you how damn prud I am of you. You've achieved so much in your life!
And I know it wasn't easy for you and you went through so much shit.
But all these experiences shaped you into that person you are today.
I wish you so many more great moments in your life!
I'm always there for you, be sure of it. Your sister Vanessa, I love you to death.
Hello David, I want to greet you this way, as well.
What you have experienced and accomplished being that young...
Every disappointment made you stronger.
And when you've got a goal, you bite like a dog and you really pull it through.
Because you can eat grass and you're my son!
Just continue to walk your path like that and decide for yourself what you want in life and what you don't want.
I'm really proud of you and always there for you! Your dad!
What I've learned through strength training over the last years,
through all the years of training and torture,
is,
that setbacks aren't setbacks,
but only obstacles you can overcome.
You have to choose if you go on or not.
But you've got a choice.
And that's why it's always worth to go on.
