Chris Bumstead

Your values and purpose will inevitably (hopefully) grow over time. You can still love something and it not be what’s best for you. True love for something sometimes means knowing when to release it. Not squeeze out the most you can, but let it go when it no longer serves what is most important to you, and before the chance to resent it arises. Retiring on top is always the plan, but stepping away with nothing but gratitude for your career is true success.

I trained my whole life to be Mr. Olympia. Now I train my willpower not to replace every carb I eat with toast.

Bradley’s 16 months she should know better…

“Be a contributor, not a taker. Give more than you receive”. - I tell Bradley as she takes my fork every time I try and eat a meal…

Mandatory pancakes on Sunday morning to fuel leg day 🤝

How do I tell my wife who was up all night with the baby that I still need to train for 3 hours a day (I don’t) even if I’m not competing in the Olympia anymore? Our daughter still deserves a jacked dad 🤝

Every guy who gets into the gym says the same thing: “I just want to get really strong”. Which sounds noble, but what he really means is: “I want to be strong enough that no one notices when I’m too afraid to tell the waitress they brought me the wrong food”.

For years, I built my life and in part my identity around being the best bodybuilder in the world. Progress became an obsession. But now I’m left asking myself; where do I direct that same drive? What am I really trying to be better for? If it’s not the Olympia, then what?

Getting old is accepting that strength fades and injuries come out of no where…

@matheusmonlima When’s skate 4 coming though???

@cbumstead6x We got Cbum in Twitter/X before GTA 6

Using this as brain dump. Maybe getting the thoughts out of my head will help me sleep🤝

You are going to suffer if you believe that the way things are shouldn’t be the way that they are.

Anyone struggling to sleep at night, especially laying down with racing heart/ thoughts, try these 3 things: Turn your phone off 2 hours before bed, last bite of food 1.5 hours before bed, go for a 20 minute walk outside within an hour before bed. Try it, tell me it doesn’t work.

Hot take: if every classic competitor moved to the open, (with a good off-season) the Olympia top 10 would look a lot different.