Life After Olympia: Fatherhood, TRT & Finding Purpose - Chris Bumstead - #1006

You've stopped competing and you're more tired than ever. How's retirement going? It's a great question. It's a very broad question to start. I don't even know where to dive into that.

It's both good and bad in different ways, I would say. It's interesting because when people ask me if I miss competing, especially right now with the Olympic coming up, it's like There's parts that I miss, but I don't wish I was doing it. Like I trained with Ryan Terry and like seeing the mindset he's in, remembering the pressure I felt and everything that came with it. I was like, I don't wish I was there right now, but there's aspects I miss.

And I'm happy with my decision, but there's also a lot of like feeling of like lost in direction and what am I doing? Where am I going right now? And I feel like I've filled that up with a lot of busy work, I feel like, in the last year. There's been business, there's been being a dad, there's been just moving on to one thing to another and I haven't slowed down to really process.

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