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Cats. But first, the nightline 5. Number 1 in just 60 seconds. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Tonight the two men youre about to meet set about chasing an image of muscular perfection, building their daily lives around working out and dramatically pushing their bodies to bulk up. But for one of these men the obsession went way too far. Heres abcs gio benitez. Reporter washboard abs. Chiseled pecs. Nearly 200 pounds of pure muscle. Whats your height . 62. Weight . 192. Body fat . Probably like 12, 13. I mean, these are things most 18yearolds dont know about themselves. Id say so, yeah. Reporter at just 18 years old, david late is often seen as the poster boy for physical perfection. But just four years ago david looked like this. Just 98 pounds at 14 years old. He says he was bullied in school for being scrawny. Every aspect of my life was basically just heavily impaired by like how insecure i was and how i looked. I was a twig, an absolute twig. Reporter desperate for a change, he turned to youtube videos for advice on how to transform his body. I just went on youtube and i typed in chest workout. Reporter now hes a social media celebrity himself. This transformation video chronicling his weight gaining odyssey has more than 14 million v views on youtube. What do you think it is about that video that had so many people looking at this . I think its the completely massive change in the human being because i was just like a small skinny kid and all of a sudden its a completely massive transformation. Reporter he lifts big, sometimes up to six hours a day. And eats nearly 5,000 calories. Doesnt have to know about these. Reporter posting it all on social nemedia. You think people are looking for before and after . Before and afters. People think if he was just an average person, he looked lake this and he ended up achieving this type of success, that motivates you. I remember when i started out when i would see transformations like that it would be crazy inspirational. Reporter you can call what he does bigspiration. Today videos p men like david flexing and pumping iron have millions of views giving a new crop of scrawny boys advice on how to get bigger faster. But for some the desire to bulk up can just as easily be an obsession, leading some young men down a destructive path, compulsively dieting and working out, never feeling quite big enough. Ideal male body size and musculature seems to have become kind of more and more inflated over the years to the point where it would be very difficult for anybody to kind of achieve this. Here i am around 20 and at 140 pounds, and then on the ride here i am around 25, 26, 260 pounds. Reporter for 29yearold web designer dylan haffertepen the question for maximum muscle has been a lifelong struggle. I used to look at them and beat myself up because this is so out of reach and why am i not there . Reporter at 18 the california native weighed 140 pounds. But in seven years he doubled his size, following intense workouts, drinking six protein shakes a day, and spending half of his paycheck on supplements. A couple of proacid. Acetone choline. Honestly i should scale back. Some of them i keep taking out of habit. Reporter his entire life devoted to his body. I would always choose to work out over hanging out with friends. I would not go out to eat. I had my meals prepared and i would eat them all by myself. I usually picked jobs where offices were near a gym of my preference. I was so caught up in that lifestyle, obsessed with getting bigger, bigger, bigger, that i never really considered this a problem. Reporter despite getting up to 265 pounds, sporting 20inch biceps, dylan says he still never felt big enough. I perceived myself as very small and weak and inadequate. I would get very upset about how small my arms seemed in proportion to my waist, to my shoulders, to my neck. I would focus on all these things that made me very upset. Reporter dylan says that bodybuilding videos on social media were a trigger for him. You dont see any averagelooking superheroes, and that can create this false idea of what the male physique should be. Reporter his infatuation with getting huge ultimately landed him in the hospital. He had gotten so big his Blood Pressure was so high he had to have his heart shocked back to normal. I had negotiated with myself that, you know, it would have been okay to succumb to death at an early age by pushing myself beyond what my body was capable of. Theres no amount of size i could have added in that headspace that would have fixed that. Reporter dylan realized he needed help. His quest for the perfect muscular body was actually a psychological condition known as muscle dysmorphia, more commonly called biggerexia. People with muscle dysmorphia have a belief or a perception that their body is too small or scrawny, that theyre not muscular enough. And they have a very strong desire to become bigger. Reporter roughly 1 in 50 people in the United States have been diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder and it affects just as many men as women. Up to a quarter of those people are believed to be muscle dysmorphic, which is sometimes called the reverse anorexia. People are anorexia nervosa believe theyre too fat or too large and they want to become thinner where as people with bigorexia believe theyre too small and not muscular enough and want to become bigger. Reporter patients are most often treated with medication specific to their symptoms and therapy that targets damaging behavior. To help them cut down on the amount of time that theyre, say, checking in the mirror, which helps them think less about their appearance, gradually cut down the amount of time theyre in the gym, help them deal with the fears that they have, that theyre going to possibly lose muscle mass or lose size if they exercise less. Help them reframe their ideas about the importance of appearance in general. You can be a bodybuilder. You can be a fitness nut. And thats great. But when is that crossing the line ton an obsessivecompulsive disorder that is endangering you . Thats when you need to look for help. Reporter bodybuilding videos on social media were a trigger for dylan, but theres no evidence they cause muscle dysmorphia. And people who work out, even hardcore devotees like david, dont necessarily have a problem. Your body has changed dramatically. Now youre thinking you still want to get bigger, you still want to get stronger. Yes. I would like to increase my muscle mass, increase my strength. And im doing that by going to the gym and training consistently. But im by no means like ridiculously obsessed with it where its taking over my life. Its just something i enjoy doing. Like thats just what i do. Reporter but for people like dylan, struggling with their perception of their own body, after three years of therapy he says hes stronger now inside and out. I have a greater appreciation for myself. I can now look in the mirror and i am not hung up on these preconceptions of how i look. Im not obsessed with focusing on flaws, how skinny i am, how weak i am. I see beautiful dylan. Reporter for nightline im gio benitez in new york. Up next, the olympic fencer who believes his mental training will give him the ultimate edge in rio. And later, from bleeding love to memory. Leona lewis becomes the cats meow. 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Tonight we find one athlete whos going to extremes in hopes of gaining just that, at a camp that uses some highly unorthodox methods to train elite athletes how to perform under do or die pressure. This, the latest in our series pushing the limits. Miles chamleywatson is going for gold in rio. At 26 hes the platinum blond, tattedup World Champion fencer who happens to moonlight as a high fashion model. For the olympics its the most High Pressure situation. Its every four years. You want it so bad. And its just like you put so much extra pressure on yourself. Reporter training up to seven hours a day. Hes been dreaming of olympic gold since he was 10. I first tried fencing just for fun. It was offered in gym class. I fell in love with it right away. And when you start to win you kind of start to really see a little angle. See what you can get out of this. See what you can get out. Reporter and just weeks before the most crucial competition of his life, miles is taking an unconventional approach. Instead of intensive fencing, hes training his mind as well as his body. To be able to control your emotions is probably the most important thing for any person in general. An athlete is probably the most important. Reporter welcome to red bulls performing under pressure camp. Here in the epic landscape of montana, nine extreme athletes from a rock climber to a big wave surfer coming together to gain that extra edge on their opponents. So how will this help you going into the olympics . This is so much more fen bishl to me than just benifencir going to the gym. You cant buy these experiences. Oh, my god. Reporter one of the biggest lessons, facing down your fears. Look at mielsz. Reporter even if it means coming face to face with a 1,000pound grizzly bear named bart. What went through your mind when you saw that bear . If i could outrun that bear. If i can do that i can do anything. You can face down anybody with a foil . By standing here you have already encountered and conquered the bear. The real bear is the fear within you. Reporter miles is also training to push through the pain and payne of High Pressure scenarios. Learning enhanced breathing techniques pioneered by worldrenowned ice man wim hoff. I always say i dont care how good you are, ill make you better. Reporter these exercises in keeping cool under pressure preparing them for whats next. Freezing cold ice baths. You keep on going with the breathing. And we go all for five minutes. Fully emerged up to here into the ice water. Its a big impact on your chemistry, but you are in control my hand is starting to hurt. Its been a matter of seconds. Absolutely. Reporter miles grimaces, but the deep breathing seems to be helping him ignore the pain signals. Ease down on the breathing. Ease down in the breathing. Keep on breathing dont catch. Keep on breathing. Whos the master . Control of the mind is letting go. This is beyond. Reporter he somehow manages to stay submerged for ten long minutes. Come on. I think its so important to really focus on your breathing because if i didnt focus on my breathing i would have never been able to stay under the water stay in that thing for ten minutes. No way. Yeah. Because you were struggling that first time you went in. Yeah. It sucked. Its painful. Reporter and yet during competition the biggest enemy may be emotions. Just hours before his olympic debut in london four years ago miles says he was caught off guard by a phone call from his estranged dad. I picked it up and hes like oh, hey, its your dad. Reporter he says his angry reaction cost him a medal, placing fourth. I was number one in the world that year and i couldnt even focus at pull. I trained my whole life for this and i let Something Like that ruin it. Reporter which is why this touchyfeely part of the Training Camp may help miles the most. Training the athletes to get in touch with their emotions. Come on, come on. Cry. Reporter coached by professional actors from cirque du soleil, miles is asked to get sad. Really sad. The worst moment in your life. Use that as a marker. Acting. Youre not being judged on it. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Honestly, i havent cried since i was literally 11. Reporter years of pentup resentment and pain spilling out on stage. Something got you there. What was it . I guess i thought about my dad maybe growing up. I was like not only crying but okay like he was let it all out. You know, its like real men cry. You were crying for the 12yearold boy. I just block it out. So its like when youre forced to like find the worst thing to make you cry, like okay you got there. Yeah. Quick. Super quick. Reporter by moving beyond his hurt, miles hopes this time around hell be in full control of his emotions as he enters the Olympic Arena once again. If we see you up on that podium in rio, how much of a role would this camp have played . A lot. Huge role . Really . Yeah. Im a step ahead of people i think normally but now this is a whole other mental game that people dont have. This is like trying to unlock the secret sauce, isnt it . It is. Because everyone has it inside of them but no one really knows how to attack that. Ive attacked you. To create a legacy, not a moment. What will you be remembered as . Next, after a 16year cat nap a beloved show returns to broadway. Viagra single packs. So guys with ed can. Take viagra when they need it. Ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension. Your Blood Pressure could drop to an unsafe level. To avoid longterm injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. 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This fierce feline reincarnation bursts with the beloved music and dances that millions remember and adds a new voice front and center. Pop star leona lewis. Keep bleeding keep, keep bleeding whos gone from bleeding love touch me to memory. One of broadways most unforgettable songs. Its something you that saw as a child . I did. It was so magical. It blew me away. Reporter the shows iconic catinspired choreography is there but updated by andy blankenbueller. You did hamilton. Now youre doing cats. Cats is very similar to hamilton in that music never stops and cats was a revolutionary show when it opened and it really changed how people viewed theater. So in that regard i think the projects are a little parallel. Reporter the set is part junkyard, part playground. It is really like a tire. Yeah. Its pretty slippery here. Reporter in this theater to be a cat you cant just play like a cat. You have to dance like one. Its as if that moon hits you in a crazy way and just paralyzes you. Were going to go ahead and speed up that half hour it took to learn the routine. I cant just dance like a cat. I have to look like a cat. Reporter a mere one hour later im feeling so much more feline. Rah. Five, six, seven, eight. Reporter and then no pressure, but the full cast joins me. I dance. I prance. I strut. I hold my own. For fans of this iconic musical their days in the sun are still going strong. That ginger zee moves like a cat. Thanks to our chief meteorologist for that. And dancer. Cats is now on broadway. Check it out. Thanks for watching abc news. Join us for Good Morning America tomorrow. And as always, were online at abcnews. Com. And our Nightline Facebook page. Anybody can have a bad day, and we here at the show know that as well as anyone. Thats why today were letting players who ran into some bad luck the first time around take another crack at that 1 million. Its Second Chance week on who wants to be a millionaire. [dramatic music] hey, everybody. Im chris harrison. Welcome to the show. Are you guys ready for millionaire today . [cheers and applause] thats good, because we got a great game going. Our returning contestant is a philosopher who believes that fortune favors the bold, and so far, hes taken many risks that have all paid off. Hes six questions away from the million. He has all his lifelines. So lets bring him out. From park slope, new york, please welcome back james rowe. [cheers and applause] welcome back, buddy. Nice to see you again. Thank you, thank you. James is back. Yes, i am. You know, all the folks that have come back here on Second Chance week, its been a pleasure to have all of you, first of all. Thank you. But most of them all say to me, i never thought id get this opportunity. Mmhmm. Do you feel the same way . You know, i dont, actually. As soon as i wasas soon as i came off the show last time, i had this weird feeling, like, you know, maybe im gonna get a Second Chance. You know, i was still happy with the 25,000, but you know, i had that feeling, like a like a Guardian Angel was talking in my ear. But most importantly, you have p