As I watch your olympia coverage video Shawn (good video), I can't help but notice that you're out of shape. This is great news.
If you really want to build your channel, you can do it how you're doing it (which is fine, only a fool would think you enter the saturated market and immediately prosper) - or you can simply make a one time "comeback" or at least do a self "transformation" type series and you'll do far far better than you ever could working your ass off to come up with videos.
Leverage it. It'll work.