I was around 15-16 years old when my father came home with a bench press and some weights. My interest in muscle stemmed from being bullied when I was younger and my dad knew that. He helped me put everything together right in the middle of my bedroom and we [...]

I’ve always been really active. I played lots of team sports when I was in grammar school, and played football and basketball with kids in the neighborhood as I got older. Towards the end of high school and in my early years in college I got into break dancing, and finally [...]

I have always been active in some shape or form since a child.  At a young age I earned my black belt in Tae Kwon Do, then for many years I played football up until my late teenage years.  I had been lifting since about the age of 15 but for sports and not for aesthetics.  At the age [...]

We have always been involved in sports at a young age. We used to play soccer for 8 years and Basketball all the way up to senior year of high school. But it wasn’t until the death of our father our senior year of high school that really turned the tables. His autopsy report showed [...]

When I was about 14 or 15, my Dad told me I was old enough to start working out. He had a small home gym in the house, so I just started out there working out by myself or with friends when they were over. Like a lot of kids we started lifting just to compete with each other. [...]

I got into it when I was really young, maybe 10-years old. Back then I loved watching action movies and I wanted to be like the action heroes in them. I admired Jean-Claude Van Damme, I wanted to be like him when I grow up (laughs). Then I got into basketball and practiced [...]

I started doing the typical beach weights routine around the age of 16 at school.  Everyone just wanted to have a big chest and big arms, so most afternoons that we didn’t have school sporting commitments we’d be doing curls in the school gym. I’d always been interested in [...]