HOW I STARTED! - I Got My First Weight At 2 Years Old!
I was born to two mesomorphs, both of which had great genetics. My father was a bodybuilder and so was my grandfather. At just 2 years old my grandfather bought me my first set of weights! 2 iron 2 lb. dumbbells! I guess this makes me one of the youngest weight lifters of all-time! I played tons of competitive sports growing up from t-ball, to soccer, basketball, baseball and football. I was a naturally genetically gifted athlete and excelled at everything.
Jump to about 8 years old and it starts to get more interesting. My neighboor was a few years older than me and my bestfriend. His mom had a full workout room in his house and that’s when both of us started messing around lifting weights there and listening to LL Cool J, watching Arnold movies, WWF wrestling and all that. By 10 I got my own bench press and free weights, like dumbbells and barbells. This is when I started to get even more serious about bodybuilding. I also got a speed and heavy bag because I was really into boxing. I would jump rope, do pull ups, hit the bags and run all the time, in addition to lifting weights. Around this point, I started getting Muscle & Fitness and FLEX magazines and started reading all of the articles. My father who was also a bodybuilder gave me a lot of tips as well.
At 12 years old, I got a gym membership at a pretty hardcore gym that was less than a 1/4 mile from my house. It was like heaven, I used to walk there every single day and train like a maniac. I continued to do the same at age 13 and then went to GNC at the local mall one day and found out about supplements. I ended up getting weight gainer, protein, creatine, glutamine and amino acids and BOOM! My body transformed extremely fast. I worked out extremely hard every day. I always trained my whole body evenly from the very beginning. I always did legs, triceps, back and delts. The things most people don’t always start off doing, I even did rear delts and traps. I even hit all angles from the beginning, like flat, incline, decline for chest. Front, rear and side for delts, etc. etc. For me symmetry is everything and I don’t do anything to sacrifice. I like to keep everything as even as possible. No matter what.
By 14 I had the best body in the gym and the rest is history!
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