My Motivation
What motivates me?
This is like my bio, with more.
I grew up with 80’s movies, ROCKY, RAMBO, Arnold movies ect. And every time I’d watch one I’d think to myself “that’s so cool, I want to look like that.” Then I would go hit the weights. Also, in the 80’s there were shows about the future, like “in 1988 world war III will begin and people will start eating each other.” RED DAWN and Road Warrior. I had the thought that I didn’t want to be left behind, so I worked out, give me a brake, I was 13.
My junior high had a weight room and there I did leg presses and curls. I also bought muscle magazines and took weight gainers, I know the weight gainers was a mistake and I wish I hadn’t, because they gave me fat cells, I quit taking them in 1989, but for the first year after my hip surgery they worked fine, remember those Joe Weider tablets?
My brothers owned Tak-won-do studios and every time they closed one I’d get the weights, rusty Weider plates, ankle weights and dumb bells. Not until 1984 did I really start wanting to get big. I had a huge set back with my hip surgery in 1986, the doctor’s wanted pay back, so they told me nothing was wrong, until I found a doctor who didn’t know me, he took one look at me and said “my God, his hip’s out of joint!” so, I had to start over, as soon as I was out of the cast, my cousins and I went to K-Mart, I bought more ankle weights and wore them on my wrist the summer of ‘86.
In high school, working out made me feel better all over. The high school had a weight room and my uncle owned a gym, so I worked out in both places though out the rest of the 80’s. My teachers and physical therapists had a conference at the end of my 9th grade, what for? I have no idea. Anyway, my old therapists said it was a bad idea for me to work out, that it would do something to my Cerebral Palsy, she had no idea, she was just pulling it out of her ass. They said, they knew this guy with C.P. and I should see him and …..show me new ways to jack off? I don’t know? So, I get there and this guy looks like he just came out of the movie “Babarala or Logan’s run” he’s has dirty hair with beard, turtle neck shirt and a hippie medallion from 1970, big belly too. He starts talking about his old girl friend and I’m just sitting there until it dawns on me “he’s ****ing talking about grade school!” I asked him if he was a virgin, he said yes, my head started spinning. That hit me hard and pissed me off . I’m not saying this guy was bad, he could change his life for the better, but didn’t. And he motivated me in a positve direction. I had a NPC Magazine, the one with Carlos on the cover; I showed it to my brother and said I wanted to do wheelchair bodybuilding. He said “Cha, no way, Pat, you can’t because you have to think, your handicap isn’t like theirs! No way, don’t even think about it.” So, I did it any way. All these things are in the back of my mind in a big ball, but really I just like bodybuilding, I like driving the weights and helping myself in the bathroom and driving a car. I just like it and with out bodybuilding I could do half or less what I do now.And the nice lady on here, who’s nursing home forgot her medication and she thinks I want to date her, listen, I just like jokes, I’m not hitting on no body here, I always tell Andy Haman jokes, do you think I want to date him? he is a nice guy.
