I had always heard about working out, always watching the kids who were much more athletic than me doing sports while I sat back and ate junk food. I changed myself in the summer of 2005, dropping 47 pounds of fat. It left me pretty skinny, along with a growth spurt making me 6'5". I finally got around to lifting and I've kept up with it since.

I like watching my body adapt. I like watching any body adapt. It's something that we all have that is quite amazing, watching how our body tries to give us help by increasing muscle size to make the task at hand easier. A spectacular thing the body is.