I started working out after coming out of a serious bad portion of my life. I was getting into debt and using drugs and at a bad place in my life. My mom asked me one day after seeing me if i was sick because I looked so thin. After that point in my life I new it was time for a change. I devoted myself to getting healthy by eating right and working out to achieve my new goals. I shortly after became a certified personal trainer and fell in love with every aspect of it. Several years later I got into a horrible motocross accident that I fractured two vertebrae in and was in the hospital for a week. I was put into a full upper body cast and told that heavy lifting was out for me. After training now for several years and slowly rebuilding myself I am stonger and more fit than I have ever been. It gives me motivation to work harder everyday and prove the statistics wrong.

I love bodybuilding for so many reasons. The natural male instinct to be competitive has always driven me to better myself and try harder. I love that no matter what kind of day I have the gym melts the outside world around me and all I focus on is the pump...the pain...and how much closer to my personal goals I am. It brings people together and forms friendships that anyone that doesn't lift wouldn't understand. It leaves you drained, lifeless and in pain but yet has the ability to make you beg for more. Its a true addiction of the purest form and the natural endorphins that it releases make you feel amazing.