My Brother competed, and when I started lifting I blew up fast without really supplementing or eating right so I ask myself what would happen if I put it all together and now I know!!

Growing up I started wrestling at the early age of seven. I loved the sport and the feeling of knowing my own sacrifice in the gym and on the mat was mine only, so I relate bodybuilding a lot to wrestling; it gave me the self-discipline I needed to be good at the sport of bodybuilding. I'm very grateful for my coaches and my father for being so helpful in making me disciplined in that regard. My older brother Garrad was always into the bodybuilding magazines and stuff, and I remember looking at them sometimes when I was around 12 or so, thinking to myself, how did they get so big? My brother later started competing and I would watch him diet. I was like, no way would I ever want to eat that many meals a day and not be able to eat what I want. Then at the age of 25 I had gained little bit of fat - not much, but it was too much to me - so I started training and eating the same stuff as my brother and I grew... very fast. One day my brother told me I should do a show with him, so in the spring of 2005 we both competed together. I placed 3rd in the middleweights - I knew from that day on I was addicted to the sport and how great a feeling it was to be in the best shape of my life - even better than in my days on the wrestling mat, so here I am still going forward with my dream of earning my IFBB pro card. A few quotes I like: "There will always be tension between your goal and the fear of failing to achieve it. Quiet frankly, you want it that way. The trick is learning how not to surrender to fear but thrive on its tension." And my quote is: "No Limits and No Regrets."