I got inspired into bodybuilding when I took my first anatomy class back in art school. I wanted to look like one of the male art models---he was like the real-life version of incredible Hulk! I later learned that professional comic book artists use themselves and their gym buddies as modeling references. So I started out with exercises that I can do at home in the mornings before going to class.

I love working out because I want to be able to get up from my bed, use the toilet, shower myself, dress myself up, and cook me up a yummy hot meal when I become an old-timey (I've seen way-too-many who can no longer do those tasks for themselves). But overall, I just like the feeling of my heart pounding against my heaving chest, and to sweat it out as if I massacred a whole battalion single-handedly---who doesn't want to be a ninja?