Growing up I was always the tallest kid; very tall and very skinny! I spent A lot of time running, competing as a sprinter in many different competitions whilst also playing sunday league football for my local club. Being a very active kid I was insanely fit, due to being constantly active! Because of this I became incredibly 'Ripped,' especially for my age; skinny as hell, but incredibly defined! I maintained this level of 'ripped-ness' as I matured, but still I was skinny with 'noodle arms.' Aged thirteen I started dating a girl much older than myself, her being 16 at the time! Crazy right!? At first this was great, for the first year or so, but her being much older than me meant that her male peers had twice size of my body, as they were obviously much older and regular gym goers. This got me down some-what as I couldn't see her wanting to stay with when she was to start college. Around age 14 I decided I would start to work out. Not really having a clue what to do, I quickly became discouraged when the press ups and pull ups were showing little gains, blaming it all on my 'skinny' genetics! After speaking to a family member, who was an ex-pro bodybuilder and shot putter, I discovered that at age 14 I was way to young and lacked the knowledge to start working out with weights and that I should still stick to the push ups and pull ups, as these would increase my strength and build the foundations for serious weight lifting. He also informed me that I should wait until I was sixteen before I joined a gym and started to take things seriously. I took these words and not before long my sixteenth birthday came around and my parents bought me a 12 month contract at my local gym as A birthday present. Here I had a meeting with one of the gym instructors, creating a gym routine which I would use for the months ahead to try and build some decent muscle in my first year of body training. This year proved to be successful in that i gained over a stone worth of solid, lean muscle. After the year had gone by I reviewed my progress and what I could do to further increase my gains. Throughout the year I had learned many things, different workouts etc. but one thing I had not yet learned was the importance of nutrition. This year I now plan how much protein I intake per day in order to gain my maximum potential gains.

The fact that I set out with a goal in mind and am now reaping the benefits through hard-work and tireless dedication and actually seeing my goals become a reality just makes me want strive forward and keep aiming higher and higher! The great thing is about working out is that I truthfully enjoy getting in the gym and putting the effort in, forgetting everything else what is going on in my life at that moment and just pushing myself to the limit, that way anything else that I will come up against that day will be no where near as hard as what I have just put myself through there in the gym.