I spent a lot of my early teen years being quite active, I was a keen skateboarder and later an enthusiastic BMXer. Like a lot teenagers I started smoking and drinking thinking "its not going to affect my health too much, I'm always exercising". Well like most teenagers, I was wrong! By late teens I was spending more time in the pub than I was elsewhere else. I did have a pretty dapper pool team and some winners trophy's to show for them years, so they aren't a regret. But at the ripe old age of 22 I had gone too far. Out every night. Still drunk at work the next day and really just looking worse for wear. Its at this stage I decided something needed to be done. I had been a member of the gym for 2 years but hardly had time with such a 'busy' schedule. I started training mostly on machines and cardio to save embarrassment of getting something wrong and the thought of people watching what very little weight I could shift. Sooner or later I became a 'regular' and built up enough confidence to do some free weights and presses, everyone was so helpful and friendly I didn't know why I didn't just start there in the first place!
I've pick up bad habits and injuries along the way but I'm still learning. Ive been properly training and taking supplements for 4 years now and in the last 15 months I've even started taking my diet more serious as the more I learn the more I want to change. My goal is to gain lean muscle and be over 100kg

I like to try and train 4-5 times a week. I workout mostly in the mornings but some days I'll be working for 15 hours so it becomes hard to train as often. I've now joined a second gym with 24 hour access so I can even train after work on these long days. Recently I've taken up Olympic Weight Lifting and its GREAT!!! in the gym its just you pushing you or occasionally a mate pushing you. Here you have true competitiveness! it's everyone pushing each other. We're all after the same goal and having everyone behind you really makes a great sport enjoyable to compete in. Weight Lifting has taught me more discipline and better form and it's helped me smash through plateaus I've struggled with. Bodybuilding has become my release! an escape. The gym is somewhere I feel most comfortable and It's the people along the way that have helped make me who I am and want to be. It's not just training and bodybuilding I love It's everything about it!