Introduced to lifting as a freshman in high school when I begun playing football. Picked up my first FLEX magazine in December of '02, and that's how bodybuilding quickly gained my passionate attention. I did soccer in the football off-season, so my bodybuilding was only part-time throughout most of high school, untill I got done with football after my fall semester, Senior year. That's when i begun being able to focus only on bodybuilding. I came in to high school @ 6'1", 150 lbs, and graduated 6'3" 230 lbs.

It's literally some kind of body high for me. Nothing feels better than sitting on a bench in the gym with your sleeves rolled up, sweat dripping, a painful pump causing your veins to bulge out on the bi's and delts, and people staring me down in awe . . .