I was your typical Charles Atlas story of the bully kicking sand in a lanky kids face. I was that awkward lanky kid. (Now I'm just awkward). I was a defiantly a bully magnet and had a not so great childhood. I experienced things that no child should be exposed to.This lead to extreme anxiety, depression, and sever low self esteem. (still battling some of those demons today but they are far and few between. What started my road to to self confidence and self worth was my mom got me a weight set when I think it was 7th grade. I started following like every-other aspiring bodybuilder followed Arnold and read every muscle magazine I could get a hold of. I would work out constantly (i defined over-training) regardless I was able to muster up some muscle in the next couple of months. I was hooked. Good or bad my Identity was wrapped up into my weight training for several years, by my Junior year in High School, i could tell my training was really paying off or it could of been the fact that I finally reached puberty, I was a really late bloomer. I had developed a fair amount of muscle and I become a guru in weight training in a small town in Ks, I was able to pass on my great knowledge (the latest muscle magazine article). I did honestly had a divine passion for fitness it's what made me decide to go to school and Major in Exercise Physiology and get my A.C.E Training Certification.

I love bodybuilding because it was the driving force that got me through the hell that I lived through as a child. It is responsible for the confidence that I have developed to do public speaking, open my own nutrition and fitness club, Spread the good news of what being fit can do for you and your life