I firsted started strength training when I was 9. I continued through high school and into my 20s with success experimenting with a lot of different training modalities and sports. There just wasn't nearly as much good info out there as there is today, but even today it is skewed and dishonest.

I want to teach others the things I have learned in my 27+ years of bodybuilding in the hopes of giving them the chance to do it better than me and be better than I am or could ever be. I especially like to help the skinny guys like I used to be because when I was that skinny guy there was nobody to give me good advice or help me be better. I had to learn it all the hard way and sometimes harder than I wanted to.

I love pushing myself to new limits and exceeding them. Failure is the key to success in the gym. If you aren't pushing to failure then you're not going to grow. It's the same way in life. If you're afraid to face failure then you will never achieve your true potential. Failure forces us to adapt and that is what the pursuit of fitness is; forced adaptation. Working to failure does not mean working to exhaustion or consistent overtraining. It is the rep that goes beyond what you can do that takes every ounce of effort you can muster only to fail that makes you stronger. 1 rep at a time!