I started working out, because my brother, mother and myself joined a gym close to the university that I was going to be attending. We would get up at 5 in the morning, every day, before my school started to go workout. The energy of the people in there at that time of day, the strength that I gained from working out, the discipline that I learned that if I focused on something, I could achieve it, became an addiction. Also, I realized I could go from the skinny kid that I was, to more presentable weight, where no one would call me skinny or comment on that part of me over and over again.

I love it, because it's one aspect of one's life, that they can have total control over. If I want to look a particular way, all I have to do is have the dedication and the drive, and I can achieve it. No one can take that away from me.