About

This is not a story of a genetically blessed  individual or a kid with dreams of being the biggest guy in the school.

Nope, this is a story of a boy who was skinny. Like really skinny.

How skinny you ask?

It wasn’t a case of me just needing to grow into my body. Here’s one of my senior year of high school.

I’d always been told it’s genetic, that I would never move past that ectomorph body. This was coming from adults, who basically had that DYEL body. And as a child, you take words like these to heart. I mean, these are the adults and they know better, right?

Thankfully, I had other ideas in my  head and wasn’t going to let their way of thinking hold me back.

I started lifting in 9th grade with my grandfather, who used to be a trainer. This is where my passion for fitness and working out in general took off. He was always so meticulous about tracking and taking notes. That kind of dedication and precision, in taking care of your body,  is what I loved. He instilled something in me early that help me get to where I am today.

If the numbers aren’t moving forward then your body will never get to where you want it to be.

All through high school I worked out and saw my body change a little and had other kids noticing the change.  But just as you saw above in my senior year picture, I was still skinny.

I could have given up so easily going off to college. I could have called it quits, but I knew there was more ahead if I just kept moving forward. The first few years of college I continued my workout, pretty much the same as always. Back then, even though I tracked my lifts, they were played out machine workouts, because that’s all I had to use back in high school.

It wasn’t until my junior year of college that I found this:

This relationship has been so rewarding, and I want to share it with the rest of the world. Over the years I’ve been able to take from the barbell several ideas I still hold to today. You have to have the form. You have to push past your limits. You have to lift hard.

And this is where I am today.