Thanks for sharing your story... it is awesome that you are re-motivated ... so now it is time to kick some my friend and get it happening again!!
My story isn't so great but I will tell it anyways
I come from a very small family.. as in size that is!! ... when I was in grade nine I was 5'2'' and about 120 lbs soaking wet... but that didn't stop me from being huge into sports.. I was playing soccer, rugby, and I was wrestling on my highschool team... one thing about being small was that I was very fast ..... my older brother always had weight problems due to a thyroid problem and I was always concerned that the same was going to happen to me so I was always very aware of my weight!! well in the early spring of my grade nine year I started packing on a ton of weight.. to the point that I started to get FAT!!! so here I was at 5'2'' and now weighing almost 150 lbs... I was mortified... so I started training in the gym at school... I started doing 200 pushups and situps everynight before I went to sleep.. and before I knew it I was actually gaining muscle..I could flex my arms and there was actually muscle there lol.... what I noticed the most was that sports were getting easier... I was very strong in wrestling and I was getting better at soccer and Rugby and I also had plans on joining the football team...
The summer between grade nine and ten was a weird time for me... I grew almost 9 inches in just a few months... when I got back to school in grade ten I had gone from 5'2'' to 5'11'' it was crazy I had all sorts of growing pains and knee problems.. but the worst part was now I was skinny as hell hahaha.. so I started working out harder and harder and eating like crazy....I got a membership at Golds gym and started really training hard... over the next couple of years I gave up Rugby and football and wrestling and decided that I wanted to be a pro soccer player... I played on elite teams and played in Provincial championships... I made it to the point where I was being scouted for a low level pro team.... which was right at the time where I broke my arm.. and two weeks later playing in a scouted game I came down hard with two players on top of me and cracked my left kneecap..... that was the end of my soccer carreer..
I started Kung Fu and was training very heavy in the gym.. I always dreamed about competing on stage but just never got around to doing it.. so I just kept training and eating and training to the point where I was getting pretty Buff I thought
.... It wasn't until I met a guy at the gym who wanted to compete very badly and he saw that I had potential.... I had just turned 29 years old... well after he convinced me to travel to Kamloops to see a show with him I was hooked... him and I became training partners and we trained soooo hard.. in that first year I gained over 20 pounds of lean muscle...by june of the next year at the age of 30 i stepped on stage for the first time at 196 lbs at 4% bodyfat and took home a fourth place out of ten....
So here I am now almost 6 years and 5 shows later... I took last year off completely from competing to pack on some more size... this year I am doing two shows.. I am doing the BC's in Richmond on Aug 19th and I will be travelling to Manitoba to compete at the Canadian Nationals in September.. at this time I am 247 pounds and I begin my diet in April... hoping to hit the stage at around 220 shredded this year and I am confident I will be taking the first place heavyweight and overall trophies home with me this time!!!! well I am hoping anyways hahaha
I am going to post a couple of pics from the last show I competed in ... this was in 2004 at the BC's I was 211 pounds and I took home 2 nd place in the Heavyweights....
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