I was active as a child, having started gymnastics by the age of 3. I was active, dedicated and disciplined from a young age, as I started competing in gymnastics and continued well into my teens. After I decided to hang up my leotard and say good-bye to traveling around to gymnastics meets, I participated in competition cheerleading which provided another outlet for all of my energy and desire to be active. Read the rest of this entry »
I started lifting at 12 years old. I always looked up to stronger athletes with lean physiques so I started lifting to become better than the people I looked up to. My parents had a bench press and dumbbells at the house and I used those until I was 15 years old and got my first membership to a gym. Of course Dragon Ball Z provided me with lots of motivation and encouraged my training when I was little. Read the rest of this entry »
Fitness has always been a part of my life. From countless hours playing street football, basketball in the streets, to my father having us enrolled in Karate when I was only 7 years old, I cannot remember a time when I was not doing something that was fitness related. During my middle school and high school years, I was always busy playing football and running track and field. Read the rest of this entry »
Beginning from the time I was a young child, I badly desired to participate in various sports, however, I wasn’t able to have much of an athletic background due to numerous health problems I was plagued by. At age 2, I was diagnosed with severe asthma. That was the beginning of a long journey through hell. Read the rest of this entry »
I was always the smallest kid out of all my friends and used to get teased quite a bit. It really affected me. I was very active when I was younger so gaining any weight at all wasn’t going to happen. My father took notice of how the teasing was affecting me and came home one day with a bench press and some free weights. We set everything up right in the middle of my bedroom and I was immediately addicted. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, there are two ways in how I view myself getting started into bodybuilding; subconsciously and consciously. Subconsciously, I got started when I was 8 years old. I didn’t call it bodybuilding at the time as I didn’t know what it was, but I liked being physically fit and I wanted to look like the super-hero’s in comic books that I read and would draw. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve always been active and have enjoyed weightlifting and running. But after having my three children, when my youngest was 2, my husband got deployed to Afghanistan with the Army. While I had been working out, I wasn’t as consistent as I had once been before having children. Read the rest of this entry »
