How were you introduced to the weight room?

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 »

How did you get into the fitness lifestyle?

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 »

How did you get started in bodybuilding?

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 »

How did you get into bodybuilding?

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 »

Ed “Old Superman” Cook always enjoyed weight training and bodybuilding. He was a bit heavier as a kid until the age of age 15 until he started to do more outdoors sports like water and snow skiing. Ed started weight training then and liked what was happening. At the age of 40 though, he completely stopped training all together and by the time Ed was 48, he was back out of shape.  Soon after, he would make a transformation that would turn heads and motivate the thousands.  This is Ed’s story. Read the rest of this entry »

How did you get started?

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 »

How did you get started?

I started lifting weights at 13 years old to prepare myself for Highschool Football.  I thought that I was too small.  I remember that day so well because I went to a Highschool Football practice and when I came home I started working out using furniture, books, and anything I could get my hands on.   Read the rest of this entry »

Cliff Wilson played basketball in college. It was a division 1 school so most of the other guys were very genetically gifted. The first day of freshman conditioning they took their body fat %, bodyweight and height then announced it in front of the whole team. Most of the guys were around 8-9% body fat and weighed in the 180-210 range. Read the rest of this entry »