MY BACKGROUND

SO...

After seeing all that insight from myself, you ask...who is this guy and what's he done?...

Well...Nothing.

Well I take that back, we've all done things... (that is what got us to where we are today) but... I'm saying from NOW is where things will be done... things will be done in order to achieve my goals and further me towards the end.

So now.. a bit about myself...

I like to refer to bodybuilding and my life as interconnected, intertwined into one web in which my actions in bodybuilding affect my life and my actions in life affect my bodybuilding - sort of like - 'WHERE LIFE MEETS BODYBUILDING'. And in order to realise why I've ended up here in my bodybuilding career, one must look at my life.

"My first taste of bodybuilding came when I was 16, in high school, and really just wanted be big and look good for the ladies, like so many. I trained 2-3 times a week, with no knowledge of nutrition or training principles and performed everytime - a workout consisting of pressing, curling and extensions - with some abs thrown in for good measure. As I had no idea what I was doing, it got boring so I threw it away.

After high school, I went to university to study business, joined the gym and made some gains in strength and size (minimal, but some) and then again gave up. I continued scraping through uni with pass marks and drank, did drugs and tried to become a rock star which I longed to be, but again I failed. I went to the gym on and off still, with different partners, did different programs I found in magazines and online, and continued to jump between wanting to be huge and wanting a six-pack for the ladies.

Eventually... at 20 years old, I stumbled upon 'Testosterone Nation', a website in which I owe a big deal  for teaching me nutrition, training and giving me a taste of what can be achieved with some effort. March, 2008, I joined, chatting on the forums and began gaining strength and size on my slender, 71kg frame, reaching 95kgs in June, 2010 (after a bet with myself that 'if i don't reach 95kgs, i will shave my head').

I reached my goal weight but still did it poorly, inconsistently, and through bad nutritional habits and training, which only allowed me to gain some strength but not much. I gained weight, but I gained a lot of fat... Again, a life lesson but all due to my inability to apply what I know and have learned.


Now, its at the start of September, 2010, 23 years old and I'm sitting on my computer, contemplating how and why I got here, angry at myself for not applying the knowledge learned to be way further ahead in my bodybuilding career than I am..."
 
So... thats a bit about me.
 
Next... coming up, pictures of myself when I joined T-Nation in 2008 at 71kgs and currently at 91kgs, fat, weak and raring to go.