I was first introduced to the sport of bodybuilding back in 1982,
at the age of nine. Back then, my oldest brother Frank had joined
a hardcore gym know as "The Weight Room" and his walls were
covered with many of the champions of that era, including Boyer Coe,
Roy Callendar, Robby Robinson, and of course Arnold. I used to sit
in his room for hours reading his bodybuilding magazines, and comparing
those physiques to the ones of my favorite comic book heroes. As I
grew up, Frank saw that I continued to take an interest, and so for
Christmas in 1987 he bought my older brother Korbie and I a weight
set, equipped with a bench/incline, leg extension/leg curl, squat
rack, and 110lb in free weight. The two of us have been training partners
ever since.
Every
day after school we would come home and hit the weights for an hour
then afterward, we would eat chicken and ramen noodles for protein
and carbs. It's funny to look back at what we used to do. We have
gained a great deal of knowledge since we started out. In 1993, after
I graduated from high school, Korbie and I decided to get serious,
join a gym, and take our physiques as far as we could. At that point,
I was a muscular and athletic 165lb. Kid. Korbie got a job working
at a local gym, and I remember often times we would go in after hours
when the gym was closed, he would punch in the alarm code, and we
would blast the radio, and train with all blood and guts intensity
we had.
