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How did you get started with bodybuilding? I was around 19 years of age when I first set foot into a gym. All my life I was a skinny kid and the smallest in my grade in high school and I used to get pushed around and picked on because of my size. I didn’t let this phase me too much and promised myself when I finished school and saved a bit of money that I[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I started weight-training (not necessarily bodybuilding) when I was 11 years old. My dad had a roommate who was a bodybuilder and I was fascinated with his physique. I use to read his muscle magazines and was intrigued on the size and shape of bodybuilders. Also, cannot forget about Arnold and all of his movies: Co[...]

Bodybuilders often have the mistaken belief that they must take their diets to extremes to take their physiques to extremes. In the late 1980s, a zero-fat diet was thought to be the ideal way to rip up. When that was found to be unsuccessful, the high-fat diet came into vogue. In the end, most bodybuilders have learned that neither of these extreme diet phil[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I started weight training at age 15.  My uncles did some recreational lifting and I noticed them make some good gains rather quickly.  Being a short kid, I think subliminally the idea of making up for my height with muscle may have had some sort of influence as well.  I competed for the first time at age 20. Wh[...]

In today's bodybuilding culture, extremes have become the norm. It seems every so called guru is coming up with a new extreme diet, supplementation, or extreme workout. It seems everyone is trying to sell you some workout routine with a magic set and rep scheme. Some claim that you should only lift low reps because that is where the most overload occurs[...]

No other bodybuilder in the history of the sport has made the same impact. Indeed, Arnold Schwarzenegger remains the greatest, and most influential, bodybuilder of all time in the eyes of many. In many ways, Arnold helped to change public attitudes toward a sport regarded as deviant and on the margins of what was acceptable social practice at the time. [...]

If we had to give the beginning bodybuilder one piece of advice when it comes to proper nutrition, it would be this: Don't outthink it. Keep it simple. You can drive yourself insane trying to calculate every nutrient ratio for every meal, every day of the week, and have little to show for your efforts. Better to focus on the fundamentals, which is why we'[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I got started into the world of bodybuilding when I was 16 years old. I had always wanted to be big one day idolizing Arnold when I was growing up. Then when my good friend asked me to join the gym with him I was very keen and that’s when it all began for me! I didn't know anything about training or nutrition at[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? At 15 years old I decided that I wanted to compete in an individual sport so I took on boxing. I competed in amateur boxing for 7 years with a record of 7 wins, 2 losses with 4 wins by KO. While boxing, I began to see my body change and take shape with all the intense training. I trained at the same gym Ring 83, th[...]