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How did you get started with bodybuilding? At 12 years old, I was a skinny weakling and an easy prey for bullies as I stood out in absolute contrast to a schoolmate who was a muscle machine. At first, I got into lifting weights only to protect myself. But soon, I was also determined to put myself on a physical par with this schoolmate, my odd twin. Here was[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? When I was a sophomore in high school, I picked up my first copy of Muscle and Fitness. Arnold was on the cover and it was when he was preparing for Conan and his training was going so good he came back and won the Olympia again. I was blown away by what I saw. I said “I want to look like that!” I had a weight [...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I was a big boxing fan as a teenager. I still am. I remember seeing Ken Norton and thinking “Damn, what I wouldn’t give to have a body like that.” Then it dawned on me that I could get as good a body as I desired if I got off my skinny, 97 pound weakling ass and starting hitting the weights, so I joined the [...]

This article was published in Flex Magazine, August 2008 issue Once upon a time Not so long ago, a group of men walked the Earth who, in appearance at least, didn't resemble typical men so much as they did the classical imagery we've come to associate with Zeus, Hercules and Poseidon. Proud and assured, these veritable demigods stood as icons upon whose [...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I have always been very active playing sports, I was a U.S. Marine and played on the Rugby Team and weightlifting was always a part of those activities, but it wasn't until 1988 that I got serious. I was managing a fitness center and I had several of my friends take notice of my physique. I was weighing about 185 a[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I started lifting in junior high school.  My older step brothers were into it, they looked like greek gods to me in my skinny, pre-puberty state.  I started the summer before ninth grade with a Charles Atlas manual and a beat up set of Sears weights.  Maybe I was just starting puberty, but the results began show[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I was a fat kid growing up and by the time I was 14 started to become more physically active and lifting weights. I continued through collage, yet never was much above average. At about 34 I was overweight again the Doc suggested I take off a few pounds. I hit the weight room again and did pretty good till about [...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I've been lifting since I was 15... so about 26 years now. When I started lifting it was to improve for a sport, but I also competed in powerlifting in my teens. I really got interested in bodybuilding as a sport less than a year ago. I met a guy while working out that competes and he put me in contact with the NAN[...]

How did I get started: Well,..I've been a lifter most my life,..recreational that is. I enjoyed having a balanced physique. Back in the late 80's I took my first take at bodybuilding while stationed in the Army overseas in Germany. I joined a local German gym and befriended the owner who took me under his wing. We were Old school in training but managed to [...]