What Bodybuilding Means to Me

Way before the internet and social media were everywhere, there was the trusty magazine rack.

I can still remember the first time I looked at a bodybuilding magazine, or muscle magazine, as I call them,

There was just something about it--something that I cannot explain--I was hooked.
I bought that magazine, and road my bike home--and read that thing from cover-to-cover a million times.

I would stare at the pictures for hours--and dream about being as big as the bodybuilders in the magazines.

But.

As good as the magazines were, I loved training even more--the challenge of doing more that you did last workout--or last week.
Of course I trained too much--but, I was young, and I was super excited, I was on this new adventure, I had no clue, but I did not mind--I was just enjoying it.

The pump, the burn, the struggle to get just one more rep.

Getting up early--before school--and now work--to get the workout in.

Having a hard time keeping the smile off my face for the rest of the day, because I just hit a personal best.

These are things that people who do not train will never know--in a way it is exciting--it is like you are in a special club.

On the more practical side, bodybuilding has made me stronger and has shown me that with GOD and JESUS and hard work, anything is possible.