 The person I am today is heavily influenced by my upbringing basically as a child. I was forced to accelerate in school You know what was being left out though was you know my physical part I was building my brain, but I was leaving out all the athletic parts of it So around age six or seven I started to get into sports where You know my parents forced me into going to play soccer and I was horrible at it like the first couple seasons I literally just chased the balls in circles But over time as you get better you enjoy it more now. I think that's something that is The same for everybody. You know you enjoy doing the things that you're very good at So you know I've taken that I started getting better Start becoming more competitive and I got to the point where I had to be good at everything had to be good at sports So putting in the extra work and working harder than the rest of my peers was the way to bring myself to the next level from there You know as I got older I started looking into weightlifting for the same reason most people do You know I started getting in shape around probably about 17s when I started lifting Getting you know getting each starting to learn how to eat and diet correctly You remember back then there wasn't the information that we have now I had to count calories and write things down on a piece of paper And count all my calories and do everything that way I learned by doing that check and see what worked for me Get on a constant diet routine workout routine and from there to start to check my improvements But still it was very you know hit and miss wasn't until after about college Where I started learning about the proper ways to do everything learning the methods behind that and really pushed myself to the next level I always lifted to get stronger faster I had never really had an end product or a goal that I was going for you know Meeting each p labs three and a half years ago I got a chance to meet is the company and everybody and I got along really well with them at the time I was nobody had no following I was just a guy that had been lifting hard and I had a good physique And but I had no name for myself So I spent about a year getting in the industry posting fun stuff on Instagram and actually building a slight reputation for myself Now I came to is about a year later and you know presented them what I could bring towards a team and it was a great mutual agreement I've been with the team since then it's been almost three years and it's been a perfect perfect situation for us I love everything each piece stands for a lot of brands they they promote it because they Know they're paid to do so but this is actually what I use this is what I do Product integrity is very important and but more important than that is the fact that each p labs is a big family I mean outside of just You know the industry and what we do I'm personal friends with pretty much all of our athletes Uh, we hang out outside of our duties outside of everything and we're actually really close friends So when you see us in pictures, it's not acting. This is what we do We go out we go to clubs we go to parties we work out All the things that you would do with your good friends is Is like my each p family It's not just about you know the brand the product but the unity and the team aspect of it is what's most important to me After meeting each p. I had the support and the confidence. I needed to start competing I didn't really start competing until afterwards and you know about three years ago. I entered my first competition Um, it helped me stay on track with my diet It gave me to the confidence in the backing to get into what I did I did a few competitions here and there And then September of 2015. I finally won a WBFF show and got my pro card And uh with the help of EHP support I always go in there confident knowing I'm going to be the close to the best that I've ever been You guys got to remember when you're competing you're not only just competing with the other competitors Competing against yourself the goal is to be a better version of yourself every time you step on stage But not only that you want to be a better version of yourself every day having each p labs in my corner to help me Hit my goals is very very important. Now since I've joined the team. I've been able to Always get to where I want to be a lot easier Living a happy balanced lifestyle is something that I've always Considered to be very important. You know fitness is one thing you got to utilize it to Increase your quality of life not hinder it You know a lot of people get too wrapped up in the fitness and the industry that they allow it to Kind of block their happiness by getting too obsessive use it to better your life Now each piece allowed me to enjoy my life Pick the things I want to do to help build a healthy lifestyle Regardless of what I'm doing every day should be a strive to improve yourself mind body and personality everything about it Should be a daily progression If you aren't progressing, you know to look how you got to change your life in order to get to that direction Progression is the ultimate goal for everything you do