ABSTRACT
I’VE DEDICATED MY ENTIRE LIFE TO BUILDING UP MY BODY THROUGH HARD WORK, PAIN, HUNGER AND DESIRE. EVERY SINGLE DAY REQUIRES SACRIFICE. The moment of truth… The time has arrived… Your heart is racing. Your veins are throbbing with carb-loaded blood. The hot lights are blinding you and all you can hear is one voice barking out orders as if you were in a prison line-up. ‘Quarter turn to the right, quarter turn to the right, quarter turn to the right, face the front’… All the diet, cardio, and busting your ass on the iron for weeks on end. All for that brief window of time to show what you’ve got on stage. You might ask yourself, “Is it all worth it?” If you have to ask, it just might not be. This is bodybuilding. This is our world, our stage, our time to shine, and our moment of truth. This is what makes a bodybuilder – the stage, diet, cardio, the selfishness of body over life. Any gym rat can hit the weights hard and get big with eating and skipping the 4:00 am cardio sessions. But it takes a true bodybuilder to cut down and step into the light.
