In this final installment of the Rebuilt series, I take a time-out and reflect on a few principles, new meaning and a new chapter in my life.

A Look Back 

In the first and second Rebuilt articles I outlined my story of coming back from cancer, recovering and competing again in the great sport of natural bodybuilding. It was an interesting uphill journey from being sick from chemotherapy to posing onstage in front of hundreds of people. It was a long road which now seems like a lifetime ago. Traveling to the clinic, getting filled up with chemotherapy, dragging myself back home and feeling sick to my stomach for months seems like it was all a dream sometimes. I sometimes get wrapped up into what I am currently doing in my present day routine that I have to stop and think about what I really went through. It is very surreal to think about now. I have survived and I am alive and I am thankful for it, but I am scarred. Continue reading →

I was standing in the back row on stage during prejudging looking at the top five posing it out in front of me. I did not make the first call out. I was devastated and it showed. I could feel my confidence draining out from under me like a broken floodgate with no way to stop it. Continue reading →

Below is a (true) story I wrote for Bodybuidling.com a while ago. I wanted to reprint it here because of so much feedback I have been getting from my biography here at the Workout Lab. I have not edited this piece at all (it’s in three parts) – so here it is, questionable writing style and all! Continue reading →