31/08/2026
It’s been a fun ride.
This was a huge chapter in my life and I look back fondly…
Competitions, photoshoots, modelling, travelling around, years of chasing a better physique and seeing just how far I could take it.
We all go down different paths in life - this was my path…
A lot of this might be in the past now, and I’m a very different man to the boy in these photos.
I’ve got a family to raise, a business to build, responsibilities I never had back then and a life that looks completely different.
But I wouldn’t change any of it.
Those years taught me more than just how to build a physique. They taught me discipline, consistency, patience, how to deal with failure, how to push myself and, probably most importantly, how much I actually love this lifestyle.
I’ve never done it for anyone else.
Not for girls. Not for attention. Not for validation.
I did it because I genuinely loved it. And I still do.
The difference now is that life has changed.
I don’t have the same time, the same priorities or the same goals I had back then. And I don’t need to.
But that version of me is still a big part of who I am today.
Years of practising what I preach, making mistakes, figuring things out and learning what it actually takes to build and maintain a physique have shaped so much of what I do now.
So yeah, those years are in the past.
But they’re not something I’ve left behind.
They will always be a big part of me.
…And I still love this s**t just as much as I did then.
