He's a good training partner, that's why. I get to gym and he got the music I want playing...machines loaded up and he's already warming up.
He's contest shape year around and tan. His life is MD Magazine...XBox and his hopes "to go PRO". Funny thing is...he never qualified for a national level show. Neither have I but I'm not him. I'm just telling the story.
I spoke to him the other day and he was telling me about how he ate a whole bag of Oreo cookies and woke up in the middle of the night and was more ripped as he's ever been. That's like...a HUGE event in his day. If not that he tells me about how he got 'life immunity' in Resident Evil. I don't even play video games. He just tells me.
He think's he'll go PRO in the next 2 years. He's competing in 2 weeks in Chicago and thinks I'm a pussy for dropping out of the show due to financial and personal legal drama. Some BB's just don't get it.
I can't even begin to tell ya the number of "gym bums" I have known over the years. Man, blockhead I loved reading your story on this loser and cracked up when I read he loved video games as well hehehe.
I was a pseudo gym buddy with guy in La, that had some potential and won a qualifier, etc. We can call him "joe Blow or JB" (not his real name dah
JB didn't work or even train anyone as his wife had a good career and worshiped him.
His parents all but bought his house when they got married. He had kids but sponged off his wife who even bought his drugs . He won his class in a decent sized regional qualifier as a HVY wt around 210. He was on a LOT of sauce and HGH but didn't do well at his first attempt at a nation level show, so he quit the sport, that same year. He was an ok guy, but pretty self absorbed and arrogant when he competed. Now he has a decent career going, still works out but seems a lot happier overall.
I can tell ya that when I was in the "pro card" mind set 20 yeas ago, I had a pretty UNstable life. I had just gotten out of the USMC and worked evenings as a bouncer in Fayetteville, NC. I had no health ins., credit card or bank account, etc. I had a junky car and lived in a run down , tiny 1 BR eff apt. I did very moderate amounts of juice and did ok in some regional shows. After 3 years of this "LIFE" and seeing no viable future, I got married ( 1st wife, I have been married twice , just divocred # 2) moved to KY in 1987 , went back to school to finish my first degree , a BS chemistry and teaching certificate at Morehead State. Graduated Magna Cum Laude , and started full time teaching in '89. Life has been fun, secure and stable ever since. I returned to doing bodybuilding contests after divorcing my 1st wife in 93 and competed without drugs for 2 more years. Since 95 I have only judged , worked out and been a fan. As you may know I got divorced (again) last fall and was lucky enough to meet BETH, my present girlfriend.
One personal insight, from my experience, if you don't want kids (or have kids), you may not have much incentive to stay married after 5 yrs or so. I don't want kids nor do I have any. Both my ex wifes were classy, smart ladies and the marriages were good for a few years. Hard to say why we drifted apart in either marriage, it might just be a natural progression...who knows
Howard
