"I was your average 125 pound little runt!! My Girlfriend at the time said I was just too skinny! So when I was 17 I started crunching the weights and after a year of training I was weighing in at about 160 pounds, not too bad for being 5 foot 9. After about two years of continued training I was at 180 pounds and moderately lean with a nice beach build I would say! Then my girlfriend recommended I should try get into the (fitness) modeling industry."