I'm a very competitive athlete and I enjoy every minute I step on the stage, just like I enjoy every minute I step on the ice to perform.

Back in 1976, I began as a figure skater, began to loved that sport and started training as a roller skater at first then did my first competition after only training for 1 month and won 1st in my level.

Now I retired from figure skating after 1988 Olympics and 1988 International Roller Skating. Yes, I did both discipline Roller and ice Skating. Although, even up to now when i step on the ice I feel free just like when I step my foot in the gym it feels at home.

As a former Olympian in Figure Skating, I know how hard work means and the sport figure skating is a complicated sports both metally and physically. With that behind me I trully believe that it help my bodybuilding discipline in training, diet and way of life.

However, training is a best thing about this sports of bodybuilding, every rep that get you pump gives me the thrill of everything, like a natural high as those endorphins kick in, as your muscle grows while you pump each rep. Nevertheless, Cardio sucks but it's alright we got to burn the fat somehow.
 
I have been involve with this weight training since 1983 as a supplement training for my main sport as a figure skater. Then I started bodybuilding in 1999 when I got help from my trainer Todd Opheim in Idaho, then I got a taste of my first contest in 2000 where I won the whole contest in Idaho. Then it began the craze to get BIG..

I moved to California to get a better training and realized there's more to it than what it looks.  So I went back to training and after a 4 year lay off from the contest and realizing that it's so hard to get into contest shape again.

I had a chance to meet Barbara Garcia whom I have the pleasure to train with and help me to get back in shape when she first saw me, I was 221 lbs and she said you can do Orange Classic in 5 weeks. So I diet down to 174 lbs. Even though I did not place, I just wanted to get the feel of the contest once again and I was very please to be on stage again.

Then I met Meriza and Pete help us since July 2007 and I can't be any happier. They transformed my body in the best shape that I can be. Amazing people, amazing trainers and nutritionist.