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When I turned 18, I had already been lifting weights for five years. My dad took me aside one day and said, “You've done the weightlifting thing now for a while, don’t you think it’s time to do something else?” That was in 1971. By the end of 1974 I had competed in my first powerlifting meet and was hooked for life. It’s hard to believe that I have been weight training for almost 40 years, powerlifting competitively for 32 years, and that my hobby evolved into my livelihood. In 1981, I started taking vitamin packs and bottles of amino acids to the gym in a shoe box on Saturdays and selling them to guys I was training with. I was working for PG&E at the time and trying to get my "work-out-of-my-home” business going. It wasn’t long until I started to sell sports nutrition products by mail-order, eventually advertising in some of the top bodybuilding magazines and shipping products all over the world. All the while I was reading books...
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