#fuckyugioh

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I want to tell you a tale of a 20 stone boy (I say boy as my mindset was certainly not that of an adult - most would say that it still isn’t). 

This boy told himself that he needed to change nothing. Gym was for people with no brains, and healthier eating was for people with no joy. The world was wrong and I was right.

I was also grossly unhappy.

When I started wrestling just over 4 years ago, I also started a new way of life, a totally new philosophy. Health is something well worth investing time and effort into, more so than what I was investing my time and effort into before.

Yu-Gi-Oh!? Fun game, will always have a soft spot for that as a past-time, but the whole community surrounding the competitive game is toxic. Completely un-supportive in a person’s achievements, always looking to undercut anyone they can in order to gain one table higher. Why should I continue to support something so toxic, with no value for myself and my life?

That’s why I’ll always say that quitting Yu-Gi-Oh! for wrestling saved my life. Take a look at the following picture;

On the left is me at my heaviest. On the right is my most recent wrestling promotional picture. Ignoring the expressions, who do you reckon is the happiest? The guy huffling and puffing his way to the next pringles can, or the guy physically able to do anything he puts his mind to?

I want to share this with people who want to chase physical fitness. Look, I have absolutely nothing again people that are unfit - everyone is entitled to treat their body exactly how they fit, and I don’t give a flying monkeys. But for anyone wanting to change themselves, to challenge their bodies to reach the next level, I want to help. 

And I want to help in the right way. I don’t deal with bullshit diets, magic pills, 5 amazing tricks to blast fat off your ass without cutting calories or doing cardio - that kind of stuff is for people who would rather delude themselves than put any work into achieving their goals.

I deal in science and facts. 

Fitness is hard, and that’s what it’s meant to be. It’s about pushing your body that little bit further (sensibly, of course), and making your body improve itself. It’s gaining that extra strength, shedding that extra pound, getting those massive quads, whatever your goal is. 

But we’re all in this together, and with a support network that is as amazing as the fitness community, we can’t fail.