What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the real bodybuilding podcast. This is episode

number 96 and I am with Mr Broderick Chavez. How are you sir?

Sir, I am well and thank you for having me.

So I've gotten a lot of requests to have you on.

A lot of people think that you would have a lot of insight into my main question that I want to ask you is how to get huge but before we get

into how to get huge I want to get a little bit of your background so how did you get into all this

maybe you can tell me a little bit of history of your own athleticism?

Sure. I will I will happily do so although I must say that that's probably my least favorite topic.

I just don't love to talk about myself for my exploits.

I am literally one of those rare stories where I never wanted to do anything else. I never had any other aspirations.

It sounds like a really corny story, but it is absolutely true. I was sitting in my

grandparents living room somewhere in the very early 70s, you know I was born in 71

so 74 75 you know so I was truly a child and I saw Vassilay Alexia, Ken Paterra, Serge Redding at the

world, the Munich World Championships Olympic weightlifting and I literally looked at adults and I say

lifting weights as a job you can that's a job I was like that's the perfect job. That's what I'm going to do. And everybody did the like, oh, yeah, settle down kid, it'll be fine. And literally from that moment, every single day of my life, I said, can I lift weights today can I

I have what you my allowed to lift weights like you know

I start my job and you know four years like five or many you know settle down you're two young

to lift waves you'll settle down on my 10th birthday Christmas we're not

actually a combination of my birthday and Christmas I My birthday is in November. Christmas day, 1981, I was 10 years old, I was given a gift certificate to the local gym, the local fitness center.

And I literally went running down the street

with this piece of paper on Christmas day in the snow

to the gym. The owner of the gym was in there squatting.

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