The I'm Ryan Nidell, host of 15 minutes of freedom, your daily action guide to getting shit done.

Today I have an incredibly special guest on the show,

someone that I actually remember watching from the stage here in Columbus, Ohio

with The Arnold Classic, someone that has debunked the fitness industry myths that go on. a Hey everybody. Thanks so much for having me on Ryan. I'm really excited.

It is truly my pleasure and when I say it's my pleasure to see what you went through

and this transformation of literally competing for what seven eight nine years on a professional stage not even including the amateur ranks that I'm sure you were part of it for at least a year right right yeah to go from that from being what top five in the

Olympia kind of the Super Bowl of body building, you know, win after win after

what I mean great career into a destroyed body really, like a great physical, I mean I say this with appropriate nature of course, but from the outside you looked peak condition, like very in shape, very put together together and all of a sudden we've you found out there were some things not going so right is that a good way to say like can you walk us through that yeah absolutely yeah you know my story started out is very unique because I started competing because I've always been an athlete, went to Arizona State, played softball at Arizona State. I just love the aspect of a goal competing towards something.

So for me, I sort of had that frame, that body work

frame where I was at the gym and people were like,

hey, you should really compete.

And this was like back in 2004 2005 I was like okay

and figure was relatively new I was a figure competitor was far before the bikini

was introduced so I it was like maybe three years that figure was introduced so I was like you know what okay I'm going to give this a try so my very first show I actually trained myself

I researched online on bodybuilding.com like how to diet for a bodybuilding show of course I probably did it all wrong I didn't put

salt on anything I was boiled chicken like like think of old school body building

techniques that's what I did for many years and so I ended up placing third at my very first show

here in Arizona, and I was hooked.

I mean, the process was grueling for me

because I've never dieted before.

I came from a Mexican background. We kind of ate when, you know,

ate whatever. You know, I was always active though, so I never really had like a weight problem. So, you know, my story is unique

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