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NO GAIN, PLENTY
OF PAIN
constant pain for many years now.
Luckily, I’ve always had a high
tolerance for pain. A lot of people
are in a much worse place than
me, so I don’t dwell on it or feel
sorry for myself. Look, I’ve been
training for 28 years. Bodybuilding
started out as a hobby for me.
I joined the Arlington, TX, police
department when I was 26. A
fellow officer trained at the local
Metroflex gym and persuaded me
to go along and join him. The gym
owner, Brian Dobson, saw me and
told me I could be a bodybuilding
world champion and said I should
compete. I said, ‘Nah, I don’t want
to do any bodybuilding, because
you have to do all that dieting and
the circumstances are. Even with
my injuries I’m able to train every
body part. But, nah, I don’t train
heavy anymore.”
Relieved that his days of
800-pound squats are behind
him. I ask him, given his present
tribulations, does he ever in the
dead of night ruminate on the
situation and regret giving his
body such a pounding over so
many years? (For the record,
besides those 800-pound squats,
he’d rep out on the bench with
CHRIS LUND
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