Another fun story was training for a few days at Golds Gym Venice in summer of 2000. My father and I were in town visiting family. I was 19 and tried to go but manager told me no guest passes. I let my dad know and he doesn’t really accept no lol. He brought me back in and said he’s looking to move to area, wanted to check gym out and see if I liked area. The manager thought my father and I were on “same team” and let me train the week. Seriously unreal back then. Saw all the dudes from flex magazine, Kobe Bryant was leaving as I got there. There was a second locker room for pros, dudes selling gear in their trunks etc.
That same trip I was lifting weights on muscle beach. Back then I was 6’4 , 195-200 and shredded (nineteen year old genetics.) I had a group of Japanese tourists ask to take a picture with me flexing. Then I had a guy come up , hand me a card and asked me to be in movie. I gave my dad his card and he called to find out it was gay porn. Card was quickly discarded
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That was same trip we took trolley down to TJ from San Diego. Now that I think about it, my old man is quite the interesting character