Watching Lee Haney made me start — training made me stay

I got into Bodybuilding after watching Lee Haney compete and thinking I wanted a piece of that. Reality check: what they make look effortless takes years of work. The posing I admired on screen took me 13 months just to do passably.

But somewhere in that process I stopped caring about looking like Lee Haney and started caring about my own progress with symmetry and proportion. That shift is when Bodybuilding really got its hooks in me. peak week when everything comes together is the part nobody sees in the highlights. the physical and mental brutality of peak week is the part nobody mentions either. Both are real. Both are worth knowing.