The only thing in my life that might compete with EDM is fitness. As a child, I always struggled with my weight. However, it wasn’t until high school that I really let myself go. Years of playing video games, eating fast food, and relying on energy drinks to keep it all going had left me overweight, lethargic, and unhappy with my body. I simply didn’t have the knowledge I needed to make a change then, and so, it continued into my freshman year of college.

After years of being embarrassed to take my shirt off around others and lacking the confidence and the energy that my peers had, I was finally fed up. Despite my busy schedule pursuing my college degree, I decided to dedicate what little free time I had left (when I wasn’t at EDM shows), to learning all I could about fitness, nutrition, and exercise. I spent every free moment I had trying different exercise classes, reading books on weight training, and studying research papers on nutrition science. I was committed to making a change, and being technically minded, I was methodical about it.

As I began to experiment in the kitchen and the gym, the results started to come, slowly at first, but then more consistently. It wasn’t long before I was on my way to building the lean, fit body of my dreams, and with it my confidence started to build too.