Justin Swanson
Birthday: 5.27.73

It was the summer 1987 and I was on vacation with my family, as any 14 year old boy would be.  I was a short and chubby kid with low self esteem and was always getting picked on.  Life was not fun for me at this age and it was soon about to change.  I bought the May issue of Iron man Magazine and read it cover to cover after all, I needed to learn something about lifting weights before first stepping into a gym.  

My curiosity for weight lifting soon developed into a passion.  I spent endless hours pumping away and soon put on enough muscle to play high school football.  Weight lifting gave me the confidence, structure and discipline I needed as an adolescent and would pave the road toward my goal of becoming a competitive bodybuilder.   I studied excercise science in college at Univesity of Mississippi and at that point in my life where I truly learned about how the body functioned as it pertained to phisical fitness and nutrition.