AGAVA FITNESS

A friend recently sent me a picture of his body goal, it took me 9 years back when I only started working out. At age 17, I had one goal, having a six pack simply because I met Tony who had one and all I needed to do was a 100 sit-ups per day according to him. I did that until I had what some teased to be“hunger packs”. That's nine years ago but I wouldn't say I have 9 years experience in fitness.   In 2013, I thought it was time to put my “fine boy looks” to work so I enrolled for some training in a modeling academy. Although I had already started using a gym, trying to become a model only motivated me to work harder. Ty, our catwalk instructor at the time had pick Ivan over me as the guy with the best body in the class. Ivan had this v shape that seemed to be genetic. I wanted that, for me that was how a male model should look. So I began asking questions about the shape and gym mates and instructors told me to work on my Latissimus Dorsi, commonly called Lats.  I learnt qui...

I saw a post from Sarah on Facebook about a sport clothing line her friend had just launched.  I quickly contacted Sarah indicating my interest to model for the line. Sarah was eager to hook me up, she said “after all nobody works out for fun”.  I had no idea Sarah knew I was working out but that statement got me confused because at the time, I was doing it all for fun.  I still workout for fun but for most people workout is no fun. At seventeen, I had began my fitness journey taking a cue from seventeen year old Tony, who was an aspiring model at the time. I had one goal then, “to have killer abs like Tony”.  At the age of 21, I was an aspiring model, I was a little ripped with a cute face to compliment but unfortunately, not enough height to win the mark. In a bid to improve my chances, I opted for a perfect skin, so I visited a so-called skin care expert. To cut a very long story short, I got my skin botched and that lead to depression. I wasn't going to lose all ...