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Article: EveryBody: FLEX readers reveal how bodybuilding shaped their lives as well as their physiques. (Readers).
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- Flex
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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SUCCESS IN SAIGON
I was born in 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam. After graduating from high school in 1985, I worked at a local hospital, helping patients with tuberculosis and other lung diseases. I weighed only 107 pounds. I realized I was as thin and weak as my patients were. If I did not improve my health, I too could become deathly ill. I needed a change in my life. I was scared to enter a gym, so I asked two of my friends to go with me. I worked out one hour per day and, after six months, I had gained 13 pounds.
Vietnam was not a "mecca of fitness." We had no magazines, books, instructions or role models. In addition, the economy was terrible and food was ...