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Shred Kulture
Turning the community into a level-based experience around meals, muscle, mindset, lifestyle, daily journaling, and honest practice.
Join Shred Kulture ↗ROAD TO PRO · NPC MEN’S PHYSIQUE
Champion now.
Pro Card next.
I’m not waiting for a card to train like a pro, eat like a pro, or carry myself like a pro. But the card matters. This is the work of earning it.
THE 2026 FALL RUNAce of Stage · October 3 | Mother Lode · October 17
LIVE ROAD TO PRO COUNTDOWN
Next stop: Ace of Stage.
October 3, 2026 · North Las Vegas, Nevada
THE LONG WAY BACK
This didn’t start
at 44.
I was obsessed with lifting and bodybuilding as a teenager. A motorcycle accident at 15 interrupted that path. I couldn’t walk for a year, went through another surgery, and then spent another year unable to walk.
Life moved forward. I got married, became a father, reached 220 pounds, struggled, rebuilt, found my way into strength and conditioning, opened ObstaCourse Fitness, and eventually came back to the thing that first lit me up.
When I hired my first bodybuilding coach and entered Men’s Physique at 44, it wasn’t a new passion. It was a return.
44Age at my first
bodybuilding show
bodybuilding show
2×First-place titles
earned in 2025
earned in 2025
1Goal: earn the
IFBB Pro Card
IFBB Pro Card
2025 · THE BREAKTHROUGH
I learned how to win.
Then I learned what was missing.
At the Samson “Ace of Stage,” I won Masters 45+ and Open Class D. Those medals proved I belonged—but they weren’t the finish line.
Five weeks later, I stepped onstage at the Steve Karr Classic in Las Vegas at 165 pounds. Standing beside athletes carrying more size gave me an honest picture of the next level: more lean tissue, more back thickness, stronger abs, and a better presentation of everything I’ve built.
I didn’t leave with the card. I left with clarity.
CHAMPION IS AN IDENTITY I PRACTICE.THE WORK NOW
Become it before
the world confirms it.
I’m already a champion. I can say that because I’ve earned wins—and because being a champion is bigger than a result. It’s the standard I bring to training, posing, cardio, meals, recovery, and the small decisions nobody sees.
I’m also honest about where I stand: I’m an NPC Men’s Physique athlete. I do not have an IFBB Pro Card yet. That distinction keeps the goal real and keeps me hungry.
This is the same work I help people do inside Shred Kulture: stop treating yourself like a background character. Step into the identity you’re building, back it with action, and keep doing the work until the outside result catches up.
“I have to believe in myself if I’m going to help other people believe in themselves.”
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PREP
Bodybuilding looks individual.
It never really is.
THE LIVING STORY
The goal isn’t to look like a pro.
It’s to earn the right to be called one.
The countdown updates here automatically. The day-to-day work—training, meals, posing, check-ins, honest assessments, and show-day updates—lives on my Instagram.
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What I’m building
off the stage.
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