“It so happened that I got into sports quite early.  I started powerlifting at 10 years old. I got lucky with my coach – results progressed very quickly. Between the ages of 13 and 15 I was on the podium of numerous national championships. The moment to be have been proclaimed world champion seemed so near. However that did not happen. When I was 16 years old, I moved to another country.

Unfortunately, I lost contact with my coach and my results immediately stopped growing. (Back in the day it wasn’t as easy to keep touch with no internet or mobile communications). I was young and strong, nevertheless my results did not move one iota. It turns out that I was not so talented and gifted as I presumptuously considered myself. It was hard enough to find information on how to train. Basically there were articles who trained by the principle “do as a champion and you will become one”. Unfortunately the truth was that in order to become a champion is not enough to copy someone else’s training scheme. This approach has done more harm than good. After a year of blind copying, my results still did not grow.