Hello!
My name is Scott George.
My love for weight training began at an early age and became serious sometime after graduating high school. While the road of strength training has been filled with dozens of mistakes and massive obstacles I can say without a doubt it is a path I wouldn’t change one bit.
As a teenager I was always overweight. This led to low confidence and self-esteem. It wasn’t until high school that I was convinced to try out for football during the summer camp. Since it was a sport I enjoyed already, I figured, “why not.” I struggled so much during the conditioning that I couldn’t lift my own body weight off the ground. For a brief moment while hunched over on the ground wheezing, I thought about quitting. Before I could really consider the thought further, my teammates were picking me up onto my feet. Ever since then my whole outlook changed. I had been so frustrated, assuming I wasn’t strong enough, when in reality I had barely began to truly apply myself.
Sometime after high school I became a Firefighter for the City of Chowchilla. I knew I had do my best to protect my community, who I also saw as family. The only problem was that I was still in no shape to be the deciding factor in an emergency situation. I decided to do some research and apply various methodologies that I read in popular fitness magazines. I was really just spinning my wheels for the most part until I picked up a barbell for the first time. After nearly a year of consistent strength training and modifying my diet I was dropping fat and having fun doing it!
On May 1st, 2015 I was involved in a accident at work that would leave 30% of my body covered in burns of various degrees. I had come to a crossroads that was all too familiar. I wanted to quit…
But again, my team wouldn’t let me.
During my six months of rehabilitation I found a desire to come back stronger, faster, leaner, and healthier overall. I attacked my training with consistency, organization, intensity, and determination. I signed up for my first powerlifting competition in May of 2017 and the rest is history.
The biggest thing to take away about me is that I’ve gone through the trials and hellish fires that life presents to us all at some point. Through perseverance and support from others, I came out on the other side stronger than ever.
Never give up. Never give in. Forge on.
