Look Like You Lift

How I Went From a Small, Insecure Kid to a Drug-Free Bodybuilding Champion

Yes, I know I’m in my boxer briefs and socks.

It all started in the late 80’s. I was a young teenager who was trying to find himself…and feeling very insecure. That’s when I first saw a Lee Labrada on the cover of Muscle & Fitness. I was in awe. The strength and physical perfection his physique portrayed was mind boggling to me. And that look of confidence on his face…I wanted that!

I opened the magazine and everything about Lee Labrada struck a chord with me. He was short. So was I. He was a man of faith. Family and faith are the two most important things in my life. He was a thinking man’s bodybuilder. I’ve always been driven my knowledge and logic.

I had found my role model. I had found my personal path to what I wanted to become.

This was my initiation to bodybuilding. When I started, I had no clue how to train or eat properly. I was complete neophyte open to learning anything and everything. The two things I learned very quickly were….

1. I had some pretty shitty genetics (I’m blessed with coming from a family built like meatballs). And…
2. I also learned that the physiques that I admired most were all jacked up on steroids.

Like it or not, steroids were (and are) against the law and I wasn’t willing to break the law. But neither of these two things deterred me. It just meant I had to work smarter and harder.

I WANTED IT!

This desire and passion lead me through what would become years and years and years of education. Once I started training, I fell in love. Every waking hour of my day seemed to be spent learning anything I could about physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, and everything in between that would further my progress. It even would lead me to what I eventually went to college for…Health Science.

My desire to train and my desire to learn were way more powerful than my shitty genetics. I started utilizing one training system and diet after another. After countless wasted hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars pissed away I finally learned what kind of training and nutrition protocols work for drug-free bodies that want to pack on as much beautifully sculpted muscle as possible. This committment to my own personal physique and performance has earned me countless awards and recognition…

• 1993 Finalist in the first annual EAS Spokesperson Championship
• 1995 AAU Junior Mr. Connecticut
• 1995 AAU Junior Class Winner, Fairfield County Bodybuilding Championship, Most Muscular Award
• 1995 2nd place, ANBC Junior Mr. Connecticut
• 1997 2nd place AAU Mr. Connecticut
• 1997 2nd place ANBC Mr. Connecticut
• 1999 2nd place AAU Mr. Connecticut
• 2001 Finalist in AST Sports Science Spokesperson Championship, trained the winner of the female class.
• 2001 3rd place NBI East Coast Championship, Best Poser Award
• 2003 3rd place NPC East Coast Championship (Team Universe qualifier)
• Awarded “Bodybuilder of The Week” on http://www.bodybuilding.com
• 2004 Winner of Isatori Tech’s Lean System 7 Challenge (Round III)

Since then, I’ve spent the last decade building more knowledge, building a greater physique, and further building a SUPER successful personal training business where I have performed over 15,000 personal training sessions and transformed the bodies of hundreds of others.

My mission now is, through this website, to help over 100,000 regular readers make similar transformations. Completely transforming your body…completely transforming your mind…completely transforming your life.

And I promise you if you follow my advice, it won’t take you anywhere near as long as it took me. Learn from my mistakes and experiences.

That’s what this site is all about. Helping you get better every day.

So keep coming back, read what I write, and execute. Together we will build a beautiful physique.

James Cipriani