My name is David and I have a passion for working out.  I have spent most of my youth and adult life as a tall scrawny person.  (6'2' 170lb)  In 1994 and again in 1998 I was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma.  After 8 months of chemo and a stem cell transplant I was finally declared in remission.  I spent the next five years waiting on pins and needles to see if it would return again.  I worked out here and there and trying to stay in shape but really did not have much focus. 

In 2004 my doctors declared my remission permanent and at that moment I decided it was time to improve myself.  I went out bought some free weights and began working out at home.  At first it was a set of 20lb dumbbells.  I quickly found that those were not enough so I bought 40lb dumbbells.  That quickly became not enough.  I bought a bench, 300lb of weights, a heavy bag and a coupe of bars.

I was amazed at how my body started to respond to working out.  The muscles grew and grew fast.  I was still limited to the exercises I could do so when Golds Gym opened by my house I joined. 

I have grown from 170-pound mousy guy to 215lb guy and keep growing.  When I first measured my arms they were 15” at last measurements they were 18.5”  I now work in a building with a gym in it so I go 4 days a week during lunch.  I go 3 nights a week to golds with my son.