Who's blogging about bodybuilding here?

I am Genry Brown, born in the mid-80s and infected with the dumbbell virus for over 20 years.

It started classically for me as it did for many young people: At the age of 13, I was dissatisfied with my body at the beginning of puberty. I was a little too heavy or too small for my weight, as you can see. Although I had done a lot of sports as a child, my appearance hadn't developed in the direction I wanted until then.

So i said to my dad: I want to do exercises with dumbbells!

My father supported my wish and so we bought my first dumbbells. From now on, in my youth room, I somehow trained with my dumbbells. I looked at exercises from some fitness books and slowly a weight bench, barbell and a few other weights were added to my dumbbells.

Why wasn't I going to the gym at that time? Before fitness chains became established across the board, visiting a fitness studio in a small town on the Lower Rhine was not so easy. Either membership cost a lot of money, the studio was far away, or both.