Stephen
Job: Electrician
From: England, UK
Stephen didn’t wait for a better future — he built one from the ground up.
What started as a simple decision to get healthy exploded into a relentless mission to redefine his limits.
Through discipline, steel-like focus, and every rep that pushed past pain, he didn’t just change his body, he rewrote his story.
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Today he is stronger, sharper, and unshakably committed, he proves that change isn’t handed to you, you create it.
The Big Questions & Answers
What was your situation before getting into fitness?
So when did you realise there was a problem?
That must have been a very difficult situation to get out of, so what changed?
How have the meetings been and what did you learn from it all?
You went to AA and CA, was it all straight forward after that?
You've had 2.5 years clean now, is there anything else you've done differently?
Having been an addict, how does this affect you in the gym?
What have you achieved and how has your life changed by going to the gym?
Ok, so what's next for you?
I was pretty much the same as most people living life day to day. Going to work through the week and going out on the weekend. I wasn't really into any kind of fitness. Going out drinking at the weekend was my thing, which moved on to dance / rave music and because of the culture at the time, drinking and dance music naturally moved onto drugs. Getting into drugs was never intentional, it just kind of happened. As time went on I got in to it a lot heavier.
At my lowest point I was drinking heavily and spending £400 a day on cocaine and I no longer needed to be out to do it, it was anywhere. I'd be sat in my car and take it. I just couldn't function without it.
£400 a Day Habit - 2020
I couldn't exactly say, I just got up one morning and something just clicked in my head and I contacted Alcoholics Anonymous as well as Cocaine Anonymous, and I started attending their meetings.
The meetings made me face up to the fact that I had a defect in my character. I found out that I couldn't handle my emotions, or life, sober. This meant that any intensity in emotion would drive me to drink or drugs to deal with it. Understanding this process means I can now deal with things in a different, more healthy way.
No, you have to constantly work at things and I did relapse after two years, but I'm still doing their 12 step programme and I've been completely clean of drink and drugs for two and a half years now.
I found God, but I see it more as a higher power, like God is a power inside of us. You just need to hit that lowest point where enough is enough, where you're honest with yourself and you talk to him honestly.
After 1 Year
Progressing
For a lot of people they see being an addict as a bad, negative thing, but once I started hitting the gym I realised that my addictive traits are actually more like a super power and it's nothing to be ashamed of. It enables me to focus and lock in to what I'm doing. Now I tune into positive stuff and not the negative, and I see being an addict as a gift. You've just got to choose the right addiction.
I live a disciplined and structured lifestyle now, which helps me to be a better Dad and partner. I'm also able to focus on achieving my fitness goals which has resulted in coming 3rd last year in the British body building finals.
I'm still doing AA and CA and I also help others get sober. Hopefully, my future involves turning pro body builder, keep progressing and working on myself and keep on being a better partner and a better Dad.
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