A month ago I was working at my local gym in Ellapara, the whole point being when I came back to Canada in 4 months I wanted to bigger than ever before. I imagined it where, people ask if I'm on steroids. so the whole point was to basically bulk up. Everyone there is super into body building and I see them talking amgonst themsevles about winning the competition. I'm working out at the gym there were no change rooms it was an up and coming gym. It was straight cement on the floor with a blue rachet carpet with the sides tearing off. THe weights weren't that consistent and the cushions that are supposed to help you, but it felt like they were digging into your bone. I loved every second of it. since there was no change rooms I was just changing to a different shirt to workout, when they saw me, and they were like " Yo, you can lowkey win if you just come everyday". I turn around and I'm like "whats your name", cuz these guys were all strangers to me. THe owner of the gym, who I kinda knew cuz my dad knew him, said bro you can literally win. so I said fuck it sure. I go home I tell my parents they were against cuz of the evil eye, like I was looking pretty healthy. I told it's gonna be alright and some other stuff. I start working out everyday, and cutting weight. I calculate my calories, and I needed to develop my calves and my lower abs, those were the two things I was lacking the most. so everyday me and Praveen chetan would help me hit legs like there was no tomorrow. and then he would teach me how to pose. We did for a month, and then we had the competition at the end of the month.
End of the month comes around, I get a sick during the last week of training but at this point I had already began the dehydration so I might as well. We get into a car, 6 guys I met last month. Over the capacity of the the car which was supposed to hold 5. We get there, and my trainer gives me this BRIGHT PINK looking underwear. Inside I'm like damn, this is very out there. This was even before the I had a blog, and I thought, This is going to be a crazy story to tell my kids one day. We spend the next couple hours turning me into bronze, by putting on some reflective coating material with baby oil. I got on stage, U18 bodybuilding ameatur wearing the most PINK bikini looking thing on. There was like 200-400 people watching, I really don't remember how many people were watching. I do all my poses, as well as I can, and you have to have a super bright smile, and I think I aced the smiling portion. There was a part where you had turn around, and that's when I got kinda shy. I wasn't too happy about flexing glutes like that. The last round of posing was a freestyle posing section. This is the section where I did not practice at all. You essentially had to move between your best poses, with swagger, while matching the tempo of the music being played. This is when I got really shy, and I turned into a robot instead of just being natural, and then It ended, it was super fun
I get home at like 1am, I'm in the shower scraping all the reflective coating off my back, because I'm literally SHINING ( I reminded myself of the guy from Moana who is SHINY). Slept to bed at like 3 am, after I returned to my non shiny skin.
My mom wakes me up 7 am, and she's like yo aren't you going to Dubai the plane leaves at 4pm or something. We live 5 hours away from the airport by car, so I tell my mom stop stressing we can leave at 10 AM, just please let me sleep.
My mom says "whose we"? I was under the impresison that I would get dropped off at the airport, because we had luggage. My dad hits me with the I can drop you off at the bus stop, so you don't have to walk. It is what it is, I can't blame him, I just didn't know we were taking the bus beforehand.
Buses are much more fun in India, since roads are curvy and hilly. But that's the end of the story. I imagine this is going to be one of my flagship Dad lore stories. I remember my dad would have a couple of these that he would bust out when you least expect it.