In 2012, BlackDoctor.org decided to share the picture above via various social media networks and the picture quickly went viral. The picture above is an amazing shot of a father and son duo who could easily pass for brothers.
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We decided to take a deeper look at Stephen "Monster" Haynes, whose pictured to the right.
Stephen "Monster" Haynes
Stephen is a motivational speaker, a natural bodybuilder and the creator of Monster Fitness in Virginia. But he wasn't always fit. At his heaviest, he weighed 287 lbs. Being an arena football player originally kept him in shape, but he had a career-ending knee injury and his mother passed away. With those two traumatic events in his life happening so close to each other, Stephen says he lost his drive. At one point, he got so low that he started eating in various food challenge, eating as much as he could in one sitting.
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After getting called out by his friend that he would never fit on a bodybuilding stage, he snapped into a better frame of mind and took to the gym, and to the kitchen. In 10 weeks, he lost 63 lbs.
Stephen was on his way. Today, he says that his hardest challenge is still food.
"Being at the gym is something I know I have to do. But it's a daily struggle to make the right choices in the kitchen."
Stephen advises his clients to to stay away from packaged goods. Stephen looks for fresh food that has a shorter expiration date, because that means it has less preservatives. In addition, his philosophy is consistency, and he tries to instill the importance of staying consistent in all of his clients.
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Stephen recently took to Instagram to share his story and to motivate others looking to get healthy:
"After losing my mother, I had lost myself! Seeing myself everyday in the mirror, I never noticed I was losing control. A friend had found interest in natural bodybuilding and I told him 'If you do it, I'll do it.' He looked at me, while I was pouring sugar into a BIG pot of spaghetti, and said 'Your fat a** will never get on a bodybuilding stage!' That was the realest thing I ever heard in my life. It made me take a look at myself in a way I had never done before. I realized that I had given up! At that point, I challenged myself to be the best 'ME' I could be for me! I turned my life around, and proved it wasn't too late for me and it's never too late for you!"
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Stephen is now training his clients on a daily basis, preparing to open up his new fitness facility, and getting ready for a qualifying competion for the Organization for Professional Bodybuilders. More information about Stephen and MonsterSkwad Fitness can be found at http://facebook.com/Monster-Fitness.
