About Lee
Who is Lee Hayward?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words… Well, I’ll save you some reading and post up a few pictures…
Below you’ll see what I used to look like when I started working out (i.e. skinny teenager).
Then into my mid-twenties I managed to “bulk up” by following the “see food” diet. Meaning if I seen food, I ate food. That middle pic of me doesn’t look pretty, but packing on all that bodyweight actually helped me gain on a lot of muscle and strength in the process.
And finally in the third pic I’ve trimmed off the excess bodyfat to reveal a lean muscular physique underneath.
I used to be Skinny – Then Chubby – But NOW Lean & Muscular!
Granted the 3rd pic was taken in the last few weeks prior to one of my most recent bodybuilding competitions. I don’t maintain that kind of ripped contest condition year round, but at the same time I don’t let myself get “fat” either. I usually keep my bodyfat between 10-12% off-season and then diet down to less then 5% for a contest.
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These are my stats along with an overview of how I got involved with bodybuilding…
Stats: Name: Lee Hayward Best Lifts: Bench Press: 445 lbs. |
I got started working out when I was 12 years old after seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Conan movies. I was just blown away that someone could actually be that big and look like a real life comic book super hero. I was determined that I would someday look like that myself.
I would do exercises like push ups and sit ups in my bedroom before school each morning. I can even remember thinking to myself… “If I do this everyday until the end of the school year I’ll be as big as Arnold in the Conan movies.”
That year I asked my parents if they would get me a weight set for Christmas so that I could workout and get big. I can still remember how excited I was Christmas morning when I woke up and saw this HUGE box under the Christmas tree.
After ripping through all the fancy wrapping paper and colored bows there was a York 2001 home gym machine and a York barbell and dumbbell set. We set it up that very day and I did my first official weight training workout on Christmas day 1990.
From that point on I was hooked on weight training. I would workout daily with my little home gym, sometimes for several hours at a time. My dad has always been an active person his whole life and this really helped motivate me early on to workout and keep fit as well.
During high school I worked out consistently and I would read every bodybuilding and fitness magazine that I could get my hands on. I’d get bodybuilding and exercise books from the library. I would record every bodybuilding contest that was on television and watch them over and over again. I was obsessed with learning as much about bodybuilding, exercise and nutrition as I could.
While in my last year of high school I entered my first Bodybuilding contest, The 1995 Newfoundland Provincials, I was 17 years old at the time. Since then I have competed almost every year in bodybuilding competitions.
After high school I went on to do a computer studies program in College. This is where I got my interest in computers and the Internet. Keep in mind that when I started working out and competing there was no Internet. So I can remember sitting in the computer lab in the fall of 1997 when I logged on to the Internet for the very first time.
I asked the guy sitting at the computer next to me “how do you use the internet?”
He said “you go to yahoo and search for something”
So that’s just what I did and the first thing I searched for was “bodybuilding”
In the computer studies course that I was doing they taught a basic class on writing HTML and designing websites. And in January of 1999 I created my website www.LeeHayward.com. From then on I’ve focused on improving it, adding more useful information, and making it better each year.
Through my website I have had the opportunity to help literally thousands of aspiring bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts from all over the world with their training and nutrition programs. And over the past 10+ years www.LeeHayward.com has become one of the most popular bodybuilding and fitness sites online.
Lee is author of Your First Bodybuilding Competition at: www.LeeHayward.com/bodybuilding
Lee is author of The Blast Your Bench Program at: www.BlastYourBench.com
Lee is author of The Blast Your Biceps Program at: www.BlastYourBiceps.com
Lee is co-author of The Bio-Genetic Muscle Gain Program at: www.DrugFreeMuscle.com
Lee has created his own DVD Weight Training System at: www.LeeHayward.com/dvd
Lee has helped literally hundreds of people world wide with Customized Diet and Training Plansat: www.LeeHayward.com/dietplan.htm
