My name is Justin Rys, a.k.a. “Big Kiwi”. I am a former Oceania, and a former Mr. Australasia. I have competed professionally against the best bodybuilders in the world, including Ronnie Coleman and Chris Cormier. I’m proud of my accomplishments, but the road to my success has been a long and difficult one. I would not have achieved my goals without my steadfast determination, motivation, and hard work. I was always a sportsman at school, and I played your typical sports like rugby and soccer. I also became a great sprinter. One day, as I was sprinting, I basically tore one of my quadriceps from the bone. The doctor concluded that my muscles were growing too fast for my tendons to keep up. As you can imagine, that put a fast stop to my sprinting career. Although I was good at athletics, I had never even thought about lifting weights until this point. I didn’t know anything about supplements or weight training, but I started going to the gym for rehab and physical therapy. Being a sprinter, I had a lot of fast twitch muscle fibers that I thought would respond quite well to weight training.