Interview With Ben Booker Bodybuilding.Com 2010 Spokesmodel Competition Male Winner

How did you get started in the world of bodybuilding?

I was in a car accident whenever I was 17 three weeks into football season. I was in bed rest for two months and had to wear a back brace and undergo therapy. I wieghed 130 pounds when I got out of bed rest and missed my entire senior year of sports. One of the only things I could do my senior year was lift wieghts. Over the next few years I saw great results and built my strength up, fully recovered, and never looked back!

What Training Routine Do You Use To Get That Quality Physique?

In college my freshman year I met a guy in the gym who had the physique that I wanted. I asked what type of workout he did, and he gave me a book. It was called Serious Growth III, “Big Beyond Belief.” It is the only program I have done in the last ten years. There is a four day a week program in the book that I do. It also has a six day a week program, and a twice a day six days a week program. It is an amazing program and I would recommend it to anyone. I do no cardio thanks to this program and I am still able to maintain around 5% bodyfat year round.

What’s your diet like?

I eat five eggs over easy religiously every single morning with two pieces of bread and a piece of cheese. I believe a strong breakfast is essential to gaining and mantaining muscle. I eat 6 to eight times a day, consuming at least 30 grams of protien at every meal. I eat a lot of protien bars, I try all kinds. After workouts I have two scoops of nitro-tech hardcore with water. I sometimes have these shakes two or even 3 times a day. I love chicken and fish for lunch and dinner. I am pretty strict during the week and let loose a little on the weekends.

What’s your motivation?

My motivation comes from a number of places. I try to live this lifestyle for my two kids so that they will follow in my footsteps. I have a good workout partner, Chester Reeder, that keeps me motivated day in and day out. It is about living healthy and feeling good about yourself. I can not be the husband and father that I need to be if I am not 100%. Striving for progress and not perfection, one day at a time, finding motivation through all sorts of people every day is what keeps me going.

If you could give once piece of advice about bodybuilding/fitness what would it be?

Over the past ten years I have found a nutrition, workout, and supplement plan that works for me, and works well. Results do not come over night and there is no safe and healthy way for them too. I tell people to stay focused on their goals, find motivation wherever they can, and hold on to it. It is doing the things that others dont that makes a successful person. Fitness is a lifestyle! You have to learn it, eat it, and breathe it. If you want it bad enough, it is yours for the taking!

Any plans for the future?

I got big plans… I just dont know how to achieve them yet. That is how you get somewhere though. You go right up to the unknown and stare fear in the face. After winning the 2010 bodyspace spokesmodel contest I truly believe that the sky is the limit. I am working out some details with a supplement company at the moment, trying to get sponsored and maybe modeling for their product as well. I am going to take it as it comes, one day at a time, enjoying every minute.

Favourite Bodybuilder?

I got a go with Arnold S.

Favourite Quote?

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Bodyspace: http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/bookerbrother/