Meet The Menaces

Founder of MenacePhysique.
With a background in cross country and track and field, I’ve always enjoyed pushing myself to my limits. In my junior year of high school, I sustained a stress fracture that took me out of the running scene for the rest of the season. With nothing else to do, I turned to weight training and slowly shifted my focus entirely to powerlifting. Obsessed with the acquisition of strength, I did everything in my power to get stronger.

Eventually, I outgrew my school gym and lifting coach and set off on my own. I got a job and membership at my local recreation center, and met someone by the name of Quinn Newton (profile listed below mine). Quinn shared my views on lifting and my mentality. We became training partners with one goal: to push each other further than we thought possible.

Over the summer, I began implementing high-intensity, high-volume, failure-based training. In just three months, I added more than 100 pounds to all of my lifts — my bench press jumped from 210 to 315, my squat from 250 to 415, and my deadlift from 405 to 515.

After about a year of powerlifting, I grew tired of the mentality that “reps left in reserve” were what made you stronger. RPE training always left something in the tank and if that was powerlifting, I wanted no part of it. I knew I enjoyed pushing myself to my absolute limits every lift, but I didn’t know what sport I could translate that into. “Strength without discipline and direction is mere noise”-Cato The Elder. I needed a goal to work toward. At first, it was becoming the strongest high schooler in Michigan — but that no longer interested me. I became obsessed with putting on size and definition.

I modeled my training after people I respected: Tom Platz, Rich Piana, Dorian Yates, Jay Cutler, and the physique I admired above all Markus Rühl. A year into bodybuilding, I performed my first prep and entered a small natural show across the country in Oregon. I gave everything to that prep. While it was the hardest thing I had ever accomplished, it felt like I had finally found my calling.

I fell in love with the feeling of finishing a lift knowing I couldn’t have possibly gone harder. With the feeling I got taking off a pump cover and surprising myself with how big and defined I’d become. With the feeling of pushing past the point where any good or above-average bodybuilder would have stopped.

At that show, I placed second in Men’s Open and Junior divisions. While that might have broken others, it only fueled me further. During the off-season, I went from 190 to 280 pounds on a clean, low-fat diet. There were weeks I threw up five out of seven days, but I stuck with it and stacked on size and muscle.

Now I’m in prep for my next bodybuilding show — October 18th, 2025. It’s an NPC show, and I’ll be competing in Open. I chose a larger federation and a stage where I’ll face athletes who aren’t natural. I did this to further test my dedication and prove that while steriods do help they will never surmount the effects of hard work and consitency.