Ian Cariaga

28 years old

Weight training for 9 years.

I was fascinated about bodybuilding from age 7 by family friend & bodybuilder Nimrod King. My mother and his mother worked together.

Currently work for a major telecommunications co. and as a personal trainer.

I'm known by my co-workers as "food" because of all the food I bring to work.

Competitive in baseball, invited to play minor league A ball, but got injured prior to camp.

I was introduced to weight training during physiotherapy 5 years ago after a major snowboarding injury.

determined to make a full recovery from this injury, in hopes to one day compete successfully in snowboarding.

I begin to weight training seriously with Ian Walling, who was a trainer at the Gym I was a member at. I had known Ian for quite sometime but never took weight training seriously until this point.

Ian along with my family convinced me to enter in local competitions.
From this, I also decided to become a personal trainer. The idea of
sharing my knowledge to help others better there life style and achieve personal goals appealed to me. The personal satisfaction I felt was unexplainable.

My latest competition the Fame Show in may 2004. Did not place top 5 in the last show I did catch the eye of fellow body builder and Ms Olympia Competitor Laura Creavalle who now manages my diet.

Funny story: had no time to buy a birthday card(I’m bad for not getting cards) for Alexandra so I wrote happy birthday with a small note on my abs and later lifted my shirt so she could read it before she opened up her gifts . Kind of like a real life birthday card! She said it was the best birthday card she ever got!

I wouldn't be where I am today without the full support of Alexandra

Thanks,
Ian Cariaga

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