CANADIAN PHYSIQUE ALLIANCE SEPTEMBER || ISSUE 38 | Page 68

INTERVIEW read it cover-to-cover. I
Juan: Robin, tell me a little bit worry about the way I looked
about yourself, how you got ever again! I went to the
started into exercising, nearest Wal-Mart and bought
introduced to the weight a bench press set and a squat
room, and tell me about your rack, put them both in my
first bodybuilding show and room, and started training
how it impacted you! immediately. Since that day, I
decided that I would become
a bodybuilder and never
never stopped.
Robin: When I was in high
room and in his mind, there was
nothing but silence. Some may
have thought it as arrogant
because he won the Mr. Ontario
title the year prior, but he was
just focusing on the greatness
that was about to be bestowed
upon him. Not only would he
win the title, but he got to
compete at his very first pro
show just a few hours later and
placed top 10 in a stacked line-
up of seasoned pros. I had the
pleasure of interviewing Robin
after his big win as the overall
bodybuilding champion for the
2018 Toronto Pro Show
Qualifier. Robin is a very
intelligent, kind, and
methodical man when it comes
to the greatest pursuits in his
life. One which is to be the best
possible bodybuilder he can be!
school, I was bullied pretty Juan: Wow, what an amazing
heavily. I developed an eating story Robin! At what point did
disorder as a result. I thought you decide that you wanted
the reason those kids didn’t to pursue this with your entire
like me because I was fat - heart and soul and be the
although I was at a normal best bodybuilder you can
weight. I decided I needed to possibly be - despite the
run excessively in order to lose major sacrifices it takes?
fat and fit in with everyone
else. I ran 10 km every day Robin: I was extreme from the
after dinner, not stopping beginning. I never wanted to
until I had used every last bit deal with the anxiety of food
of energy left. I started ever again. So, I read every
working at a local restaurant article I could find on
in town when I turned 16 and nutrition on
my boss was a bodybuilder. bodybuilding.com and I
He told me I was too skinny began my clean eating plan,
and asked me if I ate enough. I tracking my macros
told him I ate normally, but I religiously, and it just took off
didn’t tell him about the from there.
excessive exercise or the  A friend of mine asked me if I
developing bulimia. The next wanted to do a bodybuilding
day, he gave me Arnold’s competition with him when I
encyclopedia of bodybuilding turned 17 years old. 
and I took the book home and