Brad Nield

Poor diet, poor lifestyle and supportive friends and family.. I used to eat fast food 7 days a week and decided to switch my lifestyle around and live a healthy and active lifestyle rather than the couch potato lifestyle.

I’ve been in the gym for roughly 10 years, I’ve gone from around 210lbs to maintaining at 170lbs for some time now, I’ve gone thru multiple diets from paleo to iffym and have done many different styles of workout routines from training high intensity to heavy weight resistance. I’ve also trained with several trainers to help get me where I am today.

I truly believe in training with high intensity as well as heavy weight resistance training several times a week, hitting mostly main compound moves with sets of 6 to 8 to begin workouts and tapering off to sets of 12 to 15 at the end of a workout.

I’ve tried multiple diets.. eating clean, iffym, paleo, high carb, low carb, etc. I don’t believe there is one perfect diet..everyone’s body’s are different! For myself iffym along with eating very clean has really helped me reach my goals, along with consuming roughly 6 liters of water a day.

This year is the first year I am competing, I’ve never considered it before until I realized how much fitness and nutrition has impacted my life. Oktoberfest will be my first show.

My goal for this year is to compete in my first show, after that I plan on taking personal training courses to help people better their lifestyles.

I look up to everyone in the fitness and nutrition world, seeing people in the gym and on social media better their body’s, lifestyle, and reach their goals, motivates me more then words can explain.

Injuries.. I spent a lot of years riding bmx, doing flips and spins and big airs, with this comes sacrifice. I’ve suffered multiple wrist, arm, back, knee, and ankle injuries in the past and this has impacted my training. With proper recovery time and diet our body’s are capable of overcoming a lot.

I don’t believe in pet peeves at the gym or in a healthy life.. we are who we are, it is what it is, and people are gonna judge each other no matter what we do anyway. Just be yourself and do what makes you happy and don’t mind the rest.

Dedication is key, be yourself, do what makes you happy,and stay positive at all times! Keep a smile on 24/7 and it will make a world of difference.