“Family’s Trying to Drag Into the Business”: Going Against His Education and Parents’ Wishes, 4-Time Olympia Winner Found His Calling in the Gym

The realm of bodybuilding and the bodybuilders have the most fascinating journey toward fitness. One of the iconic bodybuilders of all time revealed his road to this sport. He was a student of Criminal Justice and wanted to become a police officer. Like any other family, they also pressured him to choose a path that inclines with family. However, one of his friends indulged him in fitness and bodybuilding. As he grew, his passion for bodybuilding has also increased. The 4x Time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler shared his astounding path to bodybuilding.

Cutler has been very open about his life. He shared several times that his introduction to bodybuilding happened because of a magazine and he saw Chris Dickerson holding a trophy that really impressed him.

Jay Cutler declined family business to become a bodybuilder!

A Throwback video of a bodybuilding beast gained attention, where he revealed his life journey in conversation with The Iced Coffee Hour. He said that he was 12 years old when he first encountered a bodybuilding magazine. Afterward, one of his friends took him to the Gold’s gym for exercise, since then his inclination got deeper.

However, his family had other plans for him. They wanted him to join the family business after his graduation. His brothers also joined the family business, but Cutler wanted to do something different. “Was at that Turning Point 18 like we reached that, that point it’s like the family’s trying to drag it to the business like that was a family business,” said the 50-year-old.

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He reminiscences a time when he first visited a gym and started lifting weights,

“I was just lost in the weights it was the best stress reliever,” Although he was not sure that this was the path he was going to choose for the rest of his life. But he kind of liked it and when he was in college in late September, he finally started working out regularly. Well, this is also another interesting story he bought a membership months earlier, and due to his studies and family work, he started his fitness journey in September 1991.

Cutler developed a grown body in high school

Further training with weights, he committed “that when I graduated high school, I graduated 91 I was going to join the gym and start my journey towards lifting weights and developing a better body.” While working in the family business of concrete, he kind of developed a body during high school. Cutler found solace in the gym during the late hours of the night. From 8 to 10 p.m., he would immerse himself in intense training sessions, channeling his energy and focus into lifting weights.

He was not sure he would pursue this as a career but he surely liked it as a hobby, He further said that he would never thought of participating in the competitions, and when he started he weighed 50 pounds in the first year of training and next, he found him on the bodybuilding stage.

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