“Is This the Day I’m Going to Jump?”: A Teenage Boy With “Suicidal Thoughts” Ended Up Being a Global Bodybuilding Icon Later in Life

The present is not equivalent to the past or even to the future. The decisions one takes on the way add up to the consequences one faces in life. Zac Aynsley is a global bodybuilding icon who flipped his life 360° to become an icon by nearly risking his life. Indeed, it was the life-turning decision that made him extremely fit from the verge of liver failure.

Aynsley has gained incredible success and fame through his YouTube channel and being a fitness model. Moreover, Aynsley proved that anyone can change their life to the best version, regardless of what position are they in. Once he revealed the contrast between his teenage life and the life he has now.

The world was against Aynsley

Zac Aynsley had a terrifying childhood. Not like he didn’t have food to eat or a bed to sleep in. But he didn’t have a friend to share his life with. A schoolboy without friends is extremely difficult to even imagine. However, Aynsley lived his childhood through the same. He didn’t have friends. Moreover, he was the center of jokes and humiliation among his schoolmates.

Aynsley remained indulged in ‘Minecraft’ as a defense mechanism against his loneliness. He once shared, “Everywhere I went, it was hood up, head down. Between [the ages of ] 10 and 15, I had suicidal thoughts. I’d regularly climb to the top of water towers thinking, ‘Is this the day I’m going to jump?'”

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He continued,  “I’d regularly run home from school crying my eyes out, in floods of tears on the doorstep.”

Zac Aynsley turned his life upside down

Life is long enough to turn it into a better side. It’s never too late to realize you are on the wrong path and change the path. Zac Aynsley’s life completely fits the above lines. Being an ignored, and bullied kid in his childhood, he got distant from his mates. Further, he found his comfort in DJing after spending years on video games.

However, DJing also came to an end when, after a few months, DJ’s lifestyle made his health worse. Doctors warned him to modify his lifestyle or his liver will get completely fail. Eventually, that led him to gym and bodybuilding. Not only has he recovered from that liver disease but he has now become a global fitness icon.

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Today Aynsley is extremely famous in the fitness world and also has been recently featured in GQ magazine and a global campaign by Generation Iron. Isn’t that incredible? How Aynsley started from even below the surface and now he is touching the sky. Aynsley has such an inspirational journey everyone can learn from. What do you think of this incredible turnover?