Why I started lifting weights when I was 12 (Dispatches #4)

Dispatches are true short stories told in my own voice.

Transcript

Here’s the story of how and why I started strength training when I was 12. Well, we called it lifting weights back then. Back in Aurora, Illinois, in the 1970s, nobody was strength training. You were just going down to the Y and lifting weights. But I wasn’t even doing that then.

I was a so…