marcus300 interviews Austinite
marcus300: Which country are you from and how do you like living there?
Austinite:: I'm from the US. I am from Houston, Texas originally. I love Texas. I've lived in several different states and something always draws me back home. I would not live anywhere else at this time. The laws are great and protect citizens from harm better than any other state.
marcus300: What do you do for a living?
Austinite:: Primarily, I run a multi-chain car accessory retail chain. Secondary, I own a supplement company with a partner. It's a single store that does very well and we have our own line of products that we push primarily.
marcus300: Are you married and do you have children?
Austinite:: I've been married and divorced twice. Currently I am single with no children.
marcus300: What are your current stats and what would be your ideal ones?
Austinite:: I am 6ft tall, 235lbs. Last body fat was checked last year at just under 12%, but right now my guess would be 14%. I've reached my ideal weight last year, 235 @ under 12% is good for me.
marcus300: How long have you been training and what are your goals?
Austinite::I've been training since the mid-90's. My goal was that I wanted to be huge, 275lbs+. My biggest was around 260 and it was in a time of my life that I just couldn't afford to maintain the lifestyle. I'm currently in a maintenance mode. I've been 235 for a while and happy with that, just like to keep my BF at or under 12, which hasn't been very easy lately.
marcus300: What have been your happiest times of your life?
Austinite::Happiest time (singular) was actually very recently when I finally became a principal in the company I've worked for forever. This changed my life considerably.
Happiest times (plural), are when I get to help Muscular Dystrophy patients. My volunteer time is priceless to me and quite healing. They do far more for me as I do for them.
marcus300: What has been the lowest times in your life?
Austinite:: Lowest, well, there's several, but to keep it related, back in my mid to late 20's I had suicidal thoughts and even written my last letter. I suffered erectile dysfunction, developed pigmentation all over my body and was just tired of living the way I was. Luckily, I muddled through it because life is good today.
marcus300: If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional. with whom would it be
Austinite:: Lots of choices! Probably Larry David. His life has to be a constant comedy. Laughter is good.
marcus300: How did you first get into training?
Austinite:: I just started going to the gym with a couple friends. I was as skinny as a toothpick and I hated it. I wanted to be bigger, much bigger. It took about 2 days at the gym to decide I needed to be on steroids. Big mistake at such a young age, but that's what happened.
marcus300: Whats been your best cycle so far?
Austinite:: My best cycle that was test and primo. Primo is very special to me. It changed my look in the mirror almost every day after week 16. I topped doing UGL gear but if I ever go back, it would be for Primo.
I've done a cycle of Test/Primo/Var/tren/mast. While it was heavy and results were very good, I was miserable with all the injections and hated life. Will not do that again.
marcus300: Are you religious and how do you see the whole topic there being a God?
Austinite:: I have never been religious or practiced anything of the sort. I have no issues with anyone's beliefs so long as they don't harm anyone.
marcus300: What annoys you with the forum and what do you like?
Austinite:: Hmm. Nothing really annoys me. It used to be repetitive questions in my educational threads but that doesn't bother me anymore. They're getting enough traffic now that everyone is helping each other. So I guess nothing really bothers me about the forum.
I like the members we have. I like the quality of members and their posts when compared to other boards. Anyone who has visited other boards surely understands the garbage there is to deal with. Our members here are amazing and when I was actively posting educational threads, they helped expand my knowledge with their interactions.
marcus300: Sorry to hear about how low you got in your 20's. Does any of the things you suffered from still bother you to this day?
Austinite: Some yes, some no. I wish I didn't have to deal with a pigmented body, but I have come to terms with it so it no longer impacts my confidence or social skills. Having to inject and use cialis to maintain an erection was tough on my for many years. Today however, it's become routine and in fact I like it for the betterment of my overall health.
marcus300: Would you like children?
Austinite: As of today, no. I work too much I can't even have a dog, and I really want a dog!!
marcus300: Would you get married again or is two times enough punishment?
Austinite: lol. I am not going to seek marriage. If it happens, it happens. But it will have to be with a prenuptial agreement for a set amount of years.
marcus300: If you could pick a handful of supplements what you would class the best to take what would they be?
Austinite: This is the hardest question, lol. I love them all so it's not easy to pick. But let's say a handful is 6, fair? L-Arginine, Vitamin D3, Vitamin B12, NAC, Ubiquinol and Fish oil. I want to list 10 more.
marcus300: How many strippers do you have a week/monthly?
Austinite: Not much lately. Used to have really high turn-over. I could have used an HR department in my life a year ago. Strippers are BIG trouble. I still love them though.
marcus300: What style of training do you do?
Austinite: I don't really follow any specific "style" and it changes periodically. But mostly I train body parts once every 9 days or so. Hams on a separate day than leg day and I run daily.
marcus300; If you could pick a couple of guys from the forum to have a night out with who would you pick?
Austinite: This is a tough question and I would like to avoid answering because I can't just pick 2.
marcus300: If you could what would you change about yourself?
Austinite: I would try and learn how to take time off and not worry about work. Seems to be an impossible task but that's a personality thing I believe that can't be changed.
marcus300: Have you ever been arrested?
Austinite: Yes. I've been arrested twice. Once when I was 17 and beat the crap out of a cab driver. Wish I could take that back. And again for driving while intoxicated in November of 2001, which was also the last time I ever had alcohol.
marcus300: If you had 3 wishes, what would you wish for?
Austinite: I would only want one wish and that's to be filthy rich. But if I had to choose 3, the other two would be to build the largest muscular distrophy research center on earth, and finally, to find a broad that I can live with and can live with me.
marcus300:Can you give us a brief or detailed account of why you have been divorced twice?
Austinite: First one was when I was 18 and married a 17 year old. I was just a dumb kid. In fact, we weren't together more than 1 month. We could have had the marriage annulled but we both forgot about it for 6 years until she needed to remarry and applied for divorce.
The 2nd marriage was my "real" marriage. I was with her for several years. The problem (I think) was that we worked together. So we never really had any time apart. We just ended up being roommates that do their own thing. We grew apart and eventually agreed to separate for good. It was a very, very, very costly divorce.
marcus300: Tell us more about your charity work and why and what you do?
Austinite: Ok, now you're getting private details out of me, lol. It's alright. My favourite person in the world and my best friend was my sister. She suffered muscular dystrophy from a young age. I did everything I could to comfort her throughout her years but that was all I could do. I watched her health deteriorate over the decades until she could barely breath on her own. She passed away and that's what triggered my obsession to help out in this field.
I help patients as often as I can. Most of my work, believe it or not is talking to them. Many have been abandoned by family or family is just not able to assist in any way. I work with a young girl that is very dear to me. She reminds me of my childhood days with my sister. And she's funny. She mimics me and says "Have a powerful day!" to everyone at the center. She has an incredible attitude and pretty smart for such a little girl. If you met her, you'd want to help her, too.
On the opposite side, Recently I was given an opportunity to visit a prison and speak to inmates. This was a very fulfilling experience as I was welcomed heavily by the inmates. They loved seeing me there and were very interested in knowing about the "Free World". The idea here is to help guide them before they are released and possibly have some communication afterwards. This program has been helping bring the number of returned inmates down. The program works from the data I've seen. I've only been there twice now and I plan on going at least twice a month. You wouldn't think it'd be a great experience talking to people that have been locked up for 20, 30 and 40 years. But it is. It's actually fun telling them about all the technological advances they know nothing about.
marcus300: What advice would you give to someone in their 20's about AAS use?
Austinite: It's not easy advising a 20-something year old. You're just not on the same level and they are generally disregard your experience and knowledge. No fault of their own, we were all stubborn back in our days. But if I had a 20 year old that would listen, I would urge them to wait. AAS works very fast compared to natural building, so there shouldn't be a need to rush into it as you can get fairly quick results later.
Be prepared to commit to potentially have permanent damage. Depending on how AAS affects you, it can be very straining on your mental state.
20's are your best years. Just enjoy them, have fun, go out, date a lot of people, whatever. I wouldn't worry about AAS in my 20's if I could go back.
If you insist, follow advice of experienced people, use caution and stick to basic and safe cycling. You have plenty of time to get big, no need to do it all at once and take a various amount of steroids, it just complicates things.
marcus300: Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
Austinite: Not much different than today, really. Working a lot. hoping to expand to 3 locations for my supplement store by 5 years time. Retirement age lately has been well beyond 62, and I'd like to retire before that. Hopefully in 5 years I can finally find a perfect piece of land so I can start building my dream home.
marcus300 What first attracted you to this forum?
Austinite: Other forums brought me here. Not by referral, but buy the lack of knowledge and the dominant and very young demographic. Running into that on many forums, I went out to search for a better home over and over again. I started lurking on this forum for a few weeks before I decided to join in. Watching people respectfully debate topics, providing research material and debunking major studies just made me smile. I wanted to be a part of this community.
marcus300: You stated that you actually wrote your suicide letter when you was younger. This is very sad to hear coming from a guy like yourself.
I understand the issues you were going through but to get that low is another level. What actually stopped you from doing it? who was the letter to? and what advice would you give to someone who had similar thoughts?
Austinite: Well the letter wasn't written to anyone specific. I mentioned several people in it. I was drenched in tears by the end of writing the letter. Weeping like a little girl uncontrollably. It's pretty crazy when you know you're about to die and everything will be over. I thought I would feel some relief, but I got an overwhelming feeling of selfishness. I had a little brother that needed me and sister that needed me more. All I wanted to do at that moment was go see them. That was a turning point for me and things have been great since then. I still have the letter in my safe. I've read it a couple times since then.
I like to think of myself as a strong person because I was able to talk myself out of it. Most people need someone else to talk them out of it. Which is true considering most attempts are a mere cry for help/attention. I don't think anyone wants to die.
My advice wouldn't be relevant much because everyone has different reasons and different levels of commitment. But if I had to, I'd say stop and think of how much hurt you would cause people that know you. They don't deserve to suffer so you can end your misery. If there's a will there's a way. How many stories can we all tell about how miserable life was one day? Maybe even several segments of our lives were miserable. It's all history, that's why they are stories we can tell. Look forward to tomorrow, things have to get bad before they get better; it's a balance.
marcus300: I would like to thank you for being so open and honest with your answers. I have immense respect for you in so many ways. Is there anything else you would like to say to the members before I move over to the members questions?
Austinite: The respect is very mutual, Marcus. I wish I would have found this forum sooner than I did, but it's been an incredible journey. I've gone through major life changes including not having a job for 6 months while a member here. It's crazy to think that some folks online influenced your real life, but it's true, and for that reason I am loyal and will always be here for the members as this community grows. I've had ups and downs, just like real life. I look forward to many years to come.
