TUR Mini Magazine Sports Section of The Urban Release | Page 8

A Trainer’s Life
By:  Hollywood Soza

Moving from Cali to Vegas, how
was that? That was a big change....
what was it like growing up in Vegas?
Honestly, going from Cali to Vegas
was an adventure. I was tired of our
life in California, it was nice to have
a change. However, growing up in
Vegas was difficult because we were
not well off, we had a lot of hard
times and our life was not too good.
We lived in a trailer park the entire
time I lived in Vegas until I left to
go to college. The neighborhood we
lived in wasn’t very nice. But mainly
the home life was difficult. My parents were always fighting; my father
was in between jobs a lot, my mother was always working hard and she
felt let down most of the time. Sometimes she would want to give up because she worked so hard and still
didn’t think she was giving us a good
life. Getting into sports was great for
me because it helped take my mind
off of all that. Fitness was the perfect
outlet for me.

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In my family, my Mom is super active and exercises often, which always made me conscious of what I
was eating and exercise. Who was
that person for you? Is your family
an athletic family?
My family is not an athletic family. My parents were never into fitness. I know it may sound cliché, but
­Arnold Schwarzenegger is my number one idol. Most people think this
is because of bodybuilding, but it is
not. What today’s bodybuilders go
through as far as living the life of the
professional fitness athlete is more
demanding than what Arnold had to
do in his time. Anything he has set
out to do, he has done. Bodybuilding
was only a stepping stone for him to
a much bigger dream, much like it is
for myself. I use bodybuilding/fitness
as a way to express my desire and
determination to achieve all of