Exercise For Men Only, May 2005

This cover shoot was one of the final shoots in the last week of my 7 month stay in the US chasing my dreams. I called it 'my final sprint'. I was mentally and physically exhausted by this stage. I had stayed in peak shape for 7 months straight as well as pushed my mind to extremes by staying tunnel visioned about what I was doing with only very brief breaks.

I had been contacting every magazine, supplement company and whoever else I thought I might be able to work with for the last 7 months and this was the last lot of shoots before I went home to Australia. So it was pretty exciting!!! I knew I had done all I possibly could and was able to go home at peace because of it. I actually shot Monday through to Friday that last week, I had lots of fun and learnt some great lessons about how to stay peaked for 5 days straight but by the end of that week I was done!!!

The photographer had drilled me the week before about making sure I was in shape etc as he had never worked with me and didn't know much about me. He really laid down the law lol, but that was fine because I knew I was right on ;)

The shoot went awesome, very smooth with no problems at all. We seemed to work in sync very well, more so than any other shoot I can remember. I never got to see the shots until I saw it on the cover but I'm very pleased with it :)