The way I look at it, bodybuilding and guitar playing are kind of similar. How? When you first start playing guitar, you knew nothing about it at first. You learn the guitar by learning easy basic stuff from the instructional books and then you build your way up from there. 20 years from now, you’ll be playing like a guitar god.

It’s the same with bodybuilding. When you first get into bodybuilding, you knew nothing about it. You start off learning the easy stuff at first, and then build from there. People make the mistake that you can build great muscle in such a short period of time, when the sad reality is, muscle building is a slow process. It takes years to look like a giant pro bodybuilder. I may look okay and decent now, but I still got a lot of ways to go and lots to learn.

The muscle magazines and Hollywood movie stars made it easy for you to believe that you could build muscle quicker but it’s not true. I’ve been bodybuilding for 4 years now, and I’m still young. While I’m still young, is a perfect time to get into it, ’cause I’m predicting, I’ll be really jacked when I turn 50. I believe that’s the age when I’ll look like a pro bodybuilder. That’s what I’m kind of hoping for.

Back to guitar playing, I’ve been playing for 15 years now and still got lots to learn just like with bodybuilding. I want to play like a guitar god someday and it’s going to take many years to get up there. There are too many guitar players around here (not naming names) who think they’re so great, when the reality is a lot of them are shit (probably worse than me). Famous guitar players like Jimmy Page, Joe Satriani, and Clapton. They didn’t become a guitar god over night even if it seemed like they did. They’ve been playing the instrument for way over 30 years. I do hope to play good like that someday and doing the best I can.

People just don’t like hearing the truth that it takes years to get good at something. It just needed to be said.

Kev