The DC 30 for 30 Biggest Moments - Pt 2 | David Claiborne - Because Being Weak and Pathetic Sucks

If you missed the first 10 of my biggest moments and events, then click *HERE*

11) When I first started building Genesis, I thought for sure people would beating down my door to train there because of how different and well the program works.

3 months later when I had 1 athlete in, I realized I was in for a way bigger struggle than I expected.

12) Since meeting my wife (8 years ago), I really had one definition of being successful.

I wanted my wife to be able to stay home when we had kids so she could raise them.

We were able to make this happen this past September and everyday I realize just how big of a blessing it is.

It feels like even more of an accomplishment since it happened by opening and running my own business instead of being a salaried employee at a 9-5 job.

13) I remember one day when I was in the facility getting equipment set up and moved around before the doors even opened, a guy came in and started talking to me.

He told me how he was successful opening his own business and just recently sold it to go back to work.

He looked me straight in the face and told me I was too young to run my own brick & mortar business and he didn’t see anyone trusting a 27 year old kid to train their son/daughter.

I wonder where he is today, or if he drives by the new facility and sees all his son’s competition training there…

I sure hope so.

14) When I first had an idea to open my own training facility, I tried to call everyone I thought of who trained athletes/ran their own place for advice.

No one really gave me the time of day except for one world famous coach, who has written books, articles, done seminars and more.

The only person I was able to talk to was none other than Mark Rippetoe himself.

The Man... The Myth... The Douchebag...

He lives in Texas as well so I thought he would be able to give me some great advice about training athletes and running a successful gym.

His exact words were “It can’t be done in Texas… You won’t ever get any football athletes in because of their high school football coaches”.

That pissed me off and I think I owe him a phone call now that we have 50+ high school football athletes who train with us in their off-season.

15) I have a very addictive personality… When I was at Baylor my roommate got me hooked on something horrible. A computer game called Counter-Strike.

I ended up saying up all night every night to play, missed classes, and eventually flunked out of Baylor.

I dropped 20lbs and didn’t workout for 2 years straight because of that game.

But everything happens for a reason, because I was a business major at Baylor who was burned out on football and track and who knows what I would be doing right now if it wasn’t for that computer game.

16) The first time I ever trained around actual competitive bodybuilders, was at Powerhouse Gym in Houston my senior year in high school.

I remember asking them a ton of questions about gaining muscle, supplements, exercises and training programs and they always came back preaching about nutrition.

I thought they just didn’t want to give me their secrets and used steroids since OBVIOUSLY they didn’t know much about training or else they would have been able to answer my questions.

I never knew why they cared so much about nutrition to get results until much later in life.

17) At Texas Tech I spent 4 years getting bigger and stronger.

I didn’t care about anything else and at one point I got up to 245lbs… I went up to Lubbock at a solid 175 and did that in under 4 years.

It all happened because one day while I was buying worthless supplements at the local supplement store, the guy checking me out gave me legit protein powder, and weight gainer and told me how to take it different from what the label said.

He then pointed me to a website www.AnabolicMinds.com which opened up my mind to a whole different world of strength training, bodybuilding, and nutrition.

I spent more time on that site the next 2 years that I did studying for or actually in all of my classes combined.

18) Back in 3^rd grade I was at the park with my mom and there was the little foo-foo dog chasing me around.

It was fun until I was running full speed, looked up, and clipped a metal slide with a corner for my forehead.

I split my skull open and had to be rushed to the emergency room to get 6-7 stitches.

The worst part about it was there was a nurse at the park who used her daughter’s doll’s diaper as my bandage.

So I roll into the hospital with a diaper strapped to my head.

19) I remember testing in high school football off-season on the squat.

We used a rep max method and I had 315 on the bar.

I also had the best spotter in the weight room… a big linebacker who basically Zercher squatted myself, and the 315lb bar for 10 reps.

I bragged that I squatted 405 at 165lbs for years after that.

20) In high school I had no idea how to put on size or anyone to teach me the correct way to eat and train in order to do so.

So I would get home from whatever sport I was playing, and go read Flex magazine while eating an entire can of peanuts before taking a shower every day.

Then before bed I would have 1 pint of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, a can of tuna, and as much peanut butter I could stand.

Unfortunately it didn’t do anything for me.

I wonder how fat I would be if I did that today.

Hope you enjoyed Pt 2 and I’m busy cranking away on the last 10 bigger moments of my life.

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes and please comment below if you can think of anyone you know of in your life who basically told you cant and said screw you, did it anyways, and it became a big success.