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Murray Graham is a TigerG team member who was the overall Australian National Bodybuilding Champion and is currently preparing for the 2008 World Championships in Canada. Ever since I was young, my mother encouraged me to be active in most sports. Summer consisted of both cricket on Saturdays & Elouera surf club on Sundays. I grew up as a nipper in Elouera surf club which I joined as a five year old. Each summer was great learning & participating in the surf culture & generally hanging out at the beach having a good time Winter was spent playing soccer. At sixteen when I started working full time my time to enjoy sports was limited. |
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Both cricket & the surf club had to go & I was fortunate enough to still play soccer without training as often as the team did during the week. It was during this period that I started weight training. I found weight training at first made me feel good & it was not until a few years later that I was enable to devote the time required to succeed due to studies. From the age of twenty one I was completely hooked on training & saw it as a means to get bigger as I was short & I figured that I would become wider. My early training was as most peoples, straight out of Arnold’s encyclopedia. |
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It took time until I could see & feel the differences that were occurring to my body. Each year I was progressing one step at a time. This was when I found out who my try friends were as I had stopped going out partying on the weekends & cleaned up my diet. I was feeling a whole lot better as a human being. My training was starting to help me progress in my working life & there were a few more things starting to fall into place. I felt stronger not on only physically but mentally as well. I was lucky enough to be taken to an ANB bodybuilding show & that was it. I wanted in, big time. I said to myself that one day I will stand on stage & see how I do. I gave myself three more years of preparation as I did not want to make a fool out of myself. |
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I am a very driven person to succeed & I was not going to do a show without looking like I deserve to be up there had a few obstackables to overcome & three became six years. I had received an injury in my preparation & could not give 100% effort. I made the decision to recover & thought that there was always next year. The next year I did the show & won the NSW U/80kg division. I can still remember the awesome feeling to this day. Two weeks later I traveled with the NSW team to Queensland for the nationals & placed second. Fast forward to Melbourne 2005 & I won the Mr Australia U/80kg & Overall Mr Australia for the ANB. Sixteen years of training has finally paid off & my new goals have only just begun. I will be competing for our great country in Toronto, Canada in 2008 at the world titles & can’t wait. |