This is a YouTube video titled "Sharelle Grant's Passion for Bodybuilding" containing a monologue by Beverley Simpson recorded in May 2023. Beverley shares her early experiences and passion for bodybuilding, including her interest in hypertrophy and a mentorship relationship at the gym during her early 20s.
Like, growing up, like, in my early 20s, through training, I was always on, like, bodybuilding.com and teenage and, like, looking up the next latest articles and ways in which I could improve my squat or my deadlift or accessory work, et cetera. And that's where I started to develop, like, that big interest in hypertrophy, per se. And when I was training, like, in my first, maybe 12 months, there was this, like, older guy at the gym who I used to call gym dad, because every time a guy would come up to me and talk to me, he would pretend to be my dad if they were, like, hitting on me. So it was like this sort of weird relationship that we had, but he was like my first mentor.
