Dr. John A. King explains why he stepped back from competition to take a three-month job in San Antonio and clear medical debt. He missed a Masters qualifier in Fargo but says the delay doesn't mean he's given up on his bodybuilding goals.
When I started One Shot, I talked about how One Shot wasn't about a bodybuilding competition. It was about a passionate pursuit of life. Well, as you know, early on in the year, I went up to Fargo, did a competition, had a fantastic time, learned so much about the sport, so much about myself, managed to qualify for the 50s, 50+, and the Masters. For a bodybuilding competition. But along the way, a couple of things happened. I accrued a whole bunch of medical bills for the illness that I deal with, a whole bunch of bills associated with the sport. And I had to make a decision. You know, this competition is actually looming, this qualifier. I've got a chance with the qualifying to put it off. I understand another 12 months or so to go to competition in 2014. But I had an opportunity put to me and it was an opportunity in a 3-month period to clear all of my debt, all of the debt that we'd accrued last year, all of the debt that I'd accrued associated with Manos and basically clear out everything. So I took the one shot. I took this new one shot. Now it's cost me a little bit of a dream, but delay does not mean denial. But what it does is it sets my family up, gets us out of debt, pays all our medical bills off. I had to take a job I've never done before, a position I've never had before. And the thing is, I've achieved results that have never been achieved before. I hit number 1 in the sales organization. I've broken a whole bunch of national records. I'm personally selling more in Texas than the rest of the nation. I'm down in San Antonio and I've been in a hotel room now for a month and I'll be here for another 5 weeks. Now, you know, it's desperately lonely being away from family, but hey, I've got Planet Fitness to keep me occupied. Tootsie Rolls and horrible pain. But it's going fantastic. What I love is the fact that I suppose I proved myself right, you know. One shot is a mentality, an attitude. I always said it was, and this opportunity presented itself and I took it and boom, it just came together. Concerning the competition and the training, I haven't lost my passion for that. It's just incredibly difficult when you've got a bar fridge and a blender and that's it, and a microwave to eat anywhere near as good as you need to, to strip the 4 to 5% body fat. Anyway, that's just an update for you. One Shot, it's far more than a slogan. It's an attitude towards life. Thank you.
