You are originally from Sweden, correct?
I am Swedish and Peruvian. I was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1964 and moved with my family to Lima, Peru, where my father is from. We lived there for six years until the separation of my parents when I returned to Sweden together with my mother and siblings. My older brother and myself ended up in a small town, Harnosand, in the northern part of Sweden located as far north as Alaska. I jokingly say that I grew up in Lapland with the Sami people (eskimos of Scandinavia).
How did you first become interested in bodybuilding?
I remember in middle school, I used to draw all these superheroes and muscular physiques without even being aware of the sport of bodybuilding. Then I saw the film “Pumping Iron” on TV. It has to be in the late 1970s. It fascinated me and had such a major impact. I was on my school swim team, and when I was 16, we started implementing weight training and that’s when I fell in love with bodybuilding. My body changed quickly and I started buying muscle magazines, Muscle & Fitness and Hercules, to learn how to train more efficiently.
Which bodybuilders inspired you back then?
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