Kai Greene: Bodybuilder

            Kai Greene was born July 12^th, 1975 in Brooklyn New York. He was a ward of the state due to a hostile home environment and throughout all of the moving around, according to his own written story on Kai-Greene.com, weight lifting was his one “refuge.” Not only is Kai good at weight lifting and shaping his own body, but he is an extremely talented artist with a pencil and paper. And in his grade school years he made the two coincide. His situation of living had a very strict lifestyle and would never have exposed him to bodybuilding competing at a young age, but at his school he was introduced to it. In his teens he started winning competitions against people in his age group and then eventually becoming the youngest pro and natural bodybuilder in the world at the age of 19.

            Eventually after unsuccessfully reaching the IFBB- International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness- Kai went back to school to work on his art career while still honing his physique to make a comeback. After five years of not competing Kai came back and made the stage as an official IFBB pro through a unanimous decision which started his path towards Mr. Olympia. In recent years Kai has repeatedly lost to Phil Heath but has not been deterred from winning at least one Olympia crown, even at the age of 41. Overcoming a difficult home life is no easy task and coming back on stage five years after being rejected takes guts and hardwork, Kai Greene is a very inspirational figure.