Who is Gorilla God?
I have practically been working out all my life.
The high school I went to allowed me to understand how great fitness and sports can make you feel. I went to a boys’ school which put a pretty large emphasis on sports, and the ideas about competition and success in this field found their way to permeate through my psyche and became embedded into my being. I heavily immersed myself in tennis for most of my teenage years while dipping into rugby, field hockey, basketball, and skateboarding whenever I felt like it. I was never the best athlete, but I was certainly very athletically capable – I think that I just lacked discipline.
In late 2019, I began to take a more serious approach to working out. Putting in the research and work I needed to in order to understand my body and how I can allow it to reach its ultimate potential. Unfortunately, COVID-19 entered our lives at the beginning of 2020, and pressed the pause button on many of my fitness goals. With the gyms shutting down and the world going into a financial crisis – I had to put my fitness goals on hold.
I began going back to being the Gorilla God full-time at the beginning of 2022 by signing up for a new gym contract and began formulating a new step-by-step plan to finally achieve my ultimate natural physique.
I have been a pescetarian since the age of 15 and I have been training on and off ever since. I chose this path at such a young age mostly because I was in search of a cleaner life. I felt as though a plant-based diet would lead me closer to achieving this goal. The cleaner life I sought was not just a physically clean one but also a mentally and psychologically clean life.
I think I first began thinking more about this when I found myself questioning “which part of the chicken this is” while having some KFC for dinner. Because I was in boarding school, I had enough access to biology teachers to adequately get to the conclusion of my ‘meat mystery’.
When no one was able to answer my ask, I began to think a bit more critically about whether or not we were even aware of the foods we put into our bodies. For some reason, I felt that I would retain more control by alienating meat from my diet (with the exception of fish, of course).
Has this worked?
Although I hate comparisons, I have had a few encounters in my life which have made me believe that this way of life has led to me experiencing a cleaner lifestyle. In my earlier experiences as a pescetarian, I remember feeling lighter, cleaner, and clearer.
More than 15 years later and I feel that my body, my mind, and soul have eventually become a reflection of this cleaner diet.
What is GorillaGod.co.za?
This website began as an online journal to keep track of my fitness improvement. Everything regarding my adventure will be documented here. From my varied training and nutrition regimes to my views and beliefs, this will be my primary tracking and journaling platform.