He eats five to six meals a day but says the efforts paid off when he won in two of his categories during a regional bodybuilding contest this month.
Since then, he has been selected for a team of bodybuilders that will represent Britain at the World Fitness Federation European Championships in Poland this November.
He says the contests are “purely aesthetic” with judgements made on presentation and muscle definition but highlights it “takes a lot of work” to get to a prize-winning condition.
Bodybuilding has become popular among many teenagers, partly due to social media, and he says some youngsters have asked him for advice at the gym.
He says he does not think all the social media exposure of bodybuilding is positive, even though he loves the sport.
“It’s pushed down the throats on social media, you scroll through and you open these images of perfect people – and real life isn’t like that.
“I speak to a lot of young people who want to sign up to me and they’ve got these absolute crazy goals like they want to be this bodybuilder, they want to be giants.
“You have to explain it takes these people a long time. They’ve probably been doing it for years.”