The Real Bodybuilder Podcast traveled to Columbus, Ohio to chat with Sam, who goes to school two hours away at Miami University in Oxford. He only has one year left and will leave with a degree in mechanical engineering mostly because Sam was good at math and science. Clearly, Sam's passion lives in bodybuilding and not engineering which is kind of similar. Sam is engineering his body, in a way.

His parents, who are not bodybuilders, are pretty supportive of Sam's new weight lifting life. Who could have predicted he would be where he is now since his parents's basement consisted of a set of dumbbells along with a single barbell. Now, he essentially has a full gym, but rarely trains at home.

Sam has yet to leave Ohio where he also attended high school at Delaware Hayes High School in Delaware, Ohio. It was there he began focusing on diving after leaving gymnastics. "Last summer, I started practicing at Ohio State and started to really focus on diving. I'm excited to make it to state and I'm looking forward to next year already. I've seen a lot of improvement," he told The Columbus Dispatch in February 2019.

He competed at Miami University his first year there but quit to really focus on his weight training. "By then, I'm already about three years into the lifting," he told the Real Bodybuilding Podcast. If this is where he is after only a few years of serious lifting, imagine where Sam could be in three more. Hopefully, he'll be competing.