About Scooby Werkstatt (YouTube: Scooby1961)

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I got a late start in fitness, I was one of those awkward, lanky, clumsy kids who always got picked last when choosing teams in PE class – not athletic in the slightest. I really didn't do anything fitness wise till I was 21 and started lifting weights. After starting to lift weights, a wonderful thing happened. My confidence and self-esteem skyrocketed and I wasn't painfully shy any more. With my newfound strength and confidence I discovered that I actually liked sports! Although I completely lack natural athletic ability, I found that I could get better with practice. I picked up skating, hiking, volleyball, cycling, windsurfing, running and swimming. I'm 53 years old now and have been lifting weights an hour a day, five-six days a week, 52 weeks a year, for the last 30 years. I take at most one week off from weights a year, but usually only skip a day or two. I reached my genetic potential at about age 40 and my strength, weight and bodyfat has remained essentially constant since then. Although I workout even harder and smarter now than I did at age 30, because of my age the hard work just prevents a backslide. Since gaining mass is no longer a possibility, the last five years I have focused my fitness goals on endurance events and sports. I have been doing long distance cycling races and triathlons and in 2012 achieved my fitness goals of doing a double century (200 mile bike race) and Half Ironman triathlon. In 2015 my goals are to bike across Burma and do my first men's physique contest. Please read about my goals!

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I started the scoobysworkshop website back in 2004 because I got fed up with how fitness and bodybuilding had become nothing more than another big business run by money hungry corporations. I was looking for some fitness info on the web and I was disgusted that the only thing that came up were slimy ones all trying to push expensive books, newsletters, and supplements. The only good unbiased website I found was a Christian based one but it hadn't been updated in several years and wasn't very complete. Bodybuilding has done a lot for me and I wanted to give back to the community and help those without money to build healthy, awesome physiques. In this era of high-tech fancy machines and expensive neon lined gyms, people have forgotten that bodybuilding started out with very simple equipment – namely just cheap dumbbells and barbells. I wanted to show the people with no money how to build the same ripped, muscular physiques as the ones who can afford supplements and expensive gym memberships.

Who IS Scooby Werkstatt?

What makes me tick? What defines who I am? I think the best way to do this is to tell you about the six things that are important to me.

My passion for fitness and sports. Bodybuilding has changed my life and I want to pass this on to everyone who will listen. I feel strongly that a great physique should be available to all regardless of economic ability which is why I spend 20hrs per week after work and on weekends making my free videos and working on my free website. Fitness is my passion. Not only do I work to pass on my love of fitness but I still actively participate myself. Triathlon is my competitive sport and beach volleyball is my recreational sport. If I had to choose one thing that defined me, my love of fitness would be it. My love of engineering and building things. If I had to choose the second most important thing that defines me it would be my love of building things. As a kid I was always out in the garage building go-karts or tinkering in the garage. My degree is in engineering and I continue to love it to this day. I have build a houses, airplane, furniture, and a computer from scratch. I truly love building things. My spirituality. As many have commented, I am religious although I don't like that label. Although the rest of our family are strict Dutch Reformed, I was raised a good Protestant and although the values I learned have stuck with me, I don't consider myself a Protestant. My beliefs don't seem to fall in line with any organized religion but that doesn't make me any less spiritual. When people ask what my religion is I tell them they will have to guess by my actions because I'm not quite sure myself 🙂 I consider taking care of friends, family and complete strangers part of spirituality. My love of airplanes. At age 7 I started building rubber powered model airplanes and I never stopped. My entire life I have been flying model airplanes and they got more complex with time. My high school had an aviation program so I jumped at the chance to learn to fly. Thru some amazing deal I got