(CNN) -- Do not go backstage at Cirque Du Soleil. It will only hurt your self-esteem. 

Anthony Gatto says he's been in training since he was 3 years old and performing since he was 8. 

In the performers' tent for the touring show "Kooza," there are the chiseled men catapulting their partners onto each other's shoulders from a giant see-saw and the woman doing contortions on children's-sized blocks. 

You can only take so much of this before your ego needs normal. 

Normal might be that man in the corner, wearing a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers throwing balls in the air. How hard can that be? 

Your self-worth will be quickly dashed again when the man picks up a soccer ball, bounces it on his head and jumps rope at the same time. Moments later, he's juggling six or seven orange rings (they move so fast, it looks like a blur) and then does a pirouette -- while all the rings are in the air -- and then catches them on his arm. Watch the juggler in action » 

You could say Anthony Gatto went into the family business. But his stepfather wasn't a farmer or a doctor. He was a juggler. 

"By the time I was 8, I was entered into a juggling competition, and incidentally, that was the same competition that Patrick Dempsey, the actor, was in," Gatto said. "He used to be a juggler. We competed against each other. I took first, he took second. Now he's a big actor and here I am, juggling." 
How long has Gatto been training?
Anthony Gatto says he's been in training since he was 3 years old and performing since he was 8. 