Kenyan Bodybuilders Rising To International Stage: As Kenyan athletes were busy clinching medals and breaking records in the Boston Marathon, our very own, ‘Tyson’ Mike Otieno was on stage to flex it out before an international audience that had gathered in the USA at Illinois State PNBA Natural Mr. Olympia (23/April) 2017 Pro Qualifier bodybuilding competition. He emerged winner of the most muscular award and got his procard beating his competitors from other parts of the world. ‘Tyson’ has now turned ‘pro-bodybuilder’ and is now preparing to flex it out with the world’s best in the MR. OLYMPIA 2017 bodybuilding title to be held in the USA. It’s time for Kenyans to say to the US and the world: ‘Yes We Can!’
Mike has shot to the top of bodybuilding scene since he switched from Martial arts. Our goal in this interview is to get a well rounded picture of Michael ‘Tyson’ Otieno, the man and the body builder. I’d like to go all the way back to the beginning of your bodybuilding days. I heard you mention during the Mr. Modern Fitness Competition where you won the top prize that you had been competing for 15yrs. When did you get interested in becoming a bodybuilder, why and where? (Laughter) I got interested in body building in 1994 back in Homa Bay.
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It was easy to concentrate on bodybuilding especially when I realized that almost all athletes and sportsmen require some form of weight training in one way or another. And so as a one who loved Kickboxing and Tae Kwon Do I got involved in weight training and got hooked. Did you ever train with stones? Stones were my first weights. I also used 5 litre water cans
