Kiyoshi moody bio and wife

Most champions follow direct courses to the throne; they master slow accumulations of skill to the top.

Kiyoshi is the 6X PNBA Natural Olympia Bodybuilding Champion, having won 6 titles is returning to the stage after retiring for 5 years.

Most competitors encounter setbacks that de-rail their plans and never win anything. A rare breed of competitor can flame-out, but still manage to lift themselves out of their own ashes. Kiyoshi Moody burned up, burned out, but he performed the most important lift in bodybuilding. He picked himself off the ground, over and over again.

After briefly residing in East Point, Georgia, with his father's parents, Moody and his mother made a new home San Diego, California.

A new, active life filled with Little League baseball and basketball consumed much of his childhood. Track and Field and American football eventually became sports ideally-suited to his expanding athletic potential and lean physique. Between his sophomore and senior years, he never once placed outside the top nine at state track meets.

He especially excelled in the meter dash. His physique quickly began to adopt the formidable shape that eventually made him one of the greatest natural bodybuilders. In his second year of community college, Moody qualified to compete in the meter dash at the Olympic trials. At a track meet one week later, a hamstring injury dashed those Olympic dreams.

A series of injuries, which required four knee surgeries, among other procedures, forced him out of track, and then football — which he began playing professionally in with the Iowa Barnstormers. Once again, injury forced him to change direction. Moody became a personal trainer and in he decided to focus solely on his weight-training efforts.