Phil Heath (full name Phillip Jerrod Heath) was born in 1979 in Seattle. You should already know the fact that his nickname is “The Gift” but what you might not know is the fact that his first experience with sports was not bodybuilding. He was a basketball player and was included in the University of Denver’s team. He eventually made the switch to professional bodybuilding in 2002. Phil Heath quickly gained a lot of popularity and this culminated with him winning in 2005 the NPC USA Championship. This is exactly where he got the right to compete in the professional competitions. Phil Heath quickly started to climb the ladder in bodybuilding.
The first pro events were won in 2006 and then he even started gaining more success. In 2007 we saw him being placed in the 7th place at the Arnold Classic. That was when controversy appeared. According to a lot of people he was supposed to be 3rd but you can not contest the judges. In any case, this basically earned him the qualification to the grandest stage in bodybuilding. Unfortunately Phil Heath decided not to compete in the 2007 Mr. Olympia. He claimed he did need more time in order to look better. Everyone that followed bodybuilding in the past years realized that this was a very good decision. In 2008 he won the Iron Man competition and at Arnold Classic he was second after Dexter Jackson. In the same year we saw the debut of Phil Heath in Mr. Olympia and it was truly impressive. At his first appearance he won the 3rd place. This was an accomplishment that was only reality with Flex Wheeler in 1993.
It is needless to say that Phil Heath‘s success story was featured in a lot of bodybuilding magazines. He appeared in a lot of them and even on the cover of Flex, which is an accomplishment in itself. If you want to see the complete accomplishments in professional bodybuilding of Phil Heath you should visit his website HERE.
Phil Heath Videos:
Here is Phil Heath posing at IronMan 2008:
Now a video of Phil Heath Training and a short interview:
