However, his unhealthy eating habits eventually caught up with him he became a frequent visitor to hospitals and clinics, having developed hypertension. It wasn’t long before he built a significant reputation around his name, becoming respected for his early powerlifting achievements. In fact, he grew stronger and bigger, lifting heavier weights. Fletcher ate what he wanted, and when he wanted.Īt first, he didn’t suffer any consequences to his bad diet. However, almost all of those calories came from extremely unhealthy, processed foods including fast food burgers and artificial sugars. Soon after, Fletcher returned back to competitive powerlifting.Īs he was climbing the ladder in the world of competitive powerlifting, Fletcher had to consume more and more calories, in order to lift bigger weights. Since then, they’ve had seven children, and one grandchild. Five years later, he met a woman who worked in the same Post Office, and later, they married. In the early 1990’s, Fletcher divorced his first wife. Even as a beginner powerlifter with little experience, he demolished many of his fierce competitors. He began participating in powerlifting contests, quickly realizing his enormous potential in the sport. This is where his transition from bodybuilding to powerlifting took place. Having seen his strength increase month by month, Fletcher became obsessed with chasing the ‘next big number’. He said “ Outside of my family, weightlifting was my life.”Īs his physique developed, he began participating in different bodybuilding shows, placing top 3 in almost all of them. It was during this time he became ‘enthralled’ with bodybuilding working out seven days per week. In fact, he transitioned to powerlifting after years of competing in bodybuilding shows.įletcher first turned to the weight room in the early 1980’s. However, he wasn’t involved in the sport from the beginning of his weightlifting journey. Fletcher said “ My high school sweetheart and I were married soon thereafter and very soon after that we were blessed with children of our own.” BodybuildingĬT Fletcher is known as an exceptionally accomplished powerlifter. It was during this time he married his first wife, whom he knew since high-school. Upon his return home from the Army, Fletcher started working at the U.S. Having idolized the likes of Bruce Lee and Mohammed Ali, Fletcher earned his second-degree black belt in Karate in 1979. While he was stationed in Germany, Fletcher took a keen interest in martial arts, particularly Karate. After he joined the Army, Fletcher moved to Germany, where he was stationed. This terror lasted six years, until Flecher’s 18th birthday it was then he finally ‘broke the chains that bound’ him, and joined the United States Army. Unfortunately, Fletcher had to quit his job several weeks later, as his father demanded of him to be at the church. Even though he was still too young to work, he loved the job because it was his escape from the reality, and his father’s abuse. When he was 12 years old, Fletcher started working at a local gas station. The extreme discipline and the severe physical abuse was our way of life it was all I knew.” – CT Fletcher Military Strict is too subtle a word to describe the discipline required in our upbringing. My mother, my big brother Walt, and I were the choir. High, we moved to Lakewood, CA and my father purchased his own church. He said “ My father started preaching in a 4-car garage when I was in grade school. To make matters worse, Fletcher and his older brother had to endure a severe physical abuse as children. Needless to say, it was an extremely rough environment to grow up in. When Fletcher was only one year old, he and his family moved to Watts, and later, to Compton, where he grew up. His father was a field worker, and his mother was a teenage housewife both of them had to work extremely hard just to put food on the table. Powerlifter, Bodybuilder, Personal Trainer, Figure Competitorīorn in 1959, in Pine Bluff Arkansas, CT Fletcher had a tough life growing up.
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