Hillary O’Pee didn’t always spot the ripped body you see now. As a high school student at Lubiri SS, he was a scrawny 110 pounds—far too small to get noticed by his peers.
“I didn’t really know many people in high school,” he explains.
“I tried out for football and didn’t make it. I tried out for basketball—didn’t make it. I got overlooked.”
Getting cut and being told he was too small took its toll mentally.
“I never had confidence, I was always just trying to find my identity” Hillary says.
But rather than park himself in front of the TV, Hillary headed to the gym with the hope that a few more pounds of muscle would help him turn things around. Unfortunately, he went in without a plan.
“When I first started lifting, it was biceps every single day. Biceps, abs, biceps, abs,” he says. After a few months of trial and error, he stumbled upon a solid program and began making steady gains. It was also during his time in the gym that he finally found a sport he thought he might have a knack for: bodybuilding
I said, “Hey, why do I need to make a team? I can do something I’m good at on my own.A lot of people try to rush their gains and wind up injured. You have to be patient.”
Hillary O’pee started going to the gym religiously, six days a week. “I was eating boiled chicken and whatever I could find that was healthy, while everybody around me was eating all this crap,” he says.
He then opened out his Gym in 2015 in Busega.
“It was closer to home, but the real draw was a fully-stocked weight room. That’s when everything really changed,” he says with a laugh.
That is when his training became an obsession. Today, Hillary has completely immersed himself in bodybuilding.
“I wake up at 4 AM every day. I jot down every single food I eat from then until bedtime,” he explains. “And I have a full six meals a day, which I couldn’t get while studying at Lubiri SS and later Campus,” he adds.
Hillary’s lifting schedule at his Gym is just as rigorous. “I walk just a few meters from home to get to my gym, and I work out for two to four hours, six days a week plus training and helping all my clients from the starters, the professionals and the old people. I combine that with additional cardio every other day, a full load of college courses, and a part-time job at the Ministry of Lands”, he adds.
Hillary’s schedule is jam-packed. But he wouldn’t have it any other way. Five years after he first set foot in a gym, the 22-year-old Hillary is a completely different person, both mentally and physically. He’s packed on 30 pounds of lean muscle, enough to earn him two top finishes in his first three bodybuilding competitions in Kampala, and his confidence is through the roof.
“The more results I saw, the more social I became and the more confident I was,” he says.
“For guys out there that are looking for a source of confidence, there is no better way than the gym especially my Gym.” The best part is he is looking back on those awkward high school days as a blessing, not a curse. “If I had been popular, maybe I wouldn’t have gotten into fitness,” he says. “Everything happens for a reason”, he concludes.
About OPEZ GYM
It is very clean.The also do training for boxing and bouts.
Gym Schedules
Chest Lats (Monday)
Shoulder Legs (Tuesday)
Biceps Triceps (Wednesday)
Chest Lats (Thursday)
Shoulder Legs (Friday)
Biceps Triceps (Saturday)
The Gym is opened from 6.30am to 10.30pm
Fees-Uganda Shillings 3,000 per day or Uganda Shillings 20,000 per week or Uganda Shillings 80,000 per month
Location
The Gym is located at Busega Community.
Phone Contacts: 0759179629/0787914168
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