Flex Wheeler

Kenneth Wheeler ( called Flex) ( born August 23, 1965 in Fresno, USA) is an American bodybuilder. In addition to sports, he works as a police officer in his hometown of Fresno. Between 1985 and 2003 he won numerous titles until he had to end his career due to a kidney disease. Among other things, he won the 1993, 1997, 1998 and 2000, the Arnold Classic, 1993, 1998 and 1999, he finished second at the Mr. Olympia. In 1994 Flex a serious car accident and ended up almost in a wheelchair. Only one year later he started his comeback and won right away. 1999 Flex met another blow. When he failed kidneys. It was the so-called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis diagnosed.

Despite press speculation about the cause of the renal failure, Wheeler pointed out that the failure was not self-inflicted, but genetically determined by his years of abuse of steroids. Wheeler is one of the few bodybuilders with a defective myostatin gene after a successful kidney transplant in 2004 had to flex, after years of steroid use, without wanting to take steroids for the first time. But these were catabolic steroids, which should reduce its enormous muscle mountains.

Wheeler has to have admitted since the age of 18 used steroids, which has led to serious health problems.

Since the end of his playing career, Wheeler worked as a judge, he is married and has three children.

Wheeler is 1,75 m tall, his competition weight was 110 kg - today it is less than 90 kg.