For Andrew Ao, wellness isn’t just a lifestyle. It was a literal life saver. Article content

The Vancouverite recalls heading down a dark path when he was growing up.

“I used to be an ex-gang member and an ex-drug dealer,” Ao says. “And in that lifestyle, you only have one of two choices: Either you end up dead, or you’re in jail for the rest of your life.”

Finding himself at a dangerous crossroads, Ao decided it was time to clean up his act.

“I realized that I needed to change my life,” he recalls. And that’s how he discovered fitness.

“When I encountered health and fitness, it began to transform who I was. And I began to become somebody I never thought I could ever be,” says Ao, who also competes as a bodybuilder. “From the desire to continue to grow and develop, it really led me d

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