The New York Jets signed Terron Beckham to a three-day contract to attend the Jets’ rookie mini-camp on May 7, 2016. Beckham wasn’t drafted and remains a huge underdog with only a slim chance of making the team. Yet, he is one step closer to making his dream of being an NFL football player come true.
Terron Beckham invited to NY Jets rookie training camp
The fact that Beckham has impressive athleticism and mad talents is beyond dispute. His cousin is New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham suggesting that there is likely some genetic potential as well. The problem is that Beckham didn’t play football in college. In fact, he hasn’t played on a football team since high school 5 years ago. However, Beckham’s colorful personality, strong work ethic and amazing all-around athletic skills have given him a chance and garnered a large number of fans who are rooting for him.
What has Beckham been doing for the past 5 years? Beckham has pursued a career as a certified personal trainer and strength and conditioning specialized in New York City. He’s also a social media fitness personality who regularly shares training advice, workout videos and collab videos with other social media fitness personalities such as lifetime natural bodybuilder Matt Kido aka Gokuflex.
Beckham also markets his own online training and workout programs under the “Aftermath Klan” brand. Like many fitness professionals, Beckham has even tried his luck at organized physique competitions. In fact, it is Beckham’s impressive bodybuilder-type physique that has attracted almost as much as his skills during his quest to make it in the National Football League.
Terron Beckham’s Aftermath Klan fitness programs
Beckham never really wanted to compete in “bodybuilding” competitions even though his physique was likely better suited for success in this division. Instead, he chose to compete in “physique” competitions sanctioned by the amateur bodybuilding organization known as the National Phyique Committee or NPC.
Beckham place fourth in his very first physique contest – the 2014 NPC Steve Stone Metropolitan Championships. Two weeks later, he followed up on his debut with a victory in the Men’s Physique Class C at the 2014 NPC New Jersey John Kemper Classic.
Physique champion at 2014 NPC New Jersey John Kemper Classic
“Competition days… #NPC … I did #physique .. And was always told I was to big and to do bodybuilding,” Beckham wrote on Instagram. “Well I’m going to say this again, never wanted to do bodybuilding, never wanted to weight more then 230lbs, I don’t like feeling heavy at all. I like to Perform… I honestly didn’t want to do it anymore. I was feeling my body go through changes I didn’t like, like being tight all the time, not feeling loose, low energy from dieting. It is a tough lifestyle, but it was great environment and glad I had a short experience.”
Unfortunately, the use of anabolic steroids and performance- and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) is rampant in NPC bodybuilding competitions. It’s the big elephant in the room of every NPC-sanctioned event around the country. So, it was inevitable that Beckham would be asked about steroid for no reason other than the fallacy of guilt by association.
Beckham denied using steroids and emphasized the “hard work” and “great genetics” as the basis for his incredible athletic skills and his impressive muscularity. Beckham indicated that the NFL has tested him for steroids and that he has passed them with flying colors.
“It’s tough because I work so hard. I worked that hard all my life. And you can’t just change people’s minds,” Beckham said. “If they feel like, ‘What you look like or what you do, you can’t do that without having whatever substances.’ It’s crazy. All I have to say is that I’m here, and they’ve done their tests or whatever. I’m cool. I’ve never had to do anything, and I’m fine.
“I have great genetics. I work hard. And that’s all I have to say about that.”