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“It helped me change my life for the better, gain more confidence”
Tattoo removal is often motivated by self-development. As people change internally, they want their appearance to match who they are within.
Ron Hoover’s life is an excellent example of this point. Ron has spent the better part of the past five years working to change his appearance, one body part at a time. An accomplished bodybuilder, he also poses as a tattoo model for Inked and is training as a wrestler. Using laser removal to fade his old tattoos for cover-ups has played a key role in that process.
Ron Hoover lives in Philadelphia, but he’s always been a Dallas Cowboys fan. Why? He grew up in a family of Eagles fans, and he loves confrontation, he laughs. As a child, he loved sports, WWF action figures, and animals. He took part in football, basketball, and wrestling. He was a healthy, active kid who didn’t even have to think about body image.
As a young adult, his habits started slipping. He ate lots of junk food and gained weight. Seeing a picture his brother had taken of him on a beach gave him a big wake-up call—all that pizza and soda had left him looking flabby and completely out of shape. He decided to get serious about getting fit.
Ron’s efforts paid off more than he ever expected. But as his fitness increased, he became painfully aware of something else: the quality of the tattoos that covered his entire body.
Let’s take a look at Ron’s bodybuilding transformation—and how he then became an avid tattoo collector who finally had the body art he’d always wanted.
Once Ron began looking like his normal self again, he kept going to the gym. He explains, “I just stayed with it because I fell in love with the gym until I got to be this humongous 260-pound 6-foot-5 burly tattooed guy.”
Ron loved how bodybuilding transformed his physique, and he sought advice from accomplished bodybuilders. He doesn’t have one role model per se, but he takes inspiration from Yahi Boy, whose dedication he admires.
Bodybuilders lift weights in order to grow their muscles. Through a process called hypertrophy, lifting causes tiny tears in the muscle, which expands as it heals.
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Ron eats mainly chicken, eggs, and carbs, which is best for building lean muscle. He also eats a lot of fruit on “leg day” and takes superfood supplements. He consumes anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 calories a day. He has a coach just for nutrition, as well as one for workouts and wrestling.
Greg Isha, a world-renowned nutrition coach, checks in with Ron multiple times a day about diet. On Sundays, Ron sends him pictures, and Greg then tweaks his diet for the start of the new week, sometimes adding a different type of snack. Ron’s weight ranges from 255 to 265, but he wants to be at 305 so he can wrestle competitively. He’s at 8.5 or 9% body fat now. “I’m trying to stay there and continue to grow,” he says.
Ron spends two and a half hours in the gym in the morning, then wrestles for three to four hours at night. Ron prefers not to do a lot of cardio. Instead, he focuses on doing supersets to stay lean. He aims to increase in weight with every single set, so he’s trying to max out every time, doing sets of 8 to 12.
His workout varies by day of the week. Here’s the breakdown:
Monday: Chest Tues: Back Wed: Arms Thurs: Shoulders Fri: Legs Sat: Core, arms, cardio Sundays: Rest.
Ron takes Sundays off to recharge and eat whatever he wants. What workout is best for you depends on your goals and current body state. Like Ron, consider what you aim to accomplish. Do you want to run a marathon, enter bodybuilding competitions, or look toned for the beach?
Though Ron was growing more buff and gaining more attention, he stopped doing photo shoots because he didn’t want to show off his old tattoos.
His whole body had been covered by the same person from head to toe. Then, an artist from Greece, Chris Kalodimas, tattooed his forearm, and it blew him away. He thought to himself, “Wow, there are people that exist like this and do artwork like this, and I covered my whole entire body already.” That’s when he ran into Phil.
Removery told him that they could help with laser removal. “My whole journey has been with them,” says Ron. “I had a full-body suit that I took off . . . decades of tattoos.”
He connected with artists whose work he truly loved, undergoing a step-by-step process of laser removal and new tattoo work. “Laser really helped with building confidence and realizing how much more stuff was out there, how many more talented artists were around the world,” he explains.
Instagram helped Ron make connections with the right artists. Before Instagram, he didn’t even know they existed. He learned it was best to give artists a lot of freedom, sharing an idea and asking them to do what they wanted with it, then saying yes or no to the concept.
He started collecting work from some of the best tattoo artists in the world—drastically better work. “I went out of this country, across the country; I went everywhere for tattoos,” Ron says.
Ron es ahora un coleccionista de tatuajes, lo que significa que ha decorado su cuerpo con el arte de algunos de los artistas del tatuaje más consumados del sector. De hecho, su cuerpo está cubierto casi por completo.
Todas sus obras tienen un estilo similar: son negras y grises y muy realistas, hasta el punto de que sorprenden. Hay manos que parecen salir de su cuerpo. Optó por el negro y el gris porque envejecen bien, en lugar de desteñirse notablemente con el tiempo, dice. La única obra en color que tiene es de Joe Metista. Es un retrato increíblemente realista de su perro fallecido. Tuvo que cortar con láser una pieza antigua que él compara con «arañazos de pollo» para que se la hicieran.
Ron también tiene grandes piezas en el cuero cabelludo. «Una vez que empecé con el láser, me lo tomé todo muy en serio y sólo acudí a las personas que se adaptaban a mi estilo», dice.
Ahora se ha tatuado todo el cuerpo, excepto las nalgas, y su arte corporal incluye grandes obras de grandes artistas. Le han tatuado Brian Berg, Luke Pallan, TeeJ Poole, Robby Latos, Josh Russ, Sean Foy, Joe Matisa, Jesse Levitt y Jackie Jennings, así como Chris Naki, George Kalodimas y Segusti Si de Grecia.
¿Qué temas elige? Muchas caras que se transforman en otras cosas. Tiene unas 15 caras de chicas en su cuerpo, junto con algo de geometría sagrada. De hecho, toda su espalda es una gran cara. Su obra de Robby Latos, su artista favorito, ha aparecido en 15 libros.
Ron eliminó por completo la mayoría de los tatuajes que borró con láser, por lo que el artista no tuvo que ocultar nada. Eso era importante para el estilo de sus nuevos tatuajes, ya que su obra tiene mucho espacio negativo. Se parece mucho a un boceto a carboncillo, con sombreado en las zonas más oscuras y zonas más brillantes con poca o ninguna tinta.
«Ni una sola vez me dijo un tatuador que no podía trabajar conmigo porque no tenía suficiente luz», dice.
Se ha hecho tatuajes con láser en las axilas, la caja torácica, toda la espalda y casi todo lo demás. «Merece mucho la pena», dice Ron. También agradece que Recovery tenga una máquina que sopla aire frío para calmarle la piel durante el tratamiento, ya que se aplicó láser en algunas zonas grandes.
«Me ayudó a cambiar mi vida a mejor, a ganar más confianza», dice. Y no podría estar más satisfecho con los resultados.
El proyecto Transformaciones muestra las transformaciones más inspiradoras de Recuperación. El aspecto físico suele acompañar al crecimiento personal interno y al empoderamiento. A lo largo de 2020/2021, hemos visto cómo los clientes se hacían cargo de sus objetivos.
Si quieres mostrar tu historia de empoderamiento o conoces a alguien que lo haga, escríbenos.
Tenemos la misión de brindarle la experiencia de eliminación de tatuajes con láser más sencilla, sencilla y eficiente. Su presupuesto será totalmente personalizado para su tatuaje; el tamaño, elcolours, la tinta. No pasará mucho tiempo y después tendrás un plan para deshacerte finalmente de tu tatuaje no deseado y volver a ser tú mismo.
