Gym Candy Book Report

Gym Candy is a book written by Carl Deuker where it shows the ups and downs of the life of a football player, Mick Johnson. Mick Johnson was born into an athletic family of parents who were student athletes at the University of Washington. His dad, Mike Johnson, who used to play college football at Washington and made the NFL as a third-round pick to the San Diego Chargers out of college, got Mick into the sport of football at a young age. He taught his son all the fundamentals of the sport and got his son to have a love for the sport. Mike told Mick that he stopped playing football due to nagging injuries that eventually kept him sidelined for too long. Mick believes everything that his dad says as his dad is his role model so this was the
Drew also eventually made it to be the starting quarterback after Drager and the starting quarterback were arrested. After Coach Downs announces his departure from the school, he tells Mick that he could become a great running back if he starts to gain muscle and weight, he starts to realize that he needs to gain muscle by weightlifting. This was to gain an advantage over bigger and much tougher defenders like Number 50 in the game that always haunted him. So, Mick starts to go lift weights at Popeye’s gym. Mick tries to go by Coach Downs words and try and gain that strength through the weight room. A personal trainer named Peter meets Mick at the gym and begins to instruct Mick on his work out habits. Peter eventually shows Mick a certain way to gain the muscle he is looking for quickly and easily, steroids. Mick starts to take steroids to help speed up the process of “becoming great.” Mick continues taking the steroids all through tryouts. There on after taking the steroids, he starts to feel the side effects of the drugs like uncontrollable sadness and