Travis Ortmayer is an American professional strongman who was recently hospitalized due to drugs. Let's find out what happened to him and his life.
Travis Ortmayer was born to his parents on August 9, 1981.
When Travis was just 11 years old, he was into bodybuilding but eventually, he moved on to powerlifting and then has been successful in his field. The powerlifter has various World records in the Atlas Stone event. So he is also known as Texas Stoneman.
He also gives training on powerlifting at his training center 'The Unit' along with his father in Cypress, Texas. His father Roger Ortmayer, mother Sonja Ortmayer, and sister Tara Ortmayer were very supportive of him.
At the age of 20, he found out about the Strongman competitions and started competing in them.
Ortmayer had traveled around the world and has broken many records and has over 25 world records. But few of the choices he made had taken him down in his life.
The powerlifter career was at its peak in 2008, 2009, and 2010 when he was placed fifth in World’s Strongest Man Contest- despite battling a broken ankle at the 2009 event.
View this post on InstagramWhat Happened To Travis Ortmayer? Addiction To Drugs Story
AS a Strongman, he had pains and injuries all over his body and had started taking medications which then led him to drug addiction.
He then started taking painkillers from the recommendation of his friend's father who was a nurse practitioner. Ortmayer took a drug called Hydrocodone about 15 milligrams to ease his pain.
The drug started to make him feel good and then quickly became addicted to it.
Furthermore, Travis was also addicted to crystal methamphetamine and cocaine that he would inject.
He was into this addiction for four years. As a result, he was homeless and his entire family gave up on him. His wife and son had also left him because of the same reason. Due to his addiction, he had lost his muscular mass too.
He battled this phase and quit drugs. In 2016 Ortmayer started training himself again and was invited to World's Strongman in the same year.
View this post on InstagramTravis Ortmayer Now: How Is He?
Travis nowadays is as strong as he used to be in the past. He had a shoulder injury and is currently recovering.
View this post on InstagramDue to Covid Pandemic, he had also lost 75% of the online clients he coached.
The weightlifter is currently doing what he loves and is living a healthy life.
He says his greatest wish is to be reunited with his son and has journaled his everyday life and hopes that someday his son will know that his father had not abandoned him.
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