Rashid Shabazz

Rashid Shabazz, known professionally as Roc, is an American IFBB Pro Champion, celebrity fitness trainer and business owner, best known for his accomplishments in the bodybuilding industry. He was raised by his mother in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and attended Jackson State University on a baseball scholarship, graduating in 1990 with a Bachelor's degree in Business. At college he first found notoriety by setting what was then a state record with a 318 lb bench press while weighing only 132 lb. In 1991 he moved to Atlanta to train for six years under the eight-time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney, won the Middleweight and Overall titles at the 1999 Eastern Seaboard Bodybuilding Championship, took first place at the 2010 Phoenix Pro in Arizona and placed second at the Orlando Europa Pro that same year.