Luis Santos on Fstoppers

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I was born in 1968, in Madeira. Then i live in Lisbon, where I stayed for 23 years and graduated in Civil Engineering, branch of Hydraulics, at IST. In 1996, for professional reasons, I headed for the Algarve, where I still live.

For a long 15 years I thought it made sense to smoke a couple of packs of tobacco a day and have a perfectly sedentary lifestyle. On January 3, 2006, the year my first daughter was born and the day I was operated on the gallbladder, I thought it was the perfect day to quit smoking. And so it has been, until today.

We quit smoking, and those 8kg of extra practice will add to the extra pounds of sedentary life. One day I realized that a BMI of 30 was not a healthy thing. Especially when I saw a picture of me. There it is, photography making a difference. This view was the motivation that was lacking to change lifestyle. I started to exercise and created the blog “Ma Ke Jeto, Mosso on Sports” to report my sports achievements.

On the day that I did my first chest race, I was very disappointed because I didn't have a single photographic record to remember later. And from that day on, whenever I wasn't going to compete, I was going to photograph the efforts of others. After all, who doesn't like a photo?

At the beginning of 2020 I discovered that the hip was needing to go to the workshop, something that ended the race and the Triathlon, which I liked to do so much. There was also a woman named Covid who threw me home i