Nicolas Cole spent years as a competitive bodybuilder until a neck injury sidelined him. He argues the discipline wasn't wasted: eating the same bland meals, lifting daily, and avoiding shortcuts built habits that later powered his career as a writer. The repetition itself was the point.
I used to be shredded. I still lift but not like I used to. I actually herniated a disc in my neck and haven't been the same since. But I don't think of my bodybuilding years as wasted time. Actually bodybuilding is what helped me become one of the most read writers on the entire Internet. It taught me the importance of falling in love with monotony. I used to eat bland chicken rice and broccoli five times a day seven days a week for six years straight. But it taught me really big gains are the result of tiny daily habits repeated over and over and over again. And it taught me shortcuts are almost always long roads in disguise and if you fail to prepare, you prepare yourself to fail. Most of all, bodybuilding taught me that the journey is the real reward and the more that you grow the more you wake up to your own potential. My daily lifting habit has now turned into a daily writing habit and writing online has changed my life.
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