Today’s NPC Athlete Spotlight is Nicholas Dennard NPC Competitor
My name is Nicholas Dennard and I believe in fitness! I’m 25 years old, a Marine Veteran of the Iraq war, a business student, and NPC athlete aiming to capture my pro card. I’ve been active since I was a child and grew up mainly in Hawaii and Okinawa, Japan since my Dad was a Marine. I was always the skinniest kid in school and even wrestled at 115 lbs. during my senior year in high school. I started looking at magazines and going to the gym at 16 and even had black and white magazine cut-outs of Arnold in my locker.
In 2005, I enlisted in the Marine Corps as an infantryman and learned how sheer willpower and mind-over-matter determination can push my body beyond what I thought was its limits. During my downtime in Iraq, I started lifting weights more often and started seeing some changes in my body… and so my love for weight training grew. I wasn’t the skinniest guy around anymore and that was a good feeling. I loved to see that through focus and commitment, I could do something amazing all by myself; The progress was mine and no one else’s. I began looking at weight training and bodybuilding as an art – the time spent training is the mallet, a proper diet is the chisel and the body is the stone. A chip a day might not be noticeable, but after time, you start to see something beautiful.
I started taking my training serious once I got out of the Marines, learned about my insane Resting Metabolic Rate, and since then, my progress has been stellar. I found a great coach – Shelby McDaniel – and 3 weeks into my new training I won Overall for Men’s Physique at my first show, the NPC Schakbuilt Blue Ridge Mountain Classic. After hearing great feedback from the judges, the audience and my coach, I decided to compete at the NPC National Bodybuilding Championships this November in Ft. Lauderdale! I hope to compete on a professional level soon and to ride this wave as far as it can go! Thanks and Semper Fi!
“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection”.
-Plato
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