Wheelchair bodybuilder - Nick Scott in the News
Nick is one cool dude who has one of the best outlooks online you’ll find. Nick won the Rocky Mountain Wheelchair Bodybuilding competition. Check out the video along with the recent story on him:
One man is not going to let his disability stop him, he is an athlete and is trying to bring awareness to his unique sport.
Nick Scott is a wheelchair bodybuilder and when he was in high school, a car accident broke his back and left him paralyzed.
The doctors said he would never walk again.
But through years of rehabilitation he can walk short distances and competes as a wheelchair bodybuilder.
In the last two years, Scott competed and guest posed in 10 shows and recently beat out all able and disabled male bodybuilders at the Rocky Mountain Championship as Best Male Poser.
Scott hopes to soon go professional and is trying to turn his website, www.wheelchair-bodybuilding.com into a non profit organization so he can help fund the dreams of other wheelchair bodybuilders.
“I’m going to convert wheelchair bodybuilding into non profit so I can raise money to help,” Scott said. “A lot of the guys just don’t have the funds to be able to fly, or get hotel rooms to compete, so if I can help them with that, the sport will grow.”
Scott says that life is not about having a glass half empty or half full.
It is just having a glass that is enough to be thankful about.
May 13, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Great blog Isaac!