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^- So I'm Nicholas A.C. Miller from San Diego, California.

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^I'm a first class petty officer,

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^with a master in C-PHAT security.

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I wanna try new things to challenge myself,

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and physical fitness and bodybuilding is the best way

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in my opinion to show yourself that.

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Exercise challenges me, and then at the same time, it's one

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of the most common places for me, today I'm gonna go lift a

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bunch of heavy stuff and put it back down,

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cause that's always just been my happy place.

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But fitness has help me overcome a lot of different

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challenges that I faced in my life.

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Most recently is I had a hiccup with alcohol,

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which left me with kind of a mandatory sobriety,

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one that I had to do for myself,

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and one that was also ordered to do.

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I always use to use alcohol as a form to

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try and make other people laugh and a form to fit in.

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It evolved into something I used to escape from any

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problems I may be having in my life.

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And for me, when it was like, "Hey I'm gonna stop drinking,

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" I made this decision," that first weekend or so,

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instead of me wanting to just aw man I need a drink,

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I need to go out, I need this to have fun, or I need this

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to calm down, I need this to get away from my problems.

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Instead I just went and I set up a new workout, something

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I'd never done before, something I never thought I could do

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before and set little small attainable goals.

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And I recently signed up and...

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Completed a bodybuilding competition.

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(announcers talking)

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I don't like failing in things and I really wanna prove

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to myself that I can commit to something, because

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commitment is something that I do have a big problem with.

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So I placed 2nd out of 5 people,

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for my first competition ever.

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I think I did amazing, knowing I finally committed to

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something and stuck through it the whole time.

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It broke a barrier for me, It let me know that I could, so

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through sobriety I think I've finally learned my purpose,

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and there's a a lot people always running around

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trying to find their purpose, or just

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going day to day without a purpose.

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I think I found mine and I know it's helping other people,

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but through health, fitness, and wellness in general,

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and sobriety really helped me realize that.

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Well for me, I look in the mirror, I'm a bigger, better

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version of myself, but it felts great knowing that I could

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get through, any commitment cause this is probably

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the hardest commitment I've ever made.

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I know I'm not a big fan of excuses, there's a lot of people

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that have excuses out there, and there's ways around all

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these problems, and you can be the best you,

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nutrition wise and, fitness wise, you just have to keep

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trying, and you gotta get out of our own head and I've

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taken that along with this journey against alcohol as well.

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You can be the best you, your the

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only person standing in your way.

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