Cody Woolums

Cody Woolums

Amateur

Lancaster, Kentucky - USA

287 lbs / 130 kg
Contest weight
320 lbs / 145 kg
Off season
0'2" / 5 cm
Height
11
Years training

Paraplegic · Spinal Cord Injury · T4

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Born
August 7, 1992
Birthplace
Lexington, Kentucky - USA
Injured
May 7, 2007
Favourite exercise
Wide Grip Pull Ups
Trains most
Back

Biography

25 year old T4 paraplegic who was injured while working construction in 2007 when a slab of brick wall fell on me.

Q&A'S

  • What happened? Why are you in the Wheelchair?

    I was injured while working construction in 2007 when a slab of brick wall fell on me.

  • Why did you get started?

    I started training to lose weight after a break up in 2014 and gaining weight during the months after.

  • What made you want to compete?

    Attending Nick Scott’s wheelchair bodybuilding camp at Shriner’s Hospital for Children in 2008 and seeing how much fun he had with it. Also getting a message from Nick himself telling me that I needed to compete and show all my hard work that I had been putting in at the gym.

  • How did you go about doing it?

    Started to change the way I trained for gaining size and being leaner instead of just training to lose weight.

  • What motivates you?

    Being able to show the world around me that a wheelchair or other circumstances can only stop you if you let it. No one can determine your fate except for yourself.

  • What suggestions or tips do you have for others?

    Don’t listen to the naysayers… do your thing, stay focused, and never stop pushing.


Contest history

• Amateur Contest History

2017 NPC Wheelchair Nationals : 3rd Place

2016 NPC Wheelchair Nationals : 1st Place

2016 NPC Wheelchair Nationals : 3rd Place


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