As someone who grew upon the wrong side of the tracks and got myself in a fair bit of trouble. Bodybuilding saved me from myself, I have benefited greatly from a life of structure and routine. Its also taught me how to set goals and achieve them, how success is determined from identifying your weaknesses as early as possible and working harder on them than your strengths. Obviously I'm not talking about long term high level competitive bodybuilding, which we know is counter productive to life in nearly all cases. But a life of training and routine has helped many people, I owe bodybuilding or training and the gym everything, I'm eternally grateful to the introduction to the gym even now decades after competitive bodybuilding I'm still benefiting from it balancing my life.
