“After the injury I rebuilt myself from zero, one humbling rep at a time.”

Starting over from a broken body, with weights that once were a warm-up now near your limit, is its own brutal arena. You didn't shrink from it. The obstacle you overcame measures the man more than the strength you had before the injury ever did. The slow, unglamorous rebuild — done in private, against your own diminished self — is a deeper victory than the first ascent. You earned this body twice.