The top 3 difficulties faced by leg amputees are:
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Strength and Conditioning for Leg Amputees: Part 2 – Top 3 Difficulties in Strenghtening the Legs
The top 3 difficulties faced in the gym by leg amputees are:
What’s Your Story: Disability Sport
This blog is about how disability sport has impacted on my life. My story starts off a little differently to most other disabled athletes, I was born with a congenital disability called femoral dysplasia of the left leg. I first started out at an Able-bodied swimming club whilst I was living in S.H.A.P.E, Belgium. …
Strength and Conditioning for Leg Amputees: Part 1
This is part 1 of a series of blogs I will be doing on strength and conditioning for leg amputees. In this first blog, I will give a little background on myself, I have a congenital disability called femoral dysplasia of the left leg. Having been born with a disability, I have had to adapt …
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Doping: Frustrations among clean athletes
This is quite a good topic for discussion at this present time with the Rio Olympics and Paralympics coming up in the next few weeks and the Russians making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. As a former elite athlete myself, I think it’s good that they are starting to give out harsher …
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