Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
By Mark Stewart
29 November, 2018
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
By Mark Stewart
29 November, 2018
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
By Mark Stewart
29 November, 2018
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
By Mark Stewart
29 November, 2018
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
Josh Young Melbourne Photo Shoot
By Mark Stewart
29 November, 2018
It is hard enough to lift a 40kg barbell above your head while seated. But it is truly an incredible feat when you have no feeling below your belly button, and sitting upright on your own is a challenge.
When Josh Young returned to his gym this time last year, he couldn’t bend forward in his wheelchair and lift himself back up on his own. If he put his arms out to the side, he would simply fall over.
The 27-year-old had lost 20kg and all his strength in hospital, after a mountain bike accident made him a paraplegic in January 2017.
But after a year of training at CrossFit Diamond Valley — the gym where he met wife Kati — he is climbing up peg walls and smashing out one-arm sprints on the rowing ­machine.
Under the supportive and creative tutoring of trainer and gym owner Nicky McDougall, he has learnt to heave himself up cargo ropes while strapped to his chair.
Mr Young will now compete in a four-day international CrossFit competition in Miami. He is the only Australian adaptive athlete to qualify, after coming eighth in the world in the seated men’s adaptive division of the Wodapalooza Online Challenge and Qualifier. 


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