I Stepped On an IED and My World Changed. The Story of Mark Ormrod

The Not So Fit Couple Podcast

Ben Haldon & Lucy Davis

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Mark Ormrod is a Royal Marines Veteran, Triple Amputee, Entrepreneur and BJJ Purple Belt. In 2007 he was seriously wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. He was narrowly saved by a team of doctors, and has since become the worlds first triple amputee from the afghanistan war to survive. Today he he joins the podcast to share his jaw dropping story of life and death, talks about his perspective change since his ordeal, how he manages day to day, advice for others, and discusses how some lovely human being decided to steal his prosthetic legs recently. This one is a rollercoaster. Find more of Mark here: https://www.instagram.com/markormrod/?hl=en-gb If you have any other questions for the next episode drop them in here: ngl.link/thenotsofitcouple1 Join MyCoach: Code: NotSoFit for a special discount for podcast listeners! https://mycoach-school.com/join Follow us - https://www.instagram.com/mycoachapp_/ More Lucy Davis: Follow - https://www.instagram.com/LucyDavis_Fit Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPbyT8IyohY6V8ZVfI9uHug More Ben Haldon: Follow - https://www.instagram.com/MyCoachBenji Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpGRgA3rr1-FY9qLRgkXX3A Shop our products - https://shop.mycoachschool.com/collections/products/

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0:30.4	I deployed to Iraq in 2003 and then to Afghanistan in 2007. Second in command of a group of eight men out on a routine foot patrol.
0:43.3	And on the way back into our camp, I stood on and detonated an improvised explosive device,
0:50.3	which instantly tore off both my legs above the knee
0:54.5	and my right arm above the elbow.
0:57.0	And trying to figure out what I was looking at.
0:59.0	I think my brain couldn't process it.
1:01.0	My hand was actually in pretty good order,
1:04.0	and for some reason I picked it up,
1:06.0	kind of held it in front of my face,
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