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Thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio. We are proud to bring you episode 110 with our special guest, Travis Paulin.

Travis is an athlete, a coach, and an author whose background, as he'll explain, is steeped in strength and conditioning.

Travis discusses how, despite being born a congenital amputee, he never places barriers on himself or other athletes.

This combination of perseverance and competitiveness led him to become a record-holding Paralympic swimmer.

Travis collaborated with me to help build a two-part article in which we discussed the nuances of coaching athletes with physical impairments.

Because he is a practicing crossfitter and regular competitor,

he is even more familiar with the challenges of taking full body movements

and altering them so that they are accessible to every adaptive athlete.

I even breached the controversy of performing these movements to a standard

that could become

mechanically unsound, particularly for an athlete who is even more prone to things like compensation

injuries. Travis intelligently walks us through how bridging the gap between rehabilitation

and strength training is a matter of working within the range of motion or movement pattern that

makes sense for that athlete. Sometimes that means taking a step back and putting other options

on the table, such as machines. With training goals that are no different from an able-bodied athlete,

Travis explains how getting stronger develops not only a physical edge but a mental fortitude.

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