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Inspiring Story - Helps Put Those Niggling Injuries in PerspectiveJanuary 31st, 2012
THE FASTEST MAN ON 'NO LEGS" - INSPIRING DEDICATION
Pistorius preparing to train at the University of Pretoria, in South Africa.
Oscar Pistorius trains inside a converted garage at the home of his personal trainer, a former professional rugby player. Iron pull-up bars and a variety of ropes and pulleys are bolted to brick walls. Free weights are lined up on the floor, along with hammered-together wooden boxes that serve as platforms for step-ups and standing jumps. Some of the equipment is clamped to an exterior wall of the garage, opposite an uncovered patio; when it rains, athletes just carry on and get soaked. “It’s old-school,” Pistorius said as we drove up to the place early one morning. “Some of the guys who train here, they bang it so hard, they often get sick in the garden. Nobody judges them.”
To read more go to
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/oscar-pistorius.html?_r=1&ref=running
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