Adaptive Sports

My superpower would be the ability to tell when someone is lying or not telling me the full truth.
 
Transcript: "My superpower would have to be the all-knowing truth knowing when someone's lying know. When someone's not telling me the full truth, I would want to know the truth and every situation, but I can turn it on or off."

The first step in getting a paralyzed athlete to the point where they can try swimming is to create an environment of safety and confidence. Communicate with the athlete, telling them what will happen at each stage of entering the water to make it as safe as possible.
 
Transcript: "How do we get paralyzed athletes to a point where they can try swimming like anything else? There's a great fear about being in the water, it's whether you're returning to the water after an injury, and you already have an idea of how water works or your first time in, it's very difficult. The first, most important thing we try and do is when you're working with a person is that they feel safe, and they have confidence in you and your ability. If you don't have those To your chances of moving forward or very limited. So those are the first two, most important things getting someone back that, like if you're going to say, you're going to hold on to them, then you hold on to them the whole time. The second thing is, is tell them exactly what you're going to do. At every phase of entering the water. What's going to happen once you get in the water? How you going to work with them during that time and make it at the safest environment possible?"

Hill workouts can help improve speed and power by helping with the start of a race (power) and the end of a race (speed).
 
Transcript: "He'll workouts help so much when you're trying to improve your speed. Overall Hill workouts were help with your power but there's two different types of ways to do. He'll work out, you can go up to him or you can do Max velocity downhill, both of which helps with your speed downhill helps with like the last end of your race when you're trying to get the fastest and controlling that that top end speed. And then, of course, going uphill helps you with your power. And think about like the start of your race, will you use the most power to get into your top end? So Hills are great with, increasing your speed, and increasing your power?"

My favorite metal is my Paralympic gold medal because it was a great comeback story and the silver medal was an amazing surprise.
 
Transcript: "My favorite metal has to be my paralympic gold medal hands down. It was, I mean, it's just a great comeback story. I was this world-class athlete sidelined by cancer. Didn't think I was gonna ever be able to do anything again. I got back on a bike and I spent the next four years after getting back on the bike and just gunning for that gold medal and to then actually achieve that goal happen was amazing. The, the silver medal was a close second. Because it was the first one. And I honestly did not think I was going to get a medal in the vent because the girls were so much stronger and so to make that gold medal round and then get the silver was amazing. So the gold medal first and then the silver medal,"

The most beautiful part of my sport, track and field, is the electric energy that comes with every event, from the 100 meter dash to the 4x4 relay. Everyone cheers on their favorites and it's an amazing feeling.
 
Transcript: "I would say the most beautiful part about my sport is probably the energy that track and field brings to every event that we have a competition like from all the way down to the 100 meter meter dash all the way to the 4x4. It's just complete electric energy and it's amazing. And this little one is going to Be one in the ones you cheer for it and they're right back."

Experience combined with training and racing will help you balance taking risks with being realistic about potential outcomes.
 
Transcript: "How do you balance taking risks with being realistic about potential outcomes? That's a really cool question. Experience goes a long way. You need to know what you're capable of doing and what kind of risk is realistic, really by having been there before and done something that you can compare it to. If I'm going to blast up this 10% grade hill that only goes for 150 meters, can I stay at a saddle and grind it over that hill or am I going to blow? Well you don't know that until you've done it a few times. Training and racing, of course, together will help you know what that benchmark is, what that risk is versus the reward. Training, racing, experience, that's how you know."