Stuff to watch when in need of inspiration

[prenna]

[Lordmuppet]

When I am sick or injured my biggest problem is sadness and lack of drive. Others have also talked about experiencing similiar things so I thought it might be nice to have a thread of inspirational articles/videos specifically for injured/sick people

The idea here is not to just have a bunch of videos/articles about people doing amazing things but more specifically about people overcoming physical adversity and then continuing to make progress in their sport. If they are veg*n then even better!

I'll kick things off with Roy Taylor who overcame his wife's cancer (he temporarily left powerlifting to take care of her) and then his own cancer to post a World Record deadlift. Regardless of what you think of the unnecessary proliferation of powerlifting federations, that's still pretty darn impressive

http://www.leadertelegram.com/features/lifestyles/article_9a1c7a7b-db18-5ce4-8c7c-791c968121d3.html for the article

http://www.ocregister.com/video/v/67384172001/huntington-beach-morning for video

[beforewisdom]

Rent a copy of "The Worlds Fastest Indian"....based on a true story

[Lordmuppet]

Rent a copy of "The Worlds Fastest Indian"....based on a true story

seconded. Great movie!

[Konstantin]

[ninearms]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W22lb9XT8p4&[/youtube]

Can't work out why I can't embed.

Superfluous & sign at the end.

[Konstantin]

Thanks Ninearms. Must be about the only thing I didn't try.

[knackers]

[Lordmuppet]

Fred Ettish is certainly inspirational!

http://rosstraining.com/blog/2012/01/25/history-of-mma-fred-ettish/

[baldy]

[Lordmuppet]

just watched this like five times!

[knackers]

[Lordmuppet]

don't know how i missed this before. Unless there are any objections I'm going to merge the thread with this one http://www.veganfitness.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=23527

or maybe i should retitle the other thread so it is more clearly about overcoming injury/other adversity

hmmm

edited to say: so i've watched a few here and i figure i'll just merge as most here are about overcoming adversity. Also would like to move the merged product to the injury forum unless anyone objects.

now merged

[knackers]

[Lordmuppet]