Inspirational Limbless Crossfitter Lindsay Hilton Has No Limit To Her Ability
A lot of people born with limbs have failed to put them to good use while there are others born without any who inspire others. Meet inspirational limbless crossfitter Lindsay Hilton. The 31-year-old CrossFit extraordinaire from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is not one to sulk all day or moan over what would have been if she had limbs. It’s understood that as a child, she learnt how to play rugby, swim and even ski. Yes, you read right! Mind you, Lindsay also goes to the gym where she discovered CrossFit and set her heart on a new sport to test her limits with. Lindsay said:
“I can’t wallow in the fact that I don’t have arms and legs because there’s nothing that I can ever do to change the outcome.
“I like to have a challenge and to be able to overcome that challenge. It’s not weird that I go to the gym, anybody can work out if they want to. If you just try something new you never know what could happen.
“I can remember being a young kid and you get stares or a lot of questions. I’m sure it maybe looked unique to people but for me it was normal and it was the way I always did things.”
Lindsay Hilton now competes in adaptive and non-adaptive divisions of CrossFit and even took part in Miami’s Wodapalooza, which sees athletes from around the world attend the four day event to showcase their fitness.
She also disclosed that while growing up in Nova Scotia, she never thought of herself as different and, after their initial surprise, her parents made sure to challenge her every step of the way.
“My parents found out that I was going to be missing all of my limbs once I was born. So they didn’t really have any opportunity to prepare other than kind of react.
“During my mom’s pregnancy she had the normal ultrasounds but they didn’t detect anything different or suspicious or out of the ordinary. So, it was just kind of once I was born then it was, ‘Oh well, we have a situation and how are we going to react to it?’
“When I was really young I wore prosthetic arms and prosthetic legs. I no longer wear prosthetic arms or legs for every day use, because I started doing stuff without them and I realised that I could do a lot of things faster or easier, so I just got used to it.”
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