South African adaptive athlete Letchen du Plessis joins the show to talk about her journey from a scholarship netball player to an adaptive CrossFit champion. After a hip injury led to CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) with dystonia, she spent months chasing answers before a spinal cord stimulator helped quiet the pain signals enough to train again. Letchen explains how exposure therapy looked in real life (including hot-water “retraining”), starting CrossFit training over again, an...
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South African adaptive athlete Letchen du Plessis joins the show to talk about her journey from a scholarship netball player to an adaptive CrossFit champion. After a hip injury led to CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) with dystonia, she spent months chasing answers before a spinal cord stimulator helped quiet the pain signals enough to train again. Letchen explains how exposure therapy looked in real life (including hot-water “retraining”), starting CrossFit training over again, an...
In this bonus episode, Mat Hotho sits down with Kym Dekeyrel, a completely blind CrossFit athlete and the founder of Finding the Light—a fundraising workout that supports Fighting Blindness, an organization advancing treatment and research for vision impairments. Kym shares the emotional origin of Finding the Light, how it grew from a simple idea into a global community movement, and the powerful ways it’s inspiring kids, families, and athletes living with blindness. You’ll also hear about ho...
The Adaptive Athlete Podcast
South African adaptive athlete Letchen du Plessis joins the show to talk about her journey from a scholarship netball player to an adaptive CrossFit champion. After a hip injury led to CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) with dystonia, she spent months chasing answers before a spinal cord stimulator helped quiet the pain signals enough to train again. Letchen explains how exposure therapy looked in real life (including hot-water “retraining”), starting CrossFit training over again, an...
