THE ROAD BACK IS FKIN HARD!
When Russell first started with us,
He was in a pretty bad way
He’d admit it!
He was on constant kidney dialysis,
And mentally, very stuck
I remember thinking to myself,
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝗪𝐎𝐑𝐊!
His intake form was full of one-word answers
And looking back,
I recon it was because he was scared as shit,
That if he didn’t lose this weight,
𝐇𝐞’𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝.
But this is a story,
Of a guy that has inspired our Academy
And is now, his family’s inspiration.
Despite the previous failed attempts,
This time, Russ lost enough weight
So that when a donor kidney came along,
He was healthy enough to take it.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐀𝐅 - 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝
He’s gained a fair bit of weight back – lots of it being fluid
Because he wasn’t able to train, and nutrition was a pickle
But I recon he’d take that option every day of the week.
𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐲𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
His kids are doing it with him,
And his lovely wife Tarah’s in our Women’s Academy.
For me,
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞,
Anyone can turn it around.
To go from STUCK to INSPIRATION
Man… that’s cool!
Proud AF of you Rusty!