Introduction to Adaptive Athlete & EMOM

hey this is christy idaho painter here on paint live tv today i got a special guest right here at barry barbell and i got jedediah's nelson with me and it's nelson with an s on the front snelson get it right jedediah snelson and he's going to be running luke and i through a workout he's going to be doing a workout so we're going to learn a little bit about who jedediah is and what he's going to be doing with us today right here in our own gym so i've been fortunate i i've been involved since the inception of the very first game adaptive games or our world championships back in 2016. my so i've been a six-time six times games athlete i've been to uh in that i've i've finished no no lower than second place uh second fittest in the world i'm currently the reigning fittest um seated without hip function um for 2021 so that's absolutely amazing pretty impressive so i mean is there i mean seems like you're the best is there anywhere else you can go well um you know it's one of those things you know when you when you reach the top you've always got a target on your back and you never know who's uh who's going to take it so you just kind of keep fighting for it yeah you've been an amazing ambassador for this sport on crossfit just in general and adaptive athletes which is absolutely amazing so could you like share a little bit you know you did have an accident you got paralyzed in that accident how have you managed to stay so positive and work through this and do what you've done uh well short answer um for me my faith god always has a plan and i believe he has a plan for me in a wheelchair and i believe that plan has been encompassing adaptive crossfit and helping others and so yeah that was just my vision i think the other important thing was i know myself and i think the most important thing from when i had this accident was i'm a very competitive driven person and so if i didn't have something to channel that competitiveness like if i motocross was taken away from me and i didn't find something new the world was going to be pretty bleak and ugly but i was blessed enough that i found adaptive crossfit i have that to be able to channel that competitive drive and uh yeah so it's it's it's been a blessing very cool thanks for sharing that now you're going to be putting luke and i through an imam so we're going to be doing that and um we're going to be watching you work out doing grace so that's going to be pretty cool and so um an imam for anybody that doesn't…