FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS
Zuk Fitness is an online fitness service created by and for wheelchair users.
It offers live and prerecorded workouts led by both paras and quads.
Strength, cardio,
warmup and stretching routines can all be completed from your wheelchair, often
with minimal equipment.
The service was founded by wheelchair user and lifelong athlete Dillon Connolly.
An admitted endorphin junkie, Connolly used to rise before 5 a.m. each day to get in 26 hours per week of intense swimming prior to becoming a quad.
He earned a
swimming scholarship to the University of Southern California, where he became
an NCAA All-American talent.
Connolly studied engineering and later worked as a design engineer at an aerospace company.
Still wanting to push himself as an athlete, he planned to quit his job at 25 to focus on training for the 2016 Olympics.
On the same weekend that
Connolly decided to pursue his Olympic swimming dream, he dove into a wave at
Newport Beach, California, hit a sandbar and injured his spinal cord at C5-6.
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