Hello again;
This week, I’m blessed to welcome James Roberts
to the The What’s Your Excuse Show.
James is a former world champion paralympic athlete, online training and nutrition coach, and owner of James Roberts Fitness.
He also hosts The Mind Set Game Podcast.
We talked about how he managed to overcome physical challenges to become a paralympian.
He explains how it always came down to being willing to try something new.
I was impressed with how openly he shared about having to deal with a recent health setback that caused problems with anxiety.
And I’m jealous of Brittain’s health care system that provided him a wholistic team approach to treating his whole body.
He shared about how sports teaches you to solve problems by breaking them up into smaller manageable segments.
I had never understood that before.
Well, I don’t want to ruin it by telling you too much.
I’m sure that after you listen to our conversation you are going to be saying if James can do it then what’s my excuse.
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Now, on to the show.
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About James
I was born with a congenital disability called femoral dysplasia and a floating hip of the left leg as well as scoliosis of the spine.
I grew up on a NATO base in theS.H.A.P.E (Casteau), Belgium but now reside back in Prestatyn, North Wales.
I’m an online training and nutrition coach by trade, but I was an elite Paralympic athlete for just over a decade.
I’ve been lucky enough over those years to have represented Great Britain at countless World Championships and 2 Paralympics Games (Beijing 2008 and London 2012) to just name a few.
I started out my sporting career in swimming and was part of British Swimming’s Potential Squad from 2003-05. During that time, I held the SB8 200m breaststroke and 50m breaststroke national records.
After being dropped from the GB swimming programme, I moved on to rowing in 2006. The transition happened fairly quickly as I made my first senior international competition that summer at the 2006 World Championships in Dorney Lake, Great Britain and made the final finishing 6th. 2007 World Championships Semi-Finalist, 2008 Paralympic Finalist (5th) and 2009 World Championships Finalist (5th).
I made another transition of sport, this time to sitting volleyball. From 2010 until 2012, I amassed 56 caps for Great Britain. My first international was a surprise selection to compete at the 2010 World Championships in Edmund, Oklahoma, USA. I was lucky enough that my time with the squad, to have competed for Great Britain at my only European Championships in my repertoire as well as a Continental and Intercontinental Cup. My career calumniated at the London 2012 Paralympics where the GB sitting volleyball squad lost in the quarter-final to eventual silver medallist Iran.
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