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, and the progression toward a single box jump. 

We talk about her mindset and work ethic which all leads into why she signed up for the hilly, windy Ironman 70.3 in Mossel Bay on Sunday, November 16.

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