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Defining Moment for Olympic Hopeful John Register: Amputate or Not? Pro Mindset® Podcast
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Olympic hopeful and track star, John Register joins Pro Mindset® host Craig Domann as he shares his story beginning in high school athletics, running track at the Univ of Arkansas and his journey chasing his vision of competing in the hurdles in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. After college, John joined the US Army’s world-class Olympic program that allowed athletes to train up to three years before the Olympic Games, so that he could get compensated to train as a member of the US Army.
The Gulf War interrupted his training plan as he was deployed overseas. When he returned to the US, he was too out-of-shape to compete in the 110-meter hurdles, so he experimented with the 400-meter hurdles. His time for his first race was only two seconds off the world’s best. At this moment he caught the vision of competing in the 1996 Olympics and standing on the medal podium in Atlanta.
On a very windy day in Hays, Kansas, he was competing in a track meet leading up to the Olympic Trials and during his race he was injured attempting to clear the 3rd hurdle. This injury was not only a career-ender but also lead to the defining moment in his life. The doctors assessed his condition and gave John a simple but unimaginable choice, and the most difficult decision in his life to that moment. The doctor’s options were (a) amputate his leg and he would have to use a prosthesis for the rest of his life or (b) keep his leg and he would be relegated to a wheelchair or walker the rest of his life. This was a “rest of his life” decision.
John also discusses the following topics:
•How your vision for your life is yours and don’t expect others to catch it
•How it’s impossible to measure elite athletes from different eras and therefore it is unfair and unrealistic to compare Usain Bolt and Jesse Owens, or Michael Jordan and Lebron James
•How he wants to have control of his life and not have other people’s decisions control his life
•His experience competing for the University of Arkansas powerhouse track team in their heyday
•What does “new normal” mean?
Now that you are thinking about John and his decision, take a minute to look at your life and what is holding you back, what is dead weight in your life, and/or who or what relationship is keeping you from growing, elevating, graduating into your best self?
John’s decision and the impact of his decision on his life and other people’s lives will be discussed in the next episode of Pro Mindset.
Send us a Text Message.
Olympic hopeful and track star, John Register joins Pro Mindset® host Craig Domann as he shares his story beginning in high school athletics, running track at the Univ of Arkansas and his journey chasing his vision of competing in the hurdles in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. After college, John joined the US Army’s world-class Olympic program that allowed athletes to train up to three years before the Olympic Games, so that he could get compensated to train as a member of the US Army.
The Gulf War interrupted his training plan as he was deployed overseas. When he returned to the US, he was too out-of-shape to compete in the 110-meter hurdles, so he experimented with the 400-meter hurdles. His time for his first race was only two seconds off the world’s best. At this moment he caught the vision of competing in the 1996 Olympics and standing on the medal podium in Atlanta.
On a very windy day in Hays, Kansas, he was competing in a track meet leading up to the Olympic Trials and during his race he was injured attempting to clear the 3rd hurdle. This injury was not only a career-ender but also lead to the defining moment in his life. The doctors assessed his condition and gave John a simple but unimaginable choice, and the most difficult decision in his life to that moment. The doctor’s options were (a) amputate his leg and he would have to use a prosthesis for the rest of his life or (b) keep his leg and he would be relegated to a wheelchair or walker the rest of his life. This was a “rest of his life” decision.
John also discusses the following topics:
•How your vision for your life is yours and don’t expect others to catch it
•How it’s impossible to measure elite athletes from different eras and therefore it is unfair and unrealistic to compare Usain Bolt and Jesse Owens, or Michael Jordan and Lebron James
•How he wants to have control of his life and not have other people’s decisions control his life
•His experience competing for the University of Arkansas powerhouse track team in their heyday
•What does “new normal” mean?
Now that you are thinking about John and his decision, take a minute to look at your life and what is holding you back, what is dead weight in your life, and/or who or what relationship is keeping you from growing, elevating, graduating into your best self?
John’s decision and the impact of his decision on his life and other people’s lives will be discussed in the next episode of Pro Mindset.
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