08 Jul Member Spotlight: Vaughan Marsh
Vaughan has been training with us for 6 months now. In this time he has improved his body composition dramatically, losing 14 kg of body fat and gaining 2 kg of muscle.
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Due to old injuries, Vaughan has had two knee surgeries. During which he had the cartilage removed from both knees and a tibial tuberosity transfer. He has also suffered damage to his left leg, which now has multiple screws. This caused discrepancies in muscle mass over time and a lot of pain in the joints.
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Vaughan subsequently gained weight and thought he would be limited with progress in the gym.
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However, with a progressive and rehabilitative program from one of a skilled trainers’ Joy and a lot of hard work and determination from Vaughan; we have managed to build muscle and strength in the atrophied leg while also working around the limitations caused by the lack of cartilage.
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Although not fully pain free, we have seem a massive improvement in day to day pain management.
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Great work from Vaughan and his coach Joy, not only improving quality of life but also his physical performance, achieving 10 strict pull ups and a 100 kg bench press to name a few!