Hosted by The Adaptive Athlete · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 69 episodes
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The Adaptive Athlete Podcast is dedicated to sharing the stories of athletes in the Crossfit space and beyond who have pushed past the limits doctors or others gave them. In these conversations, you'll hear stories of resiliency, adaptation, grit, and determination. You'll also hear about the ways the adaptive space is growing. Whether you are an adaptive athlete, a coach, or you know someone who would benefit from adaptive athletics and adaptive fitness, this podcast is the place to hear stories and build connections. New episodes drop every Tuesday.
The Adaptive Athlete hosts The Adaptive Athlete Podcast, a health show with 69 episodes published.
Mat Hotho sits down with Noah Cook , a 25-year-old vision athlete gearing up for his first CrossFit Adaptive Games appearance after going completely blind by age 18. Noah lost his sight to glaucoma-related injuries, neve
Mat Hotho sits down with McKenzie Kravetsky , a rookie Lower Minor athlete heading to her first CrossFit Games. In 2013, a head-on collision left McKenzie with injuries that reconstructed nearly everything — including a
Mat Hotho sits down with Roman Cameron , a rookie heading into his first CrossFit Adaptive Games in one of the sport's toughest divisions, Seated with Hip Function. Roman shares how a vitamin B12 deficiency at 17 led to
Mat Hotho sits down with Kristee Irby , a Houston-based adaptive CrossFit athlete competing with a left limb difference. Kristee didn't even know adaptive CrossFit existed when she first walked into her gym, Bellhouse Cr
Mat Hotho sits down with Oscar Jessup , a 17-year-old adaptive CrossFit athlete from Australia who placed third at last year's Adaptive Games in Las Vegas, complete with his now-famous bow-and-arrow celebration. Oscar's
Mat Hotho sits down with Brian Knight . Brian was born with a brachial plexus injury. He won a silver medal at the 2025 CrossFit Games, and he's one of the OGs of adaptive CrossFit content. Brian grew up fully integrated
Mat Hotho sits down with Kieran Healey-Ryder , a Glasgow-based adaptive athlete navigating a rare, progressive skeletal disease that's slowly taking the use of his left leg. Kieran shares the story of a camping trip disc
Mat Hotho takes the mic solo for the first installment of a new format: personal episodes between the interviews, where Mat tackles the ideas and conversations he keeps having about adaptive fitness off the show. After a
Mat Hotho sits down with Bruce Williams , the photographer and videographer behind Dope Content and the person responsible for most of the imagery you've seen coming out of the CrossFit Adaptive Games. Bruce has been doc
Mat Hotho sits down with Lauren Taylor , gold medalist in the Neuromuscular Moderate division at the 2025 CrossFit Adaptive Games. Lauren walks through the long road — a broken collarbone in high school that snowballed i
Mat Hotho sits down with Sam Fishman , the founder of AnyBody & EveryBody and a full-time adaptive CrossFit coach based out of CrossFit Palace in Ithaca, New York. Sam's path here runs through speech pathology, special e
Mat Hotho sits down with Christina Mazzullo . Christina is a CrossFit Games adaptive champion, affiliate owner of CrossFit Tar Heel in North Carolina, and newly minted Registered Dietitian . Tina is an upper extremity ad
Mat Hotho sits down with Nigel Barber . Nigel is a UK-based adaptive CrossFit athlete and founder of Wodaptive . We have an honest conversation about building a life and a competition community after a spinal injury at 1
Mat Hotho sits down with Leo Merle for a conversation that covers the full arc of what it means to build a life around the things you love. Leo competed at the Paris 2024 Paralympics in the T38 class in the 1500 meters,
Mat Hotho sits down with Adam Billany , a British adaptive athlete competing in both parasailing and CrossFit. Adam was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at around age two; it affects both legs while leaving his upper body c
In this episode the Adaptive Athlete Podcast, Mat Hotho sits down with Natalie South-Law , a UK-based adaptive athlete with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy who has competed at a serious level across many parasports. The
Mat Hotho sits down with Jacob Peterson , an adaptive powerlifter from Alabama living with mild cerebral palsy. Released during Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month, Jacob talks about the surgeries that helped him move more fr
Mat Hotho sits down with Aaron Trent , a former para cyclist who placed second and third at the UCI Para-Cycling World Championships in 2009 and spent two and a half years as a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Ce
Mat Hotho sits down with Shana Coissard , a French adaptive athlete with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome who's carved out an impressive path through wheelchair basketball, CrossFit, and adaptive HYROX. Shana shares how her disabi
Mat Hotho sits down with Lance King — three-time CrossFit Adaptive Games champion in the Intellectual Disability without Chromosomal Condition division — and his older brother Kyle King , who serves as Lance's coach, han
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