CrossFit athlete Krystal Cantu
may have one arm,
but it doesn't stop her from lifting heavy and
breaking PRs. This is her inspiring story !

Krystal Cantu, 25, from Texas, had her arm amputated
last year after the car she was travelling in with her
boyfriend flipped over - painfully crushing her limb.

But this has increased her ferocity in the gym and she
can now can lift a 210lb bar clear above her head with
just her left arm, more than she could lift before the
crash.

She found the courage to get back to her CrossFit
training just three weeks after the accident.
'I looked at my arm and I thought OK - that looks
pretty
bad - but survival mode just kicked in,' said Miss
Cantu.


'I had to think - what do I need to do now?'

'I had people trying to help me and I was trying not to
look at my arm but I could see it in the reflection of
one
guy's sunglasses.

'When I arrived at the hospital, the surgeon came up
to
me and said that he had looked at everything and the
arm needed to come off.

'I had a moment but then I said alright - if it's going to
save my life take it off.
'Not a day goes by that I don't think about it.

'But I feel like I can conquer anything when I'm in the
gym - I feel like I have super powers when I'm in
there.'

Her boyfriend Daniel Cuate, 26, had been driving
through their home-town of San Antonio when a tyre
blew and the car flipped in the air.

He escaped unscathed but Miss Cantu was told that
her
arm would need to be amputated after she was
airlifted
to hospital.

'The accident was the best thing that could have
happened to me, so much good has come out of it,'
added the IT consultant.
'I'm really surprised that people call me an inspiration.
I think it's really cool that people from around the
world say that I've helped them get back up and get
into shape.

'People from around the world have been in touch to
say that I've helped them - someone like me, just a
normal girl from Texas - that's just incredible.'

Her coach Chris Xanders says the intensity is always
turned up a notch when the adapted athlete is in the
gym.

He added: 'Everyone sees that what she's doing may
look difficult but she's still going through it and trying
her best.

'You can feel that the intensity is really turned up
when
Krystal is in the gym.'

Today, nothing has changed. Krystal Cantu does it
all...
with one arm.

source: http://anitsdavid..in/2016/02/photosstory-of-girl-who-pushes-100.html