Mind Set Game Podcast

Tina is a former gymnast, Division 1 competition cheerleader, exercise physiologist and nationally certified physician assistant who became an amputee in 2016.   She lost her leg after 10 surgeries failed to restore blood flow to her leg from a rare vascular condition called Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome.  She needed two revision amputations the following year due to wound healing challenges from impaired blood flow.    In 2018, just a few months from the last of 3 amputations, she made a name for herself in the adaptive community winning 2nd place at the internationally attended CrossFit Competition in Miami called “Wodapalooza,” training with the US Paralympic Bobsled team in Europe, training with the US cycling program in Colorado Springs, attending the Adaptive Training Foundation in Texas and winning the CrossFit Adaptive Games in Canada.    She began teaching adaptive fitness and became a disability advocate as well as a mentor for those with permanent physical impairments.   In 2018, Tina founde