Stouty’s Story

The CrossFit Journal (). Athletes in wheelchairs are experts at adapting. Now they’re joining CrossFit affiliates in growing numbers. Chris Stoutenberg fractured three thoracic vertebrae falling from his friend’s balcony on June 18, 1997. Paralyzed from the waist down, “Stouty“ woke up with metal rods in his spine and a huge hole in his life: Sports, at which he’d always excelled, seemed gone forev