TRANSCRIPT: In 1984 I was diagnosed with Becker Muscular Dystrophy, always been sporty as a kid, gave it up for a few years and was told I wouldn't play sport again. And then I realised I wanted to become a fitness instructor and a physio of mine suggested I became a paralympic swimmer and by 1991 I was in the GB team. And luckily enough 92 I was selected for the GB team for the Paralympics in Barcelona where I was fortunate enough to win a bronze medal in a relay.

Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable, if you take it into context and you take Joe Bloggs off the street and tell him in 4 years time you've got 50 seconds to be at your mental, physical best and you've spend 4 years dreaming about this, this thing, that you don't know whether your going to get there and it happens. And you get that 50 seconds or whatever it is, however long it is to show what you've been doing for 4 years. And just to see that flag going up the pole and even now I can feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end and just, it's almost like a different person now because it was quite a while ago but I know I've done it and I've got that lump of metal at home. Awesome, just awesome.

It was like just proving everybody wrong because everyone, a lot, most people had written me off and said, even suggested that I was insane to even attempt it with Muscular Dystrophy, that nobody had ever done it. That it would be to my detriment health wise that it would actually make me more ill. And in fact the opposite was true; that it actually made me fitter than anyone they had probably ever seen with my disability. And it was just, it was good for me because of the theories in my head, it proved were not wrong, they were right all along. I think it, it actually made some of the medical people even sit up and listen. Anything's possible if you put your mind to it, I'm now full time in a wheelchair but I still teach full time, I'm still a fitness instructor and I think the one thing it can show people that I work with, say in the fitness area is that anything is possible. Even with illnesses and pain, maybe and bad backs and things it's about finding what you can do rather than what you can't do and accentuating the positives.