Departure Lounge with Josh Young

Melbourne father Josh Young lost the use of both his legs in a devastating mountain bike accident almost two years ago. 

Now, he’s preparing to take on some of the world’s strongest athletes in The Wodapalooza festival.

The Wodapalooza descends on Miami’s Bayfront Park for 4-days each January and brings together thousands of athletes, spectators and fitness fanatics to celebrate fitness, community and life.

There are three parts to WZA Miami, the fitness competition (the foundation of WZA Miami), the Weightlifting Faceoff (1-day Olympic Lifting competition) and the spectator experience.

This year there were 1,590 athletes , 30k spectators and 450 Volunteers.

Josh was the ONLY Australian adaptive athlete to qualify for the event and will be competing in 2019.

He checked into the Departure Lounge to chat about the event and what it means to him to compete.