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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: 240 is Back on July 22, 2009, 09:17:59 AM
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A teenager who had a heart transplant 18 months ago has wowed doctors - by becoming a champion bodybuilder.
Brave Pete Wallis suffered a heart attack when he was just 13 and waited two years for the life saving surgery.
He underwent the gruelling five-hour operation to give him a new heart at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Now 16-year-old Pete, from Gosport, Hants, is in great shape and is one of the top young bodybuilders in the country.
He took second place in a regional event and has been invited to the National Amateur Bodybuilding Association competition, which is in Birmingham in November.
Born with a four-fold heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot's, Pete had survived two major operations and a heart attack by the age of 13.
He took a dramatic turn for the worse in 2006 and in November 2007 was told a transplant was his only hope.
After the operation he had to stay in hospital for six weeks as doctors monitored his recovery.
He said: 'I was scared and worried that I might not make it through the operation but I knew it was something that would be good for me.
'When the operation was over, all I could think about was getting out and getting fit.'
With four members of his extended family involved in bodybuilding, he decided to get training.
At first Pete could only lift light
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200903/Heart-attack-teen-survives-transplant-champion-bodybuilder.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0M0PdB8PE
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inspirational story no doubt, but calling him one of the top young bodybuilders in the country is a bit of a stretch.
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Now 16-year-old Pete, from Gosport, Hants, is in great shape and is one of the top young bodybuilders in the country.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200903/Heart-attack-teen-survives-transplant-champion-bodybuilder.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0M0PdB8PE
So hes the only 16 yr old in england that works out??
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raaah those damn vinyl plates filled with shitty concrete and these annoying dumbell bars with screws that take ages to twist.
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Brutal child look at 16.
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Heart Attack in ten years
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one of the top jnrs in england trains in our gym, the lad who usualy comes runner up to him is local too....... there both gorrilas, and shock people when they find out there age... must of been 2 kids in that contest, and he came 2nd..
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No doubt hes getting coverage for having a heart transplant but for fucks sake he doesnt look like he even knows what a weight is,truth hurts,so does heart operations
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No doubt hes getting coverage for having a heart transplant but for fucks sake he doesnt look like he even knows what a weight is,truth hurts,so does heart operations