Doctors have described Jason Cooper as a rare case. The 23-year-old overcame a car accident that sidelined him for quite a while to become a fitness trainer.
He told WDAM, “I’m a C3, C4, quadriplegic. There was actually no hope for me to walk at all.”
Cooper started working out at the age of three. He explained that he was used to the hustle.
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He said, “Ever since I’ve been young, I’ve always embraced being hard and just going through all the hardship so my life can be easy.”
Cooper excelled as an athlete during his final year at Heidelberg High School in 2019. On October 3 of the same year, he was involved in a car crash that changed the course of his life.
But he bet on himself when the odds were against him. He is now a father, exercises two or three times a day, and has regained his ability to walk.
Cooper remarked, “I’m a fitness trainer. I do YouTube and stuff like that. I never really wanted to be involved in media and stuff like that. But I have to get my story out to be able to inspire other people.”
He said his faith has been a big part of his journey and has made him a better person. He believes his story can help other people.
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Cooper said, “I’ve worked with people who say, ‘I can’t, well, ‘I can’t do this’ or ‘I can’t do that.’”
He added, “‘Can’t’ is not in my DNA. So, you know, once I actually showed them and put in front of them that, ‘Hey, I can do it, you can do it,’ you know, there’s no such word as can’t. So you just have to believe in yourself and just stop saying, ‘I can’t.’”
Cooper’s documentary, “Adversity,” which chronicles his fitness journey from the time he was three years old until his injury and up to the present, will be released in the fall.
