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Louis Samuel

@ldawgl

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @puma Sponsored Athlete 🐾
🏅3rd HYROX World Champs 2026 | Neuro Minor
🥇1st London Excel '25
🥇1stCardiff Principality '26
Living with PPMS 🧡💙

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What a weekend! 3rd in the World in my Division at the HYROX World Championships in Stockholm. 🌍🥉

For anyone who ever felt like they didn't belong, or survived things that they thought would kill them, I implore you to become the person little you needed all along.

And try a HYROX! 💙💪 by @ldawgl

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4 months ago

"Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final"

Rainer Maria Rilke

Behind these frames was a truly wonderful connecting experience with the talented and empowering @felincorff . Creating with people who elevate your energy makes all the difference. Please check them out and show their incredible work some love!

Turning 38 wasn't so bad after all 💙 by @ldawgl

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3 months ago

I’m so glad I trusted myself to get on that plane alone. Knowing fully well I came to experience a sport I truly love. Keeps me humble, well, and hopeful of living a life with MS.

But by taking a risk, I made connections that will last a lifetime. MS isn't taking me without a good fight.

This past year, I’ve learned so much about myself and what it actually takes to live a fulfilling life. Always remember: another day on this planet also means one less day. So take the risks. Love yourself and others—completely unapologetically.

Strive to be the absolute best version of yourself, and move in an authentic way that confuses people. Speak with strength, act with kindness, and watch how your life grows.

We are not done yet. 🏆

#HYROXWorldChampionships #HYROX #MSWarrior #BeYou #AdaptiveAthlete by @ldawgl

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4 months ago

This National Coming Out Day, I’m proud to show up in sport as a queer trans man. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

At 21, I didn’t think I’d be here at 38. Seventeen years on, I’m here—with friendships, experiences and milestones I couldn’t have imagined. That’s worth celebrating.

It’s been quite a journey through stigma and shame. Sport has helped me build confidence, find connection and feel more at home in myself. There’s joy in laughing between sets and standing on a start line as myself.

In a political climate that questions our existence, those moments matter.

Please check in on your trans friends. They may not be okay in a world that so often tries to erase them. Even those of us smiling may be struggling. Ask, listen and remind them they matter.

Being out should always be your choice. Visible or not, you deserve belonging, opportunity and joy.

We exist. We are here. We belong.

#nationalcomingoutday #ftm #transman #thisiswhattranslookslike by @ldawgl

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7 days ago

Long live the Winter Arc. ❄️

Imagine what you could become, if you stopped using war as the language of growth.

#adaptiveathlete #pumatraining #hyrox #foreverfaster by @ldawgl

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16 days ago

For someone who spent years rehearsing his smile in the mirror…

Trying to get it right.
Trying to fit in.
Trying not to stand out.

I can’t tell you how freeing it is to finally recognise myself in this photo.To feel like, and genuinely like, the person I see.

Goofy. Warm. Slightly wonky. Very much me.

Thank you @felin_studio for allowing it to be seen a bit more 💙 by @ldawgl

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I used to wonder what I was capable of.

The answer wasn’t found in one moment. It was built through commitment, consistency and showing up.

The quiet sessions. The difficult days.

Especially when nobody is watching.

Now I’m excited to find out what’s possible next.

Evidence over affirmation.

#pumatraining #AdaptiveAthlete #mswarrior #hybridathletes #Hyrox by @ldawgl

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Rare footage of me in civilian clothes. Not a gym thread in sight. 😂

It’s amazing what happens when you sit with yourself and decide to meet yourself unapologetically.

Turns out, you quite like the person you were all along. You just needed the right environment to meet him. by @ldawgl

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2 months ago

Summer grind. Winter goals @pumatraining
HYROX prep starts here.
Chasing new ceilings. 🐆🐾
📷@jaesloan by @ldawgl

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2 months ago

Adapted. Re-engineered. Unstoppable. 🐾

I am incredibly proud (and still slightly overwhelmed!) to share that I have officially joined the @puma family as a sponsored adaptive athlete through PROJECT PODIUM.

The puma survives by adapting. It adjusts its stride, meets difficult terrain, and continues to climb.

That’s what this journey has been about.

Not being defined by setbacks. Not accepting limitations as the final chapter. But adapting, evolving, and becoming something stronger.

This moment represents every difficult day, every adjustment, every setback, and every decision to keep moving forward — but no climb happens alone.

I’m incredibly grateful to my gym, my trainer Tom, my coach Tom and everyone who has supported me along the way. They have seen the difficult moments, adapted alongside me, and continued to see the athlete in me even when I couldn’t always see it myself.

We are not born into our final form - we sculpt it.

And this is only the beginning.

Many more mountains still to climb. 🏔️

Forever Faster.

@PUMATraining

#PROJECTPODIUM #PUMAFamily #ForeverFaster #AdaptiveAthlete #HYROX by @ldawgl

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2 months ago

People see the now. They don’t always see the dirt it was built on.

This was May 2025.

Before I really knew what I was doing!

Outside the gym, I was heartbroken, struggling with my self worth and trying to make sense of things in my life that seemed to keep repeating themselves.

Then I signed up for HYROX London Excel 2025.

3 months after leaving hospital.

Not because I felt ready.

I really didn’t.

I just needed something to move towards to.

Training became a constant.

Show up. Do the work. Come back.

Again and again.

It gave me routine when life felt uncertain. It was a place to put the anger and hurt.

Suddenly there was evidence that I hadn’t suddenly become capable — I had been capable all along.

It’s easy to show the races, results, podiums and progress.

But this part matters the most. This is what keeps you humble.

Sometimes the best time to start isn’t when you’re confident or when everything is in place.

Sometimes you start in the gravel and the dirt.

You build from there.

So if you’re waiting until you’re fitter, stronger or more confident before starting:

Don’t let somebody else’s now make you ashamed of your beginning.

Sometimes the strongest foundations are built from the dirt.

This was mine. by @ldawgl

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2 months ago

My softness survived everything meant to harden me.
Protecting it - is how I protect my peace.

Our scars tell the stories of what we did to survive.

📸 @felincorff

💙💙💙 by @ldawgl

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