Online fitness inspiration usually comes in the form of female influencers showing off their flat tummies, impressive abs, and over-the-top workout routines, so their boyfriends are expected to have impressive muscles, too.
However, nobody could predict extremely popular fitness blogger’s gym buddy to be Garrett Greer.
The 31-year-old professional poker player, who was paralyzed in 2010 after he broke his neck, isn’t just a stellar workout partner. He and Jessica Arevalo, whose page on Instagram gathered 2,7 million followers, have been dating since they met at a lounge in California last fall.
And have to say, wheelchair-bound boyfriend doesn’t stop the duo from tearing it up at the gym.
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The couple has made a name for themselves in the online fitness community for posting videos of their partner workouts.
The two have formed a dynamic gym couple, and IFBB Bikini Pro athlete Arevalo said: “I love his drive in the gym it always gets me motivated!”
“It feels good to be doing something active,” Garrett told Cosmopolitan about his video workouts, which see him doing all manner of tough exercises, from tossing weight balls to flexing using cable flies.
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Due to this limited hand functioning, Garrett uses special gloves to grip free weights, medicine balls with straps, and wrist cuffs with hooks to hang onto cable machines.
“I work on what I can do and test my limits,” he says. After all, although there’s no guarantee Garrett will ever regain full control or feeling throughout his body, he has been told that exercise may encourage nerve regeneration.
“You really can’t know what functionality you’ve gotten back without trying to move it,” he says.
Hope, one day Garrett and Jessica will walk together, however now he has that crucial thing – he has Jessica’s love and support, regardless of what their future brings.
“I think he is absolutely perfect just the way he is,” Jessica wrote in an Instagram post. “I told him if he were to be able to walk again some day, that it would be too much perfection to handle.”