He's missing a leg, but still he is super fit!

Jonas Zimicki, 31, from Cambridge, has now been offered a string of modelling jobs after placing fourth overall in the Miami Pro UK Championships and won the first prize, dressing up as a peg-legged pirate in the fancy dress section.

This only proves that even those who are lacking a limb, are able to reach where they want when it comes to working their way to the fitness body. There is nothing in the way for you who have all your limbs intact to do the same and reach your goal!

He started with almost nothing..

When Jonas arrived in the UK, in the autumn of 2004, he had only recently lost his leg, spoke no English, and had a debt to pay; his sister, Alicia, had loaned him £5,000 to pay for his first proper prosthetic limb.

Quick "about":

• "I took up fitness modelling off the back of devastating disappointment when I failed to make team GB at the Paralympics last year," he said.
• His efforts were rewarded when he was crowned fitness modelling fancy dress champ at his first attempt, complete with wooden leg.
• He moved to Britain in 2004 and wanted to compete for his adopted country after training alongside Jonny Peacock.
• But he missed out on a place with Team GB and instead had to watch from his sofa.
• Lithuanian-born Mr Zimicki was born with a deformed right leg which surgeon's amputated when he was 19.
• "I took up fitness modelling off the back of devastating disappointment when I failed to make team GB at the Paralympics last year,' he said"
• "I've been approached by magazines and agencies who have never met an amputee doing what I am doing," he said.
• He started work as a gym instructor in Cambridge and visited schools in the city to lend children tips and advice on how to keep fit.
• After a colleague encouraged him to train for fitness modelling, he received a few tips on nutrition and exercises that would help him to reach the goal.
• He now have an average 100m time under 13.5 seconds.

Your mind is what's holding you back!

Photo credit: doyoueven.com

Miami Pro - UK Championships - Oct, 06, 2013.

This is a very motivational video showing Jonas Zimicki at the UK Championchip 2013

Related links & source:

• Fitness Jonas (official site)
• Yahoo News
• Cambridge News