An ex-marine who lost his arm in Afghanistan has got a custom superhero-like prosthetic replacement - which allows him to lift up to 400 lbs.
Cpl. Sebastian Guadalupe Gallegos, 32, came up with the idea of an aluminum and carbon-fiber arm after he broke 15 conventional prosthetic ones.
Sebastian had his friend George Schroeder, an engineer, manufacture the custom arm a year and half ago.
Now, Sebastian is able to box, lift weights and even care for his son better.
Cpl. Sebastian Guadalupe Gallegos, 32, came up with the idea of an aluminum and carbon-fiber arm after he broke 15 conventional prosthetic ones.
Sebastian had his friend George Schroeder, an engineer, manufacture the custom arm a year and half ago.
Now, Sebastian is able to box, lift weights and even care for his son better.
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01:20 So I got some questions about why I don't specifically
01:24 just isolate either one of my arms.
01:26 And I do.
01:28 But whenever you want to do two-arm movements,
01:29 like fighting or training with weapons and so on and so forth,
01:33 you really hinder, as an amputee, progression
01:39 in those kinds of movements when you don't strength
01:42 train with your prosthetic.
01:44 I've found personally.
01:46 And yeah, so if I want to get stronger
01:48 doing two-arm movements, I have to strength
01:50 train two-arm movements.
01:51 And it's something that hurts, but it's just a necessity.
01:55 I just wanted to make a video for the Marine Corps' birthday.
02:02 And I know I don't do too much hardcore stuff on here.
02:07 But just that ever since I was wounded,
02:12 if anything separated me from anybody else
02:14 is how hard I push myself to be able to do things
02:17 with two arms with whatever prosthetics I have.
02:20 Pushing prosthetics, advancing prosthetics
02:23 with all the obstacles I've faced and using them.
02:28 Being able to do things with two arms,
02:30 you don't get any medals for it.
02:32 And I kind of live by the ethos that medals don't matter,
02:38 because you don't get rewarded for having
02:41 the medal to face every day.
02:43 And that mentality comes from being instilled into me
02:49 by the Marines that raised me in the Marine Corps.
02:52 And so I just wanted to make a little happy birthday video
02:55 for 247 years of being the best fighting force in the world.
03:01 Happy birthday, Marines.
03:04 Raw.
03:07 So that's something that actually my whole life
03:11 is pretty much fixed around, is that--
03:16 I guess I didn't even really talk about that.
03:18 I don't work my flesh arm every time
03:21 I work my metal arm or my amputated side,
03:25 because, yeah, I get so much work on my other side
03:30 just from setting up the weights or putting on my belt
03:33 or putting on my arm.
03:35 Like, everything I do, it's very hard to avoid overuse
03:41 on my other side or imbalance.
03:43 So I just worked my arm yesterday, my metal arm.
03:49 And I only worked my metal arm.
03:51 I didn't even-- my flesh arm is so much stronger
03:57 with just moving the weights and setting up
04:00 and just having to make up for the fact
04:02 that I only have one arm that I'll have an arm day where
04:05 I only work the metal side with as many reps as possible.
04:10 And it still looks like I'm imbalanced.
04:12 But it's just because I have such a high amputation
04:14 that it's hard to get any activation.
04:16 So yeah, it is something that I work on,
04:19 but it's hard to avoid.