Improvise Adapt and Overcome. How the Marine Corps saved my life and gave me the ability to look at any obstacle as a challenge to overcome. Achieving goals that have provided me a fulfilling and rewarding life that I otherwise would not have experienced if not for my life changing disability. I want to redefine what being disabled looks like and provide motivation and inspiration to others that may have similar obstacles to overcome.

Christopher Kaag is president and founder of the IM ABLE Foundation and Corps Fitness. Kaag works to promote healthy lifestyles for all and to raise money to provide adaptive equipment grants to get those with a disability more active. As the founder of Corps Fitness, a Pennsylvania for-profit company, Kaag runs daily workout classes that bring his experience as a US Marine into his no-frills fitness facility that accommodates both abled and disabled participants. Kaag entered the United States Marine Corps, where he served until he was diagnosed with a rare degenerative nerve condition.

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