Jordan Majcan, a Cranberry Township resident, was temporarily paralyzed due to injured he sustained in a car accident in November 2015. He has been relearning how to walk with help from Adventures in Training with a Purpose.

CRANBERRY TWP - Jordan Majcan didn't used to be a morning person.

But now he regularly gets up to start his 6 a.m. workout with his trainer from Adventures in Training with a Purpose at Mac Gym in Wexford.

It's what he must do to learn to walk again. Majcan has come a long way since he sustained a spinal cord injury that temporarily paralyzed him from the waist down in a car accident in November 2015.

During his Wednesday morning session, trainer Matt Costa put a thick, fabric gait belt around Majcan's abdomen and helped Majcan rise from his wheelchair to stand behind a walker. Costa stood behind Majcan, using a belt to support as Majcan took some shaky, but determined steps forward using the walker.

Majcan is tiring, but Costa urges him on.

“Six more steps,” Costa says, and then counts down the steps as Majcan digs deep to continue on. He reaches the end of the gym and collapses into his wheelchair to take a break before the next set.

“It's intensive and vigorous,” Majcan said. “It's making me have to think and really work mentally and physically to get my legs moving.”

Majcan, of Cranberry Township, trains several times a week for two hours each with Adventures in Training with a Purpose, or ATP, a Mars-based nonprofit that helps people improve their quality of life through purposeful physical training.

On Nov. 22, 2015, Majcan was a passenger in a car that ran a stop sign and collided with a pickup truck in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County. Of the three people in the car, Majcan's injuries were the most serious.

He had a T4 vertebra incomplete spinal cord injury and a concussion, broken ribs, jaw and collar bone and torn muscles in his shoulder.

Find out more about his recovery and journey to walking again in the Butler Eagle.