Dan Lawrence

But actually, it was the best lesson that I had.

That was my hump in the road, so to speak.

So now on a macro level, looking back in hindsight, it made me upskill in that respective area considerably.

with a lot of the great work from professor stuart mcgill of the waterloo university in canada and just just incredible knowledge around lower back so now anyone who comes to me we can advise around things that i've seen and i continue to manage so i'll probably get a lower back flare up i probably shouldn't say this twice a year because i train you know i'm 38 in a few weeks time and i trained you know five six days a week i cannot train like i did when i was 18 i'm very aware of that

I like to think my knowledge is a little bit better than I was when I was 18, throwing aimless tin around the gym.

But I do still love training.

Training is part of my identity, showing up, setting a training time, getting it done, win the morning, win the day.

And that really shapes my day.

So that's a huge part of what I do.

Of course, the volumes, loads and exercise selection is very, very different these days.

But I also have an awareness piece that there will be the odd setback.

Absolutely, there will.

And when we do hit that hump again, if we're staying in the same terms and language here, we see where they're at at the moment and then we adapt the plan.

We've got a guy out here, joined our program, high-level CEO, multiple exits, came to us with a lower back issue and a right knee issue.

He was playing way too much paddle, way too much golf, lots of rotational sports, never did any mobility work, was very, again, sagittal playing up, down, forwards and back, bench press and bicep curls.

He'd then go through these high-torque rotational sports that I've just mentioned, and his lower back was just letting him know about it.

He had no real motion.

He was quite locked and glued through the lumbar spine.

so we then and he was very negative towards any lower body loading because of his knee he'd anchored a negative thought process due to previous experiences with other coaches that oh i can't really weight bear through my lower body lo and behold four weeks into the plan he didn't like it but we had to say based on the analysis from our chiropractor dr ronan out here in dubai

We can't do paddle and we can't do golf for four weeks.