With the bodybuilding stuff, I started to become much less of an athlete as I started to feel like, I want to pack on all this muscle just so I can feel safe.

I feel like cool.

You know, you feel like loved, you know, all of all these different things.

It's kind of hanging my hat on physicality, my worth on physicality.

And inevitably, the pieces, my worth on physicality. And inevitably,

the pieces, if you push the system hard enough, the pieces will start to wear out or maybe snap or explode or break. And so I started to have that where I was just in from such an

imbalanced way to training my body, like really focusing just on

like the muscles that I would see in the mirror essentially. Like I was a big dumb animal.

You know, so lots of work on building my chest up and, you know, just all the, you know,

biceps and all things. And then that led to a lot of issues. So I had shoulder dislocation.

I had pretty much like a chronic back pain.

I would say, you know, I had like a big, had like an ankle dislocation.

Just my joints were like becoming unstable as a product of me really destabilizing them through improper training practices.

And so then that turned into me seeking our help.

Today I've got another bite-sized plot twist podcast episode for you, which is a shorter

clip from a past episode where the guest shares the story of that pivotal moment in their

life that directed them toward what

ultimately became their path and their purpose. And sometimes that plot twist looks like

getting fired from a job or getting betrayed by a friend. Or in the case of today's guest,

Aaron Alexander, he was a successful personal trainer who focused solely on building muscle

and looking impressive in the mirror, but his singular focus

on appearance led to multiple injuries from dislocated shoulders to chronic back pain.

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