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Hello everyone and welcome to On the Mend.

I'm Matt Willis and in this series I'm going to be taking a look into the world of mental health, addiction and recovery and how people get through hard times.

My guest today is the fitness expert, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur Tyrone Brennan.

Tyrone is an author, yogi, personal trainer, inspirational speaker and the founder of Be the Fittest.

His mission is to empower people to live a happier, healthier life through exercise and wellbeing.

In this episode we talk about how he found his love for yoga, why he's so passionate about it and how it can aid recovery, both physically and mentally. He's a really great guy. I think you're going to love it. Let's go.

Hey, Tyrone. How are you today? I'm good, man. Thank you for having me. I'm really, really happy you're here, man. I'm really happy you're here. My wife interviewed you and she came home and said you've got to get Tyrone on your podcast. And she couldn't stop talking about this hollow back headstand that you just did. I just want to let people

know, this is like a headstand. So you're leaning backwards and your feet are over the top of your head. Like it's, it looks insane, looks like something you would have to work towards, like for a couple of hours to leave yourself up. You just popped into it in the middle of the studio in the middle of the interview and she was blown away. She's like, but also she just really enjoyed chatting to you and kind of what you're about. I'm since then I've been checking you out man and I'm very very pleased to have you on the podcast thanks for coming in no thank you so much man you know it's funny with the the hollow back she was like what is this a hollow back headstand and then she was like I want to see it and I was like now she was like yeah literally in the space of the studio everyone had their cameras out i just bust out like the hollow back headstand and i was like you're going to do it next and she was yeah yeah yeah she's obsessed with it she keeps looking at and right how do i get that no we're gonna get it we're gonna get it all three of us we'll get it all together okay great you're on you're on you're on there we're on there we're on you're on there we're on watch out on instagram we be there. Tarone, I've heard you say in another interview I was listening to, without fitness, you'll be in prison or dead. You know, and I've looked into your story. How did you come to that kind of thinking? Do you know what? It was very simple, you know, like, when you're at a certain age in life and you think, you know, this is what life is about and you don't really see outside of what you know, outside of what you've grown up in or outside of, you know, what life could be, you think that that's your life. And it's only when you step out of that and you look from hindsight on, wow, like, this is where I was going. You know, this is what my life was going to be. And when other people tell you, you know, you were going down a very slippery slope, if it wasn't for fitness or if it wasn't for certain things within your life, that you were able to try and change things around, you would legit be like in dead or in jail. And these things aren't just, oh, like, it would have happened. Like, I was close to, had situations where that could have been the case, getting in trouble

with police, like that was just normal.

So yeah, it would have been that and it was just going to get worse and worse and worse to

the point at that time in my life, when you have no care, no hope for anything, you don't

have any respect for anyone, you don't have any respect for yourself.

And, you know, you just do not care for anything. You just don't care. That is when things

become dangerous. And that's where I was at that point of my life. So how old were you when you say

this is going on? This was happening. When I was around like sort of like 21, I hit like a real sort of part of my life where I was lost in life and, you know, things had hit.

You know, it's told where, you know, I had nobody sort of like here, you know, my family.

And remember my mum came over from the Philippines and she came over here on holiday and she didn't go back

to her country and she ended up, you know, having my sister, having myself and we had to, you know,

fend for ourselves, you know, when I was about 21 years old, they both had gone, like my sister

was, you know, studying somewhere else.

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