The REAL Reason You Have Back Pain (we were lied to)

I want to be honest about why I made this video...

I was a chronic back sufferer. At an age where you are not taken serious.

I was a patient in physical therapy 6 different times.

I went to college to study Exercise Science trying to find the answers to my OWN injuries.

I became a personal trainer in 2016, trying to find the answers.

I started WORKING at a physical therapy clinic, trying to find the answers.

After years of being BOTH a patient and an emerging practitioner, I gave it up.

I dropped out of school in my last year. I left my trainer job at the gym. I let all my certifications expire. I understood that after years of searching, the real answers were not here.

I went rogue and looked elsewhere.

I packed up my 2007 Toyota Corolla, and left my entire life in NYC.

With the only goal of:

Finding ANYONE who was bridging this gap on where the industry is failing us. The only person I had seen online making a dent, was Knees Over Toes Guy. Even though he never had a back injury, his approach to reversing out chronic knee pain was enough of a trail for me.

Without invite, I drove 24 hours straight across the country to find him. I showed up to his gym as a stranger, with no known name & only 900 followers. I told him my life story, my goal for the olympics, and my bigger mission to change the industry. I offered to clean the bathrooms just to be able to train at the gym and learn.

He gave me a job.

I spent the next 3 months secretly living in my car, eating $1 menu McDonalds food, and doing my job on Starbucks wifi every morning. Still, I was in heaven.

This marked a complete pivot in my life.

After a year in FL, I was Director of Equipment at the company. I had been able to take his knee principles and help them apply it for the low back. I began connecting with some of you online and created low back programs that were ACTUALLY addressing the real issues & getting real results.

My low back became my greatest strength, and life just felt perfect.

Until I started to realize a few things:

1.) The Back Pain Epidemic was FAR larger than I thought. Young and old, rates of back pain were still going up.

2.) The Internet still had NO real solutions, by someone who ACTUALLY overcame back issues themself. Every video on Youtube was still clickbait, quick "band-aid" fixes, or was a means to sell some BS affiliate product.

And most bothersome for me:

3.) It took me quitting my entire formal education, promising career and go be a homeless but driven lunatic to find real answers.

So while it's great that I am out of my back hell...

99.99% of people just have no shot at stumbling upon this information, especially when the entire back rehab space is flooded with, put plainly, TRASH.

This is why I restarted my life again in NYC, and doubled down as being "Low Back Ability".

I make these videos because I have to.

I truly believe that I don't, nobody else will. Not for a long while at least. And even if the principles do get taught, the teacher won't have the scars and empathy from going through it themselves...

To actually resonate and deeply reach the low back sufferer.

So they will monetize you, gate-keep the "secrets", or just be unrelatable.

Shit has to change. My gratitude for finally solving my shit, is what keeps me focused. Because to be honest, I don't care for the fitness influencer space. I don't like how most business is done. I don't care for tricking people into watching with the right clickbait title and thumbnails.

I'd rather take my pain-free body and go make the olympics for running.

Which I will, but only after we get textbooks to change.

Physical therapy protocols will change, the research on the spine will evolve, people will get their lives back.

This is why I'm making these videos.

Anyway, that's my story. I would love to hear yours. I will thoroughly be in the comment section for this video. Please share what resonates and ask any question needed.

This mission of changing this societal back problem, will take all of us.

I'm grateful for your help & support.

Rooting for you. ❤️‍🩹

Brendan