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a pretty active child i didn't tend to
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do the normal sort of sports like
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or anything like that but i used to do a
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lot of like mountain biking
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surfing and that sort of thing it all
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started when i sort of got a bit of a
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which for a little while was sort of put
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down to growing pains because i was
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eight at the time you know
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and from just running about in the in
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the playground and that sort of thing so
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that's what we assumed at first
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i remember going in to the doctor's room
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them telling me that i had cancer and at
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that age all i really knew about cancer
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was that you obviously like lose your
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so at the time that was like my biggest
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worry and then i remember sort of
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leaving the room and just a feeling just
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hot and sort of like a real weird
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feeling of just feeling absolutely like
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boiling hot for a bit
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that day always stick in my mind pretty
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so it's ewing sarcoma which is sort of a
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quite a rare bone cancer but it often
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kids when you start growing and at that
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point i started basically a year's worth
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it was sort of later on they found out
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that i had adhesion scarring so it's
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my body here was pretty fast and it
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meant that it would lock the joint up
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and that's where all the other
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operations came in when i was 16
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they said that i could either have
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another year or two of
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using the pro the internal prosthesis or
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i could just have it sort of amputated
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so i decided to to get it done
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in terms of fitness i was found that
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sort of it was going to the gym was just
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somewhere that i could sort of clear my
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i remember waking up and it was a
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obviously like not having the leg there
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was a bit weird but it never really
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phased me as such it was sort of just
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learning to walking was probably one of
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the harder parts for me
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just because i had to wait quite a long
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period of time before my leg had healed
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use a prosthetic so that i could then
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get a prosthetic mold into my leg and
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make sure that it fit correctly and was
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you sort of think of someone that's had
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cancer sort of a bit frail they'd stay
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in you wouldn't really expect to see
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whereas i've always wanted to sort of
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make sure that that's not how i felt in
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i think mentally it was just trying to
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make sure that i um fulfilled my sort of
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expectation of how i wanted to
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to be in the future so it was about
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11 years old was when i started getting
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into the sort of bodybuilding side of
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going to the gym was just somewhere that
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i could sort of clear my head
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and make sure that i was feeling all
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right for like the next day keeps you
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feeling a bit more sane i think
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especially if you've had something where
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you can't sort of join in with other
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activities that you see a lot of other
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um gave me something that was sort of
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mine and i could just do it i didn't
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have to rely on other people to
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to do what i wanted to do so i could
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just go and get it done by myself
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the amount of time that i've been
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training i know what my body needs
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i only use pre-workout as if i'm really
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sort of struggling that day or if i
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haven't had i know i haven't had enough
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i often train at the end of a work day
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so it means that i need to have a little
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just on hand basically just to go if i
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really need to sort of get my training
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just in order to make up the the macros
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i haven't got in the day basically just
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so that i'm making sure i'm
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still putting on the muscle and help my
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so that when i'm training nice and hard
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i'm still going to get the results that
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it can become a bit hard you know if i
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if i do miss my meal prep i end up
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little less healthy meals or just sort
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legs staying nice and straight at the
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top perfect and just keeping it moving
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we're going for 10 reps per side perfect
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so the past experiences have definitely
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the mental aspect of personal training
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in terms of in terms of helping others
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perfect nice and steady good job i've
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been through that struggle
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of like sort of finding my training hard
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and sort of trying to improve my
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training whilst being in sort of a
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my clients will you know they'll still
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say that it's great to see someone
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a fair amount and is still sort of
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willing to put the time and effort into
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training hard after this set of 10 we're
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then going to go into our dumbbell
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two more from here nice and steady it
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will always be then you can always
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no matter how much rest time you need to
4:36
take away from it if anything you can
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more after something like that after a
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little bit of a setback you have that
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recover and then you can maybe even like
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aim to go a little higher a little
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further than you previously had done
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there's no rush at the end of the day
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you can always get back to it when you
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the mental side of things has definitely
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helped with my job role
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i can help to push those that are sort
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their harder times and sort of in their
