PropaneFitness Podcast

Here's how I get through 30 books per year while working full time as a doctor.

I'm no Tai Lopez, but actually I don't want to be sat here bragging about the 200 books per day that I read. There's very limited value to that. Savour the book, squeeze the lemon 🍋️, and enjoy this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9it0ET868QI

Contents:

Overview: Basic Truths

My background

Main approaches to back pain

Myths

The pain cycle: What makes pain linger

Recommendations

Video version of this article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjKGuqjEkGg&feature=youtu.be

“Back spasming up? You’d better ice it ASAP” - Chiropractors

"If you EVER round your spine, I'm afraid you'll die.” - Osteopaths

“You’ve just got weak abs, do more planks” - Rehab specialists

"We could operate, but it might make it worse" - Neurosurgeons

“There’s nothing wrong with you, it’s all in your head" - Physiotherapists

“Your back pain is simply because your root chakra is misaligned, which is overactivating your left inferior oblique causing a slight anterolateral shift of your pelvis when you walk. You just need to wear more of the colour brown and take this expensive herbal liver tonic”. - Kinesiologists

Thanks for the advice, bro-therapists, you bunch of knobs.

A bunch of knobs

If you’ve been struggling with back pain, you’ll likely also have been told a similar bullshit-cocktail. It's likely got you nowhere with your pain, but done wonders for lightening that heavy wallet.

If you've had recurrent back pain with no success, read on. Clearly your current approach isn’t working.

And you’re not alone.

1) Basic truths:

Back pain is poorly understood by health sciences. Each field has a little piece of the puzzle at best.

There is an entire industry founded on selling devices and miracle cures for back pain based on extremely fishy evidence. Such cures are no better than placebo, but will cost you a lot more.

While underlying diagnoses may differ, there are several common features in typical back pain. This is good news: These features provide a trail into resolving your pain.

You must take ownership over your recovery. No therapist can ‘fix’ you with a triumphant crack.

The road to recovery requires a multifaceted approach and consistency.

Eric Cressey identified the 5 common problems people like us face with back pain:

Many got sub-par, outdated physical therapy.

They were just as concerned about maintaining a training effect while injured as they were about actually fixing the injury.

They lived and died by their diagnostic imaging (MRI, x-ray, etc.), but paid little attention to the relationship of those scans to their symptoms and functional deficits.

Most sought to learn more about their injuries so that they could be informed consumers in dealing with doctors and therapists, but they wound up more confused because of the varying opinions in the field today.

They were looking for direction in how to progress back into a "regular" training regimen, but all that most of them could seem to get from their clinicians was contraindications ("don't do this").

While I can’t diagnose your specific issue, I have been round the houses with my own back pain. Several of my own clients, in person and offline have been able to fix their back pain. This article will save you the journey of dead-ends and help you to claim your life back.

2) My Background

You may be thinking that if the experts haven’t nailed back pain, then who is this presumptuous swine with fine rhymes opining on the spine?

I am speaking foremost as a patient, (who happens to be trained as both a doctor and sports massage therapist), sharing my experience of chronic, radicular back pain.

Professionally, I’ve also treated several clients with back pain as a sports therapist with the approach below.

Ultimately, this article was borne out of a tearfully obsessed personal need to get out of pain, which became an intractable curiosity to get to the bottom of such a common yet poorly managed epidemic.

I truly understand what you’re going through. The physical pain, the existential frustration, the endless chase for an answer amidst murky evidence and conflicting recommendations.

https://youtu.be/R4M27RWGf4I

Dr Asif Munaf is a Propane Athlete and sports medicine registrar with a special interest in performance enhancement. Here we discuss the potential perils of steroids, peptides and off-label drugs in the pursuit of a better physique.

Note: Audio quality improves after 2 minutes: some tech teething problems at the start but stay tuned for some golden nuggets here, especially if you've been wondering about some of the less often talked-about effects of steroids.

Twitter: @DrAsifOfficial

Instagram: @EndoranceUK

Between night shifts, Yusef takes the opportunity to talk through the rules of getting super lean. These come from his and Jonny experiences of getting absolutely shredded, everything they learnt and what not to do (they often found this out the hard way…).

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/PropaneFitness/status/1149602194150191104

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Private Q&A: This was originally aired in our private Propane Athletes VIP group, but occasionally we release these for you as podcasts, because we're cool guys and stuff.

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Michael Kirk: An industrial engineer applying principles of production to your business, fitness and life.

We cover:

Why we share a mutual love for the Shoe HornThe 7 forms of waste ruining your profitabilityHow to generate the essential KPIs for How to prevent a cancelling client from derailing your dayHow to identify the value adding steps to optimise your marketing, lead generation, and product deliveryThe philosophical difference between ‘doing things FASTER’ and ‘doing the RIGHT things’.Maximise protein per $Save time sleeping

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Follow Michael here: https://efficiencyiseverything.com/

Private Q&A: This was originally aired in our private Propane Athletes VIP group, but occasionally we release these for you as podcasts, because we're cool guys and stuff.

For more in-depth guides like this, and to access the full program, cheat sheets, accountability, nutrition tracking, training program and access to us, the coaches, you can join the Propane Protocol.

This week we discuss IBS: Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Remember, this video is an overview of the condition, and what you can do in terms of self-management. But remember, I am not your doctor. Make sure you have the correct diagnosis by seeing your GP before assuming that your symptoms are indeed IBS.

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Aanghel has been my (Yusef) meditation coach for the last 2 years, and has transformed his body and mind using some of the tools discussed in the podcast.

He adopts the same recklessly experimental approach to life as we do, testing approaches by fully throwing himself into:

Primal scream therapyNofapVeganismCarnivore dietPineal gland decalcificationMeditation & dynamic meditationCold showers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3kKZR1ZhI0&feature=youtu.be

Subscribe to his youtube channel for more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADCzUZClPA

https://www.aanghel.com/

This week, Jonny and Yusef discuss the dark side of 'healthy eating'. Watch below:

This week, Jonny and Yusef discuss the dark side of 'healthy eating'. Watch below.

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ALSO: If you leave us a review that tickles us and we read it out on the podcast, we'll send you a free version of our V-taper AND Fast(er) Fat Loss Programmes: 2 tools to supercharge your physique over the next 6 months.

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This was originally aired in our private Propane Athletes VIP group, but occasionally we release these for you as podcasts, because we're cool guys and stuff.

For more in-depth guides like this, and to access the full program, cheat sheets, accountability, nutrition tracking, training program and access to us, the coaches, you can join the Propane Protocol.

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