Ian Pinder

WHO I HELP

I help men who in thier spare time would rather play games, to lose the dreaded dad body so they can feel confident and have immproved energy to handle the daily farther hood trials.

ABOUT ME

My fitness journey started when I was 16 but before that I had been going through recovery since the age of 10, after my operation to remove a lumbar tumor that was growing for 9 years inside me.

In those six years of recovery, I was in a wheelchair for six months and following that I had rehab to learn how to walk using the parallel bars to hold onto.

I remember doing daily stretching for my hamstrings, sitting against the wall trying to get my legs straight and flat on the floor. I didn't keep up with this everyday and found it very hard to touch my toes.

Basketball was used in my rehab to help coordination and hand eye coordination. With all this I also had some puberty to go through and with dyslexia I struggled in school.

Growing up I found team sports a little hard as being small statute I was bullied when playing football, very easy to push off the ball. While growing up I started to get taller and more stocky, this lead to even harder treatment in football games and looking back was a form of bullying.

The gym then became my own, I worked out alone, usually following a Muscle and Fitness workout for my exercise. I would spend 2-3 hours in the gym each time I went, this was not the best use of my workout time either.

I had specific things I was told to do by my doctor's for helping my back and others that I was to avoid, sometimes what they said to do, I was later told I was not to do!

You can see how confused I would become between that and the fitness magazine and online fitness experts saying all different things.

What I found, was that when I workout I felt good about myself and it made doing things in a typical day easier for me. An example is putting my socks on without having to ask for help or rolling on to my back on the edge of my bed.

I didn't have a complete introduction to fitness over the 16 years, due to my back I was always prescribed either machine or free weight exercises to minimize any injuries, which is good. However I struggle to this day, to do bodyweight exercise to a good level and I have only managed half a pull up, as I find them one of the hardest to do.