I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.
If I feel there is something to help me recover better or make me a better athlete or player then I will always try it.
We've still got some of our best friends living in Canberra and I still do some training with one of the strength and conditioning coaches at the Brumbies.
After that defeat by Joshua in 2015, I changed my trainer and teamed up with Mark Tibbs. I began working at Loughborough University.
In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.
I've designed exercise video games, running shoes, healthy beverages, and workout equipment.
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.
I think what's perhaps lacking in Indian body builders is advanced knowledge of the sport. You'd be surprised to know that even the average European isn't really that aware about it either.
I wanted to be a physical therapist because I had torn up my knee and thought it was interesting with the rehab and whatever. I did kinesiology, and after the first four days of class, I dropped out because I was like, 'This ain't the class for me!'
I was a kinesiology major in college, which is exercise science. Then, I was either going to get my Ph.D. or go to medical school, but I was kind of burned out after school.
I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.
I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.
I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.
I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.
Exercise is an unnatural act.
My body shape has transformed as sports science research has developed. It used to be thought that footballers needed to be big and do lots of weights and little cardio.
There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.
Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.
I study this sport.
I love working with athletes. They're all very demanding.
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
My workouts are based on very heavy, fast movements using weights, the science behind it being that the faster you move a weight, the more fast twitch fibres you rip and then repair.
Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.
