After eight years playing American Football and a lifetime of competing in sport, Tendai Trafford found himself battered and bruised by the age of 27.
“I was collecting injuries along the way,” he recalls. “By the time my first child came around, aged 26 or 27 I felt like someone had hit me with a cricket bat getting up first thing in the morning.”
His physical struggles culminated in a slipped disk whilst deadlifting in the gym, leaving him needing a trip to A&E and being sent on his way with painkillers and a wait for an NHS physio.