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The Personal Side of Personal Training - Daniel Yores

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This chapter explores the speaker's personal journey in fitness and coaching, highlighting their experiences with sports injuries and the subsequent pursuit of knowledge in kinesiology and chiropractic studies. The speaker emphasizes the significance of health for a rewarding life while sharing insights gained from their challenges and victories in the realm of physical fitness.

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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Coaches Corner University podcast. I'm your host, Paul O'Neill, and as usual, our podcast is brought to you by Coaches Corner University. You can save $300 off of our education collective, so over 200 hours of continuing education lectures and discounts on courses for just $50 when you use podcast 300 at checkout. We're also sponsored by TC Nutrition, Barefoot Shoes, and Bacon and Barbells. You can find links to those in the description for discounts and to support me and the show and your feet, your clothes, and your supplements. All good things. Today I'm joined by a new friend, Daniel Yors. Daniel and I met at Swiss. We were introduced by the, I guess he would be like the market maker of fitness, Andrew Coates. The mayor of fitness. I like that. So Daniel, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me, Paul. I appreciate you. Yeah. Great to meet and great to be on the show. We could do the back to back now. Yeah, for sure. So I was on Daniel's podcast a couple of weeks ago and so he's going to be on mine. I don't know which is going to get posted first, so it'll be a race, but Daniel, why don't you tell everyone a little bit about you, about like your journey into fitness and being a coach and maybe what that looks like now. Of
Speaker 1
course. So I'll make it a quick story and then we can go into whatever you find interesting. I played sports a lot as a kid, as I'm sure like many of us, soccer was my main sport that I excelled at to a degree and like trained in to actually be good at. a ton of injuries, mostly my knees. I had, uh, between both left and right, probably about 15 patellar subluxations from the time I was 11 until like 17 or 18, which is, uh, that's a lot. And, uh, so that led me in and out of physio clinics and chiro clinics and athletic therapy and all this kind of stuff. And just spending so much time in there, I started to get interested in like, Hey, how does this whole human body thing work? What is anatomy? What is physiology? Like, what is all this stuff? And then I went into kinesiology for university, kind of didn't really know exactly where I wanted to go. But I ended up actually doing a year of chiropractic school after that. uh yep here in in toronto yeah
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Speaker 1
uh i dropped out after a year just wasn't really like all of the things that i that i thought it was all chalked up to be which may be a story for another day um and then became a trainer full-time and and to be honest really like battled with the calling myself just quote unquote a trainer after I was kind of on track to be a doctor. And that was, that was not easy for a little bit. Uh, but I'm super happy that I did. And then it led me into coaching and previous to that, like I had coached in soccer and been giving back a lot in that way. So coaching was always something that, uh, like I just enjoyed, obviously it was with kids at that point. Um, but I enjoyed and I, I felt comfortable with it. I felt confident in it. I would say that I excelled in it at that age. And so it ended up being a very natural progression and that's led me here. But coming through all of those injuries and all that stuff, that's like, that's the lens at which I look at fitness from. And so I'm always trying to think about, well, how can we just use this to make someone's life better? Fortunately or unfortunately, my ability to walk was taken away from me many, many times. And so I'm extremely grateful for that. And that matured me in a way kind of young. And so I always think, well, things are not bad right now, but they could be. this is not out of the realm of possibility that you might not be able to walk or move or do the things that you love in life. So we've got to take care of your body so that you can always do that. And that's really the background of, of all of my coaching and the way that I approach everything to do with fitness and health.

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