In late 2017, I went into surgery for a chronic back issue I had carried since adolescence. I came out fighting for my life.
A hospital-acquired infection — spondylodiscitis — attacked my spine. Three months in a hospital bed. Six months in a brace. The doctors told me walking normally again was not guaranteed.
I lost over 20 kilograms of muscle mass. Everything I had built over twenty years of competition. Gone.
"That experience didn't break me. It taught me everything about how the body actually rebuilds — and what coaching at forty plus really requires."
Two years later, I stepped back on the IFBB Pro stage in the best physical condition of my entire career.
Today I don't coach men chasing aesthetics. I coach men who understand that your body is the operating system behind every other outcome in your life — your work, your family, your energy, your future.
The Reborn Method exists because I lived through what most coaches only theorize about.