The Rural Sales Show · 2026-07-23 · 1h 11m
Dave Wood spent over a decade as an intensive care paramedic - until chronic pain and a failed bilateral hip surgery broke every traditional approach he threw at it. Specialists, the pain clinic, $300 a week on treatment, and none of it working. What finally did was building his own system. That system became Integrated Training, and it's now how some of the world's best athletes - from UFC champions like Israel Adesanya to America's Cup winning sailors Peter Burling and Blair Turk and former heavyweight champion Joseph Parker - learn to stay calm, clear and decisive under pressure. In this episode, Dave dishes out the full playbook. Why he mistook anger for strength for years, and what real strength actually is. The four-step method for stress control you can run in seconds - embrace the stress, control your self-talk, control your breathing, scan and release tension. Top-down vs bottom-up regulation, and why your body is the faster lever than your mind. The pain cave story that changed how the world's best ultra runner races. What patients over 90 taught him about lasting the distance.
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