Rebuilding My Body & Starting Over After Spinal Fusion Surgery
4/9/202653 min
This is a solo AMA focused on my diet and fitness routine in the aftermath of spinal fusion surgery.
I walk through the specifics — what I ate, how I trained, how I went from 207 pounds and completely atrophied to dropping 37 pounds while building lean muscle — and the salient lessons I've learned about patience, consistency, and approaching reinvention with a beginner's mind.
There's also a broader conversation about aging, agency, and what it means to stop trying to get back to who you were. Enjoy!
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First 90 secondsRich Roll· Host0:00
How about this, you guys? We're outside, outside of the black void. It's like another dimension out here. The sun is shining. It's a beautiful day. And I'm back with another solo episode of the podcast. The first two that I have done have been received with overwhelming positivity. Thank you for that. I'm gonna be doing more of these. When I put the word out that I was looking for questions to answer, thinking I was gonna do an AMA, maybe answer four or five questions, the vast majority of the responses that I got pivoted around my diet and my fitness routine in the wake of spinal fusion surgery as I engage with my recovery and am in this sort of rebuilding process. So this AMA is gonna be singularly focused on that because I have a lot to say about this. And in addition to a lifetime of training experience, experience with nutrition, I've also learned a lot over this past year, many things that I think are salient and hopefully helpful and applicable to your life. So diet, training, longevity, reinvention, transformation. Let's fucking go. So the way I want to open this is with a little bit of background because I don't want to assume that everybody knows my story. Uh, I