Because the truth is…
That advice is actually COMPLETELY backwards…
…and by addressing the “sleeper syndrome” at the root of nagging back pain struggles FIRST…
You’ll finally be able to shed the stubborn, immovable excess pounds weighing you down…
Tone and strengthen your entire body, and get your life back — near effortlessly!
So it’s about time I properly introduce myself:
Hey, I’m Todd Lamb.
And I’m not a doctor or a world-famous “guru” or “health expert”.
I’m just an everyday guy who struggled for YEARS with constant debilitating back pain, and a soft, weak core…
Only difference for me was that in my line of work, having a weak, squishy core was NOT an option.
So when NOTHING else worked for me, I HAD to find my own solution…
And discover the true cause of persistent, stubborn back pain, weight gain, and so on…
Because for me a weak, soft core wasn’t just a confidence-killing eye-sore… it was an occupational hazard!
You see… being strong, capable, and rock-solid reliable…
And having the tight, strong, and pain-free body to prove it…
Wasn’t just something I desperately wanted.
It wasn’t just about quality of life either.
It was (and still is) central to my identity as a former member of the Canadian Armed Services Special Forces…
…and then as an elite SWAT operator and K9 handler.
And because of that, I felt like an imposter living a double life for YEARS.
Trying to hide the weak, overweight, pain-riddled version of myself under all my gear…
To look like the imposing, unphased, tough-as-nails enforcement officer I was supposed to be…
…while I was secretly losing my mind doing everything I could to strengthen and stiffen my core and build the strong, rock-solid body an elite officer like me was supposed to have!
But no matter what I tried, I couldn’t erase the soft, jiggly excess weight around my middle…
…and the constant, suffocating back pain gnawing between my shoulders, stabbing at the base of my neck, and blazing in my lower back and hips.
And it drove me deeper and deeper into despair and depression.
Which actually just made it all worse…
Because I was putting on even more weight…
…trying even harder to get rid of it or even just stop it from piling on — thinking it was the cause of my weak, pain-riddled back…
…which just made my core even weaker…
…and my pain even more crippling, debilitating, and life-threatening…
So I just felt even more out-of-sync with who I was supposed to be, compounding the frustration, desperation, and depression!
I was getting further and further from the man my wife had married…
…the person who was supposed to protect, serve, and save the public from harm…
…and who I truly was, deep down.
My body was my own worst enemy.
And it made me so ashamed and frustrated — so out of control and lost — that I couldn’t even face my own reflection.
But the worst part wasn’t just that my body was betraying me on a daily basis.
Or the constant mental toll that trying, and failing, and trying, and failing to shape up and get strong again was taking on me, my health, and my marriage…
Almost everyone can relate to that.
And while all that is more than bad enough… more than enough reason to want and NEED a real solution to constant, nagging back pain…
In my situation, not having a strong, tight, and healthy core was LITERALLY putting my life at risk every day.
Not just mine either.
But my loyal canine partner, Rogue…
And all the other members of my unit.
Because my job required me to constantly be bending, lifting, and rotating as Rogue led the way…
…while my team and I investigated real, high-level threats on a daily basis.
And when it came to conflicts, a rock-solid core was KEY to keeping me alive.
Because all the power behind every movement your body makes starts with the core.4
And since mine was so soft and weak, one wrong movement at the worst possible time…
Another slipped disc like I’d gotten just brushing my teeth…
Could spell disaster for the entire unit!
I was a walking, ticking time bomb.
And I didn’t even realize it…
…until the night the bomb went off.
That’s right.
Even after that first, near-deadly back injury, I told you about earlier…
…I STILL couldn’t figure out how to get the stiff, strong, pain-free core I needed.
The doctor only told me the problem, and the vague “get your core stronger and drop the weight” solution you’ve probably heard before too.
And I’d been raised to just soldier on — literally.
To keep pushing, keep suffering through, and just work harder.
So that’s what I did.
Trying to make all the weight loss and strength-training advice work for me.
Doing hundreds of crunches, sit-ups, planks, and so on.
And of course…
All that did was make everything worse…
Putting more extra pressure on my back…
…and causing ANOTHER deadly disc slip.
But this time, it happened while I was on the job.
While I was in the middle of apprehending a murderous man who’d just stabbed his wife.
Honestly, I thought I’D been stabbed when it happened.
But it was another slipped disc, higher up my spine this time.
And if it had happened just seconds sooner… instead of catching the guy, I would have been stabbed to death myself…
Putting Rogue directly in harm’s way…
Very likely making an already dangerous situation even more life-threatening for the rest of my unit…
And leaving the love of my life, my beautiful wife Tara, a widow.
My wife, who I hadn’t properly held in months because I was so ashamed of my body… of my weakness.
And who I might never have held again if my back had given out mere seconds sooner.
After that night, I knew I couldn’t keep going the way I was.
So I started my own, private investigation spanning years, continents, and cultures…
To eventually stumble on a very unique and little-known “breath” that could single-handedly help me erase my back pain, weakness, and so much more!
I went deep studying the human body, and actually became a certified Tactical Strength and Conditioning Specialist.
But my focus was always the core — the “trunk” made up of the back, abdominals, and chest.
What it actually took to develop a strong, solid, pain-free core…
…and what the consequences of NOT having one were.
That’s how I stumbled onto something CRITICALLY important.
Something nobody talked about when it came to building up core strength and restrengthening weak, injury-prone backs…
The dangerous “sleeper syndrome” my doctor had only barely hinted at.
And what I discovered led me down a rabbit hole of research, theory, and practices.
I was combing through information from THOUSANDS of years…
From ancient Asiatic texts on things like meditation, yogic breathing, and energy flow…
To the current experiments on health optimization and improvement…
And while most of it was useless — nothing new, nothing I hadn’t already tried…
…I did find one wildly successful, but completely forgotten book from Britain.
For some reason it had basically been buried and forgotten by pretty much everyone, — probably because it was printed in Britain, back before the internet — but I knew it was important.
Because all of this research…
It all started when I discovered that the majority of the core muscles…
Especially the DEEP core muscles that drive true core strength and stability…
…aren’t actually “strength muscles”.
They’re BREATHING muscles.5