Training at TSquared Lab relieved me from a debilitating spine injury pain between L4 and L5; which made my day-to-day activities difficult to perform.

Read Rajit’s Transformation Journey

Introduce yourself and tell us about yourself.

I am Rajit, 28 years old, and I came to Singapore for a few weeks to do an exchange program in NUS and right now I am at TSquared Lab to get better and get healthier. I came in with a back pain that was pretty debilitating and one of my main goals was to improve my health and Henry here suggested that we could also transform you aesthetically, so I set that as another personal goal.

Before coming to Singapore, I used to actually train at a CrossFit gym and even before that I used to train personally by myself through the help of some friends who were also working out. And while working out I injured myself and that was the first instance of pain that I really felt, and I was able to recover as I was younger as well and the more, I worked out the chances for injury increased, because I wasn’t aware of the right way to work out and because of this I created a nerve issue on the lower part of my spine. If you guys know about the spine, it is between L4 and L5 and that spine injury has been really affecting me and my day-to-day lifestyle. And I decided that it was high time that I went to somebody who really knew about this and, as you may or may not know Henry also had a similar injury and I thought he was one of the best people to get in touch with and see how he is able to manage his pain and how he is able to continue working out, continue staying fit while also having a similar situation as mine.

What training did you get for the back pain?

So, to start off, what Henry suggested for the first few days was literally no weights, no nothing, just understanding how my body works. He was able to quickly gauge that I had an issue with lower spine and the issue was also because of factors such as my core wasn’t strong enough, my glutes and hams weren’t strong enough. So, the first thing he suggested was glute ham raises and immediately I was able to feel the recovery process right away. It’s something like, just by doing the glute ham raises itself, I was able to realise that “wow, this guy really knows what he is talking about”, because the level of relief that I was getting by doing this was tremendous. And that really solidified my confidence in continuing with TSquared.