Hi all I thought I'd give an update and my thoughts on the back pain protocol and the pattern decoder programs I recently purchased. As someone who has been experiencing back pain on and off for the last 10 years plus, has purchased every latest gadget, spent a fortune on every specialist i could find and bought countless mobility and strengthening programs I was reluctant to invest again but when I saw Ania's posts on instagram they really resonated with me. I can honestly say this has been the best investment I have made in trying to fix myself, not because I'm healed or even close at this point but I finally believe I've found the right path, what I've learned so far is the key to finally getting to the root of my issues is learning where and what is actually causing the disfunction. I've spent so long just following generic stretching routines which can give relief but never addresses the cause, now I'm just going over and over the protocol trying to find where it is all coming from rather then just ticking the boxes to say I've completed all the movements. If you're anything like myself I really struggled to connect with each movement I'd thoughrly recommend the pattern decoder, I use this to guide my through each exercise to really feel what I need to. I am not in a position to work with Ania on a 1 to 1 basis but she has been very generous with her time, answering questions for me and giving me advice, for which I'm grateful for. I see this as less of a program to follow more as a method to use to heal myself and finally take ownership of my own body rather than getting someone else to solve it for me. Hope this might be helpful to anyone, I'd also be interested in hearing other experiences on the program, here's hoping we all get better!

I tried 12 different things for my hips and my back before I understood what I was doing wrong. One physio told me to stop training. Another left me on read after I sent him my MRI scans. It took me years to see what all 12 had in common: every single one worked on the place where the pain showed up. The tight spots got stretched, the weak spots got strengthened and the sore spots got released. Cool, it worked, for a day or two - those muscles genuinely were tight and sore. Then the pain came back, because whatever made them tight was still running every time I trained. That "whatever" lives in the movements you already do. If the deep muscles that hold your spine stopped doing their share years ago, your lower back covers for them in every rep all day, every day. The next thing you try lands on top of the same pattern and wears off exactly like everything before it did. So the useful question was never "what should I add?" It's "what is my body doing in the movements I already make?" Here's how you can check it this week: pick one exercise from your training and do it at half speed. Slow enough that you can feel what's actually happening. A foot you can't feel the floor through. Ribs that flare the moment you push. A pelvis that moves when it should hold still. Speed hides all of it - slow it down and the pattern has nowhere to go. (If you're on the Back Pain Protocol, you're already doing it hehe) Comment what you noticed - which movement fell apart or what you couldn't feel at all. That's usually the pattern pointing at itself. P.S. I filmed myself running this exact check across five movements - standing, deep core, bending forward, hip extension, rotation - if you want to train along… linked below

My scan says I'm broken (literally, see the photo). I have irreversible hip impingement, a spine rotation nobody could explain and on paper it reads like someone who should be careful getting out of a chair. Now, see 2nd photo - Today I did handstands, I trained deep ranges, I moved however I wanted, and I didn't think about my back or hips once. My hip is exactly as 'broken' as it was on that scan. So how does the "broken" scan belong to the person doing handstands? Because a scan is a photo of you lying dead still for a few minutes (damn I'm having shivers just thinking about laying in that tube). And your back or hips probably don't hurt just lying still. It hurts in the nine hours you sit, when you twist to reach the back seat or in your third set in your workout. Guess what, none of that is on the scan. It can't be. The scan never saw you move. I found this out the hard way. Years of waking up in pain, more than five specialists, litres of tears in my car after that one word on repeat: surgery. I said no because nobody could even tell me why it kept happening and I wasn't going to let anyone operate on me just because something is wrong in a photo. So I went and found the answer myself. A clear scan and you're told "nothing's wrong" - so why does it still hurt? A bad scan and now you're scared of your own back, guarding a bulge that half the pain-free world is walking around with too. Either way you walk out with a label and no answer. The question no scan can answer is the one that actually matters the most: --> what is your back doing the second it hurts? what sets it off, every time? and what changes when you change how you move? That's the whole reason I created the Movement Mastery Method - to answer the question no scan ever did. If you're ready to understand what your back is actually doing, here's how it works: → The Movement Mastery Method

Physio, stretching, mobility, strength, chiro, massage, programs, injections - what’s your number? And what is it? Can you beat my number of 12 (if I can count lol)?