#116: Dave Wood: What the Trainer to the World’s Best Athletes Knows About Stress That You Don’t

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. Why recovery - not work rate - is what separates the rural professionals still performing in 20 years from the ones who burn out. And the ice bath moment that taught him the most important lesson he's ever carried: be your own voice. If you sell for a living, run a farm business, or lead a team - and you know how to push but not how to pull back - this one's for you. Connect with Dave: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenrosen/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/integrated.training Know more about what he does ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://wmw.co.nz +++ Take my new AI rural sales training tool FieldCoach for a 15 day test drive for $1. No subscriptions or contract. Cancel anytime: ⁠https://www.ruralsalessuccess.com/fieldcoachio-welcome⁠ Grab your copy from Amazon⁠ here: https://www.amazon.com.au/365-Days-Rural-Sales-Mastery/dp/B0F1489HH4/ (or join our Facebook Group below to get a free online copy). Want to make more rural sales? Get your FREE copy of my first book “How To Succeed In Rural Sales” ⁠Ebook: www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/ebook Connect with or Follow me on LinkedIn: nz.linkedin.com/in/stjohncraner Subscribe to my weekly rural sales email (which goes out to 3500+ rural sales professionals worldwide) here: bit.ly/3voaPS7 To join our private Facebook Group where we share a ton of free rural sales and lead generation tools almost daily join here: www.facebook.com/groups/285326399207141/ For details on our training programmes you can check out what we do for sales teams with our Rural Sales Success™ programme here (www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/programme-invitation) or for managers with our Rural Sales Manager Mastery™ programme here (www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/programme-invitation) For more on us, what we do and who we work with: www.ruralsalessuccess.com / www.agrarian.co.nz