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Running With Lower back Pain — I Have To Share This With You

Kevin Owasu Itoe
10 min readJan 25, 2021

If you pick up one good habit in 2021, let it be regular exercise and make it part of your lifestyle

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Me — Before A Run

How I Got Into Running

David’s Goggin’s book ‘can’t hurt me’ introduced me to running

It is one of the go to tools he uses to build up mental strength, push past pain to build a resilient mind

I was hooked, I am still hooked!

David Goggins: A retired US Naval SEAL. Arguably the hardest man on the planet!

Hardest man in terms of physical and mental toughness, not strength in this case, but I am very sure he has that too in abundance

I was browsing through Audible one lovely evening looking for a book I could get with my free monthly credit and came across ‘can’t hurt me’ by David Goggins

Next stop was a trip to Amazon website to read the reviews, I was not disappointed. It scored very highly in the ratings with few negative reviews

To be honest I was already sold when I listened to the sample chapter on the audible website

This book is about forming the ‘can’t hurt me’ mentality as David puts it; this will always keep us in the fight, meet the struggle, and whatever life throws at us, through it, we…

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Kevin Owasu Itoe
Kevin Owasu Itoe

Written by Kevin Owasu Itoe

Facilitator of self improvement, lifelong learning, family financial education and emotional literacy.

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