Anthony Astbury had a collapsed lung at 20 that sidelined him for six months. During recovery he read Men's Health and learned to rebuild his body from scratch. He now treats physical fitness and financial health as foundations that have to come before anything else.
Questions this video answers
Spontaneous pneumothorax (left lung collapse)
About 20–21 years old
About six months
Men's Health or Men's Fitness (he references Men’s Health/Men’s Fitness)
Chapters
You know, I. I'm curious because, you know, in your story and your pillars, I know you just, you know, outline there real quick. Like, I like that you focus on physical and financial, too, as a place to start, because I feel like, again, a lot of therapists or a lot of coaches, like, skip over that. Like, I think we go. We want to go straight to that emotional, you know, straight. Straight to the trauma, you know, or straight to the mindset or, like, try digging as deep as possible for. But I think for most guys, like, we feel masculine. Yeah. When we're making money, when we're being fit. So can you tell me about that? Really focusing on that foundation.
There two ways for me, let's take. Took the. Let's take the physical first. When I was 20 or 21, you know, I used to play football, but I didn't really go to the gym when I was that age, because, to be honest, I was just busy having fun and going out, drinking, chasing women and playing football. Like, what more do you need at that age? And I had a collapsed lung. That's called a spontaneous pneumothorax, which meant my left lung collapsed. I thought I was having a heart attack because it's the same symptoms. You got pain in your chest, your left arm goes numb, you can't breathe. All sounds like a heart attack. And long story short, I had a couple of nasty operations, but it meant I was unable to exercise at all for about six months, which, as a guy that was really active and played a lot of football and athletics and everything was really, really hard. And in a way, what that got me into was during that time, I would start reading, like, Men's Health magazine. There was nothing else around, really. I think it was men's health or men's fitness. That was probably it. And, you know, I started devouring that information, and I kind of wasted away because I was slim anyway. But what I then did was learn enough to be able to build back my body and weigh more. You know, I added a lot more muscle and, you know, had a low body fat, you know, a lot more muscle. So I was a lot stronger and capable.
