Speaker bio
Dai Manuel, health and fitness speaker
Dai Manuel is a health speaker and fitness speaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has spent close to thirty years coaching men over forty on strength, food, sleep and the habits that make any of it stick. He is the author of The 2% Solution, host of The 2% Solution podcast, and the coach behind DadBody.
The story he tells on stage is his own. At fourteen he weighed more than 250 pounds, the biggest kid in almost every room. He lost the weight, kept it off, and turned the advice people asked him for in the gym into a career. He has rebuilt his health twice, and that is what he speaks about: change that survives a real life.
What he speaks about
The 2% Solution
Small daily work that survives real life, not heroic plans that do not. How thirty minutes a day, kept for good, beats every thirty-day shred ever sold.
Men's health after 40
Strength, sleep, food, stress and the midlife drift. What actually moves the needle for men with kids, jobs and knees that have opinions.
Habits that stick
Why routines die after two weeks and how to build ones that survive a bad week. The behaviour change side of health, from thirty years of coaching.
From 250 pounds at fourteen
Dai's own story: the biggest kid in the room, the decision that changed it, and what twice rebuilding his health taught him about change that lasts.
Credentials
CrossFit L2, HYROX L2, Precision Nutrition, NeuroChange Practitioner. Author of The 2% Solution. Host of The 2% Solution podcast, with more than a hundred and forty episodes on men's health, habits and midlife fitness. Coach to hundreds of men over forty through DadBody.
Booking
Keynotes, workshops, lunch and learns, and emcee work. Rates, topics and a booking calendar live on the speaking page, and every enquiry goes straight to Dai.
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