Lucas Hardie grew up playing multi-sports — baseball, hockey and rugby. He wasn’t much for training in the gym until he suffered a knee injury in his senior year of high school playing rugby. He spent all his time in the gym after that and particularly found an interest in strength sports.   Lucas became a certified personal trainer in 2005 and began helping people transform their bodies and minds through strength training. It was at this time that he also started competing regularly in Powerlifting.   In 2014, Lucas suffered a bicep injury which led him to a dark place. Prior to the injury he was working towards getting on an international stage in powerlifting and had devoted all his time to this goal.   Lucas came out of the recovery realising that he had developed an extremely poor body composition and that his movement capacities were limited from training. He knew he had to make real change in his flexibility.   Lucas dropped all traditional methods of training and started exploring the depths of what he didn’t know. He sought out disciplines that required higher degrees of flexibility such as Gymnastics and Circus Training and began applying these concepts.   After three years of hard devoted training, Lucas developed a full Front Split, Side Split, Pancake Split, Head 2 Toe, and a decent Back Bridge.   You can hear more about this journey in this Range of Strength podcast episode.