Diamond Dallas Page became a professional wrestler at the tender age of 35 and even then, his career didn’t truly take off until he was 40. Once it did, though, Page was seemingly unstoppable. He enjoyed multiple runs as the heavyweight champion until a back injury sent him down a very different path.

“I had just signed a multimillion-dollar, three-year deal when I blew my back out,” Page said in an interview with TheWrap. “Three of the top back specialists in the world told me my career was over.”

That’s when Page was introduced to an unlikely form of therapy: yoga. While initially wary of the spiritual aspect of yoga, after a few months he began to see major improvements.

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“At 42 years old, they said my career was over. At 43, I was the heavyweight champ of the world,” he said.

Page’s workout eventually became DDPYoga, which he bills as “yoga for regular guys.” He shared it with others and began developing his own exercise program combining traditional positions with physical therapy exercises and calisthenics. “It was a 10-year overnight success,” Page joked.

He built the company into a mail-order DVD business in addition to setting up workshops across the country. He also just completed work on the DDPYoga Performance Center, a 4,000-square-foot facility that includes state-of-the-art soundstages, editing facilities, and a full kitchen that Page uses to conduct and film cooking demonstrations.

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He is developing a DDPYoga app and a new animated series of DDPYoga instructional videos for kids, which Page will star in himself “as a Spongebob-esque character.” Page also produced the documentary “The Resurrection of Jake the Snake,” which follows Page’s efforts to help rehab fellow wrestlers Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Scott Hall through sober living as well as DDPYoga.

Jim “JR” Ross