Men’s Health Australia - 01.07.2018

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The Evolution

of Man

Luke Benedictus

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WHY IS DAVID POCOCK on the cover of this month’s

issue? Well, partly it’s because he can deadlift the leg

of a tranquillised elephant (see p22). But there’s a lot

more to admire about the Wallabies man-mountain than

astonishing physical strength.

Few people truly live by their values, but Pocock

never shirks a tough call whatever the personal fallout.

Famously arrested for chaining himself to a digger at

the Maules Creek coal mine, Pocock also made headlines

when he refused to marry his long-term girlfriend until

gay marriage was legalised. This isn’t the territory of

your average sportsman.

The expectations of others don’t faze him. Playing

careers in a contact sport as intense as rugby are short

and Pocock has missed more games through injury than

most. Yet that didn’t stop him taking a controversial

sabbatical last year in which he took on conservation

work in Africa, worked on his grandfather’s farm and did

a leadership course at Harvard.

Put simply, Pocock runs his

own race. And it tends to be on

some weird, higgledy-piggledy,

cross-country route that steers

him far from the footy pitch.

Sport may be his day job, but it

doesn’t deine his life.

Strangely, this lack of

professional monomania

doesn’t seem to harm his

performances with an oval

ball. He’s returned from his time of apparently hell-bent

on airming his status as one of the top rugby players

in the world. “Is David Pocock version 2.0 better than

the irst?” asked The Sydney Morning Herald in a recent

article that showed the lanker is now making more runs,

gaining more metres and making more tackles than ever.

Pocock manages to perform at this level because for

him complacency is an alien concept. When Men’s Health

met him, we encountered a deep thinker agonising over

whether he was living a life that his younger self would

be proud of. He may already be a man of genuine stature,

but Pocock refuses to settle: he constantly demands

more of himself and, you suspect, he always will.

Suice to say I’m a big fan. That’s why when I became

editor of Men’s Health a few years ago, I immediately

stuck Pocock on my irst cover. This month, I’m excited

to do so once again.

“Few people truly

live by their values,

but Pocock never

shirksatough call

whatever the

personalfallout”

RICHARD DORMENT

Editor in Chief,

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