He has worked with some of the biggest names in world sport, including Tiger Woods, Alex Rodriguez, Andy Murray, Peyton Manning, Carson Wentz, Dara Torres, Jonny Wilkinson and Frank Lampard.

He helped Latrell Mitchell to overcome a series of troublesome hamstring injuries. For Papenhuyzen, he’s been taking inspiration from Sydney Roosters, NSW and Australian captain James Tedesco, who once suffered a similar injury while playing for the Wests Tigers.

“Latrell had great results from it and I’m sure other athletes have had good results from it too,” Papenhuyzen said.

“I haven’t reached out to Latrell yet. The only guy I really reached out to was Teddy. He went through a similar injury as well.

“For me I don’t want to go into it with any expectations. I just want to go in and do my best and see how I come out of it. It’s a pretty cliche answer but I feel if you go in with expectations you’re either going to be let down or really happy.”

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“I’m going there to learn new things. I know it’s going to be tough. The result of that we’ll see in a few months.” Storm sponsor Grill’d are paying for the trip to the US.