Eating well, exercising regularly, and taking care of your body is hard. Having health problems is hard.
Choose your hard.
“Rehab is training in the presence of injury.”
- Phil Glasgow, former Chief Physiotherapist for Team GB
Going to physio and never having your exercises progressed is like running 1 mile every day in the hopes of one day being able to run a marathon.
“During bench press and row exercises, rotator cuff muscles contract in a reciprocal direction-specific manner in their role as shoulder joint dynamic stabilizers to counterbalance antero-posterior translation forces.”
J. Electro. Kin. 2011
Higher quadriceps strength was significantly associated with less progression of knee cartilage damage in females. This suggests the potential protective role of quadriceps strength on joint structures in women.
- Gong et al. 2022 BMC Musculoskelet. Disord.
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Eating carbohydrate soon after exercise will result in faster glycogen synthesis than delaying it by 2 hours. @mysportscience
Being taught rehab exercise by a physio who has never trained before is like being taught swimming by a coach who’s never been in the water.




