Dean Somerset Reveals SECRET to Fitness Pain Free

By dpope2020

February 7, 2025

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Dean Somerset Reveals SECRET to Fitness Pain Free

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In today's video we go over: Dean Somerset Reveals SECRET to Fitness Pain Free - FPF Show Episode 161

  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 0:47 Why You Should Listen to Dean Somerset
  • 3:16 The reasoning behind our new book, "Rock Solid Resilience"
  • 5:32 One of the biggest problems with strength training hard in the gym
  • 5:59 What things actually cause an injury?
  • 9:45 Is technique actually relevant from an injury perspective?
  • 14:16 The importance of tracking volume in your training and being cautious with "spikes" in volume
  • 19:30 What to do if you have a history of low back pain to reduce future injury
  • 24:01 How to use modification ladders to train smarter when injured
  • 29:49 What to do if you have a big competition coming up and can't afford to stop training due to an injury
  • 32:08 How your level of recovery (sleep, diet, stress) correlates to injury and dictates how hard you should push in the gym 
  • 38:00 Autoregulation - How to use a training journal to train based on how well recovered you are
  • 42:32 Why people NEED to keep hurting themselves in the gym...
  • 42:49 How psychology relates to injury and what to do to protect yourself
  • 47:57 Key take-aways for longevity in training

This is the true face of fitness pain free...

- Dan Pope DPT,OCS,CSCS

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