Learn exactly how to work with injured athletes, help them get out of pain and bulletproof them against future injury.

Do you want to be an expert working with athletes in the fitness world?

When I graduated physical therapy school I knew I wanted to work in fitness.  Working as a personal trainer and coach previously, I practically went to physical therapy school solely so I could figure out how to work with my painful athletes better.  

At the time it was very frustrating because if one of my athletes got hurt when I was training them I'd send them to a local physical therapist and or a physician.  These medical professionals would promptly tell my athlete:

"of course you got hurt, you shouldn't be performing deadlifts!"  

I get it, deadlifts can be tough on the lower back but it can't be that these exercises are inherently bad for you?

Are All of These Movements Really Just Plain Terrible for Your Health?!?

Needless to say my athletes were really frustrated by the doctor and physical therapist's advice. They'd often leave the doctor's office offended and left thinking, "wow, this was a major waste of time and money."  ​

So here's the problem in a nutshell...

• Injuries Happen in the Gym
  As much as we'd like to think that everyone is always injury free, people get hurt training in the gym from time to time.

• Doctors and Therapists Aren't Always Thoroughly Equipped to Deal with These Injuries
  Many healthcare providers don't exercise at all, let alone work with athletes to get them back to training in the gym.  Advice is often sub-par or just plain wrong.

• Athletes Don't Trust Healthcare Providers
  Due to a lack of understanding and knowledge of what our athletes want to get back to, athletes become weary of advice from medical professionals.

So off I went to physical therapy school to learn how to help my painful athletes and build their trust.  Problem solved right?  Unfortunately not...

I finished school with a lot of great knowledge but really without the specific tools to help the athletes I wanted to work with.

Sure, at this point I could easily work with folks with shoulder pain but what about someone with shoulder pain that hurts only during bench press? 

So basically what it comes down to is that University education simply isn't adequate...

• No Advice on Proper Exercise Execution
  You're lucky to receive some basic info on how to squat and deadlift appropriately, let alone olympic lifts and more complex gymnastics movements.

• No Information on Exercise Modification
  Modifying exercise training programs is essential for rehab of these athletes.  Most programs simply don't cover this.  

• No Help Creating Rehabilitation Programs
  Universities are not even teaching you how to evaluate a squat, let alone how to get back to squatting after an injury...

• No Help with Future Injury Prevention
  Since injuries in this population are at best a small part of the curriculum of most universities, injury prevention isn't even on the radar.

• Of Course Coaches are Left Confused and Frustrated After School...

Now, it doesn't feel good to get so much education and still feel like an idiot when you've got an injured athlete right in front of you to work with.  

The main reason I went to school was to become a leader in my community helping athletes deal with complicated pain problems.  I didn't feel that way at all.  Due to a lack of specific training I was actually still left with a sense of:

After all, these athletes should have access to competent and effective coaches who can help them with their injuries.

I didn't feel like I left with the expertise I desired and was starting to feel like part of the problem and not part of the solution...

Over time I was finding I had a lot of success working with these injured athletes.  They trusted me, went through with the plans I created for them and got back to the training they loved.  It was wonderful and I now feel like I'm truly doing what I set out to do a decade ago.