Rehab & Recovery

If you want to make a career out of working with strength athletes, there's one thing that's more important than everything else.

While I wait for my new heart, CT Fletcher's updates and posts about his recent heart transplant have me thinking about the recovery process.

The practitioner-based model is an overworked, overburdened system that leads to scarcity problems and a largely insufficient amount of time spent serving those in need of the services. RPR overcomes every downfall of this model.

It doesn't matter how hard you train if you don't recover. Clint has used a lot of different tools to help with recovery, and these are the ones he relies on most often.

Putting Dr. Rusin's new plan to the test, this video shows a full session of Dave's revised upper body training days.

I needed to know I wasn’t going crazy for wanting to know where things were scarring down, and I needed to know what to expect based on the injury itself. So I broke the mold a bit.

Whatever you want to call this tool (compression tape, floss band, voodoo bands, or something else) it can be incredibly useful in ways often overlooked.

With two phases of training complete, the upper body training days must now be adjusted to continue Dave's progress. This is the new plan.

Dr. Rusin already explained the alterations to Dave's program after the first two phases. Now it's time to see them in action.

Once you’ve started the waiting game and it has sunk in you’re out of training for a while, there are definite ways to set yourself up for success. This is something I'm currently experiencing myself after tearing the adductor longus tendon from my pelvis.

Now that Dr. Rusin and Dave checked in and reviewed the previous progress, it's time to make some changes to both the max effort and dynamic effort lower body training days.

Dr. Rusin returns to the elitefts headquarters to get an update on Dave's progress through two training phases.