The answer may surprise you.

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

Day by day, week by week, here is how you can deal with the quickly-changing and very challenging aspects of getting over an injury.

In order to get to the point of actually getting better and taking rehab seriously, a lifter must be willing to shift from short-term to long-term focus. Here’s what we did and how I think most rehab for strength athletes should be structured.