Dr. Shannon Connolly

Dr. Shannon Connolly If it hurts to move, let's learn to MOVE better. Motto: "Be Resilient"

08/10/2026

Just so you know …box jumps are NOT the only way to introduce impact back into your body.

And I would seriously NOT recommend starting there before you’ve even jumped on the ground.

I’m all for finding the VERSION of impact you can actually do right now. Not the version you see online that looks impressive. The version that meets your body where it is and builds from there SAFELY.

Part of the problem is we get way too caught up comparing ourselves to coaches who make the hard stuff look easy because they do it every single day.

That’s not a fair comparison. And it keeps a lot of women watching from sidelines, thinking they have to arrive at a certain fitness level before they’re “allowed” to start.

You don’t.

It’s that almost every “get back to impact” plan out there is either:

→ Too intense (which is why you quit by day 4, or worse, hurt yourself), OR
→ Too soft (which is why you technically kept going but never actually rebuilt the ability to handle real force)

Neither of those rebuilt impact tolerance in your body.

Back to Impact is neither. It’s a small group, a specific ORDER things have to happen in to rebuild impact tolerance without wrecking you along the way, and a real way to see yourself getting stronger week over week.

So the whole thing stops feeling like something scary you’re trying to psych yourself into.

It starts feeling like proof.

The women in the last cohort already had it in them. What they’d never had was the actual process to make it stick.

This isn’t a “try it for a week and see” kind of thing.

Rebuilding impact tolerance takes real progression, real dosing, and someone in your corner who can say “yes, ready” or “not yet” so you’re not guessing and then quitting when the guessing gets too heavy.

👉 Comment IMPACT below and I’ll send you the free 60-min training that walks you through exactly how we do it plus first access before the next Back to Impact cohort opens September 28.

08/09/2026

If a cue about your rib position was the missing piece, you’d be better by now AND HAVE EVIDENCE you’re body can handle more than it could 3 months ago 👀

The reason this matters SO MUCH is that cues on your exactly position for every single part of your body FEELS like progress. You get corrected, you fix it in the moment, you leave feeling like something got solved.

But then you show up next week at the same weight you were lifting in March.

What actually changes things is unglamorous. Pick a hard thing. Do it for weeks. Add load when it stops being hard. Track it so you can see it move. Your technique slowly naturally gets better just over time BY MESSY reps.

Know how to adjust when something gets cranky instead of stopping entirely.

That last skill is the whole game, and nobody teaches it, because it doesn’t sound impressive in a session.

The Rebuild Method is the six month version of exactly this. Not a cue list. An actual plan, with the problem solving built in so you stop needing me to tell you what your ribs are do

Drop REBUILD and I’ll send you our full breakdown on how this all works because what is the point of hiring someone if you don’t clearly understand their process and strategy?

Spicy one today. Stay with me to the end.None of this makes you a hypocrite. It makes you a real HUMAN who has been runn...
08/06/2026

Spicy one today. Stay with me to the end.

None of this makes you a hypocrite. It makes you a real HUMAN who has been running a household, a job, and a body that hurts.

You didn’t intentionally CHOOSE to deprioritize yourself.

You ran out of room and something had to go and you picked the thing that only affected you.

But the math CLEARLY ain’t mathing anymore.

So this is NOT a finger point. It’s a mirror and mirrors are insanely useful if you’re not always running away from them.

Notice the pattern. Get a little annoyed about it.

Then do ONE thing differently this week.

Awareness first. Add in some self compassion right behind it. Then the work.💜

Which one hit the most?

08/06/2026

I heard a doctor say last week that you go to physical therapy to “correct your imbalances.”

NOOOO

You go so you can be more active than you’ve been in years, and not pay for it the next day. Calm it down, then build it up. Most people never get past the calming part, which is why they stay careful forever.

Imagine going to a dermatologist about your acne and walking out with a great skincare routine while she says nothing about the mole on your back.

She gave you exactly what you asked for.

She also failed you.

Somewhere along the way, well-meaning providers started telling people they were dysfunctional. Broken. Too compensated to walk without thinking about it.

And then the advice on top of that was “engage your core and pelvic floor every time you move.”

That isn’t a strategy. That’s a full-time job.

Nobody LIVES that way.

You don’t “take 5 seconds to brace before you pick up a laundry basket.” Sure I guess you could but that a lot of remembering and energy I bet you don’t have bc you have 1000 other things to remember.

You don’t cue your pelvic floor to get out of a car.

The second you make normal movement a thinking task, you’ve taught someone their body is a problem to be managed instead of a thing that gets stronger when you use it.

Your body isn’t fragile. It’s undertrained. Those are completely different problems with completely different solutions.

Bold career move on my part, but I’d rather you leave with the truth

This is the whole premise of Back to Impact.

One woman in the current cohort did maybe 30 to 40 percent of what was programmed and her body still changed.

Not because she found the perfect corrective. Because she was more consistently active over 5 weeks than she’d been in years, and she stopped treating movement like a test she could fail.

Drop IMPACT to get on the waitlist for the next cohort. ⬇️

08/05/2026

Guys, I put on MAKEUP today to make this video 😅😂

Excited for our live session call tonight with our current Back to Impact cohort. These calls are where I catch the things you can’t see in yourself, and where the plan gets adjusted to your actual body in real time.

I’m already planning the next one, so be sure to grab my FREE TRAINING all about how to build this ⬇️

Comment IMPACT to get the link to sign up!

This is specifically to help you train in a way that doesn’t just make you strong but literally lets you bounce back.

We know “injury Prevention” doesn’t really exist. But these skills are the most PROTECTIVE things you can build into a body.

Not just mobility. Not just flexibility. Because what is the point of either one if you can’t actually use it in the moment that matters most?

08/04/2026

I could feel my blood boiling writing this.

And if you’ve been around here a while, you know it comes from the most compassionate place there is.

This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.

I’ve spent 6-plus years studying it, and I feel lucky to have gone that deep because most people never get to.

If you’re skeptical? Good. You should be. It IS different from what you’ve always been told.

But nothing changes if nothing actually CHANGES.

You already know where the old way leads.

You’ve lived it.

Keep reading. This one matters to me.

That’s the whole point of Back to Impact.

Doing it differently is the whole point of Back to Impact.

Comment IMPACT and I’ll send you the details.⬇️

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