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10/22/2026

Sometimes the solution is a lot simpler than you think. 👇

After 12 years working with Olympic athletes, special operators, and everyday people who just want to feel and perform better, I’ve learned something.

Most people don’t need more complicated solutions. They need a better understanding of what their body is actually asking for.

Maybe your shoulder has bothered you for two years. Your back keeps flaring up. You’re training consistently, doing your mobility work, and still feel like you’re spinning your wheels. 😅

Here’s what I want you to understand. 👇

Your body doesn’t separate the stress of a heavy workout from poor sleep, long workdays, travel, or everything else life throws at you.

It’s all part of the same equation.

And sometimes the solution is surprisingly simple.

✅ Better exercise selection and programming

✅ Building strength and capacity where you’re lacking it

✅ Managing training loads and recovery more effectively

✅ Understanding when to push and when to give your body some room to adapt

Not everyone needs extensive testing, expensive treatments, or a complete lifestyle overhaul.

Sometimes you just need someone to connect the dots.

My goal isn’t to make your health and performance more complicated. It’s to help you understand your body well enough to take ownership of it.

Whether you’re preparing for the Olympics or just want to play 18 holes without your back reminding you about it for three days...

The principles really aren’t that different.

Understand the demands. Build the capacity. Keep doing the things you love. 👊🏼

10/21/2026

Pain that turns up right when a new exercise does isn’t a coincidence. It’s information. 👇

But hardly anyone investigates it, because the exercise is technically a good one. 😅

And that’s the trap. You’ll question your mattress, your desk chair, how you slept. You won’t question the thing you added specifically to take care of yourself.

So it keeps happening every day, and gets filed under being proactive.

There’s no exercise that’s good for everyone, in every amount, forever. There’s only the right amount for your body, right now. And something that’s great for most shoulders can still be too much for yours this month. 🎯

So before you add anything else, ask yourself what you added in the month before it started hurting.

👇 What’s the exercise you do every time you train (or the activity you do every day) and have never questioned?

10/20/2026

Pickleball is supposed to be the fun, low-impact sport you can play well into your 60s, 70s, and beyond, right? 😅

Well, here’s something interesting. 👇

In 2018, there were an estimated 8,304 pickleball-related ER visits. By 2024? 32,960.

And across the 2018–2025 data, 83% of injuries involved adults 50 and older.

Now, I’m not here to tell you pickleball is dangerous or that you should stop playing. Quite the opposite. I LOVE seeing people getting outside, competing, moving, and having fun.

But there’s a conversation we’re missing. 👇

Just because a sport is considered “low impact” doesn’t mean it requires very little physical capacity. The slides are what a game actually asks of you, and the qualities that support it.

Here’s where I see the disconnect.

Someone spends 20 years primarily walking, cycling, or doing a little strength training (all great things, by the way). Then they pick up pickleball three days a week and wonder why their Achilles, knees, or hips suddenly start talking to them. 😂

Your body isn’t necessarily falling apart. You’re asking it to do things you haven’t prepared it to do.

And playing more pickleball isn’t always the answer.

There’s a test on slide 15 I’d much rather run than asking how long you can stand on one leg. It’s not perfect and it’s not the only thing I’d assess, but it’s a whole lot more relevant.

The goal isn’t to make pickleball easier. It’s to build a body that can handle everything the game throws at it. 💪🏼

Because I want you playing at 75, not spending your 60s recovering from injuries that potentially could have been prevented.

👊🏼 If you’re tired of your body limiting the things you love doing, DM me FIT. Let’s figure out what your body needs to keep you doing them.

Source: NEISS pickleball injury estimates reported by ValuePenguin, 2026.

10/19/2026

Your warm-up probably isn’t why your knee hurts playing pickleball. 👇

But it might be where you first notice the problem. 😅

I hear it all the time.

“I probably should’ve warmed up better.”

Maybe. But let’s give those 5 minutes of leg swings a little less credit.

Your knee didn’t suddenly lose its ability to tolerate force because you skipped a few stretches.

Pickleball demands a LOT more from your body than most people realize. 👇

❌ Decelerating your entire body weight on one leg

❌ Rapidly changing direction and accelerating again

❌ Absorbing force in positions you rarely train

❌ Repeating all of that as fatigue sets in

And if you haven’t prepared your body for those demands, a few extra minutes of stretching probably aren’t going to change much.

But here’s where I DO think warming up matters. 👇

It’s an opportunity to assess what your body is giving you that day.

✅ How does your knee tolerate a quick lateral shuffle?

✅ Can you decelerate and control your body weight on one leg?

✅ Does pushing off and changing direction feel different from last week?

✅ Are you moving confidently, or already protecting something?

That’s useful information.

And I’d much rather you discover those limitations at 50% speed than chasing a ball across the court. 😂

You don’t need a 20-minute mobility routine before every game.

You need to progressively expose your body to what you’re about to ask it to do.

Start slow. Build speed. Add some lateral movement, deceleration, and single-leg loading.

And if something doesn’t feel right?

Pay attention. Modify the intensity. Figure out WHY.

Because ultimately, the best warm-up for pickleball is the strength, capacity, and movement variability you’ve been building the other 6 days of the week. 🎯

Your warm-up helps you assess your readiness.

Your training builds it.

👊🏼 If your knees are limiting your time on the court, DM me “FIT.” Let’s figure out what your body actually needs to keep you playing.

10/18/2026

Rest protects a tissue. It doesn’t prepare it. Those are two different jobs, and physical therapy should be doing the second one. 👇

Because rest does work. It calms things down and it gets you out of pain. And then you go back to the same life that caused it, with a body no more ready for that life than it was before. 😬

A few others I’d want the younger version of me to have understood 👇

❌ “Let’s see how it feels in 2 weeks” isn’t a plan. It’s a delay with a follow-up appointment attached.
❌ The spot that hurts is rarely the spot that caused it
❌ You can’t assess someone properly in 15 minutes
❌ Most people aren’t fragile. They’re under-prepared, and under-prepared is fixable

And the one underneath all of them 👇

𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀.

Feeling better is where care usually stops. Being more capable is the job. 💯

👇 What’s the one thing you’d tell your younger self about your own body?

10/17/2026

Sometimes surgery IS the answer. I’ve referred plenty of clients to surgeons, and I’d do it again tomorrow. ✅

But most people who end up on that path never had anyone in the middle. 👇

Something hurts. You don’t know why, which is the scary part. 😬

So you ask your trainer. Your chiro. Your buddy who had the same thing. A physician you got in with after a 3-week wait.

4 slightly different opinions. You go from confused to overwhelmed. 📉

So you do the thing that feels definitive. You get the MRI. 🩻

It shows something. It always shows something. Most people over 40 have “abnormal” findings on imaging even when they feel completely fine.

But now there’s a name for what hurts.

And the next appointment on your calendar is the surgical consult. 🎯

Zero to a hundred. And nothing existed in between.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝗯. 💯

👇 Has anyone ever shown you what the middle option looks like?

10/16/2026

Telling a disciplined person to do less is the fastest way to get them to stop listening. 👇

Which is why I’ve laid the whole case out in the slides instead of just saying it.

Nobody has ever needed talking into training harder. That’s the easy conversation, and it’s the one almost everyone gets. 💯

👊🏼 Doing more than ever and still not getting better? Or scared that backing off undoes what you’ve built? DM me FIT.

10/16/2026

Sit all day? Tight hips.
Run 40 miles a week? Tight hips.
Squat heavy? Somehow, still tight hips. 😅

And everybody’s convinced they need the same hip flexor stretch.

“Tight” tells me what you feel.
It doesn’t tell me why.

Maybe you rarely move into that position.
Maybe you’re asking more of your hips than they’re recovering from.
Maybe you can move there, but struggle to produce force or control it.

All worth looking at before we decide something needs to be pulled on harder. 😂

Stretching can help you feel better. I use it too.

But if the relief lasts 20 minutes and you’ve been stretching the same spot for two years…

We should probably get curious about why it keeps coming back.

Can you control the range you have?
Can you get strong there?
Does your training give you a chance to recover?

That’s the conversation I want to have. 👊🏼

👇 What’s the one spot you’re constantly stretching?

10/12/2026

I know this face way too well. 😅

Usually followed by:
“But I’m playing pickleball tomorrow.”

And golfing Sunday.
And Monday is leg day.

Now we’re getting somewhere. 😂

I’m asking you to manage your training load, eat enough to support everything you’re doing, and try something beyond the same three exercises you’ve been doing for five years.

Apparently, tape and ibuprofen sounded easier. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Look, I’m not against tape, or other temporary pain band-aids...Sometimes support or symptom relief can help.

But if you need it for every round, every match, and every workout…we should probably have a conversation. 👇

How much are you asking your body to handle across the entire week?

Are you eating enough to support it?

Are your exercises actually progressing?

Because that “casual” two hours of pickleball still counts.

So does the Saturday morning 30-mile bike ride with friends to get coffee.

Your body has to recover from those, too. 😅

You can be incredibly consistent with training and consistently underfed for all of it.

You can do your “rehab” every morning and still be using the same little band you started with two years ago.

That’s where I want to make changes. 🎯

✅ Organize your week so the same tissues aren’t getting hammered every day.
✅ Increase calories when your food isn’t keeping up with your activity.
✅ Add and progress exercises that prepare you for what you actually want to do.

I want you saying yes when your friends ask you to play.

And I want your body prepared for everything else you’ve already said yes to. 💯

👇 What have you been taping up or taking ibuprofen for that probably deserves an actual plan?

10/11/2026

Go through all six.

Count the ones you would fail today. 👇

Then DM me that number.

I will tell you what it usually means and what I would do about it.

No pitch, just the answer. 👇

Most people I assess fail two. 😅

And almost every one of them says the same thing first 👇

“Well, I am 45.”

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟰𝟱.

I work with people in their sixties who pass all six.

And people at 38 who fail four. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Every one of these is capacity.

What your body can currently tolerate.

Capacity responds to what you ask of it. 💪

It always has.

So if you failed two…those two are still there.

They are just not being asked for. 🙌

👇 How many did you fail? Send this to someone and make them do it too.

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