Strength Training

Stop overlooking important modifications your body needs to practice exercise! It's a common misconception that something is structurally wrong with your body and therefore you can't move in certain ways or engage in certain activities. Really, it's a matter of finding the right entry point of what you can do right now. Every exercise can be modified, and it’s never all-or-nothing! Then, the real magic happens when you practice regularly and consistently while giving yourself time to get better at it. Sometimes we get so excited to get started, we get overzealous and hope we will achieve even more by sheer force and determination! This is exactly how we can injure ourselves, though - by trying to do too much, too soon, and simply overwhelming your tissue's capacity (muscle, tendon, bone, etc.) to bear a certain load. 

Lots of factors affect our physical capacity, including (but not limited to): genetics, personal history, stress level, sleep, diet, economic, social, and environmental factors. Other times, pain has become chronic and the nervous system hyper-sensitive. In these cases, turning the volume down on the pain is an important factor in determining the volume, load, and duration of your workouts. This is a collaborative process, where your feedback about how you feel after a session is essential to plotting the path forward! Together with your coach, you will progress forward, adapt as needed, and keep going.

Strength training is a practice that if you engage in it regularly and consistently, will physically transform your body! If you don't move it, you lose it - but that doesn't mean you can't gain it back 😉 The trick is, not being in a rush! Because this is something we can do for the rest of our lives.