Picture the trainee every coach has met. They sprained an ankle, tweaked a knee, strained a shoulder. The injury isn't catastrophic, but it's real. Week one: they stop everything. Week two: they catastrophise. Week three: they panic about lost gains. Week four: they test the injured tissue early because their patience ran out, and the injury re-opens.
That four-week pattern is the most common cause of the recovery taking three times longer than it should.
Inside this one
- 22-page pocket field guide for the four weeks after injury, supplementary to qualified clinical care
- Week-by-week structure across acute, sub-acute, and transition phases
- "What still trains" table — how to keep over half your training going around most injuries
- Mental-health protocol — identity, mood, social connection, when to escalate
- Cited foundations on early appropriate loading, fear-avoidance, and cross-education
- Full Technical Addendum with peer-reviewed citations — audit me
The standard it is held to
Every factual claim in this volume names its source, and every claim carries a confidence grade — settled, strong, emerging or contested. Where the evidence is thin, the text says so. How it’s made, in full → · What we’ve got wrong →