26/02/2026
What to do when you’re injured ⬇️⬇️
Firstly, your coach/PT/gym mum is not a physio or a dr (unless they are and then skip this part).
They probably don’t have the qualifications to tell you what’s wrong, so if something persists or leaves you with unbearable ‘f**k my life’ pain, then please book in with a specialist 🫶
Injury doesn’t mean you stop training, it will probably mean you have to work around it though.
Easy things to do are swap to machine based exercises and work around the area you’ve injured.
- don’t say f**k it and make it worse 🫠 if you messed up your shoulder and decide to do shoulder press, it might just make it worse or make recovery slower.
- recover. There is nothing wrong with taking some time to recover. If you have to just do leg day with a little bit of upper for the next three weeks, so be it.
- strengthen your weak areas. You may be more prone to injury in muscles that are weaker than others or that you’ve injured before. Working with both a physio and coach, you should be able to find exercises to help strengthen these to prevent future pain
- don’t self diagnose 😩 unless you are a specialist, don’t just go ‘my shoulder hurts so it must be my rotator cuff’. Trust me, I’ve done it and even as a coach, turns out I was wrong. There are specialists for a reason.
Last thing - as you get older, it may be worth actually doing a little mobility and stretching here and there 😅 and I’m not saying a whole ass yoga routine, but at least warm up your movement patterns with either body weight or a light weight before you working sets. You only get one body so you should probably look after it ❤️❤️
