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Alex Dear MSc, London (2026)

02/05/2023

What are you doing looking here? Swipe right!⁠
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21/04/2023

Robin’s incredible recovery from Shoulder Pain to Shoulder Gains!⁠
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He’d been trying out rehab exercises but they were taking up a lot of his time and he wasn’t seeing any results.⁠
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He wanted to get back to lifting heavy again, making progress and hitting PBs without worrying about making the pain worse.⁠
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He didn’t want to stop training or be told that his sport was dangerous and he had to stop.⁠
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So he reached out to me.⁠
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One of the first breakthrough moments for him was his Assessment, step 1 of the 4-Step Strong method.⁠
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We found that his shoulder mobility was 17cm less than it should have been.⁠
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This meant that the front of his shoulder was getting overloaded with too much stress whenever he went overhead.⁠
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His muscle endurance was also 50% of what it should have been.⁠
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So in step 2 we focussed his Performance Programme on addressing his ROM and endurance of the shoulder.⁠
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And after just 6 weeks we’d already got his full range of motion back (without any stretching or foam rolling).⁠
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And now he’s snatching 40kg and jerking 70kg with no problems...⁠
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He’s feeling more confident and he’s not worried about hurting himself even though the weights are going up every session!⁠
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Here’s what he had to say:⁠
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“Shoulder feeling so much better now. I feel better each day”⁠
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If you’re curious to see if you can be our next success story, send me a DM with the word COACH and let’s chat.⁠
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20/04/2023

We're looking for 4 lifters to join our team.⁠
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What results will you expect to see?⁠
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1️⃣️ Understand the root cause of your injury once and for all with our Data Driven Assessment.⁠
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2️⃣️ Measurable progress in the reduction of your pain and improvements in the root cause of your injury.⁠
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3️⃣️ A long term solution to fixing your injury so that it doesn't come back as soon as you go heavy again.⁠
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4️⃣️ Improvements in your recovery to speed up the healing process and add kilos to your lifts without any extra training.⁠
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5️⃣️ Most importantly, get strong AF by fixing your injury WHILST continuing to train heavy.⁠
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To qualify, you must:⁠
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👉️ Be looking for a long term solution instead of a quick fix.⁠
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👉️ Be willing to put in the work to get unbelievable results.⁠
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👉️ Be willing to address all the aspects of your life that are contributing to your injury (inside and outside of the gym).⁠
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Please don't waste our time if you don't meet the criteria.⁠
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We'll be strictly sticking to 4 spots to keep the quality of the service high.⁠
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DM me "INTERESTED" now and we'll send you all the details.⁠

17/04/2023

We're looking for 4 lifters to join our team.⁠
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What results will you expect to see?⁠
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1️⃣️ Understand the root cause of your injury once and for all with our Data Driven Assessment.⁠
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2️⃣️ Measurable progress in the reduction of your pain and improvements in the root cause of your injury.⁠
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3️⃣️ A long term solution to fixing your injury so that it doesn't come back as soon as you go heavy again.⁠
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4️⃣️ Improvements in your recovery to speed up the healing process and add kilos to your lifts without any extra training.⁠
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5️⃣️ Most importantly, get strong AF by fixing your injury WHILST continuing to train heavy.⁠
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To qualify, you must:⁠
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👉️ Be looking for a long term solution instead of a quick fix.⁠
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👉️ Be willing to put in the work to get unbelievable results.⁠
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👉️ Be willing to address all the aspects of your life that are contributing to your injury (inside and outside of the gym).⁠
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Please don't waste our time if you don't meet the criteria.⁠
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We'll be strictly sticking to 5 spots to keep the quality of the service high.⁠
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DM me "INTERESTED" now and we'll send you all the details.⁠
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16/04/2023

How Your Friends Can Reduce Your Pain.⁠
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Last weekend I spent some quality time with friends and family.⁠
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It’s easy to get caught up in the rat race and the things that you think are important (your career or business)…⁠
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But the things that really matter are deep and meaningful relationships.⁠
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It’s one of the reasons why getting injured is so difficult…⁠
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If you get hurt, your relationships are going to be affected in some way.⁠
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Whether it’s getting short and snappy at your partner because you’re frustrated (guilty)…⁠
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Or the fact that you can’t train with your friends anymore…⁠
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Or even worse having to watch them hit PBs while you’re sitting it out on the sidelines.⁠
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And we know that this social aspect of life can have a big influence on your pain.⁠
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So whether you’re in pain right now or not…⁠
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Make sure you spend some quality time with the people you love this weekend.

14/04/2023

You’ve probably been told before that poor form causes injuries right?⁠
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Maybe you even believed them…⁠
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I used to think that poor form was the cause of my back pain.⁠
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That I was deadlifting wrong and that’s what caused me to keep hurting it.⁠
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Then when I was studying physio I was sitting in a lecture on back pain.⁠
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I suggested that we should tell people to lift with proper technique when they have pain and use their legs.⁠
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“No”⁠
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Said the lecturer…⁠
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“Technique doesn’t prevent injury” she said.⁠
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WTF…⁠
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I’d been told for years that poor form would get me hurt…⁠
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And now I was being told the opposite.⁠
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And I couldn’t believe it.⁠
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So I did a little digging into the research and I was SHOCKED by what I found.⁠
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There isn’t strong evidence for the fact that poor form causes injuries.⁠
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In fact there are many more factors that have a much bigger impact, like:⁠
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How much weight the person was lifting⁠
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If their body was strong enough to lift the weight⁠
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How well they’re sleeping⁠
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How stressed they are⁠
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How well their mental health is⁠
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Saying that injuries are caused by poor form is an over simplification of the problem.⁠
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Form is just 1 small piece of the puzzle.⁠
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13/04/2023

If you want to prevent yourself from getting lifting injuries - stop worrying about your form.⁠
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Most people do it wrong, they spend a ton energy worrying about⁠
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The tiniest bit of butt wink.⁠
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Their knees caving.⁠
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Their back rounding 1 milimeter on their deadlift.⁠
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Limiting how much they lift, trying to perfect their form on every rep.⁠
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Because they think it will stop them from getting hurt.⁠
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Hint: it won’t.⁠
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If you want to prevent injuries, you need to focus on what actually matters.⁠
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Improving your recovery by improving your mental health, sleep, stress and nutrition.⁠
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And lay the foundation for you to recover from your training and make incredible gains.⁠
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11/04/2023

Someone has probably told you before to stretch so you don't get hurt, right?⁠

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And you probably believed them. ⁠
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Maybe even tried to do it?⁠
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Which is a shame because injuries happen when the stress on your body is bigger than your bodies capacity to handle stress.⁠
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So if you want to reduce your chances of getting hurt in the future...⁠
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You need to decrease the amount of stress on your body...⁠
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Or increase your bodies capacity to handle stress...⁠
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And stretching does neither. ⁠
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Now what if I told you you didn’t need to stretch and instead you just needed to get stronger.⁠
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Just like my client Ash who deadlifted a PB with no back pain without having to stretch ONCE!⁠
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If you want to know whether you actually have a lack of range of motion and it’s causing your injury…⁠
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DM me MOBILITY and the body part you want to test and I’ll send you over a video of how you can test yourself.⁠
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09/04/2023

My Foot Hurt So Bad I Felt Like I Was Walking On Glass.⁠
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Every step was excruciating.⁠
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I was limping like I was an old man.⁠
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And at first I couldn’t work out why.⁠
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Was it because I slept funny, because I’d had bad technique on one of my lifts or because of some kind of imbalance?⁠
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Then I realised…⁠
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On Tuesday I had a stress test for my heart.⁠
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I had to run on a treadmill while they increased the speed and incline…⁠
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Until I reached 100% of my HR max.⁠
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For context, I hate running.⁠
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And I haven’t run since I quit CrossFit in 2014 (trading it for weightlifting so I could sit down more often 😉️).⁠
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So this was a massive change to my usual training.⁠
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I was doing something I hadn’t done in years, and I went to failure.⁠
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Most people think that their injuries are because of some kind of problem with their body.⁠
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And don’t get my wrong, there are a few times where that is the problem.⁠
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But for the majority of lifters, the problem has come because they have overloaded their body with stress from their training programme…⁠
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Whether they realise it or not.⁠
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Just like me overdoing it with the running.⁠
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So if you want to figure out why you’re hurt.⁠
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Next time have a think back to what you did in your training that week.⁠
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Have you ever hurt yourself after a big change in your training? Let me know in the comments below⁠
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07/04/2023

So many lifters that we speak to don’t know what the cause of their pain is.⁠
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They’re worried about making it worse…⁠
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Doing permanent damage…⁠
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Or having to stop training 😢️⁠
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Because they don’t know what’s useful to improve the pain…⁠
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And what they shouldn’t be doing to make it worse.⁠
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Some of these lifters have even already seen a healthcare professional…⁠
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And they still don’t know what’s going on.⁠
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So the first thing we do with every lifter that we work with is their Data Driven Assessment.⁠
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We test their range of motion, strength, endurance and power to find out what the root cause of the injury is…⁠
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What’s the area of weakness that has led to them having a higher chance of getting injured…⁠
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And is limiting their progress in their training.⁠
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And we do all of the tests objectively…⁠
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Meaning we use numbers and data to back up all of the assessments.⁠
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When we have your numbers, we take them and compare them to the numbers from the research.⁠
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To identify what’s the root cause of the injury.⁠
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And design your Performance Programme to fix the root cause of the problem (WITHOUT stopping training).⁠
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This approach fixes the problem for the long term and prevents it from coming back when you start lifting heavy again to crush those PBs.⁠
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We’ve used this exact approach to help 108 lifters fix their injuries (for good) so they can safely hit PBs again.⁠
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If you want to know more about how it all works, just DM me the word ASSESSMENT and let’s chat.⁠
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05/04/2023

Here’s how Euan managed to reduce his pain, pack on muscle and get strong AF without having to stop training.⁠
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You see Euan struggled with shoulder pain for years...⁠
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He’d tried getting massages, going to a physio and resting…⁠
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Which to be honest, just led to them feeling frustrated because as soon as he went back to lifting his pain came back.⁠
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And the advice they’d been given so far?! Pfft ridiculous!⁠
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It was caused by his tight muscles.⁠
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His traps were over active…⁠
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His glutes weren’t firing…⁠
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When the reality is he’d never had a proper assessment to find out the root cause of his injury.⁠
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And because noone knew the root cause of his injury…⁠
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All of the things he’d done were guesswork.⁠
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What Euan really needed was this…⁠
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A Data Driven Assessment to find out the root cause of his injury.⁠
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A Performance Programme to fix the root cause of his injury.⁠
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Expert Coaching Feedback to help him train smarter while he recovered from the pain.⁠
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Then and only then could Euan achieve long-lasting pain relief.⁠
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And that’s exactly what we gave him inside the 4 Step Strong Programme.⁠
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We do a Data Driven Assessment to find out the root cause of your injury and give you a Performance Programame to work alongside your training to fix it (for good) without stopping training.⁠
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And now?⁠
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Now Euan is lifting 20kg more than when he started without pain and he’s confident that he’s fixed the problem for good.⁠
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So folks, if you’re ready to fix your injury without the hassle of trying and failing over again ANY MORE…⁠
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…simply drop me the words “COACH ME” either in the comments or my DM’s and let’s chat :)⁠
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02/04/2023

Over the past 2 years I’ve been struggling.

I went to see the doctor countless number of times…

The eczema on my hand has been a nightmare.

And because of COVID and the NHS backlog I have been refused to see a speclialist.

I tried a whole bunch of different creams and anti-biotics and nothing got rid of it.

Eventually the doctor told me I needed to give up being a physio…

Because having to wash my hands all the time was the problem…

So I needed to give up my career.

I was devasted, I nearly burst out crying there in her room.

Since then, I’ve managed it by using a steroid cream everytime it flares up.

I have to use it once a week to keep it at bay.

But here’s the shocking thing!

For the past 6 weeks I haven’t had to use the cream once!

I can’t believe it!

You see using the steroid cream was just treating the symptoms.

It was reducing down the rash everytime it flared up.

But it wasn’t treating the cause of the rash.

I’ve been strugglign with long COVID for the past 2 years too.

And over the past 6 weeks I’ve taken down the amount of stress on my body…

By training less, hydrating myself more and resolving my breathing issues.

And this has fixed the root cause of the problem - the stress on my body was too high…

And my bodies way of letting me know that was my eczema.

The same is true for your injury…

Stretching, foam rolling, massages and scraping are just tools to treat your symptoms…

They don’t actually fix the root cause of the injury.

Once you do fix the root cause of the problem…

You can get strong AF without worrying about getting hurt again.

Alex Dear MSc

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