10/19/2024
Personal ATG Testimony:
Found ATG in 2021 after getting an MRI that stated:
1. The ACL graft is completely ruptured.
2. Tricompartmental osteoarthrosis is most pronounced the medial compartment, at which location there is moderate osteophyte formation and high-grade chondral thinning.
3. Abnormal menisci.
The MRI was basically saying that my knee was wrecked, and they would already consider a knee replacement. 29 years old.
No bueno.
My brotha, .jensen_ had been telling me about “Kneesovertoesguy”. After the MRI, I looked him up. He was talking about split squats, vmo squats, tib raises, ATG squats, calf exercises, and just about 30 overall exercises I had never done before.
Ben Patrick has an insane Athletic Transformation. Couldn’t touch rim in high school, and now has an over 40-inch vertical! Look him up.
I started practicing the exercises, and could immediately tell that these exercises were training areas of my body that I had not learned to train before. The exercises were really difficult for me, but they also felt really good. Therapeutic - healing. So, I fully bought into ATG and signed up to be a coach.
ATG showed me where I was weak, and gave me the tools to start building my ability in those weak areas.
This story ties into my own personal sports journey. I really loved sports growing up, and played football, basketball, track, baseball, soccer, and even a year of middle school cross country. Being active was good for my health.
I was playing football at a JUCO, College of Dupage, when I tore my ACL, my meniscus, and caused arthritis at the top of my tibial bone. This all lead to me re-tearing my ACL 2 more times in a 4-year span. After the 3rd ACL tear, I was pretty bummed, and basically felt like I would have to give up sports for good.
I also suffered another football injury when I was only 12 years old. I broke my right arm on the shoulder growth plate, and it stunted the bone going from my shoulder to elbow. My humerus hasn’t grown since I was 12.
Story continues in comments…