513 Performance Training & Physical Therapy

Injury prediction is one of the biggest myths in sports performance.

Despite dozens of movement screens and "injury risk" tests, the research is clear: no single test can reliably predict who will get injured.

That doesn't mean assessments are worthless. We use them all the time.

Assessments help us identify strengths, weaknesses, mobility restrictions, asymmetries, and performance opportunities. They help us build better training programs.

What they don't do is tell us with certainty who's going to get hurt.

So instead of asking, "Is this athlete high risk?"

Ask, "Is this athlete prepared for the demands of their sport?"

That's where we should spend our energy.

Strength. Capacity. Recovery. Progressive loading. Smart return-to-sport decisions.

Those are the things we can actually improve.

👇 COMMENT YOUR OLD INJURY (ACL, ankle sprain, low back, shoulder, tennis elbow, etc.) and we'll reply with one of our favorite evidence-informed exercises to help build capacity and reduce the chances of it coming back.

📖 Story Time 📖

The secret to playing golf forever?

This past weekend I was talking to a friends dad. He recently played a golf outing for his high school reunion and said everyone that used to be good was now terrible

Why?

Not because they lacked skill but because they were out of shape. It wasn’t that the skill they had 10 years ago disappeared, they just weren’t fit enough to display it

Bad backs and bad knees were the culprit, not an inability to square the club face or make putts

And guess what? NOW they’re trying to get in shape, but they are so late they’re playing catch up

My friends dad? He smoked them all. Hit 80 yards past them, didn’t wilt on the back 9, and barely broke a sweat

Not because he spends hours practice every week, but because he spent hours in the gym every week

Plan accordingly

Stronger grip = Longer life. But why?

Many people see that stat and star my training their thinking it means they’ll live longer

But what they don’t realize…

Grip strength is just a proxy

Grip strength is CORRELATED with grip strength, not causative

The things you do that improve your grip strength are what make you live longer, not the grip strength itself

So focus on getting strong, being active, and enjoying it along the way because no one measure will keep you alive, general fitness will