Engineered Health

02/26/2025

Simply stretching may not be enough to relieve tight muscles.

Tightness is a sensation. It also means a muscle is vulnerable.

When your nervous system senses vulnerability, whether due to weakness, damage, or something else, it sends you a cue so you’ll do something about it, that cue is the sensation of tightness.

Adding more range of motion to a vulnerable muscle is a recipe for disaster.
It asks an already poorly performing muscle to do MORE... not a winning strategy.

If you want the muscle to feel better, you have to remove the vulnerability.

To do that, you need to know why it feels tight, and that’s easy.

Did you recently do something to cause the tightness, such as exercise or get injured?

If so, rest/recovery is your best bet. Your body is protecting the muscle while it remodels. Let it do its job.

If that didn’t happen, then weakness is likely the culprit. Weakness is the vulnerability your nervous system was trying to tell you about.

The solution? Strengthen the muscle through its full range of motion. Building strength replaces vulnerability with resilience, helping your nervous system feel safe. This reduces tightness, improves performance, and helps prevent pain and injuries.

Here’s an example: If you have low back pain and your hip flexors feel tight, stretching might make the tightness go away temporarily. But if you stretch and then go for a run and decide to do sprints, that “looseness” can lead to problems. Without addressing the weakness, your hip flexors remain vulnerable, which increases your risk of injury and may even worsen your back pain.

The solution: strengthen your hip flexors.

Stretching can still play a role—but remember, it’s just one tool. Understanding your nervous system and building strength where necessary is the key to long-term solutions.

02/12/2025

Magical things can happen when you stop believing the myth that age is holding you back.

02/03/2025

I understand how challenging it can be to cope with joint pain, especially when it disrupts your sleep. A good night’s rest is so important for healing and recovery. If you’re struggling to find comfort at night, I’m here to talk and work together on a plan that can help you find relief.

Helping active individuals to overcome pain and resume the activities they love.

01/30/2025

Online coaching is more affordable, and convenient, and can provide better results than in-person training. Achieve pain relief or prevent injuries on your own schedule.

06/03/2024

In August 2013, I injured myself doing a back squat.

The workout was a 10-minute EMOM (one squat every minute on the minute) with a weight of 275 pounds. On the eighth round, I felt a pop in my right hip at the bottom of the squat. I immediately dropped the weight and went to the ground. I sat there for a minute before trying to get up, feeling a numbness down my leg into my big toe. While I didn’t experience pain, something was wrong. The next week at the beach with friends, I limped around, trying my best to recover.

Eventually, I regained feeling in my leg and big toe and continued training over the next years, setting personal records in squat, deadlift, and sn**ch.

Conventional wisdom urged me to go to the doctor or even the emergency room, knowing it might lead to medication or surgery. But I believed that surgery should be the last option, not the first. I had trust in my abilities and sought alternatives for getting out of pain, and it paid off.

Ready to say goodbye to pain and stay active without the hassle of doctor's visits or missing workouts? Shoot me a DM and let's chat about your options!

03/15/2024

Did you know that lower back pain is not only a physical burden but also a financial one?

In the United States, we spend billions of dollars each year to alleviate this discomfort. Apart from the monetary cost, the toll on quality family time and work productivity is immeasurable. Time is precious, and lower back pain robs us of it.

Strengthening your legs is not just about looking good, it's also a vital strategy for alleviating lower back pain. By building up your leg muscles, you provide essential support to your spine, which reduces strain and discomfort.

We use a "strength balance test" to determine if there is an imbalance between your right and left legs. Based on the results, we select the correct exercises for you to ensure that you are training properly and will be less likely to experience back pain in the future.

If you are experiencing lower back pain, shoot me a DM!
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12/14/2022

The mission!

Do you ever feel like you’re too far gone?

Like you’ll never get your life or your physical freedom back?

Like you might be able to get out of pain and reclaim your lifestyle if only you were more athletic?

I have news for you.

We’ve helped tens of thousands of ppl all around the world get out of pain and reclaim their physical freedom and they weren’t all athletes.

Some were grandmothers who wanted to play on the floor with their grandchildren.

Some were older gentlemen who wanted to be able to hike in the woods and continue hunting.

Some were ppl who absolutely refused to exercise in a gym so they did the work at home with bands, light dumbbells, and a small step.

You don’t have to fit some cookie cutter mold.

What you really need is the commitment to yourself and the support of someone who’s fully invested in your long term success.

Whether you get that support from us or someone else, know this…

You don’t need to be an athlete to reclaim your physical freedom.

12/14/2022

Sometimes constantly varied means constantly the same exercises every week. 🙃

12/13/2022

It’s time to hold gyms and coaches accountable! You deserve better. Ask questions. Demand more.

09/21/2022

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Do you have a bulged disc in your back?

Do you get painful shooting symptoms down the back of one or both of your legs?

Is it painful for you to sit or stand for very long?

Do you have to steel yourself every time you bend down to pick something up from the floor?

Disc injuries suck; there’s no getting around it, but having a disc injury doesn’t mean you have to choose between a life sentence of pain and invasive surgery.

In fact, when you compare the outcomes of conservative management vs. surgery, there’s no difference after one year.

What does that mean?

If you have a bulged disc, you’ll be in the same place in one year with exercise that you would be with surgery.

Your body’s capacity to heal is truly incredible.

You just have to give it a chance to do its thing and set it up for success, and you can do it without going under the knife.

If you have a disc injury and you’re ready to get out of pain without getting surgery, we can help.

Shoot us a message, and we’ll let you know whether or not you’re a fit to work with us.

Surgery vs conservative management source- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065612/
We’ve helped tens of thousands of people get out of pain and reclaim their active lifestyles without going to the doctor or quitting the things they love. We’ve done it all remotely, and we can do it for you too.