A simple, repeatable framework built around graded exposure, modern pain science, and objective return-to-sport testing. Boring on paper. Effective in practice.
“We have a brain for one reason and one reason only—and that’s to produce adaptable and complex movements.”— Dr. Daniel Wolpert
Movement screen, strength baselines, training history, injury history. The goal isn't to label a tissue — it's to find the mechanical and behavioural leak that's keeping you stuck.
Most of the value here is honest: what loads has your body actually been exposed to, what loads has it been avoiding, and where is the gap between the two.
Dose training to what your tissue can recover from today. That might be tempo squats instead of max effort, isometric holds instead of dynamic reps, drilling instead of live rolling.
You keep showing up to the gym while we widen the envelope. Capacity is built by repeated, tolerable exposure — not by hiding from the thing that hurts.
Push capacity back to full intensity. Live rolls, max lifts, comp prep, full output. The plan only succeeds if you go back to the sport you came in from.
We test it, calibrate it, and send it. No hedging, no babying the position forever, no permanent restrictions you don't need.
Tissue and the nervous system adapt to load they're regularly exposed to. Strip the load away entirely and capacity drops — which is why the pain comes back the moment you return to training.
Graded exposure means dosing the work just under the threshold that flares you up, repeatedly, and creeping that threshold upward week over week. It's the most boring and most powerful principle in rehab.
Pain is the nervous system's best guess about how much protection you need. It's informed by tissue, but also by fatigue, stress, sleep, fear, and prior experience.
Practically: a flare-up isn't proof you've re-injured something. It's usually the system dialling up protection on a region it's been guarding. Predictable, gradual exposure is what dials it back down.
'Stop the thing that hurts' is the default advice and it's almost always wrong for athletes. Avoidance deconditions the exact tissue you need, trains a fear response, and burns weeks of training time.
Capacity work — modified, dosed, but still loading the painful position — is what actually changes the trajectory. You don't avoid the squat. You build a squat your body can handle.
I use a client management platform built by a colleague of mine — sistemiumani.com. Every session, every exercise and every progression is recorded in your own profile, so you can see exactly where you started, what you're doing, and how far you've come.
Create an account there first — it's where booking, notes and your program all live.
Set up your profile →Tell me what's going on and what you're training for. I'll build the plan around the sport — not the other way round.