Why we never recommend brands, gear, or supplements.

Search for "returning to exercise after surgery" and you'll find braces, bands, apps, powders, and recovery gadgets stacked into nearly every article. Some of it is reasonable. Much of it is generic advice with a product bolted onto the end. We decided early on that this workshop would not work that way.

The reasoning is simple

The moment a workshop starts recommending a specific brand of resistance band, a particular supplement, or a named piece of equipment, the incentive structure shifts. Even with good intentions, it becomes harder to separate "this principle is generally sound" from "this product happens to fit our recommendation." We would rather keep those two things fully apart.

There's also a practical reason. What equipment or setup makes sense for you depends on things this workshop cannot see: your surgical history, your home environment, your doctor's specific restrictions, your physiotherapist's plan if you have one. A generic product recommendation aimed at a room of hundreds of attendees cannot account for any of that. So instead of pretending it can, we don't try.

What we teach instead

General, transferable ideas. The logic behind starting around twenty percent of a previous capacity. The difference between a warning sign that means ease off and one that means stop and call your doctor. What a sensible progression tends to look like when rebuilding from close to zero. Why measuring this week against last year is one of the more common ways people get hurt again.

None of that requires a specific product. It requires attention, patience, and usually a conversation with whoever is overseeing your medical recovery.

Where this leaves you

If you're looking for a workshop that ends in a shopping list, this isn't it. If you're looking for a clearer way to think about pacing, warning signs, and expectations as you return to movement, alongside your own medical guidance, that's exactly the gap this content is meant to fill.

We are not physicians, and nothing on this page or in the sessions should be read as a diagnosis, treatment plan, or substitute for physiotherapy. When your care team's instructions differ from anything general we present, follow theirs.