Discover a practical guide to lifelong strength training that adapts to your unique movement patterns, training stage, and capacity. It offers self-assessment tools and varied modifications—from squats to pulls and core routines—to help prevent injuries and build a program that evolves with your needs for sustainable gains.
Learn how to build the resilience to strength train for a lifetime.
Pain is a poor coach, and the old adage “if it hurts, don’t do it” leaves a lot of questions: Why are you hurting? Should you keep going? Should you change your training entirely? Rock Solid Resilience teaches you how to build a resistance training program based on how you move, your stage of training, and what you’re capable of achieving-all so you can build the resilience to strength train for a lifetime.
A practical guide on how to train for longevity, Rock Solid Resilience equips you with knowledge about how injuries happen and what you can do to prevent them before they interrupt your training. You’ll learn to determine whether an injury can heal with rest, if adjustments can be made to safely keep going, or if you should consult a medical professional.
A self-assessment will help you ascertain your body type’s strengths and weaknesses so you can manage your training workload with the proper difficulty level and progression. Overviews of basic movements-including squats, deadlifts, pushes, and pulls-are complemented with variations to make them safer and effective for your specific needs: