Rewind the clock to sometime in the spring or maybe early summer of 2015.
What started as a hamstring injury a few years prior had mutated into the gamut of posterior chain issues.
I was still training (I have trained week in, week out, planned rest weeks aside since 2009) but my efforts were, with few exceptions, miserable and unproductive.
Deadlifting was the worst of all.
Since the injury, I could just about manage two or three ugly reps with 150kg (a load I was throwing around with contemptuous ease for sets of ten plus prior) because, for some unfathomable reason, I simply could not get the weight to budge from the floor.
It was the strangest feeling. I knew the strength was there based on my other lifts but my body seemingly “shut down” the moment I tried to pull, resulting in the bar moving, at most, a few inches but more often than not staying firmly rooted to the ground as if held there by neodymium magnets.
A Big Problem, of that there is no doubt.
However.
At the time, I had a frightful attitude towards spending money on personal development.
Why?
I erroneously believed there was no need to pay a professional when I could get all the answers for free on the internet.
Hence, I struggled along with patchwork solutions based on online “research” (which mostly consisted of reading random people give answers to those whose symptoms were similar to mine on forums and in Facebook groups).
Then, one day, for reasons I am not entirely certain of, I decided to throw £20 in the direction of an accomplished powerlifter who owned the gym I was training in for an hour of his time.
He identified my problem (which had very little to do with the injury, instead being principally a form issue) and furnished me with a solution that worked basically immediately.
The immoral of the story?
Doing your own research is commendable, but absent the knowledge and experience to sift the wheat from the chaff and put what you keep into practice, seldom will you find the answers you are looking for.
Much better to simply pay an appropriately qualified and experienced professional for those answers.
Best of all if you can find an appropriately qualified and experienced professional who will work with you to make sure you implement his advice correctly.
Funnily enough, I offer exactly this service to subscribers of “The Phil Tyreman Letter”.
Moreover, December’s issue of the Real Paper newsletter is all about getting answers to burning training-related questions, as I have collated the best questions I have been asked this year and answered them fully.
As an extra bonus, all subscribers (including new subscribers) can select one free copy from the following books I sell:
* Shift
* The Constance Chronicles
* The Weight Loss Manifesto
* The Back and Legs Bundle
As of this writing, all the above books are in stock but if you are tardy in making your selection you may have to wait for me to get more printed.
The deadline to subscribe in time to get December’s issue is 23:59 on the 30th of November.
The details are below on the new and improved sales page:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/information/
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman