Pain-Free Ability
How to increase ability WITHOUT PAIN in the process.
All day long on social media, every day, 7 days a week, holidays…
I am asked the same thing:
“I have XYZ condition. Can this…?”
And I can relate because before my pain-free ability journey I would have asked the same thing about my own long list of knee conditions and surgical alterations.
But the answer that has created thousands of success stories — not just for knees but also for ankles, hips, backs, shoulders, and more — is always the same:
“I do not address conditions. I only address your pain-free ABILITY.”
I have the lowest price there’s ever been for perfect form coaching. If I thought this was fancy or exclusive data, it wouldn’t be the cheapest.
The data is VALUABLE because it puts YOU in the driver’s seat.
Here’s the fundamental reason why:
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
I will post that line 10 times just to be extra sure everyone understands that statement, given that I’ve answered (by my estimation from the stats I keep) HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of the same questions with the same answer…
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
No research in the history of exercise and rehab has shown ABILITY in an area to be a bad thing!
So then…
My game is the ART of how to increase that ability WITHOUT PAIN in the process.
We want the area to be able to do more, with less pain.
So that’s exactly what my job is.
If I had a business card, it would read:
Ben Patrick
Pain-Free Ability Coach
Let’s take one example of this:
Why is reverse sled the start of my Knee Ability Protocol?
Why not a reverse step up?
Well, if I loaded 100,000 pounds onto a Reverse Step Up I’d die.
But if I loaded 100,000 pounds onto a Reverse Sled it just wouldn’t budge. I’d be perfectly fine!
Both exercises strengthen your knees over your toes.
Both are great exercises!
But one of them you can recover from faster.
One of them more SAFELY gets the blood flowing!
ON THE FLIP SIDE: The Reverse Sled is not as powerful to prevent injury as the Reverse Step Up!
The Reverse Step Up loads the way down, aka the ECCENTRIC, which has more power to develop the muscles responsible for your knee as well as your knee tendons. Those tendons hold the muscles to the bone and are often the source of pain and injury.
The Reverse Sled gets more circulation for healing.
The Reverse Step Up gets more long-term adaptation for bulletproofing.
Hence the sled is Step 1 and the step up is Step 2 in terms of direct knee ABILITY training.
“But I don’t have a sled!”
BOOM: My advice instantly involves Steps 1–3 of the Zero program — all of which are for muscles BELOW your knee — to gradually get that circulation going, and then studying Step 4, the Reverse Step Up, with EXTRA attention on regression. This means you have to start it:
HOLDING SOMETHING TO ASSIST YOU, resulting in LESS than your own bodyweight!
The two steps I have described so far, Reverse Sled and Reverse Step Ups (with Zero Steps 1–3 if no sled), have alone resulted in thousands of life-changing success stories.
It didn’t matter what the exact issue was.
A knee has only so many things that can be wrong with it, and we WILL gradually address it from every key angle.
But even after all of that…
The human body will still eventually decay and die.
You won’t ever be free from physics.
Life is a brutal game.
But boy, is it a lot more fun when you’re IN THE GAME instead of on the sideline.
When you’re NOT hooked on painkillers.
When you’re NOT lying on an operating table for more surgeries.
When you ARE able to exercise your body and get a good sweating workout without pain coming along with that.
When you ARE able to play your sport or do the physical activity you like to do… PAIN-FREE!
These are gifts worth WORKING for, worth LEARNING for.
The success stories in the pain/injury department are merely an awesome side effect, but the goal is increasing pain-free ability. Everything else is a bonus.
Here are two wins I received this week. One was a short-term win (weeks/months of ability training), and the other a long-term win (years of ability training):
[This next one was written below a video of him now doing the things he loves!]
Pain-Free Ability training is just one tool in the system.
I am just one piece of the system, doing my job.
There ARE many other great systems, treatments, and supplements, but I believe I better serve the system by trying to master what I’ve done most uniquely, and that’s the subject of pain-free ability.
Hence the name “Kneesovertoesguy.”
All these success stories would not exist without knees over toes. For years, knees over toes was unfairly deemed unsafe, when in reality the most unsafe thing is to lack UNDERSTANDING and ABILITY in that position!
On the app I have all my full body programs, but this week I added my short-term Ability Protocols, too:
-Knee
-Hip
-Back
-Shoulder
I believe in doing full body training, but I originally got myself off painkillers with just a knee protocol, so having these other protocols available stays true to my journey.
Thank you for your support, and thanks to those of you who have taken the time to learn it well enough to help OTHERS.
There’s nothing I’ve learned that you can’t, too.
Where you’re most fragile now is where you may have the most potential to change your life, and the lives of others.
Yours in Solutions,
Ben
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