28 Jun 2026 06:00
Tendinopathy: Why Getting Stronger Doesn't Fix It (and how to keep training)
Tendinopathy is the injury most people quit on. Recovery takes months, progress feels random, and there's a billion-dollar market selling miracle fixes to people desperate for relief. Jarlo has been treating it for 28 years and has dealt with it personally for years at a stretch.
In this conversation we get into:
- Why getting stronger and feeling better don't track as cleanly as people assume, and what actually seems to drive recovery
- The protocol question (isometrics, heavy-slow loading, daily moderate-rep work) and the practical answer about which one to pick
- How to tell within a couple weeks whether something is helping, without doing mental gymnastics to convince yourself
- Activity modification that lets you keep training through it, including the order-of-operations fix that finally settled a year of Jarlo's knee pain
- Why "pain free" is the wrong finish line, and what to track instead so you don't bail at month four
If you've got a nagging elbow, achilles, shoulder, or knee that's been around longer than it should, this one's for you.
