Morning,
Has anyone watched his videos, bought his program, or followed and tries his ideas with the free videos he has out?
He is not your typical bodybuilder, but is more about athletics and mobility and trains athletes. Has strong/larger than average legs, but does not look like your typical guy who trains upper body/lifts for aesthetics.
Anyway - I have a torn meniscus, tried the best braces with hinges, rehabilitation and even peptides which are useless for where my tear is. There is no blood flow and the Orthopaedic Doctor I work with knew what most peptides were (being a world class powerlifter) and said peptides are not going to help due to the lack of blood supply. The general consensus is to leave it as you need the cushion or you can have part of it removed and a full knee replacement in your future. I am looking into PRP and other modalities, but decided to start watching some of his videos after seeing another guy at the gym doing a 'unique' mobility warm up prior and between sets.
I asked him and he has a torn meniscus and told me about Ben Patrick, and he is now able to squat reasonably heavy weight, do a full leg workout without pain.
As it related to me, I was doing progressive overload on my legs, incorporated leg presses, belt squats, a one leg press movement, a lot of glute work as everything I read indicates there is a connection with your glutes and your meniscus. Regardless, your glutes are your largest muscle and to ignore training your butt makes no sense.
When I started doing more isolated exercises such as reverse hyper-extensions, heavy hyper extensions, heavy glute bridges for my posterior chain, all my leg lifts went up and I noticed growth.
Now I am in pain sitting in a normal work chair, it hurts to walk a few miles, albeit the brace (I spent the money and bough one with excellent side support, a proper hinge and two ways to tighten it above and below the knee does help but wearing a brace is a crutch and will most likely weaken one leg compared to the other.
Back to my point of writing this - many people have severe knee injuries or just pain. I am incorporating some of his movements in my mobility training before I touch a weight (just started so too early to know if I will see a benefit). I am at a point where I already decided I am getting surgery if this does not work. I am on a waiting list for the best knee Orthopaedic Surgeon in this Province who also offers other modalities to see if it can prevent surgery, but will discuss the three surgical options as I want to avoid a meniscetomy.
Any input on this guy/experiences would be appreciated.
thanks
Has anyone watched his videos, bought his program, or followed and tries his ideas with the free videos he has out?
He is not your typical bodybuilder, but is more about athletics and mobility and trains athletes. Has strong/larger than average legs, but does not look like your typical guy who trains upper body/lifts for aesthetics.
Anyway - I have a torn meniscus, tried the best braces with hinges, rehabilitation and even peptides which are useless for where my tear is. There is no blood flow and the Orthopaedic Doctor I work with knew what most peptides were (being a world class powerlifter) and said peptides are not going to help due to the lack of blood supply. The general consensus is to leave it as you need the cushion or you can have part of it removed and a full knee replacement in your future. I am looking into PRP and other modalities, but decided to start watching some of his videos after seeing another guy at the gym doing a 'unique' mobility warm up prior and between sets.
I asked him and he has a torn meniscus and told me about Ben Patrick, and he is now able to squat reasonably heavy weight, do a full leg workout without pain.
As it related to me, I was doing progressive overload on my legs, incorporated leg presses, belt squats, a one leg press movement, a lot of glute work as everything I read indicates there is a connection with your glutes and your meniscus. Regardless, your glutes are your largest muscle and to ignore training your butt makes no sense.
When I started doing more isolated exercises such as reverse hyper-extensions, heavy hyper extensions, heavy glute bridges for my posterior chain, all my leg lifts went up and I noticed growth.
Now I am in pain sitting in a normal work chair, it hurts to walk a few miles, albeit the brace (I spent the money and bough one with excellent side support, a proper hinge and two ways to tighten it above and below the knee does help but wearing a brace is a crutch and will most likely weaken one leg compared to the other.
Back to my point of writing this - many people have severe knee injuries or just pain. I am incorporating some of his movements in my mobility training before I touch a weight (just started so too early to know if I will see a benefit). I am at a point where I already decided I am getting surgery if this does not work. I am on a waiting list for the best knee Orthopaedic Surgeon in this Province who also offers other modalities to see if it can prevent surgery, but will discuss the three surgical options as I want to avoid a meniscetomy.
Any input on this guy/experiences would be appreciated.
thanks
