So for some background...
JL and I have a great relationship. He's big spoon and I'm little spoon. Joking aside, I look up to JL as a lifter and business owner. He's a great resource in our industry. His methods and personality are genuinely his own, and I think that's powerful in today's world.
Recently I've been plagued by TFL pain, and possibly some IT band tightness as well. I went through my normal rehab protocols in an attempt to fix my boo boos.
1. Body tempering IT bands and TFL's
2. Deep tissue massage ($400 worth)
3. ART ($400 worth)
4. Losing sleep over worthless squat training sessions (priceless?)
I couldn't squat over 4 plates for the last 6 weeks, and couldn't squat over 5 plates for the last 3 months. Partially due to health reasons, but mostly because the pain got worse.
It just so happened that JL texted me out of the blue and as we were catching up I figured I would ask about the issues I was having. In typical JL fashion- "Bro I can fix that."
I love JL. I appreciate his passion, balls, and attitude. But I'm also a skeptical person. I knew what RPR was- or thought I knew. I had seen him work on a couple teammates but I didn't need it at the time, which again, I was wrong about.
I took two staff members to Columbus that weekend for his Level 1 clinic. The day before, I squatted 3 plates for a set of 5, went up to 4 plates and couldn't get halfway to parallel without searing pain on both sides of my legs. Within the first hour of the clinic, we were doing some warm up drills. I started to feel "loose," so I took a step back from what the group was doing and hit a pain free bodyweight squat. The rest of the clinic was fantastic and all of it usable for anyone who trains, be it themselves or clients.
The following weekend I squatted 600x4.
So for $250 and 8 hours of my time, JL fixed my squat and gave me even more tools to prevent injury or disfunction in the future.
And the $800+ I spent the four weeks prior proved to be useless. Now, JL will tell you himself, deep tissue, ART, etc are still great tools. And RPR actually makes them MORE effective. But my body was not responding to those methods even though they proved to be effective in the past.
My point, RPR is legitimate. It looks like voodoo. It smells like voodoo. But JL and his RPR team are onto something big and USEFUL.
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