I didn't just study injury.
I lived it.
In 2019, a tackle during a competitive soccer match ended my season in seconds. I came off the pitch with a torn ACL, a torn meniscus, and a 3cm fracture in my femur. Surgery followed. Then came the part nobody warns you about — the year after.
Nine months without training. Over a year away from sport. I did everything right — physiotherapy, rest, the standard protocol. And it worked, technically. I was cleared. But it realistically took me two years to feel like my old self — far longer than any timeline physio gave me. Cleared doesn't mean strong. It doesn't mean confident in your knee on a pitch again, or able to cut, sprint, and compete the way you could before.
The gap between recovering and returning to your former level is the part standard rehab doesn't address. I felt it every day. The frustration of not knowing which exercises were helping versus hurting. Whether to push or pull back. Whether the discomfort I felt was progress or damage. There was no roadmap for someone who didn't just want to function — I wanted to perform.
So I built one myself. My degrees in Kinesiology, my training certifications, the textbooks, the research, the hours of structured online education — I pulled all of it into the gap between physio and peak performance, and applied it to my own body in real time. I learned how to read what my body was telling me. How to choose the right exercise at the right time. How to train intelligently through recovery instead of waiting for it to be over.
That process gave me back everything. The strength. The speed. The confidence. Soccer. And then some — today I'm in better shape than I was before the injury. I have arthritis in that knee from the damage, and I don't feel it. Not because I ignore it, but because the right programming builds the kind of strength and stability that makes it irrelevant. That's not luck. That's structured, intelligent training applied consistently over time.
It also gave me a framework I now use every day with clients who are exactly where I was. Injured, frustrated, and capable of far more than anyone is showing them.
If you've been discharged from physio and told "you're good to go" — but you know you're not — this is exactly what TrainThroughIt was built for.