Water training
Training in water
Water lets the body work hard without the load that usually provokes pain. Resistance comes from moving against the water rather than from weight pressing down through the joints, so someone who can't yet tolerate loading on land can often work properly in the ocean on day one.
Load without impact
On land, the thing that builds you is also the thing that hurts. Water changes that trade. Resistance rises the harder you push and disappears the moment you stop, there is nothing to drop, and there is no impact through the joints.
That makes it useful in the part of a rebuild that is otherwise hardest: the window where someone needs to start working again but the body is still guarding.
What a session looks like
A circuit, using drag-based resistance: fins and water dumbbells that make the water itself the weight. We take a simple baseline first, work through the circuit, then retest unloaded at the end so you can feel what changed.
It runs in the ocean at Fort Sewall in season, and in a pool otherwise.
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It isn't for everyone, and it isn't the whole programme
Water training is one tool. It suits people whose bodies are still protecting an area too much to load it properly on land, and people who want to keep training hard while something settles.
It sits inside the rebuild. It isn't a separate programme and there's nothing separate to buy. If it's the right tool for you, we'll use it. If it isn't, we won't.