When I have the opportunity to see clients who have had injury, illness, disease, etc., it always amazes me how rushed we all want to return them to being 100% immediately. The deeper I get into the fitness post rehabilitation "mode", the more I have realized that we all need to "slow down". The need to allow the muscles to respond, the need to allow the joints to acquire the support, the need to be patient so that the body can begin and continue to heal. In addition, when I say rushed, I am meaning that our program design takes the progression too fast too soon. Unloaded programming may take longer than we wish to admit. The key is to ask why are we rushing? Are we wanting to progress the client and demonstrate more difficult exercises?.....wrong! Are we wanting to show progression......may be, but more than likely, we as fitness professionals think we need to .....WE DO NOT. Slow down, allow the muscles to respond, allow the body to heal and perform correctly, and continue to provide quality of care.
