{"id":15353,"date":"2025-11-15T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=15353"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:00:15","slug":"how-to-train-around-an-injury-tony-gentilcore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=15353","title":{"rendered":"How to Train Around an Injury \u2013 Tony Gentilcore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you make a habit of lifting heavy things it\u2019s inevitable you\u2019ll likely experience a few setbacks along the way.<\/p>\n<p>These can range anywhere from the \u201cno big deals\u201d (bloody shins from deadlifting, shoulder niggle) to the dire (disc herniation, explosive diarrhea).<\/p>\n<p>\u2026or worse case, forgetting your squat shoes on squat day.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say: Getting hurt is frustrating. Attempting to work around an injury can be even more so.<\/p>\n<p>It bothers me when people default to tossing their hands in the air and surrendering themselves to a two-to-four week window of \u201crest\u201d and rolling the dice. There\u2019s a lot of good that can be done, even underneath the umbrella of injury. Instead, I\u2019ve long championed the idea of trainees finding their <a href=\"https:\/\/tonygentilcore.com\/2020\/07\/the-trainable-menu-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Trainable Menu<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and focusing more on what they CAN do rather than what they can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to re-frame things is to <em><strong>find your entry point<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact\u2026here\u2019s your entry point making an entrance to your next training cycle while you\u2019re working around an injury.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcnRzaWM1MzIybDdvejM1NjAzaGxzdnFqMW5pemxobHp1Y3hvaWphaiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/dzASNWAtJ1C0CVQSSz\/giphy.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/LoveIslandAU-loveisland-loveislandau-sophie-monk-dzASNWAtJ1C0CVQSSz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Find Your Entry Point<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Speaking of entry points:<\/strong> I remember a few years ago when I sat down with Julian to watch the original <em>Jurassic Park<\/em>. He was four at the time. Now, most coherent parents would start with something a little less scary.<\/p>\n<p>You know, say, <em>Dino Dana<\/em> or, I don\u2019t know, <i>Care Bears<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, I went with the ginormous, scary T-Rex.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, it probably wasn\u2019t the best \u201centry point\u201d for someone who, at that point, had no idea dinosaurs weren\u2019t real. Again, maybe <em>Toy Story<\/em> or, hell, <em>Mighty Morphin Power Rangers<\/em> would have been a more germane choice?<\/p>\n<p>I gotta say, though\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Julian handled the T-Rex like a champ.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t blink once. He giggled when the guy sitting on the porto-potty met his demise.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know whether to be proud or scared shitless.<\/p>\n<p>Kid\u2019s the next John Wick in the making.<\/p>\n<h3>Okay, Cute Story Tony. But WTF Are We Talking About Here?<\/h3>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, yeah\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Lifting heavy things.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Entry Points.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve recently been making my way through Dr. Michael Mash\u2019s excellent resource, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2UxoZ0h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Barbell Rehab<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and giving credit where it\u2019s due\u2026he spends quite a bit if time throughout the course discussing the idea of entry points and how to use the concept to guide anyone\u2019s return back to a specific lift after injury.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s use the bench press as an example.<\/p>\n<p>If someone has pain when he or she bench presses with a straight bar, finding their entry point is nothing more than altering the lift the minimal amount possible in order to gain the minimum desired training effect.<\/p>\n<p>For the visual learners out there it may look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-314276 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tonygentilcore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-29-at-8.22.04-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tonygentilcore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-29-at-8.22.04-AM.png 946w, https:\/\/tonygentilcore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-29-at-8.22.04-AM-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/tonygentilcore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-29-at-8.22.04-AM-768x659.png 768w, https:\/\/tonygentilcore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-29-at-8.22.04-AM-800x687.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adapted from Barbell Rehab<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>TO BE CLEAR:<\/strong> If pain exists in the shoulder the idea is NOT to automatically regress <em>all<\/em> the way back to a push-up.<\/p>\n<p>I know some people who\u2019d rather swallow a live grenade than do that. Instead, the goal is to be as specific as possible in order to elicit a (relatively pain-free) training effect.<\/p>\n<p>If someone has pain with a straight bar FLAT bench press, however it alleviates significantly when you switch them to a decline bench press.<\/p>\n<p>Sha-ZAM.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You just found their entry point.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s DB Floor Presses for one person, and yes, maybe it\u2019s a push-up (albeit loaded) for another. The idea is to TRAIN. Moreover, it also could just come down to tweaking their grip slightly or adjusting some component of their technique.<\/p>\n<p>Rehab doesn\u2019t always have to result in sending someone to corrective exercise purgatory.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, using the squat as an example, sometimes the entry point is using a different bar (Duffalo or Safety-Squat Bar) if the shoulder is the issue, or maybe it\u2019s having someone squat ABOVE parallel if it\u2019s their knee(s) or hip(s) bothering them.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, and hear me out, we may have to combine the two: <em><strong>Not a straight bar AND above parallel<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I know what some of you might be saying\u2026\u201dTha fuck outta here, Tony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s true. (please play video below and hopefully get a few LOLs. Or not)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Don&#039;t Do It Tony (A Non-Straight Bar, Above Parallel Squat. The End of Days)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9O-8wog2GxU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And everything\u2019s going to be fine.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, more than fine.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tonygentilcore.com\/2025\/11\/find-your-entry-point-how-to-train-around-an-injury\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you make a habit of lifting heavy things it\u2019s inevitable you\u2019ll likely experience a few setbacks along the way. These can range anywhere from the \u201cno big deals\u201d (bloody shins from deadlifting, shoulder niggle) to the dire (disc herniation, explosive diarrhea). \u2026or worse case, forgetting your squat shoes on squat day. Suffice to say: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}