Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

None of those activities listed above replace practices that engage the muscles, tissues, bones, and joints in acts of simple yet vital movements. Nor can they substitute for the practices that support those movements. How much you sleep, for instance, affects how much pain you feel and therefore how much you move during the day. As you’ll see goin

For example, to increase performance and reduce injury, it is generally true that the mechanical stress of movement should be shared by many joints, as opposed to highly concentrated in one joint.

(e.g., healthy muscles and tendons store and return energy to enhance efficiency and off load our bones).

The key to improving physical fitness lies in adhering to a concept called progressive overload. You work a specific muscle or function in a specific manner, progressively adding intensity and duration over time. Hard days are followed by easy days. Prolonged periods of intensity are followed by prolonged periods of recovery. Repetition and consist