Tactic Recovery Sports Physical Therapy

Doing your rehab but the pain keeps coming back? It’s not you, it’s a capacity problem. Here’s what that means 👇

It’s one of the most frustrating parts of the recovery journey: you think you’re in the clear, you step up the intensity, and the pain comes right back. But let’s reframe how we look at this. Pain isn’t a sign that you’re re-injured; it’s just your body’s check-engine light signaling that demand is greater than capacity.

Simply put, demand is the total stress of your training—like weight, volume, and velocity—while capacity is your body’s current threshold for how much load its tissues can safely tolerate and absorb before signaling pain.If the demand of your workout exceeds what your tissues are currently adapted to handle, your system is going to let you know.

The fix? We don’t run away from the load. We meet your body where it’s at, find your true entry point, and systematically build your capacity back up so you can train without hesitation.