I have osteoarthritis in my shoulders, hips and spine. This is great information for me, thank you. I continue to train every day because it makes me feel better than sitting all the time.

I had really bad arthritis in the knee, I decided to fast twice a week for 24 hours, I did this for a total of 6 months. Within the first 2 weeks, I was back to 50% range of motion. By 3 months, I was 90% with 0% pain! Basically, Arthritis is inflamation and the best way to get rid of this is to fast. I promise. And totally agree, the more you strengthen your quads and hamies you minimize the pain and increase rom.

Great video! I'm 25 now, but back when I was 17, I messed up my knee in a sports injury. It messed up the cartilage under my kneecap, all the way down to the bone. I pretty much gave up on playing sports, both at a high level and in general. But things have changed in the past three years. I've had a few minor surgeries and got some joint injections to help out (lubrification not cortisone), and they've made a big difference. But what really turned things around for me was getting back to the gym and working closely with my physiotherapist. Funny enough, the routine I've been following is pretty similar to the one in this video. I'm back to playing sports on a regular basis now. The only thing I'd say is that getting started is the toughest part. In the beginning, the pain can be discouraging.

I've been looking for a video exactly like this 😭 i was diagnosed with osteoarthritis at the age of 26 and got knee and shoulder surgery. It was tough bc all the resources and treatment plans were for elderly people. I wanted to train 😭 i just turned 30 and im working with a personal trainer and im in the best shape of my life. It's def extra challenging and you need to make adjustments but it's so worth it

I just got diagnosed with arthritis and as a young person that loves training this was a very hard hit , but this video has given me hope on how I can keep going in my fitness journey, thank you!

I developed bad osteoarthritis and tendonitis in my late 20s, due to a pharmaceutical injury. I used to lift weights religiously for years prior and got into the physical fitness lifestyle in the Army. After I developed my condition, depression came swooping right along with it, and I did not do anything with my body for 6 years. Started doing light calisthenic exercises every day, from pushups, pull-ups, jumping jacks, burpees, and the like, in addition to hiking several times a week. I even went on two 28-mile backpacking trips with my fiance, which was incredible. Do I still have pain, crepitations, popping, and discomfort? yes! but I do feel like it's helping, and I'm finally toning my body and getting into decent shape, and I couldn't be happier. It sure beats sitting on my ass all the day. I highly recommend that anyone with osteoarthritis try to train daily.

What a powerful and timely video. You ought to make a blog teaching people how to recover from paralyzing arthritis. I embarked on this road when I first trained with you. I noticed after exercise I didnt have pain as I moved. Today I'm convinced not working out is sure way to be miserable. I have, now had, rheumatoid in my right hand. Initially picking up heavy wts was too painful & difficult. Today I dont even give it a thought. What's great is my rheumatoid is arrested with no pain. Doctor at first thought I was crazy. Today doctor is now recommending wts for other clients. This was an important video. Thanks for getting the word out.

Man this is the exact vido I was looking for. The doctor told me that since I have arthritis in my hips, I can only swim now (and I want to do MMA and lift). It was really sad to learn that doing my sport will continue destroying my body. But I know that they're ofter too pessimistic, and I had to look for some additional information. Thank you for the beacon of hope!

🇳🇴Norwegian 54 year old girl here, who loved weighttraining, especially deadlift, pushpress, backsquats… but just diagnosed with arthiritis in my thumbs( bone broke due to the arthiritis and training), the roots of thumbs. Could not lift a glass😢started training again, but need your professional help: could you share training tips/programme for this kind of challenge? Thank you for motivating me🙌👏

Just found you, I've Rheumatoid arthritis, my knees and wrists mostly affected, I'm training to get fit. Now I've some hope with this video thank you!

VIPAR you are legend, I have been looking for this workout to improve my bone on bone arthritis in the knees. The workout is spot on!!!!

I appreciate this video. Not much stuff out there about working out with arthritis. Despite my young age I had been diagnosed with arthritis years ago and I stopped working out as a result of the severity of it. However, I feel its time to get back and train for strength and stability but within physical limitations and reason. I have been trying to do as much research as possible before getting started but it is definitely very limited.

This is amazing information Coach! Thank you for sharing as always, this is something that i can immediately apply to one of my clients. Its awesome to see the impact that coaches can have on peoples lives when done at a high level. I imagine that this is a technique that works well with most chronic injuries where the surrounding muscles start to tighten up and pain free RoM is restricted.

Very Genuine and very effective advice. Very helpful. Thanks a ton!

Thank you very much for posting this. I just got diagnosed, so will be using your schedule.

Wow. Thank you! 😊 My arthritis is only in my lower body, both knees and left hip. I have lower back pain but believe that is muscular strain as a result of the hip. Will give it a go.

Just got diagnosed with TKR last week. Have been using this schedule and feel much better. TBH have been doing two exercises a day morning and evening. My favorite is the squats with 5 second ISO hold. Doing that EVERY day.

I've had two hip replacements. Knees are next. Tho, when I got my hips done (which was miraculous!) I took up mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest. Coming down on hikes and scrambles are incredibly painful. I'll implement these now because I'm targeting Mt St Helens and Adams this year and want to avoid surgery if possible. Thank you.

Just ended up with another forearm splint, so this should be useful.

I have shoulders that hurt only when I put pressure on them like when I sleep on my shoulder, I stopped training upper body for that reason for about two years as I found the shoulder pain at night effected my sleep. Now train again and it seem to be ok as long as I don't do pressing exercises like benchpress and overhead shoulder press as these seem to put too much pressure on my shoulders. Pulling exercises seem to be OK and seem to help so I do mostly exercises that benefit the back. My theory now is that the all exercises using the arms also benefit the shoulders.

Please give us a demo of each exercise that you did. I didn't know all the terms.

Iv got bad hip arthritis mate, on the replacement list this is really good information

I have RA and I used to compete in armwrestling. Every doctor I have met says that I HAVE to quit armwrestling and should rather so stuff like golf and regular walks. I am 32, not 70 or something. I have gotten pretty depressed that I "have" to quit what I love. It feels like the doctorz view heavy exercise as something impossible.

Excellent video!

Would love too see a example of this for shoulders😀

I have osteoarthritis in my right shoulder and I had to stop doing heavy benches cause of the pain and I will be switching to an all dumbbell chest workout. They seem to have little to no pain when compared to using barbells. The oddest thing is that there is little to no pain while doing my shoulder presses using both barbell and dumbbell. I'm bigger and in better shape now at 51 than I was in my 20s and the thought of stopping...I can't and I just deal with the pain. Bengay does help too.

How can i adjust my powerlifting lifts to work with osteoarthritis of the thumb and wrist?

I was just diagnosed with bone on bone shoulder arthritis. I love working out with weights. I’ve been doing it for 50 years .I want to continue to work out with weights. Can you give me exercises that I can continue to do even though I have no cartilage in my shoulders. Thank you

Thank you so much for this. I’m 47, I love to train and was recently diagnosed with shoulder arthritis. Do you have any recommendations for how to learn more about designing workouts for this condition? Or are you available for remote consultation?

Can you do one for shoulder arthritis

It is about time I find this topic covered the right way for those of us who love lifting. My problem is right shoulder for long time. I would like to get bigger if possible but not sure when or if I may need replacement or infusions. Do you have any advice or experience with that in particular?Thank you!

I have osteoarthritis in my knees and spine and can't bodybuild like I used to. THANKS for this. I will modify my split a little.

My knee is destroyed to the point that replacement is recommended. I don't want it. The knee does not bend more than 90°. What would you suggest me to do on Tuesday in this case? I was a powerlifter but had to pull back over my knee because I couldn't squat down deep and without pain. Please help 🙏 After your video I see possibility for me to train legs again.

Hello! I have mild osteoarthritis and I can lift pretty heavy in the gym, the problem is the day after. My knee swells up and It is awful.

Do you have videos on these exercises for bone to bone

My wrist is fucked, training just seems to make I worse and I’m only 35, arthritis as a result of an injury, I used to be jacked but injured wrist doing close grip bench and now it’s destroyed

What about a blue-collar working job we have to turn wrenches a lot with big branches and use your legs every day

I’ve had ACL surgery a year and a half ago and I still feel some instability. Do you think these exercises would help with strengthening my knee ?

Any workout plans for arthritis in the hip?

What about hand specific?

I need this, how do I sign up?

My shoulder is literally like a tin can with rocks rattling around while doing any type of press. Pain starts out minor and 3rd set feels like more damage than good. I continue to train but wonder if I am doing more harm than good. Any suggestions for shoulder arthritis?

Can you do a video for spine and necc osteoarthritis.. Inn only 44 and have moderate to severe osteoarthritis. Ive gained a lot of weight. I used to use fitness for depression. The surgeon recommend yoga and pilates. Sounds like hell. He told me no more weights or BJJ. I don't feel good about not training. I'm honestly miserable.

That's strange that you recommend squats. It's one of the exercises that makes my lower back hurt, which I think it's caused by my hip arthritis

I just got told i have elbow arthritis :( its been depressing, Should i just stick to doing higher reps on all my exercises?

With this- will one be able to build significant muscle in their legs? Would I have to make sure that I have a full leg day at least twice a week? I don't necessarily want to compete, (as I once started to years ago), but I wouldn't mind looking rather close that I do lol! also, due to time off for healing from a meniscus tear, I have more loose skin in my leg area than I'd like. Therefore I'd like to smooth it out as much as possible by adding more muscle. I know some boy builders that have arthritis and massive leg muscles. But I think they developed the muscle moreso before arthritis decided to show up. I think they continue to train their legs b ut more for maintenance . Thnx in advance for your reply.

I have hand arthritis and struggle with holding the weights. I've started resistance training using bands to lessen the load on my hands each day, but really wanna start weight lifting again. Any tips?

Hello i have artithis in my hip but i would like to start train legs with light weights what would you advise me 😀

It was hard to find good info on that, despite having found(after digging a lot) a meta-analysis of 8 studies with a nice p value saying strength workout could restore function(don't care about the pain) around 33% and longer to find actual info on workout that isn't grandma yoga or wall push-up bs. I'm in my mid 30s and worked-out everyday, injured my collarbone at the shoulder(dumb fall) and was told by a doctor that even push-ups are out of my reach now and to go see a physio I cant afford and who wont help me staying strong. I can now forget about good labour work but I can at least feel good in my body, pull-up my own weight when needed, keep chronic depression manageable, and not be filled with absolute shame and disgust at the sight of a weak pathetic creature when I see a mirror. Now all that's left for me to do is to find tolerable work that doesn't involve lifting heavy stuff, shovelling, jack-hammering, etc(all the good stuff that I liked to do and helped me rest easy at night), pays a "living wage", isn't 90% interacting with costumer(might have to bite the bullet on that one(I'm not bad at it, It just make me feel miserable)) and all that while being the wrong gender/race/SO in the age of affirmative action(can get debts and a degree but forget about being hired and work in a lab white boy) in Canada. Thanks to you, I now see a little bit of light in the darkness that lies ahead of me.

I would like to train heavy but I have wrist osteoarthritis due to bone fusion surgery from 30 years ago. The fusion also prevents me from bending my wrist back so I can't do things like pushups. Just using the 45 lb bar for a bench press also hurts a great deal. Any pressure on the palm hurts a lot so tricep dips are also extremely painful. Is there anything you would recommend? It's a very frustrating situation.

Hello my name is John Im 25 years old and have osteoarthritis in my knees hips and most of my spine.......i was 300lbs but i've dropped to 282 and been maintaining weight while trying to lean up but i still cant to the physical side- i dont have weak muscles in fact quite opposite....the chronic pain is what prevents me from working out...the hardest part of training is pushing past the burning pain in my muscles..but combined with the pain in my joints it basically makes my body start to freeze up....any suggestions??????

Can I do power lifting everyday with arthritis? I don't do toning lifting.

I found out by my doctor that I have spinal arthritis and it’s difficult to swallow the truth. 💔it really sucks knowing that I can’t lift heavy weights anymore

It is about time somebody admits 3 sets of 8 to 12 is still possible i am gonna bfr bands 3 of 11 to 15 !

WHAT ABOUT IF YOU STAND ALL DAY AND YOUR KNEE GETS SWOLLEN EVERY DAY AND YOU HAVE TO ICE IT EVERY DAY I ALREADY HAD THREE AMNIOTIC STEM CELL INJECTIONS IN IT TWO. I THINK WHAT YOUR SAYING HELPS , BUT NOT FOR EVERYBODY. AND YOU SHOULD NOT BE LIFTING HEAVY AT ALL BECAUSE YOUR TEARING UP MOR CARTILAGE MAN.

I have pain in my knees and thought it was soreness from squatting. Quit for 3 months and didn’t improve. Got an XRay and was told I have knee arthritis. Got really depressed but this video has given me hope. Going to start working out again(and visit a PT for advice) but rather than only doing back squats probably going to vary my leg workouts a bit. Thanks BTW what is a good replacement for sled drags? I do my workouts at home and don’t have room for a sled. And do the sets have any warmups?

I have bone on bone arthritis and I can’t even do leg press I can’t even bend my left leg as far as my right leg and I can definitely not touch my butt to the ground with my left knee bone on bone arthritis cause there’s no Cartlidge left dude dude

Would this work for rheumatoid arthritis as well?

Do you have boat on bone arthritis do you know what it feels like or you're just going by what they tell you it feels like

Great fcking haircut is what Im saying...also thanks for the shoulder help my brother

Hey bro I am 24 and was diagnosed with facet joint arthropathy. I love gym and want to be a powerlifter focusing on squat bench dl and ohp. How can i keep doing this bro? I feel like this condition is going to put me in a wheel chair