Train Through It: The Pain-Proof Strength Playbook

If you've ever been told to "just stop training" until you're fixed, you know how isolating and frustrating that advice feels. You're not broken. You're not fragile. You just haven't been given a plan that treats your body like it's capable of more than managing symptoms. This playbook is for lifters dealing with pain, injury, or chronic conditions who refuse to let their diagnosis become their entire identity. It's for the person with the cranky hip who misses squatting heavy. The postpartum athlete told to wait months before loading again. The chronic pain warrior who's tired of organizing their whole life around what might hurt. Inside, you'll get seven tactical plays Dr. Susie uses with her own clients—real frameworks for finding entry points, respecting symptoms without letting them run the show, and building capacity while your body adapts. Each play walks you through when to use it, how to execute it step-by-step, and what it looks like in practice. No fluff. No "just think positive." Just the honest, unglamorous work of training through hard stuff without making it worse. Dr. Susie has spent five years navigating her own symptomatic hip impingement and labral tear while staying under the barbell. She's a physical therapist and strength coach who's lived the slow, unsexy process of rehab that actually works. This isn't about hacking your way to pain-free overnight. It's about sticking with the process long enough for your tissues and nervous system to catch up, so you can fall back in love with training again.