Field Guide 19 — Post-Injury

The first month back is where most people ruin the next twelve.

This guide is explicitly supplementary to qualified clinical care; if your injury was serious enough to need it, see a physiotherapist, and their protocol overrides anything here. What it actually handles is the psychological and behavioural side of the first four weeks, the part no rehab sheet covers. Three priorities: comply with your clinical care, refuse to catastrophise, and keep training whatever you safely can. Healing tissue needs appropriate loading, not bubble wrap, and staying active in modified form protects your identity and your head. Brad stops entirely after every injury, eats and sleeps worse, panics about lost gains, and rushes back, turning every recovery into two or three.

Includes the complete audiobook (MP3, AI-narrated).

Nelson Sequeira is a certified fitness professional with 15+ years of experience across Portugal, Bahrain, and the UAE. He is not a licensed nutritionist, physician, physiotherapist, or psychologist. Nothing here replaces qualified medical or clinical advice. Consult a licensed healthcare professional before starting any new training, nutrition, or recovery program.