Working With Your Doctor or Physiotherapist
In short
If you are under a doctor or physiotherapist, we train alongside them, not against them. With your permission we respect their restrictions, build a plan that supports their treatment, and stay in our lane as coaches. This teamwork is how people with conditions or past injuries train safely and well.
Plenty of our best clients come to us while they are still seeing a doctor or physiotherapist, or just after being discharged. That is not a complication, it is a partnership. When coaching and clinical care pull in the same direction, you get the best of both: professional treatment for the medical side and expert strength coaching to rebuild and stay resilient.
The key is respecting the boundary. Your clinician diagnoses and treats; we coach exercise within whatever limits they set. We never override medical advice to chase a faster result, and we never guess about things that belong in their hands. Done right, this teamwork is safer and more effective than either of us working blind.
How the partnership works
- With your consent, we note your clinician's restrictions
- We build training that supports, not undermines, their plan
- We keep intensity and movements within their guidance
- We flag anything new that they should review
Respecting clinical advice, always
If your physiotherapist says avoid a movement, we avoid it. If your doctor sets an intensity limit, we train under it. Their instructions take priority over any training goal, every time. Our job is to make your exercise fit their advice, not to second-guess professionals doing a different job.
This sometimes means going slower than you would like. We would rather you progress safely alongside your treatment than rush and undo the good work your clinician is doing.
Picking up after rehab
A common and ideal scenario: your physio discharges you, says the injury is stable, and tells you to build strength so it does not come back. That hand-off is exactly what we are built for. We take their advice on any lasting limits and coach you to rebuild strength and confidence around the area, safely and progressively.
Where we stop and refer back
If something changes, new pain, a symptom flaring, anything that looks like it needs clinical eyes, we pause that area and send you back to your doctor or physiotherapist rather than push through. We are coaches, not clinicians, and knowing when to hand you back is central to keeping you safe.