Pain & Performance: The Revolutionary New Way to Use Training as Treatment for Pain and Injury

by Ryan Whited, Matt Fitzgerald

Discover how to move through pain and injury, overcome perceived limits, and be in control of your athletic performance.

Pain is universal. Athletes in pursuit of performance are not strangers to pain—in fact they embrace it. But nothing derails training faster than nagging athletic pain and injury, which all too often land athletes in an endless cycle of physical therapy or leave them sidelined from sport altogether, awaiting surgery.

Pain & Performance is a tour de force that explores compelling advances in pain science to reveal the shocking lack of evidence to support modern medicine’s approach to injury management. Author Ryan Whited shares how his own journey, as both an elite climber and a professional trainer, inspired his revolutionary Training as Treatment method for helping athletes bounce back from broken to achieve breakthrough performances. This powerful new approach to musculoskeletal health will empower athletes to move through pain with confidence and control as they continue to chase big goals.

Genres: Nonfiction

223 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 8, 2023

Reviews

[Việt Anh Nguyễn Lê · Rating 3 out of 5]

Skim-reading the last half of the book, the author repeated too much information, included too many personal stories, and mentioned too many times about his business (Advertising is good but too many).
The training as treatment itself sounds good and I believe in the method, but the writing was poor and lacked support.

[Suzanne Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

I totally agree with Whited's ideas on pain and how to deal with it, but the book was very repetitive. The science was especially interesting, but there was too much personal information that was not directly connected to the topic. We do need to change our attitudes toward pain, and this book is a good base, but I hope that other writers approach the same ideas in a less rambling manner.

[Hilary Topper · Rating 5 out of 5]

My biggest takeaway was that pain doesn't necessarily mean that you need to stop doing your workout.

[Alex Molik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Food for thought. Going to try reframing my idea of pain.

[CherylR · Rating 4 out of 5]

A New Take on athletic pain

There are some new ideas in this book relating to athletic pursuits, pain and injury. I did think it was somewhat wordy, but enjoyed it nevertheless.

[Noah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous book about how to move through a sports injury without surgery or simply bowing out.

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good info. Felt longer than it needed to be. Glad I read it, and I'll definitely be reading this periodically.

[Jessie Hodel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Interesting take and interesting stories.
However…there is no research to fully back up the claims and the author is not a doctor.

[Jack Forsyth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great information about the upcoming science and understanding of pain, how it works, and what impacts it. Skip the forst two chapters and last two chapters as they are mainly the authors life story, as well as summarizing what has already been said, and applying it to your own training.

[Justin Knoetzke · Rating 1 out of 5]

Anecdotal evidence at best.