Warning: This May Upset Sensitive Strength Coaches

I get sent a lot of content from social media, and lately one topic dominates the feed—ACL injuries. They’re the talk of the town across nearly every major league sport. Alongside that, I’m also hearing more and more disgruntled strength and conditioning coaches loudly proclaiming that “injury prevention isn’t possible.”

Let’s be clear: if we’re talking about contact injuries, I’ll concede they’re right. No one can program around a 300-pound lineman diving at a knee. But when it comes to non-contact injuries—the ones that destroy careers, cost teams millions, and devastate athletes—saying prevention isn’t possible is, frankly, bullshit.

Here are the top three reasons athletes keep getting hurt:

1. The athlete is not prepared for the physical demands of their sport. This isn’t complicated. If you want to perform at high speed and high force, your body must be trained to withstand high speed and high force. Too many athletes are underprepared, and when the demand exceeds capacity, the tissue breaks.

2. In-season mobility training. This one gets overlooked constantly. Adding excessive “mobility” work in season often destabilizes joints and reduces force-tolerance at the exact time athletes need structural integrity. It’s well-intentioned, but it compromises resilience and exposes athletes to unnecessary risk.

3. Lack of isometric strength endurance. This is the hidden giant. Muscles first contract isometrically before they ever move dynamically. If the body can’t generate, tolerate, and sustain high levels of isometric force, the entire system fails. Think of it as the foundation of a skyscraper. Without depth and density in the foundation, the structure collapses under load.

This is exactly where high-intensity isometric training changes the game. With Isophit, athletes can train all three elements of isometric force production—strength endurance, peak force, and rate of force development—safely, precisely, and effectively. At minimum, athletes should be hitting the 30inThirty program four to six days a week. That’s 30 minutes per session, 30 exercises, all designed to bulletproof the body against the demands of elite sport.

The bottom line is this: non-contact injuries are preventable. We don’t have to accept them as “part of the game.” Coaches and organizations who continue to ignore high force isometrics are failing their athletes.

At Isophit, we help the world’s strongest, fastest, and most dominant athletes—and everyday people—to win more, hurt less, and age stronger!

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