Maintaining joint health becomes increasingly important as we age to ensure we can remain active and pain-free for as long as possible. Traditional strength training, particularly with free weights, can sometimes place excessive stress on the joints, leading to discomfort or even injury. If you suffer from arthritis, previous injuries, or simply seek a safer alternative to high-impact workouts, flywheel training might be the perfect solution.

Eccentric training has been popular among elite level athletes to both rehabilitate from injury but also serve as a means to help protect against injury for decades now. Only recently have safe and easy to use retail products become available to offer these scientifically proven benefits to everyday users.

We will be covering the basic fundamentals of what eccentric training is, the science demonstrating how and why it is effective in injury prevention and refer to different methods and products available on the market that can help you get started.

A year ago to this very day I experienced a terrifying collision while pushing my surfing limits on a small island off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Not from a surfboard or the seabed but from getting caught out by a rogue giant wave that punished me in a Godly fashion- something resembling a sock being sledgehammered before thrown in a washing machine running at full tilt!