CoachTerrell

veteran · Atlanta, GA

Strength coach, 19 years. I care about tendon stiffness and tolerable load. Peptides are the last five percent of the conversation for most people.

Joined Aug 2023 · 334 posts

You cannot inject your way out of a bad program.

Recent posts

• Do NAD+ supplements really work?

  People will spend $200 a month on NMN pills while sleeping five hours a night and eating 60 grams of protein. Get your load management and basic nutrition right first.

  15h ago

• Is BPC-157 a growth hormone?

  People hear tissue repair and immediately think anabolic or HGH. It is not a hormone. But extra blood flow to a tendon still means nothing if you are not applying tolerable mechanical load to lay down fresh collagen.

  1d ago

• What does BPC-157 do for the body?

  It signals fibroblast activity and triggers angiogenesis, which basically means building new microscopic blood vessels into hypovascular tissue like tendons. But extra blood flow means nothing if you are not placing tolerable mechanical load on the tendon to align those new collagen fibers.

  1d ago

• Is GHK-Cu safe to use?

  Dana, you are not missing anything. People look for systemic shortcuts for tendon rehab because heavy eccentric loading and progressive resistance take months of boring work. GHK-Cu injectables have zero completed human trials showing they repair a damaged patellar or forearm tendon. Sleep, adequate protein, and load management are what build collagen in connective tissue, not unproven injections.

  2d ago

• Is MOTS-c legal to buy?

  That is right, Dana. It is not approved for human use. If your energy is low, start with sleeping eight hours and getting your daily protein up, not unapproved mitochondrial peptides.

  2d ago

• What not to mix with sermorelin?

  If he is on an active course of oral steroids, his connective tissue loading capacity is already compromised. Sermorelin is not going to magically override systemic inflammation or tendon weakness while he is in an active flare. Get the physician clearance, but focus your screen on tolerable isometric loading first. Peptides are a footnote when tissue tolerance is low.

  3d ago

• Rehab at home without gym access: structure, adherence, and load

  Good point, Carl. Set up the environment so there are no excuses. For a simple home progression: Phase 1 is 45-second isometric holds (4 to 5 sets daily) to drop pain and build load tolerance. Phase 2 is heavy slow resistance (3s down, 3s up) with single-leg deficits or bands 3 to 4 times a week. Phase 3 is plyometrics. Don't jump ahead until early phases are painless. Progressive load builds tendons, not magic shortcuts.

  6d ago

• Rehab at home without gym access: structure, adherence, and load

  Bodyweight reps won't cut it for patellar loading. You need real time under tension like 45-second isometric Spanish squats or wall sits with a heavy band. Mechanical load is what actually lays down collagen while you run your cycle.

  6d ago

• Things you believed in year one that you do not believe now

  From the coaching side: believing load management just meant reducing load. It mostly means distributing and progressing it. Taking weight off the bar is an emergency brake, but I used it as my default programming for years.

  11d ago

• Forearm tendinitis from typing, where do I even start

  Add grip work once you handle the eccentrics. Forearm capacity is your buffer here. Build stronger forearms and you fix the current issue while preventing the next one.

  11d ago

• Did BPC-157 do anything or was it just the eccentrics finally working?

  Credit the eccentrics. It is the only thing you started with actual controlled human data for patellar tendinopathy. If you credit the wrong one and drop heavy slant board squats, you will find out the hard way in two months.

  12d ago

• BPC-157 vs TB-500, which one would you look at first?

  There it is. No peptide fixes a return to play progression you keep skipping. Set a hard cap on jump volume by week and make someone else enforce it.

  14d ago

• Is a three peptide recovery kit worth it over just one?

  Cost is the third issue. Stacking three compounds gets expensive fast, and that money comes directly out of your budget for things with actual evidence: good physio, coaching, or just better food and sleep. I am not anti-peptide, but don't blow your recovery budget on the least proven tools first.

  16d ago

• Heavy slow resistance vs eccentrics, what I actually tell people

  That is the single most common reason people think nothing works for them. Week five is right in the trough where it feels completely pointless, so people switch programs right before adaptation kicks in.

  18d ago

• Six months, bilateral tennis elbow, here is my honest summary

  Respect for calling out your own confound before I had to. That week 5 to 10 grip bump is standard once you actually fix your wrist extensor loading after four years. I am not saying the peptide did zero, but the loading tweak alone accounts for most of that curve.

  18d ago