• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Human Movement

Injury Rehab and Sports Performance Training, City of London

  • About
  • Process
    • Our Process
    • Muscle Activation Techniques
    • Resistance Training
  • Programmes
    • In person programme
    • Online programme
  • Resources
    • 9 key principles to help you recover from pain and injury
    • Everything you need to know about exercise at 50 and beyond
  • Blog
  • Contact

Main Content

Human Movement

Get strong, reduce pain, enjoy life.
City of London

Can exercise make you worse?

This is perhaps a surprising question to read on a website that's promoting exercise.

It's my experience however that exercise can indeed make you worse and if you’re reading this, maybe yours too.

If you exercise regularly I've no doubt you've either been injured before, or you're currently suffering from pain or discomfort.

Once you are injured most rehab professionals you visit will give you exercises in the hope of making you feel better.

Sometimes these either don't work or make you feel worse.

So what's going on?

How can something that's supposed to be good for you actually make you feel bad?

Since the early days of my career some 25 years ago, this is the question I've been trying to answer.

It was obvious to me that exercise could make some people worse, whilst others seemed to get stronger and thrive.

The issue was I couldn't reliably tell which way it would go and why.

In the years that followed I have sought to understand exactly how to apply exercise with the goal of improving anybody, no matter where their starting point is.

Here's what I've learned so far.


"The process helped me reconsider everything I had ever thought about sports, injury and training. The experience has been life changing."

Nancy Selph

Director of Strategic Operations and Innovation, Deutsche Bank

Our Programmes

Meeting you where you are and getting you stronger

In Person

At an exclusive personal training facility in the City of London.

Learn More

Online

From the comfort of your own home, wherever you are in the world.

LEARN MORE

Interested in working with us?

BOOK A CALL

“Paul has helped me greatly to understand why I have been subject to persistent injury and instituted programmes for me to correct these long-standing bio-mechanical problems. I feel that ‘everyone should have a Paul Argent’ and that would do more for the health of the nation than all the pills I dish out."
Dr Laurence Watson, NHS General Practitioner

As featured in

sunday telegraph
the guardian
cycling tips

Footer

CONTACT

Human Movement
30 Cannon Street
London, EC4M 6XH

+44 020 7183 1164
paul@human-movement.com

BLOG

  • How to get stronger without getting injured if you’re over 60 March 27, 2023
  • Why the resistance profile of an exercise matters for injury rehabilitation March 15, 2023
  • When can I stop doing my rehab exercises? March 4, 2023

FOLLOW

SUBSCRIBE

Privacy | Cookies | Terms

Get your rehab moving with our FREE guide.
Enter your name and email below.