Christopher Ellis explains how cross-training strengthens tendons and prevents injury. Football players should do slow concentric-eccentric movements; bodybuilders need box jumps. For rehab, stop the aggravating movement, then feed the tendon collagen, electrolytes, and hydration.
So what you do there is you do cross-training, right? So if you're a football player, you should also do some slow concentric eccentric movements, and conversely, if you're a bodybuilder, you should do some box jumps and things like that to load the tendon. So I'll go over some sort of key concepts in terms of rehabbing these issues. First off, you definitely want to stop doing the movement that is causing it in the first place. Temporarily. That's not to say if you do it during running, doesn't mean you can't run ever again, just means you need to let things cool off and rebuild. And then you also want to supply the tendon with its needs. So in this case, mostly it's water, electrolytes, and collagen. You could try some of those supplements that I mentioned. I think collagen goes much further just because it's such a common deficiency. So
