How to Keep Building Muscle After an Injury

23 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, JJ Virgin explains how to preserve and continue building muscle when facing shoulder surgery. She emphasizes ramping up essential amino acids and collagen intake, recommending her Amino Power Powder, Collagen Peptides Plus, and the Yoked by Myos supplement to stimulate muscle protein synthesis. She advocates using blood‑flow‑restriction (BFR) training and electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), specifically the E20 program, as safe ways to activate muscles post‑surgery. Virgin stresses the importance of coordinating with a physical therapist and suggests maintaining lower‑body work—leg press, leg extension, and leg curl—since these exercises do not involve the shoulder.

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How do I continue to build muscle after an injury? I have shoulder surgery coming up. Macros and proteins are going well. So whenever I have to have a surgery, I crank up my essential amino acids and my collagen. So my Amino Power Powder and my Collagen Peptides Plus, and then this product that I now have on my website called Yoked by Myos that helps trigger muscle protein synthesis. So I do all those things to make sure that I'm maintaining. I really love either blood flow restriction training or electrical muscle There is a lot of stimulation for this. I think especially EMS, and there is a program called E20. So see if that is in your area where you can continue to work in those areas post-surgery, especially make sure you work with your physical therapist on this. And getting your shoulder worked on, make sure that you're still training your leg presses, your leg extension, leg curl, do all the stuff that you can do that doesn't involve the shoulders.