Gradually increasing exercise intensity below the pain threshold signals nerves and muscles that it is safe to progress and build tolerance.

“if you can play right below that threshold in fact this is how a really high class physical therapist will adjust or will will uh go after pain what we want to do is let's say your hip hurts every time you do um running okay great we're not going to go take four weeks off running that's generally a terrible strategy what we want to figure out is okay what speed does it hurt and how many miles does it start hurting at Great and then I want you to go below that line and I want to do it and take a day off and do it again take a day off and do it again and now next week let's go 1% higher and what you're going to notice happen is that Baseline of pain that pain threshold starts to move up mhm because you have desensitized pain desensitization is”