For Active, Athletic Men & Women Over 35 Who Struggle With Sore, Painful Knees From Strength Training, Running, And Other Fun Activities...
"Here's How I FINALLY Got Rid Of 25 Years Of Chronic Knee Pain Using The All-New 'P3 Protocol' - And You Can Too..."
From The Desk Of Geoff Neupert
Overlooking Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA
Dear Friend,
Do your knees get sore from working out? Maybe after squatting, lunging, or any other lower body work, like running or rowing?
Or maybe your knees get sore while you're working out?
Or maybe you have chronic knee soreness - even pain - that never seems to go away no matter how much "pre-hab" or "post-hab" or stretching, foam roller-ing or joint mobility work you do?
If so, this very well could be the most important letter you'll read all year.
Before I tell you more about how this exciting new protocol will work for you, -
Watch the following video of my kids and I at the park this past summer and -
Pay Close Attention To What Happens At The 32 Second Mark...
Just in case you missed it, here's screen shot of what happened:
Apart from me playing "Scary Monster," take a close look because all my weight is on my right knee - the one where I’m missing cartilage under the kneecap...
... The one I dislocated while wrestling back in 1989, and when I did, it punched a hole in the cartilage...
... Which, according to my orthopedic surgeon, looked like a “pothole in the road with an elevated lip on one edge.”
And that meant nearly every lunge, squat - every step I took after that moment - that “lip” caught and created a “pinch” in the front of that knee.
And That "Pinch" Was There
For 25 Years!
And as you might imagine, it almost drove me crazy!
Plus - over the years I also developed burning hot pain in my left knee!
And since you're reading this letter, you may already know me from maybe my work in the kettlebell industry or with Original Strength Systems, let me give you a quick recap of how I got here and more importantly - why it matters to you right now...
Back in May 2010, after spending over $24,000 in health and fitness certifications and the previous 14 years trying all sorts of “cutting edge,” and “alternative” therapies...
... Two friends, my wife, and I stumbled on what can only be described as a “divine idea,” that stopped the pain dead in its tracks and started keeping it from coming back.
But I had to keep tweaking it and playing with it until by May 2012 I was for the most part - pain free.
Ultimately, one of those friends, Tim Anderson, became a business partner and we ended up writing books, teaching workshops, and certifications to fitness pros and healthcare providers like physical therapists and chiropractors all around the world -
The United States, Singapore, Australia, Czech Republic, and Italy to name but a few…
Unfortunately, even though I was able to return to my beloved sport of Olympic Weightlifting, there was still one thing bothering me…
One Thing Gnawing At My Conscience...
After 7 years of "resetting," including hardcore crawling with 200 pounds of chain attached to me for 1/4 mile, I still couldn’t do lunges very well - at least not predictably and reliably without experiencing some kind of soreness in my knees…
And that’s because what I’d done before was really designed to make me “resilient,” but not intentionally “fix” anything. That “fixing” was just a pleasant side benefit.
That’s when I went back to my “lab” and started ripping apart everything I’d done before.
I ended up viewing what my business partner and I taught (all still valid for becoming ‘resilient’) through a different lens.
As a result, my wife, Courtney, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, and I combed through the scientific literature to see if we had any justification for our observations…
And we isolated out what we call the “P3 Protocol.”
It's based upon the key elements, common threads, and the established research that I’d had used to eliminate my knee pain in all other movements.
And when I consciously applied them to my lunge?
I Was Able To Get Up Off The Ground That Day With My Daughter Wrapped Around My Neck - PAIN FREE.
In fact, I didn't even give it a second thought that day - just as it should've been!
It wasn't until later that day that I realized I'd become 100% pain free while lunging and that the last piece of the puzzle was complete!
Since then, I’ve been double, triple, and quadruple-checking this “P3 Protocol” with my private coaching clients, many of whom used and even been certified as coaches in my previous system…
… And we’ve seen spectacular and immediate results.
(And not just for knees - shoulders, hips, lower backs, elbows, necks… but that’s another story for another time....)
If you’ve tried other knee pain solutions in the past only to see little if any results, or you had short-term results but the pain snuck back in…
It’s NOT your fault.
That’s because all -
Every Other Knee Pain Therapy I'm Aware Of Treats The Symptoms,
NOT The Root Cause.
For example, in the case of most non-contact and “overuse injuries" -
The soreness and pain causes you to move differently than you're supposed to move.
These "different-than-natural-movements" are called movement compensations.
You may have been told these movement compensations show up as tight muscles - like tight quads or hip flexors or even your calves.
So you might’ve tried “foam rolling” your tight muscles or “smashing” them with a lacrosse ball to improve “tissue quality”...
… But after weeks of foam rolling, stretching and "strengthening," like me, the pain comes back when you’re no longer “warmed up.”
The real problem is none of that.
The real problem is that because of environmental factors like leading a sedentary lifestyle, walking looking down at a smart phone, and sitting in front of a computer all day long…
Your Body Has Lost
Motor Control.
Motor control is your “brain-body connection” - the ability to move how you want, when you want. It’s subconscious and voluntary.
Losing motor control is liking blowing fuses or tripping circuits in your home’s electrical panel.
Sure, you still have electricity, but you temporarily lose it at one or more outlets. Flip the switch back on or worst case, replace the circuit, and all the lights and outlets are back on once again.
And the good news is -
Just like flipping the switches back on in your electrical panel, you can “flip the switches back on” in your brain...
So you can move your body the way you're supposed to...
The way you want to - running, jumping, hiking, lifting, playing sports...
With no more knee pain.
Decreased Pain In As Little As
5 Minutes
I'm not the only one who's experienced these amazing results.
Case In Point:
“Amy” was stunned.
She came over the other night to help my wife with something. And she made the “mistake” of mentioning how her right knee had been hurting for the last 4 weeks while running.
I offered to show her how to use the "P3 Protocol" to make her knee pain disappear.
Interested, but skeptical, Amy, a classically-trained physical therapist, squatted down on her the balls of her feet and pointed out where she could touch her left heel to her butt.
Not so on the right side.
There were a good 5 to 6 inches between that heel and her butt - plus... it hurt.
One drill later and 3 minutes later, she had narrowed that gap to an inch and the knee was just stiff.
Five minutes after that, she was sitting on her right heel - pain free.
She was fascinated as we explained the simple - and scientific (not “woo-woo”) reasons why it worked.
Here’s Why The
"P3 Protocol" Works
Remember, knee pain is a result of a loss of Motor Control.
And in order to banish knee pain naturally - and quickly - you must “tap into” your body’s “electrical circuitry” - your Central Nervous System, which is comprised of your brain and your spinal cord. That is where Motor Control is created, established, and maintained.
But it’s also where you lose it - not at the joint or muscular level, contrary to popular belief.
And regaining Motor Control is actually surprisingly simple and exceptionally easy - which is what the "P3 Protocol" does for you.
I'll tell you more on how to do it in just a minute, but first, you may be wondering -
“How Do You Lose Motor Control
In The First Place?”
Great question.
Inactivity, a sedentary Western lifestyle, and sitting.
According to Harvard Health[1], sitting causes tight hip flexors and hamstring, which can cause knee pain.
Hence some of the popular advice that didn’t work for me: Stretch your hip flexors and hamstrings.
Here’s what’s really going on to cause you to lose motor control.
When you sit, more often than not, your head “falls” forward into your computer screen, or whatever it is you’re working on…
Or if you’re watching TV in the evening after a long day of work, your head is either supported by a pillow or slumped forward toward your chest.
Your body is a very smart “machine” that works much like a computer - on an Input-Output basis.
It uses your senses to provide what’s called “sensory input” to produce a result called “motor output” - like reading the words on this page, walking to the fridge to grab a bite to eat, or driving to work.
Do the same thing over and over and over again, and a “program” is created in your brain that makes it easy for you to do.
A perfect example is practicing a sport or musical instrument or learning to drive a car. At first, nothing is easy. But after enough time and practice, you get a varsity letter, can write your own songs by ear, and drive while texting.
The problem is, you’re naturally supposed to walk and stand with an upright posture, with your head sitting on top of your shoulders. This is the position in which your muscles and joints work optimally.
In fact, you are “programmed” for your body to follow your head. Where your head goes, the body naturally follows.
But when you’re sitting all the time, your head slumps forward, changes your posture, and your body follows.
This changes the joint mechanics of every joint in your body and often times creates and “upstream effect” which means -
More often than not, pain manifests in your knee, but it’s not the root cause of it.
I know this may sound hard to swallow, but the good news is -
There's Plenty Of Research
To Support This...
… As well as nearly a decade of my own personal and professional empirical evidence provided by my personal clients, and thousands of people around the world.
For example, here is what some of the scientific research shows about anterior head position (also known as forward head posture):
Forward head posture decreases your ability to breathe correctly. It causes expansion of your upper thorax (chest/torso) and contraction of your lower thorax.[2],[3]
And the inability to breathe correctly has also been shown to reduce Motor Control.[4]
Furthermore, forward head posture changes your center of gravity, pulling it forward. This causes excessive stretching of ankle joints to maintain body balance. Those stretched ankle joints restrict movement of the hip and knee joints.[5]
This can cause reduced function of both those joints, and then cause pain if they’re moved into positions which they can no longer go.
Therefore, we need to re-establish normal, natural head position and normal natural breathing to start to recapture motor control.
But, If That Isn’t Proof Positive That Sitting Is Bad For You,
There’s More…
The inability to breathe correctly, decreases your ability to create Intra-Abdominal Pressure (IAP), which is necessary to stabilize your spine and pelvis (Lumbo-pelvic stability).[6], [7]
Lumbo-pelvic stability is important for proper locomotion and movement:
Walking, running, jumping, etc, because it provides a stable platform from which to generate force. [8] In other words, you can’t shoot a canon from a canoe.
Loss of lumbo-pelvic stability (also known as ‘trunk stability’ and ‘core stability’) has been shown to predict increased risk of knee injury.
In other words, if you’re lacking core stability, you at increased risk for knee pain. [9],[10]
It Gets Even Worse...
Loss of lumbo-pelvic stability has also been demonstrated to cause lower back pain.[10], [11],[12]
This is important for three reasons -
First, lower back pain can cause quadriceps (the muscles on the front of your thigh) weakness and quadriceps weakness can lead to knee pain.[16],[17]
Second, research has demonstrated that direct lower back treatment can resolve anterior knee pain.[18]
And third, and most probably importantly…
The research has also demonstrated that forward head posture correction helps reduce lower back pain.[15]
Why?
Because because restoring head control restores proper breathing.
And restoration of proper breathing restores proper lumbo-pelvic (trunk/core) stability…
… Which in turn reduces the risk of future knee pain and can reduce and even eliminate current knee pain through restoration of motor control.
What About Those Tight Quads, Hips, and Hamstrings?
Often times you'll read articles in popular magazines like Runner’s World, Mens Fitness, Womens Fitness, Shape, etc., that tell you to stretch your tight quads, hips & hip flexors, hamstrings and calves.
You’ll may also read things like you have a muscular imbalance between your quadriceps and hamstrings -
So make sure you "stretch your quads and strengthen your hamstrings."
Or your tight hip flexors are keeping your hips from working properly. So stretch them and do some targeted glut/hip work like “clamshells.”
All those things may or may not apply to you.
But one thing that applies to all of us is the following:
One of the four quadriceps muscles - the rectus femoris - attaches to the pelvis.
The hip flexors - the psoas and the illiacus - attach to the lumbar spine and pelvis.
The gluteal musculature (hips) attach to the pelvis.
And, yes, all those areas - weak hips, tight muscles in your upper leg - all contribute to knee pain.
But… they’re all connected to the lumbar spine and the pelvis.
And as we’ve seen, lumbo-pelvic stability, or lack thereof, is a major component of knee pain.
Therefore, once you fix your lumbo-pelvic instability by reacquiring motor control, many of the muscular issues will take care of themselves.
Here’s How The
"P3 Protocol" Works
You have pre-programmed “patterns” in your brain that helped you establish motor control in the first place - from the moment you were born until you were about 3 years old.
(In fact, according to some development and behavioral specialists, you’re still developing these long into the teenage years.)
And every person, man and woman, goes through this specific and sequential “system,” which no one has to teach them…
That gets you from a completely helpless infant to a fully functioning upright and running around toddler, adolescent, and adult.
But, because we live sedentary lifestyles, these "patterns" (also called "neural pathways") are no longer used as much as they used to.
So in order to conserve energy, your brain bypasses them or gets rid of parts of them altogether (called "neuronal pruning.")
Therefore, by simply “revisiting” these pre-programmed patterns, from the comfort of your own home, you “switch on” or "reboot" these dormant patterns, much like flipping on a circuit breaker and restoring the electricity to a room or appliance in your house.
To regain motor control and get rid of your knee pain, you simply apply the "P3 Protocol" in a 3-step process while revisiting these pre-programmed patterns.
And in order to do that, I put together -
The Sore Knee Solution
The Sore Knee Solution uses the ‘P3 Protocol’ to quickly, easily, and safely restore your lost Motor Control so you kick knee soreness and pain to the curb and get back to doing your thing ASAP.
Here’s a further breakdown of how the ‘P3 Protocol’ works:
First, you’ll find a Position, based upon the positions you gained motor control in the first place.
Once you’re in that position, you’ll refresh an old natural movement Pattern, by performing specialized breathing and head movements that recapture lost trunk stability and head control.
Finally, you’ll Perform some near-effortless locomotion-based movements that reenforce trunk stability and head control, and that naturally pry open other tight joints and melt away muscle stiffness.
The best part is I’ll even show you the “YES/NO Test,” which gives you immediate feedback about whether each drill is beneficial for your body. (No more waiting around until the next time you see the physical therapist to assess your progress.)
And you’ll easily do this through a series of bite-sized instructional videos and a simple 12-week plan to follow along.
Here's What's Inside
The Sore Knee Solution
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Component #1 - "Why" Videos
Why do you do the 9 specific drills in their specific order and what's going on inside your body to regain motor control to get rid of knee pain? My wife, Courtney and I cover this material in these videos. Each "Why" video corresponds with a "How" video.
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Component #2 - "How" Videos
How do you perform each of these 9 specific drills and implement the "P3 Protocol" along with them so that you get out of knee pain pronto? I demonstrate how quickly and easily you can do this from the comfort of your own home, with zero equipment and limited space.
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Component #3 - 12-Week Follow Along Plan
How do you implement each of these 9 specific "How" videos into your daily routine? The Truth is you'll most likely find knee pain relief in the first 5 minutes. However, you still need to do a little bit every day - like brushing your teeth - to fully recapture the Motor Control you once had.
Here's the same type of plan I would give one of my high-paying private coaching clients who pay me up to $697 a month for my insight and training.
Here's What Others Are Saying About
The Sore Knee Solution...