PREP Performance was founded by a military physiotherapist and an Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor undertaking a PhD in military injuries — both working directly with soldiers, recruits, and selection candidates every week. We built PREP because we kept seeing the same problem from two different angles.
Soldiers and recruits sit at the intersection of two highly demanding worlds: physical performance and injury rehabilitation. Most programmes address one or the other. Few address both with the military context in mind.
There is a real gap between what soldiers are told when they get injured and what they actually need to get back to operational fitness. Generic NHS pathways move too slowly. Civilian physiotherapy rarely accounts for the specific demands of load carriage, sustained tabbing, basic training intensity, or selection courses.
On the preparation side, the picture is similar. Most recruits arrive at training underprepared — not because they lack motivation, but because no one has shown them a structured plan that translates to the specific physical demands of service. Generic strength programmes do not prepare you for a Bergen and a 12-mile tab.
We built PREP because both authors see this gap weekly. One on the clinical side, working with soldiers in rehabilitation. The other on the research side, studying injury prevention mechanisms in serving personnel. Both populations face the same fundamental problem: programmes that do not understand what military service actually demands of the body.
PREP closes that gap with structured, evidence-based programmes designed from the ground up for military service — written by people who do this work daily.
PREP was built by two people who work directly with military personnel — one on the clinical side, one on the research side. Both authors are involved in every programme decision.
A specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist working directly with military personnel through rehabilitation and return-to-duty programming. Background spans clinical physiotherapy with elite athletes, rugby union teams, and serving soldiers.
Day-to-day, manages caseloads of soldiers and recruits dealing with overuse injuries, post-surgical rehabilitation, and pre-training preparation. Uses force plate technology (VALD ForceDecks, DynaMo, NordBord) to drive objective return-to-duty decisions. Builds every PREP programme from the ground up using the same evidence-base applied in clinic.
An Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor with a Masters in Strength and Conditioning, currently undertaking a PhD focused on military injuries. Works directly with serving military personnel at Innsworth, where the research connects directly to the populations PREP is built for.
Brings the research lens — current evidence, periodisation methodology, injury mechanism understanding — to every PREP programme. The triphasic methodology underpinning the Full PREP Plan reflects the latest thinking on phase-based strength development for tactical populations.
Both available now. Pay once, train for life. Built to the same standard — clinical, specific, no filler.
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