Jake Harrison Therapies

Stretching feels good. But if it keeps coming back tight, here’s what’s actually going on 👇

That tight feeling often isn’t a short muscle. It’s a muscle that doesn’t have the strength for what you’re asking of it.

So it protects. And protection feels like tightness.

Stretching eases it for an hour. Loading changes what it can cope with.

That’s why the calves that get stretched daily stay tight, and the ones that get strong stop complaining.

Send this to someone who stretches every day and stays tight.

And if you’re stuck in that loop, DM MOVE and we’ll find what your body’s actually asking for.

Sciatica disc herniations

If you’ve been told there’s something showing up on your scan, you’ve probably heard the size mentioned. Bigger bulge. More pressing on the nerve. It sounds like the more there is, the worse it should be.

It isn’t that simple. How much shows up on imaging has no reliable link to how much pain you’re in, or how well you recover. Some of the biggest findings settle the fastest.

That’s true for sciatica caused by a disc issue. The size of it matters less than what you do next: understanding what’s happening, staying active within what you can tolerate, adjusting what keeps flaring it, and calm things down with specific exercises/mobilisations. (Search nerve flossing)

Comment ‘Sciatica’ for a free guide.

July Roundup, been a bit mental tbh but sometimes you have to just accept it’ll be hard and dive in!

Loads of improvements going on inside the business, transition and change often brings challenges but we keep moving forward!

Highlights are:
- partnering with
- New website and upgraded resources
- New treatment couch
- New and improved entrance to the clinic (from Tuesday)
- New exercise programming app

Last week, why pain flares when you changed nothing. This week, three ways to calm one, none of them rest 👇

One. Modify, don’t stop. Drop the range, the load or the pace until it settles. Moving within tolerance keeps the system calm.

Two. Keep the rest of you training. Work around it, not through it. Fitness you keep now is rehab you skip later.

Three. Protect your sleep. It is when sensitivity settles. Guard the hours even when the week is chaos.

A flare feels like damage. Mostly it is the dial turned up. Dials turn back down.

If every flare costs you three weeks, DM MOVE or click the link for access to free guides and tools.

SALE: Cannondale SuperSix Evo — race-ready, no-expense-spared build. Weighs just 6.45kg as seen — properly light for a bike that’s built to be ridden hard, not just looked at.

Full spec:
• Frame & fork — Cannondale SuperSix Evo, size 58
• Wheels — custom-built Zed carbon tubs
• Crankset — Rotor Aldhu carbon with Q-Rings
• Brakes — EE (Cane Creek eeBrakes), front & rear
• Groupset — Ultegra shift kit + Dura-Ace cassette
• Cockpit — 3T carbon bars & stem
• Bottom bracket — C-Bear ceramic
• Chain — KMC, colour-matched to the frame

Total build cost was north of 6500 as seen and then I had a few bits I’m keeping — every part chosen for weight and stiffness.

Price: £2150 ono
Collection from Sheffield - message me for more pics or to arrange a look.

Last week we covered why pain tracks your week. This week, why it can hurt more when you did nothing to it 👇

Your tissues have a tolerance. Sleep, stress and recovery set where that line sits.

A rough night and a stressful fortnight lower it. Same desk, same run, same lifting. Less capacity to handle it.

So the pain isn’t telling you that you damaged something yesterday. It’s telling you the buffer has shrunk.

Rebuild the buffer and the same load stops being a problem.

DM ‘MOVE’ if this sounds familiar and we’ll work out where your buffer has gone.

What was your week like the last time it flared? Tell me below.

This week got me thinking about why I actually do this.

I read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl a while back. He was an Austrian psychologist who survived the Holocaust.

He wrote that prisoners who lost their reason to keep going were often the first to be overcome by illness.

Having a why did not stop the suffering. It seemed to carry people through it.

That stuck with me more than expected.

When I was younger I wanted to help people. I just did not know in what form.

A few jobs in, being neurodivergent in spaces that were not built for it, and I knew something was off. Not the wanting to help. The lane I was doing it in.

Turns out that gap was not a lack of drive. It was the right why stuck with the wrong how.

Now I know exactly how I execute it. Some days the work is hard going. Knowing it is genuinely moving people toward feeling better keeps it easy to show up for.

If you are still working out your own why, you are not behind. You are just at the bit before the how.

What’s your why? Drop a Comment below

Your pain isn’t random, it’s tracking your week.

Pain behaves like an alarm system, not a damage meter.

Sleep, stress, alcohol, smoking, nutrition and training load all change how sensitive that alarm is.

Stack a rough week of sleep on top of work stress on top of a spike in training, and the
alarm starts going off at things it normally ignores.

Not new damage. Not a weak body. Not bad luck.

A sensitive system doing its job a bit too well.

Part 2 next Wednesday: why it can hurt more when you did nothing to it.

Save this for your next flare 👇 & DM me ‘MOVE’ if pain keeps randomly cropping up in your weeks.