Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. Kevin Donne here with some fitness notices to get you thinking about what you're doing in the gym and your life that might push the needle from sickness to wellness. If you're a regular listener of the show, you'll know that I love a good anecdote. So I'll kick this episode off with a little story from my life this week.

As you know, I do a whole bunch of different training, including karate, judo, boxing and gymnastics.

Now, this past week, the weather here has been really cold and the gymnastic facility that I go to

has no heating. During my tumbling training, I felt

completely fine, but later that evening I had really painful knees, bilaterally under both kneecaps.

I've actually had surgery right here before on the patello tendons. This is likely that I had a bit

of tendon inflammation, probably from the

cold weather, just making things a bit stiffer. The next day, I went to judo training. I said to one of the

coaches my knees were a bit sore. One of the other older coaches then chimed in with, I can't remember

the last time my knees didn't hurt, as he pulled on two knee braces

to get ready to train. What this tells me is that to some extent, this coach has normalized pain

and injury. This is something I see very often. In 2018, I was working with a gym in Iceland

on coach development for their staff.

During a meeting, the owner of the gym claimed that his gym had Iceland's lowest injury rate.

Now, this was a claim he couldn't actually make because, firstly, I knew that his gym had no reporting procedure or record keeping of client injuries.

And secondly, he didn't have access to the records or lack of from other facilities. I took him down to the gym floor to watch a class where I

pointed out several participants who were wearing one knee sleeve. You only wear one knee sleeve

or one wrist wrap if you have one sore knee or sore wrist.

And the walking wounded are injured clients.

In my view, as soon as we begin to normalize injury and pain in participants,

we're heading to a very strange place because that's not what fitness is about.

My very first episode here, I defined fitness as the absence of disease or injury in an

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