Come back stronger

  • With experience coaching professional athletes, Division 1 National Champions, and a 2022 FIFA World Cup participant, Zak brings a results-driven approach to strength and conditioning. Personally trained by Ben Patrick, also known as the Knees Over Toes Guy, he utilizes cutting-edge methods that outperform traditional training techniques. To date, he has helped over 40 athletes return from serious knee injuries to compete at a high level—without a single case of re-injury. His innovative approach prioritizes longevity, performance, and unlocking each athlete’s full potential.

Begin your return-to-sport journey with Performance Coach Zak Woodward.
Whether you're recovering from chronic joint pain or rebounding from complex multi-ligament reconstruction, Zak provides the expert guidance and support you need to heal, rebuild, and come back stronger than ever.

Injury Doesn’t have to be the end

Zak has helped over a hundred athletes come back from multiple ligament injuries, multiple surgeries, to not only get back to their sport, but come back STRONGER than they were before they got hurt and stay there.

  • If you’re coming back from your 3rd, 4th, or 5th injury and tired of getting hurt…

  • If you’re tired of not being challenged by your current rehab protocol

  • If you’re frustrated from the lack of structure and plan in your current training

  • If you feel like something’s missing…

Then that makes you the exact person Zak specializes in working with. Compared to the nearly 70% of athletes who will either never return to high level sports or experience a second injury following conventional rehab, Zak has a robust track record of getting results where others haven’t been able to.

Zak’s able to do that with his unique training formula that allows him to:

  • Challenge his athletes at a greater intensity with LESS pain

  • Restore strength and power levels GREATER than before you got hurt

  • And strengthen the actual tendons and ligaments INSIDE the joint for a stronger knee from inside out.

From a high school soccer player falling behind in their recovery after an ACL and meniscus injury, to a skier coming off their ninth knee surgery in 14 years, to Premier League soccer players still needing help getting back to 100% despite having access to the best facilities in the world…Zak’s seen it all and helped them all.

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