Hi Jason, sorry for the delay in replying!

I think it’s a balancing act. Strength, endurance etc will allow us to accomplish a lot. However, poor mechanics will limit our potential. Ideally you want both, but no sense in sacrificing one for the other!

When you have confidence that you will achieve a complete cure (restoration of normal mechanics) in a reasonable time frame then it makes sense to stop all training, get the mechanics right then work on building fitness back up.

With these complex imbalances you don’t know if cure is possible or how long it might take. If you take time off training to pursue a cure you can lose fitness that you’ll never get back and STILL have poor mechanics. (Been there, done that).

Running through poor mechanics CAN lead to overuse injury that forces you out of training. By the same token, you could go from strength to strength and be fine.

It’s a judgement call. What I tended to do was keep pushing through and building fitness as best as I could whilst working on rehab. When that stalled I’d take up to three months off to prioritize rehab – I found that three months was the tip-over point. Any longer and I lost so much strength and fitness that my imbalances made it difficult to claw my way back.

Good luck with it. If you run into problems don’t give up. There’s always a way forward. I plan to keep posting info and resources here to help provide motivation and new ideas when things seem hopeless!