The Tendon-Maxxing Protocol
Nutrition, Supplementation, and Training Protocols for Bulletproof Tendons
The Tendon-Maxxing Protocol
Picture this: You’ve spent the last 5 years absolutely dialed. Training on point, pristine diet. You’re stronger than you’ve ever been. One day you’re benching and hear a quick pop.
You just tore a tendon. Years of hard work undone in an instant. You won’t be able to use your arm for months, let alone workout.
Weak tendons are a way bigger issue than mainstream health & fitness wants to admit. 50% of all sport injuries involve tendons. Even minor tendonitis can sideline you for months. Weak tendons cause injuries, persistent pain, reduced mobility, and training plateaus.
I should know. Accutane destroyed my connective tissue. It robbed me of my athletic potential. Made me weak even though my muscles were strong and resulted in a torn achilles tendon. Now they’re stronger than ever. I can push my body to its limits without fear. Lifting, striking, grappling, funky stuff I find on the internet.
This guide will show you everything you need to build bridge cable tendons
Nutrition plan
Supplementation plan
Full training program
This isn’t about minor tweaks to your routine, its about fundamentally changing your approach to physical development.
Lets dive in:
Tendon Strength: The Missing Link to Physical Fitness
Everybody wants strong muscles, nobody thinks about strong connective tissue. True strength exudes itself in your tendons and ligaments. Thickness, density, explosive capability. Never skip tendon day.
Ligaments connect bone-to-bone. Tendons connect bone-to-muscle. It doesn’t matter how strong your muscles are, if you have weak tendons you have no leverage:
Power Output: Tendons act like biological springs, storing and releasing energy. This translates to explosive power in everything from sprinting to weightlifting.
Recovery and Longevity: Robust tendons recover faster from stress, allowing you to train more frequently and effectively over the long term.
Joint Health: Strong tendons provide crucial support to your joints, warding off arthritis, injury, and enhancing performance
Performance Ceiling: Your tendons give out before your muscles do. Strengthening them raises your overall performance ceiling
Athletes look more imposing than bodybuilders because their tendon strength exudes itself externally
Strong muscles & weak tendons are a recipe for injury. Its why bodybuilders (especially enhanced ones) have freak injuries and weak joints. Their muscles overpower their tendons.
Take Lazar Angelov for example. OG Fitness guy, ended up needing surgery on both knees AND elbows. Never regained his old glory.
Think about the identity crisis, loss of purpose and financial hit this guy suffered. All because he ignored tendon health and only focused on big muscles.
Nutrition for Tendons:
Eating for tendon strength comes down to 3 main levers:
Building blocks (collagen)
Synthesizers (enzymatic co-factors)
Secondary support (antioxidants etc.)
This is problem numero uno: Western nutrition prioritizes muscle growth, not tendon growth. Its why we all have weak joints & poor skin.
Tendons require more time to produce and strengthen collagen fibers. This is why they’re the first thing to get injured from overtraining.
Tendons also require different nutritional foundations than muscle. Chicken and rice diet may get you big muscles, but its doing jack squat for your connective tissue.
Tendon health comes down to collagen health. Eating for tendon health will also improve your skin, joints, bones, and even heart health.