Rock Solid Resilience

“Rock Solid Resilience helps you navigate that often-blurry line between your body’s potential and its limitations. It’s the book every serious lifter will wish they had before whatever ails them started ailing.”-Lou Schuler, CSCS, Author of The New Rules of Lifting“When I have a training question, Dan and Dean are the experts I turn to. Seeing them join forces on Rock Solid Resilience is fantastic. They’ve created an amazing resource.”-Mike Reinold, Physical Therapist, Athletic Trainer, Strength and Conditioning Coach, and Cofounder of Champion Physical Therapy and Performance“Many people like to call themselves an expert, but few have the expertise to back it up. Dean Somerset is an expert in every sense of the word. His Rock Solid Resilience is essential reading for anyone wanting to move and feel better.”-Adam Bornstein, New York Times Best-Selling Author, Fitness and Nutrition Editor of Men’s Health and Women’s Health, and Editorial Director at LiveStrong.com“Dean Somerset is among the best and most thoughtful trainers I have had the pleasure of encountering. His advice [in Rock Solid Resilience] is definitely rock solid.”-James Fell, Author of On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

Dean Somerset is a personal trainer and certified exercise physiologist who specializes in postrehabilitation fitness. He has worked with clients recovering from joint replacements, sports injuries, spinal cord injuries, cancer, and cardiac surgery. He also trains healthy individuals-in person and virtually-to help them reach their strength, flexibility, and fitness goals. Somerset has developed and taught courses and seminars all around the world on the topics of postrehabilitation fitness, mobility, hip and shoulder health, client assessment, and core training. He has also written for and been featured in Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Bodybuilding.com, and T Nation. Somerset has presented on numerous occasions for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and canfitpro and is a contributor to Developing the Core, Second Edition, and NSCA’s Essentials of Personal Training, Third Edition.

Dan Pope, DPT, is a physical therapist and strength coach with over 20 years of experience in getting strength and fitness athletes out of pain and returning them to a high level of performance. He is also the owner of Fitness Pain Free, a continuing education company that has helped thousands of other coaches and clinicians learn how to do the same. He has also been blessed to be able to travel around the world, speaking on the topics of injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Pope is a big believer in practicing what he preaches; he has been a CrossFit regional qualifier, a strongman national champion, and a collegiate pole vaulter.