Ghost Reps™

Keep the movement
while the body waits.

An injured athlete loses two things. Strength, from disuse. And confidence in the movement that hurt them. Physical therapy handles the tissue. Ghost Reps handles the brain’s model of the movement while the body waits.

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What it rests on

35%

strength gained from imagined contractions alone, with no change in muscle size.

Ranganathan et al., 2004

Half

the strength loss under four weeks of casting, for the group doing mental imagery versus nothing.

Clark et al., 2014

Fear

of reinjury after ACL surgery predicts return-to-sport failure better than measured quad strength does.

Return-to-sport literature

The mechanism is cortical drive, not muscle growth. Imagined movement activates motor cortex, supplementary motor area, and premotor cortex close to the way real movement does. The gains come from the software.

Seven movements, not seven injuries

Content is built per movement pattern. An injury is just a map to the movements it threatens, which is why seven modules cover every common soccer injury.

Sprint and reaccelerate
Break from a jog into top speed, then find another gear.
Cut and change direction
Plant hard on one foot and redirect off it at speed.
Plant and pivot
Fix one foot and rotate the body over it.
Decelerate and stop
Absorb speed and come to a controlled stop.
Land
Come down from a jump or header and absorb it cleanly.
Strike the ball
Plant, swing through, and hit it clean.
Push off
Drive through the calf and Achilles to move.
InjuryMovements trained
ACL tearPlant, Cut, Decelerate, Land
MCL sprainCut, Plant, Land
MeniscusPlant, Cut, Decelerate
Hamstring strainSprint, Strike
Ankle sprain, lateralCut, Land, Plant
Groin / adductor strainStrike, Cut, Sprint
Calf / AchillesPush, Sprint

Twelve to fifteen minutes

  1. 1
    Settle
    Sixty seconds of paced breathing to a calm, focused state. Not sleep.
  2. 2
    Prime
    Name the movement. Put you back on your actual pitch, in your actual kit.
  3. 3
    Rehearse
    Real-time reps. Never sped up, never in slow motion.
  4. 4
    Load
    Maximal imagined effort. Nothing moves. The effort is the active ingredient.
  5. 5
    Close
    One confident rep at game speed, then rate how vivid and controlled it was.

The skeleton never changes, so the habit has a predictable shape. Only the content inside it does.

It scores the imagery, not the minutes

Reward time in an app and people run sessions on autopilot, and autopilot imagery does close to nothing. So there are two separate numbers. Adherence is the streak: did you show up. Signal is the score: how vivid and controlled the imagery was. Nothing in Ghost Reps counts your minutes.