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Rekove Scaffold — Collagen + Vitamin C, Timed for the Pre-Load Window
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You’re loading it right. You’re resting it right. Nothing is feeding it.
10 g collagen + 100 mg vitamin C — supports progressive overload
Feeds the tendon while you train the skills
Supports connective-tissue recovery between training sessions
90-day refund if it didn't earn its place.
10 g Collagen Peptides
Type I/III bovine — the tendon substrate
100 mg Vitamin C
The cofactor, dosed to not blunt training
100 mg Hyaluronic Acid
Joint comfort under load
~2× collagen-synthesis markers vs placebo, taken pre-load. Shaw & Baar, UC Davis 2017 ↓
90-DAYS — RISK REVERSAL
Run the full protocol. Or get every cent back.
Two scoops before every session. If you don't think it earned a place in your training, email us and we refund everything — no forms, no retention script, and don't send the bag back.
Sounds familiar?
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The shoulder: It clicks on dips. It aches when you sleep on that side.
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The bicep: You added weight to your pulls — and ever since, there's a weird pain that wasn't there before.
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The elbow and wrist: It started after the muscle-ups. First dips came off the list, then extensions. Now every handstand starts with a negotiation.
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The fear: Nothing hurts yet. But you’ve seen the tear videos, and every heavy set comes with a half-second question: is today the day?
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The comeback: You rested. It healed. And you came back worse than you've ever been.
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The one that keeps coming back: Third time in the same spot. You did the rehab. It came back anyway.
You’re not being paranoid.
And you're not being soft, or unlucky, or bad at rehab. You're paying attention.
Every one of those has the same piece missing.
The part nobody prescribed
1. Rest works. Loading works. Your physio is right about both — keep doing exactly what they told you.
2. But rest only stops the aggravation, and loading is only the stimulus. Your strength adapts before your tendon does. In a three-month training study, strength rose 40.5% — while tendon stiffness didn't measurably change until the very end. The stronger you get, the longer your tissue spends behind.
Adapted from Kubo et al., J Strength Cond Res 2010 (n=8, isometric knee extension).
3. And remodeling needs raw material. Muscle gets its own every time you eat protein — tendon doesn't. Glycine, proline and hydroxyproline barely exist in a normal training diet. You've been running a rebuild with no building material.
4. That's why it keeps coming back in the same spot. Every plan fixed the load; none of them fed the tissue. Rest healed the pain — nothing fed the rebuild.
It was never your rehab. And it was never your fault.
THE MECHANISM
The 30-Minute Window
Tendon has almost no blood supply of its own. Loading is the moment nutrients actually reach it — which is what makes the half hour before you train the only window that matters.
In the foundational trial, athletes took collagen with vitamin C an hour before loading. Blood markers of collagen synthesis roughly doubled versus placebo. What the study measured: synthesis responding to a pre-load dose.
Collagen is the delivery truck. Training is the construction site. Timing decides whether the truck arrives while anyone's working.
Shaw G, Lee-Barthel A, Ross ML, Wang B, Baar K. Am J Clin Nutr, 2017.
This is the whole thing.
01 — Two scoops
In juice, coffee, or whatever you already drink
02 — Wait 30–60 minutes
The window the research points at.
03 — Train
The load is the signal. Now there's material to build with.
What actually changes
What actually changes
Keep progressing without your tendons falling behind
Next skill, next rep, next plate — the pre-load window puts the raw material in your blood at the moment the tendon can use it.
Stop dropping the exercises you used to do
Hyaluronic acid and collagen peptides for the wrists, elbows and shoulders taking the load.
Make a comeback that holds this time
Rest stops the pain. This is what the rebuilding gets made from.
Train four to six days a week and let the tissue keep up
Connective tissue doesn't get rest days when you don't.
Stop hesitating before every heavy set
The one proactive input nobody gave you — not more rest, not another rehab video.
The actives, and the doses
Made in an FDA-registered, cGMP-compliant facility and third-party tested for purity and potency
The actives, and the doses
Made in an FDA-registered, cGMP-compliant facility and third-party tested for purity and potency
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Hydrolyzed collagen peptides
Bovine, Type I/III — glycine, proline and hydroxyproline, the exact aminos tendon is built from. Tendon is ~95% Type I. (Type II is cartilage: different tissue, different product.) A 2026 dosing review places 10–15 g pre-exercise inside the range associated with reduced activity-related tendon discomfort.
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Vitamin C
The cofactor collagen synthesis can't run without — twice the ~50 mg the pre-load studies used. We could have printed 1,000 mg; above roughly a gram, vitamin C starts blunting the training adaptations you're in the gym for. This is the dose that runs synthesis without fighting your training.
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Hyaluronic acid
In your joints, hyaluronic acid is what gives synovial fluid its consistency — a lubricant under slow movement, a shock absorber under impact. Wrist, elbow, shoulder: the joints taking repeated load. It's a supporting ingredient here.
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Protein
That's the collagen, counted the way a nutrition panel counts it — not a second protein source on top.
Gram for gram, collagen carries roughly 15× the glycine of whey — and hydroxyproline barely exists outside collagen at all. Whey is for muscle. This is for the tissue whey doesn’t feed.🏭Made in an FDA-registered, cGMP-compliant facility
We didn't write these. Athletes did.
Weighted pull ups
Been adding weight to my pull-ups all year and started getting a twinge in my elbow on the heavy singles that had me second-guessing every set. I take this about 30 minutes before I train and a couple months in the elbow feels a lot more solid under load. It's the first thing I've used that actually feels like it's for the tendon instead of just "warm up and hope." Chasing my numbers again without bracing on every pull.
Recovering 1 year progression
Lost basically a year of progress to a wrist injury and the comeback was crushing me, showing up and going backwards every session. Started this alongside my rehab as I ramped my volume back up, and for the first time the log is climbing instead of stalling out. Shoulders and elbows are holding through the reload where they used to start clicking. Not overnight, but it's the first stretch that's actually stuck.
The flare finally stops!
Chronic golfer's elbow for two years, rested it, rehabbed it, and it came back every single time I loaded up. I was fully in the "collagen is a scam" camp until the mechanism actually made sense of my whole loop, the loading was the stimulus but nothing ever fed the tissue to rebuild. Ten weeks in with my usual rehab and it's the first return-to-loading that hasn't flared the same spot. Cautiously the most hopeful I've been about this elbow in a long time.
No.1 go to supplement for planche
I'm not injured, just paranoid after watching one too many bicep-tear clips, and I wanted something proactive to actually do instead of just being careful. Been taking it before every session for about six weeks now. My wrists feel more comfortable on planche work and, honestly, the biggest change is that I've stopped bracing on every heavy set. One less thing nagging at me.
Supporting my 100kg pull up journey
I'm 17 and chasing a +100kg pull-up, and I almost didn't buy this because everyone in the comments says collagen's a scam. What sold me was a physio explaining the timing with an actual study behind it, not some influencer. Take it before I train and my elbows and wrists feel way more resilient on the heavy stuff. Works out to about a coffee a week, so it's an easy yes for me.
Golfer's elbow feeling better
Earned my muscle-up and the muscle-up handed me golfer's elbow, and my whole program shrank down to whatever the elbow would allow. I added this to my forearm and eccentric work about two months ago and the same-spot flare I got every time I gripped hard has finally settled. I'm an impatient guy and tendons don't care about that, so I'll say it plainly, it's not overnight, but it's clearly moving. Got my dips back.
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What to expect, honestly
The Loading Phase — why the kit is three months
SESSION 1
Synthesis responds. Sensation doesn’t.
Markers of collagen synthesis respond to the first pre-load dose — that’s what the trial measured. You won’t feel anything initially.
WEEKS 1–4
The ritual locks in
Two scoops, 30 minutes, train. Nothing to feel yet — the habit forming is the product working.
WEEKS 4–8
Where a tendon starts to feel steadier
The window where a tendon or joint can start to feel different under load — steadier on the movements that used to nag.
WEEKS 8–12
Where structure shows in the research
This is where structural adaptation shows up in the research — the slow rebuild loading alone never finishes. It's also where consistent athletes stop bracing and start trusting the load again. That's why the kit is three months: biology sized the bundle, not a discount.
IF YOU STOP
It detrains
Tendon adaptation fades faster than muscle — in the research, stiffness gains faded within about two months of stopping. Not a sales tactic. It's why this is a protocol you keep running, not a bottle you finish.
THE FULL PROTOCOL GUARANTEE
Run it. Or get every cent back.
Run the full Loading Phase — 90 days, two scoops before every session. If it didn't earn a place in your training, email us for a full refund. No forms, and don't send the bag back.
How can we afford this? Because the protocol is honest about what it does and who it's for. No influencer deals, no invented doctors, no fake reviews — we'd rather refund the athletes it didn't help than become another brand you screenshot.
Rekove Scaffold FAQ
Isn’t collagen a scam? I’ve read you can’t even absorb it.
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Half right — about most of what's sold. Two things are usually missing: vitamin C (synthesis can't run without the cofactor) and any guidance on timing. And yes, most of a collagen dose is broken down into free amino acids — but specific fragments (Pro-Hyp, Hyp-Gly) survive digestion, appear in the blood, and signal the cells that build tendon. That's the mechanism the pre-load trial tested, and synthesis markers doubled. If a collagen failed you before, it was a mechanism problem, not a category problem.
Only loading and rest fix tendons. A supplement won't?
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Loading and rest are the core — keep both, keep your physio's plan. But rest only stops the aggravation, and loading is only the stimulus. Neither one delivers the raw material the tissue rebuilds from. This rides on top of the rehab you're already doing. It doesn't replace a minute of it.
I've done the rehab three times and it keeps coming back. Why would this be different?
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Because it's a different variable, not the same one repeated. If the tissue never got the raw material to remodel, it rebuilds under-strength and fails in the same spot the moment real load returns. That's not your patience and it's not your fault — it's an input nobody added. This is that input, run alongside the rehab you already know works.
I've got golfer's elbow. Doesn't that just take months no matter what?
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The timeline is real, and nothing here changes the biology. But part of why it drags is that loading is the only input most people ever give it. Loading is the signal; this is the material the signal needs to build with. Keep doing your rehab — this supports it, it doesn't shortcut it.
Does it actually prevent injury?
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No — and anyone who tells you a supplement prevents injury is lying to you. What it does is give the tissue the raw material it's built from, at the window it can use it, while you train. It supports tendon resilience as the load goes up. That's the honest claim, and it's the whole claim.
Can't I just do gelatin and orange juice?
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Yes — and the Loading Window Guide shows you exactly how, free. What you're buying is the version that's already dosed, already has the cofactor, and mixes in ten seconds. The catch is that it only works before every session, for twelve weeks. That prep discipline is the real price of DIY — some people have it, most don't.
I already eat enough protein, why do I need this?
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For muscle, probably. Tendon is built from a different amino profile — glycine, proline, hydroxyproline. Gram for gram, collagen carries roughly 15× the glycine of whey, and hydroxyproline barely exists outside collagen at all. Keep the whey; it's doing a different job.
How fast will I feel it?
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Sessions feel the same at first — synthesis responds from the first dose, sensation doesn't. Comfort changes, if they come, tend to show at 4–8 weeks; structural adaptation in the research is 8–12. Anyone promising you week one is describing a placebo, or selling one.
I'm 19 — is there any point this young?
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Especially this young. You're loading tendons harder now than you ever will, and tendon adapts slower than the muscle driving it. The people tearing biceps in the videos aren't 50 — they're young athletes whose strength outran their tissue.
Is it vegetarian?
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No. Collagen is animal-derived — ours is bovine.
What does it taste like? Does it mix?
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Unflavoured and near-neutral. Two scoops into juice, coffee or a smoothie 30–60 minutes before training. Dissolves with a stir or ten seconds in a shaker.
How long does one bag last?
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30 servings. At two scoops before every training day, four to six sessions a week, that's about five to seven weeks.
References
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- Shaw G, Lee-Barthel A, Ross ML, Wang B, Baar K. Vitamin C–enriched gelatin supplementation before intermittent activity augments collagen synthesis. Am J Clin Nutr, 2017. — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5183725/
- Kubo K, Ikebukuro T, Yata H, Tsunoda N, Kanehisa H. Time course of changes in muscle and tendon properties during strength training and detraining. J Strength Cond Res, 2010. — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19996769/
- Holwerda AM, van Loon LJC. The impact of collagen protein ingestion on musculoskeletal connective tissue remodeling. Nutr Rev, 2022. — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9086765/
- Zdzieblik D, Oesser S, Baumstark MW, Gollhofer A, König D. Collagen peptide supplementation in combination with resistance training improves body composition and increases muscle strength. Br J Nutr, 2015. — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4594048/
- Smeets JSJ et al. Protein synthesis rates of muscle, tendon, ligament, cartilage and bone tissue in vivo in humans. PLoS One, 2019. — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6837426/
- Bohm S, Mersmann F, Arampatzis A. Human tendon adaptation in response to mechanical loading: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sports Med Open, 2015. — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4762788/