Services.

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Getting Started.

Initial Consult:  Prospective clients are extended a single no-fee consultation session that serves to discuss scheduling, time frame, and budget, and to assess compatibility.  The training experience is always tailored to each individual's unique needs, and this session ensures all cards are on the table.  We will be collecting enough supplemental information during this session to take a cursory glance at what your program will look like.  Whether you start a training program or not, you will have a better understanding of how different factors have affected your health, fitness, and well-being.  Once the anthropometric assessment has been scheduled, you will be granted access to the appropriate intake forms to be completed prior to that time.

Assessment.

Nutrition and Lifestyle Intake Process:  Information-gathering takes place here and we hope to uncover specific details related to how your diet, sleep/wake cycles, and the nature of your thoughts contribute to your well-being.  Questionnaires and other discovery tools allow patterns of behavior to be understood and positively affected.  Holistic coaching means you hedge your bets by listening to your body and using conscious exploration to improve physical and emotional well-being.

Anthropometrics:  Active and passive assessments are used to evaluate how your body is functioning, and to uncover details that might be pertinent to the program-design process.  Your physical presence and mental state are highly correlated, each reflecting the other.  By returning your physical body to a neutral alignment, you center your self.  Postural stability and movement patterns are critical to developing  skills and enduring conditioning regimens while decreasing your risk of injury.  Your flexibility and mobility is clinically assessed and moderated to sustain desired levels of activity.

The assessment process is front-loaded:  As a trainer-client team we are striving to understand the variables involved in this specific pursuit, and work effectively to reach hard goals with smart work.  Re-assessment is necessary at regular intervals to ensure the program and its execution are yielding results, and to provide direction for future work.

Movement Sessions.
 
Your movement-based sessions will be highly qualitative in nature, with strict adherence to proper form to improve safety and effectiveness. Respect is given to what level of movement skill each individual presents, and this factors into selection of the appropriate exercises and intensity.

Corrective Exercise and Postural Strength.  Sessions are designed to educate individuals as to how our bodies are designed to move, and eliminate postural deviations and muscular imbalances that affect the efficiency of the system. This could be considered post-rehabilitation for injury or surgery, or pre-habilitation for anyone looking to increase their level of activity - this ensures the body develops as a coherent system and that forces are appropriately created, absorbed, or diffused with quality movement. Your posture, both static and dynamic, influences how your body can move. Awareness is key to finding the best position to be in for any specific movement.  Even elite athletes often present with posture that is not serving their purpose.

Core Stabilization.  This is the base level of creating a link between upper and lower body, using whatever tools might be immediately applicable to the situation at hand. Core stabilization exercises may be bodyweight resisted, or include use of functional equipment (medicine balls, stability balls, BOSU, plyo boxes, dynadiscs, rubber bands, cables, dumbells, barbells, kettlebells, clubbells, etc...) used appropriately. 

Integrated Strength.

Systemic. Resolution of upper body and lower body forces through the core musculature that supports our torso, connecting the feet and the hands.  We usually move ourselves with our legs, and we move objects with our hands. Expect many asymmetrical movements, combinations, serial movements, circuits, and stability while connecting through hands, feet, elbows, knees, shoulders, hips and spine.

Athleticism and Power.

High emphasis on total-body movement, activity-specific conditioning, and moving yourself and objects powerfully. 

Periodization Plan.

Varies on a per client basis, but in cycling through the different phases you continue to build strength and ability, while eliminating weakness.