Anatomy of a Session

Text your trainer when you’re in the lobby, and we will bring you to the room for your session. Wear gym type clothes, and make sure to hydrate and use the restroom before your session. Then we will go through your health history and make sure we cater the evaluation emphasis to your lifestyle needs.

Before we start, we assess what your needs are. Some people come in with specific aches and pains, and some have more generalized needs based on their profession or hobbies. There’s so much research on proper ways to handle different circumstances, but if you want a detailed rundown over how we’ll tackle different things, here’s a giant database Mika helped create while I was a student at Illinois State University.

Once you’re ready to start, we’ll have you lay on the table and warm up your legs and core. All the physics of exercise can be boiled down to Time/Force = Work. We know that our body’s can handle incredible forces when it’s necessary, but we like the play with the Time side of the equation. Can we maximize time under tension during a session, and how long does it take to change the current state of your muscles.

In a perfect world, the stretching works right away. But sometimes there are impingements and hot spots in a stretch, and that’s where expertise comes into play to keep you safe. We won’t move forward until we get some sort of relief, so we’ll modify movements throughout the body to remain pain-free.

After stretching, we like to have our clients stand up and move around a bit to see how things feel. Sometimes there can be a bit of a recovery period needed after a session, so we’ll let you know what to expect and how to stretch things out throughout the week to maintain the good feels. Our job is to make it as easy and comfortable as possible, so the idea is to minimize the amount of lifestyle changes. For most of our clientele, the hardest part is committing a weekly time for consistency.

Remember, slow change is lasting change. Most corrective exercise programs take 6 months to 1 year to START noticing the benefits. Let us worry about the plan, and you can enjoy the path to achieving your goals!