What We Do
Optimizing strength through pliability while adapting healthier movement patterns.
Our Mission
Intuitive Training Concepts combines my passion for tapping into our bio-mechanical efficiency, using pliability to address dysfunction, and using unique ways to overload the muscles through functional movements.
With a background in exercise science and extensive experience in fitness management, I found that clients and trainers alike tend to get caught up in a mindset of breaking down our bodies based around the overload principle. “Overload your muscles, get sore, get stronger.” But this training philosophy is missing a huge component of understanding and utilizing our body’s ability to move and communicate intuitively.
We should all have the goal to move well as we age. I believe achieving a healthy mix of pliability (mix between soft tissue work & flexibility) and strength moves us towards this goal. The whole point of exercise is to optimize health! Tapping into our body’s knowledge, relearning movement patterns, and enhancing pliability allows our body to continue to build strength and increase longevity.
“Whenever possible, we must separate movement dysfunction from fitness and performance.
Aggressive physical training cannot change fundamental mobility and stability problems at an effective rate without also introducing a degree of compensation and increased risk of injury.”
— Gray Cook, Functional Movement Systems
Our Methods
Address individual asymmetries
Utilize soft tissue work to increase pliability
Shift focus from tight muscles to muscular dysfunction
Movement screen to uncover weaknesses, customizing program to address where weakness is due to lack of pliability and mobility or due to lack of strength
Work to determine and address root cause
Bring awareness to quality movement patterns during exercise to translate into everyday life
Reduce the misconceptions of “harder is better” and build confidence in intuitive training
Train with purposeful movements in relation to individual needs
Find balance in pushing physical and mental barriers
Tune into intuitive physical response to customize exercise vs external focus on programming (ie reps, progression models, mesocycles)
Avoid reinforcing movement and muscular dysfunction through exercise