Our customized in-person or virtual programs are designed to correct your structure first, which will lead to sustainable weight loss and toned muscle mass over time.
Corrective exercise to improve your structure, posture and movement patterns so that you wake up energized and ready to take on today.
Structural Assessment by our Movement Specialists identify dysfunctions or imbalances that are causing you problems.
A customized training plan is developed to fix any poor habits and set you up for sustainable results and long term success.
If your spine and hips are compressed, your body will hold onto fat to protect itself.
This fact alone is what most people don't account for in their training.
We will teach you how to start problem solving this with your own body.
I am 32 years old and have been dealing with scoliosis since age 13. I would consider my scoliosis to be moderate. During my younger years as an athlete, I had occasional pain in my right upper back, but nothing too severe. However, as I entered my late twenties, I stopped playing sports and moving my body in athletic ways, and primarily ran long distances to work out. During this time I lost a lot of muscle mass and began to experience chronic back pain in my lower left back. The pain became so severe that I had to stop running altogether.
I began to turn my focus to yoga and build my flexibility in hopes that it would lessen my chronic lower back pain. Nothing seemed to work. I was miserable sitting, standing, and laying down. I began to notice that the lower left side of my back was chronically tight, while the lower right side was severely weakened due to y scoliosis curvature and my lack of athletic activity. This led me to research different training methods to muscle build specifically for scoliosis, and I came across the Functional Patterns discipline. Since I started my functional patterns journey with Ryan, my back pain has dramatically reduced. My back visually looks straighter, I feel stronger, and I've become so much more conscious of how my body moves through space. A huge bonus, working with Ryan also helped correct my extreme knock-knees which caused chronic foot pain and plantar fasciitis!
Ryan has been an excellent and attentive trainer that coaches based on my body's specific needs. While I believe you can get great benefits from general Functional Patterns practice, working with Ryan ensures that we are focusing on movements and corrections that are very specific to my body. Ryan is also incredibly knowledgeable and shares the "why" behind different techniques and exercises we work on. This is not only reassuring but essential to understanding how to course correct your body movements in the long term for sustained benefits. Even though I am still early in my FP journey, I see the benefits and encourage anyone that's interested to give it a try!
