Eliminate the guess work immediately
The first stage of the ABLE journey is the assessments. I strongly believe that the decisions about your health and goals should be based off of data, without any guesswork.
Therefore, each client will go through a joint by joint mobility assessment and consultation prior to starting. Ensuring that your bespoke plan is safe, efficient and works for your specific situation.
Mobility Assessment
To test your bodies mobility we target each joint individually and in isolation; preventing skill or balance from being an issue. I won't go into each specific movement, but the goal is to get a clear understanding of your posture and how your body moves as a result. It will highlight to me any weakness, tightness and torque forces - which I will sit down with you to explain afterwards.
Once we have the data (the assessment takes 20-30minutes), I will do my best to explain everything to you. I usually try and illustrate the data to help, like the drawing here (after 6 years of this, you'd think I would be better at drawing!). We then discuss an appropriate plan going forward based off of these findings.
And Breath...
Recently, I have included some breathwork assessments as well. Unsurprisingly, the way you breath is pretty important - regardless of your goals. So we'll test how you breath mechanically as well as your ability to handle stress. No, this does not mean I'll ask you to sing in front of a crowd - don't worry! Rather, we'll look at how well your body can tolerate CO2 and I'll explain how that relates to stress.
My goal is to create a picture for you
All of these assessments and explanations is my way of trying to create a picture for you to understand your body. I hear a lot of clients that have been told things, rather than having situations explained to them. By taking the time to sit down with you, I want you to fully understand what is happening with your body and why 'X' hurts.
I hope that this will give you the power to decide the best course of action. I'll explain my plan and how I can help, but regardless if you work with me or not, you'll have all the data and a clear idea of what is happening.
If you decide to go forward with my plan, we enter the build phase...