I am a 36-year veteran of the personal training and strength coaching industries and a lifetime seeker of peak performance. I began my personal training career at the YMCA of Kingston in 1992 on a part-time basis as a trainer in the Nautilus room. By 1995, I was a full-time personal trainer in New Paltz, NY at The Health Club, and a weight room supervisor for SUNY New Paltz.
I left the Hudson Valley in 1996 to become a personal trainer in New York City at Crunch Fitness. I started at 13th St. location and helped open the flagship Crunch on 59th Street and 2nd Avenue with about 20 other trainers, where I quickly established myself as an industry leader in the specialty of post-rehabilitative fitness.
Breaking Fitness Barriers
I left Crunch in 1997 to pursue my own training business, ultimately forming the company Physiqology – Breaking Fitness Barriers. Across 25 years, I trained hundreds of people from all walks of life, including athletes who won State and National titles in shotput, 100-, 200-, 400-, 800- meters, Taekwondo, karate, and a precious few who made it to the Olympics.
During my 40’s, I became disenchanted with traditional strength training as I realized that these methods ultimately lead to movement dysfunction via what I currently call “more work”. Today’s strength and sports-specific training methods are based in the application of graded, controlled trauma rather than hierarchical movement reeducation. These models, though sometimes able to produce dramatic “transformation” ultimately result in lost speed, lost timing, and biological aging.
Big Notion, Inc.
In the search for an answer, I co-founded Big Notion, a movement analytics company dedicated to ending non-traumatic injury in sport. Across a 5-year period, I wrote approximately 250 models of movement analytics for every conceivable sport – the big US Four – baseball, basketball, hockey, American football – as well as soccer, tennis, lacrosse, boxing, MMA, and all the disciplines of Track and Field.
Primal Rotational Patterns
Frustrated with what I perceived as the company’s lack of vision, I left to form Primal Rotational Patterns, the first data analytics company dedicated to the retraining of the enteric nervous system for physical redress of injury, thought patterning, and performance via the healing of the fascial web.
Training for sport and life must address rejuvenation of the fascial matrix in order to relieve the enteric nervous system of the constant demand for healing. This type of approach results in improved movement capability, strength, and power without the creation of additional trauma.
Primal Rotational Patterns is based on 13 movement patterns that engage the entire fascial matrix. When the length-tension relationships of the fascial web are properly trained, the enteric nervous system is relieved of the burden of the constant work of healing. As a result, the mind may become completely engaged.
If you can sit in a chair and move your eyes, you can begin the process of healing yourself. And, if you already move well – even at a world-class level – I have a program to elevate your performance further than you ever imagined.
I hope you will join me in a movement revolution, so that we might have a movement evolution.