Corrective Exercise Training
Loading a bad pattern makes it a stronger bad pattern. Corrective work is the part of the program that fixes the pattern first, so the strength you build afterward is worth having.
When an athlete needs this
- A movement fault the assessment turned up — a knee that collapses in, a hip that will not extend
- One side measurably stronger or more mobile than the other
- Soreness that keeps coming back in the same place
- Coming off an injury and cleared to train, but not yet moving the way you did before
- Plateauing on a lift for reasons that are not effort
What we do
Postural assessment
We look at standing alignment through five checkpoints — feet and ankles, knees, hips and pelvis, shoulders, head and neck. A fault at one usually explains a complaint somewhere else, and starting at the site of the pain is often starting in the wrong place.
Movement screening
Then we look at the same patterns when they are loaded, rushed, or tired: squat, hinge, lunge, push, pull, land, decelerate. Faults that are invisible at rest tend to appear on the third set.
Targeted work
Corrective exercise is not a separate class you attend instead of training. It goes into the program — as the warm-up, as filler between sets, as a session emphasis — so the correction happens while the rest of the training continues.
Activation
Some muscles are not weak so much as not turning on when they should. Activation work re-establishes the timing so the right structure takes the load, which is usually what stops the same joint from complaining every week.
How long it takes
Depends on what it is. A timing or activation issue can change inside a few sessions. A restriction that has been there for years takes longer, and an athlete in season has less room to work with than one in the off-season.
We retest the same screen rather than asking whether it feels better. Feeling better and moving better are not the same thing, and only one of them holds up under fatigue.
What this is not
It is not treatment. We are not diagnosing an injury, and if the assessment turns up something that belongs with a physician or a physical therapist, we will say so and stay in our lane until they clear you.
Start with an assessment
Corrective work is programmed off a physical assessment, so that is the first appointment.
Booking is online, or call 707-753-3583. Every participant needs a signed liability waiver on file, and athletes under 18 need a parent or guardian signature.