Enter the Get-Up! A tool to help increase the functional years of your life

Folks, let me open this piece up by stating plainly that strength matters! Strength is so important that it may be the difference between an independent, active later-adulthood and hiring a home care professional to assist you in bathing and using the toilet. Strength can heavily influence your financial life, your love life, and the legacy you leave for future …

Physical Therapy Can Help Cancer Survivors Improve Long-Term Outcomes

One of the side-effects of our human species’ current tendency to have exponentially longer life-spans in comparison to our ancestors from several generations ago is that the incidence of cancer is much higher. Statistics are sobering: according to the American Cancer Society, over 1.6 million new cases of cancer are expected in the United States for 2016. Cancer is currently …

Marshaling Your Resources

Since the inception of Symmetry Fitness and Performance in late October, 13 year old Marshall B. has attended 2 instructional sessions per week. He has shown up on-time, memorized his individualized corrective exercises, and owns an attitude of diligence that is rare even among the professional and collegiate athletes I have coached. Marshall received instruction on the kettlebell swing, the …

Why Symmetry Fitness is the ANTI-GYM

Symmetry Fitness and Performance is not a gym. We provide expert fitness instruction. We do not have members. We have students. National chain gyms profit when many people buy memberships and few show up to make use of their purchase. We assess the quality of our students’ movement. We teach them how to improve the quality of their movement. Then …

SYMMETRY FITNESS CLASSES ARE IN SESSION

You’ve asked for it. Now we are offering it. Symmetry Fitness begins in October! Don’t be a SPECTATOR in your own life! Get stronger and more resilient! Benefits include: Small-group class allows individualized attention without a high cost-per-session. Learn how to strength train SAFELY and condition your body EFFECTIVELY to become more graceful, durable, and powerful! Precise movement skill curriculum …

The Count of Monte Cristo and the Home Exercise Program

  “Probably, if ever I get out of prison!” “True,” replied Faria, “we are prisoners; but I forget this sometimes, and there are even moments when my mental vision transports me beyond these walls, and I fancy myself at liberty.” -Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas   Recently I dug back to a book I should have read in high …

Shouldering the Load of Recovery

The shoulder is a joint of high acclaim. Isaac Newton “stood on the shoulders of giants.” We cry on our friends’ shoulders when disaster befalls us. They are the joints that allow us to perform complex manipulations of objects. Without a mobile shoulder joint what good is an opposable thumb? We could still play video games and conduct a text …

Texas Legislature Update: Easier Access to Physical Therapy?

Did you know that Texas is one of only 4 states in the entire United States that requires a referral for physical therapy treatment? Doesn’t it seem odd that you – as a health care consumer – can choose to see a wide variety of other medical specialists without special permission, but NOT be independently able to decide to see …