The story continues…

After one year of continuous travel every month to and from America, I qualified as a Muscle Activation Specialist in 2008.

What a journey! When I started my training I had no idea of how complicated and innovative MAT™ is, or the other studies it would lead me to.

During my internship with MAT™, I realised that MAT™ would provide the foundation for Life Activation. It would be the one tool I could use to measure and prescribe all my other services.

Unlike any other method, MAT™ enables us to perform a precise evaluation of how well your muscles are communicating and therefore contracting. And no matter who we are working with, whether you are injured, in pain or apparently healthy – this information is essential in understanding the base level of your muscular skeletal health and ability.

And that in turn makes it possible to identify your inappropriately inhibited muscles (most people have them – perhaps the result of an accident or a fall years ago that your body is protecting around, and compensating for, and may now be causing you pain, stress or be preventing you from achieving your exercise and health goals).

Having seen where the inhibited muscles are, I can then work on them one by one to correct the communication, and restore normal muscle contraction, thus eliminating the central nervous system’s need to tighten other muscles.

Until this is done, all that corrective exercise will usually do is to continue strengthening the already strong (‘tight’) muscles and exaggerates the compensation already taking place. And of course exercising or playing sports while you have inhibited muscles increases the risk of an exercise or sports injury.

Once we have an understanding of your muscular skeletal ability, we use the learnings and thought process acquired from studying the Resistance Training Specialist (RTS)® program. The RTS® program helps us to prescribe the appropriate exercises to stimulate the weak inhibited muscles restoring the muscle balances in your body.

The RTS® program is an essential education for anyone wanting to become a professional coach in exercise and rehabilitation, as it makes it possible to apply the sciences of physics and biomechanics as they relate to your body and the exercises you perform. No other exercise and rehabilitation program is as complete in its ability to apply theory to practice, and prescribe the exact exercises you need.

To complete our holistic approach, we will help you improve the way you eat, the way you sleep and your lifestyle, to ensure you start feeling much healthier, fitter and stronger – which, after all, is the reason that you will have come to us in the first place!