Know what you are working with.
Before you decide what to do next, take the time to understand where you are, what may be getting in the way, and what deserves attention.
Book An AssessmentExercise is easy to choose. Knowing what to do next can be harder.
Anyone can decide to exercise.
But as simple as we want that choice to be, sometimes it takes more than a pair of trainers and a 6 a.m. alarm clock. Or a few weeks away from the gym for that nagging shoulder.
Sometimes the very thing you decide to do is the thing that starts getting in the way a few weeks later.
So before you take another run at it, there are better questions to ask:
Information before assumptions.
An assessment is for when you want more information before deciding what to do next.
We talk through your history, injuries, work, goals and previous attempts. We look at how you move, where you are strong, where something may need attention and how you respond to coaching.
You get a clearer picture of where you are. I get the information I need to decide what training should look like. And we both get the chance to decide whether working together makes sense.
Questions. Answers. Patterns. Plans.
The assessment is not one fixed battery of tests. What we look at next depends on what we learn along the way.
Your history, work, injuries, goals and previous attempts.
What matters now, what has changed and what deserves a closer look.
Movement, strength, control, asymmetry and response to coaching.
A direction for training based on what we actually found.
The assessment follows what we find.
Not everyone needs the same tests.
We look at movement, strength, control and asymmetry. If something deserves a closer look, we go deeper.
That may mean a different test, a different position, a closer look at how a muscle is contributing, or another way of checking the same problem.
The point is not to run you through a checklist.
The point is to gather enough useful information to make better decisions about what comes next.
A clearer starting point.
What we found
A clearer picture of the strengths, limitations and patterns that matter to what you want to do.
What deserves attention
A better idea of where training should begin and what does not need to consume your time.
Whether we fit
A chance for both of us to decide whether working together makes sense before we commit to the work.
Then, if the fit is right, we get to work.
About two hours devoted to understanding where you are and what should come next.