Body Fundamentals
Training sessions work to activate underactive muscles, relax overactive muscles, and get muscle groups working in balance and together as a team. We actively decompress the spine and torso, stabilize the pelvis, and develop core and back strength in various poses that help to reduce pain and arm us with functional strength, mobility, and movement patterns for everyday activities like standing, sitting, walking, lifting and twisting.
About Corrective Exercises
and classes
Corrective exercises work to reduce tightness, decompress joints, create healthy holding and movement patterns, and recruit and build muscles that are needed for functional activities of everyday life. These exercises help to reduce pain and reset your body.
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Corrective exercises work to decrease pain and improve the way your body moves. The body adapts due to lifestyle and injury; poor posture, holding patterns, and improper mechanics develop and lead to pain and breakdown. These exercises help reset your body, restore healthy movement, and reduce pain.
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Foundation Training is a specific type of corrective exercise that focuses on decompressing the spine and torso, creating healthy movement patterns, and building the posterior chain. This translates into pain relief, posture and balance improvements, gaining strength, and feeling better. It consists of poses that reset the body and how it moves. For additional information, visit foundationtraining.com
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Fascial stretches focus on releasing the fascia (connective tissue) that covers muscles. These stretches are often muscular in nature, involving reciprocal inhibition, meaning flexing an opposing muscle (ex: flexing the quad to help release the hamstrings). Fascial stretches are sprinkled into classes as relieving tightness often makes the strength and movement-based corrective exercises more effective.
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Most classes start with a gentle warm-up before entering Foundation Training poses, which tend to make up about 80 percent of class time. Fascial stretches are sprinkled in and class concludes with a gentle cool-down. Intensity levels vary from primarily seated poses and extremely gentle moves for those with higher levels of pain to highly muscular poses and more intensive movements for those with FT experience and lower-levels of pain. In mid-level classes, different variations of moves are offered so participants may choose the most appropriate option for their body.