Our Services
Strength & Conditioning
“Muscle is the organ of longevity” - Dr. Gabrielle Lyon. Building and maintaining adequate muscle mass is a cheat code to meeting and exceeding the demands of everyday life, but unfortunately, none of us gain more of it as we age. Muscle mass starts to decrease starting around age 30 for everyone and the rate it decreases gets faster as we get older. Doing “enough” strength training, just 2-3 times per week, can offset and slow the effects of aging and chronic lifestyle related diseases. Paired with conditioning training (cardio), your physical ability to handle daily tasks shifts from being under prepared to over prepared.
VO2 Max Testing
As the gold-standard for cardio-respiratory fitness and aerobic endurance, it’s a way to measure how much and how well your body uses oxygen during exercise. VO2 Max testing has increased in popularity recently as more research shows it’s a strong predictor of overall heart and lung health. Lower VO2 Max scores are also linked to increased risks of developing chronic lifestyle diseases and mortality rates. Testing can also provide your resting metabolic rate (RMR) - a measure of how many calories your body burns for basic metabolic functions like breathing and other processes. This information gives better details on where to focus your health goals and how to best design your exercise and nutrition plans.
Functional Medicine
A patient-centered, systems approach to health that focuses on identifying root causes of disease and dysfunction rather than treating observable symptoms. With chronic lifestyle diseases, factors such as gut health, chronic inflammation, nutrient deficiencies, hormone dysfunction, and more are often viewed as the products of a named illness rather than being the causes of the illness itself. Through a comprehensive health history, in-depth lab testing, blood work, nutrition, and lifestyle changes, your mood, focus, sleep quality, memory, and energy can be optimized and improve your overall quality of life.
Performance Rehab
“Rehab is training in the presence of injury” - Phil Glasgow. Rehab and training are two sides of the same coin, the key differences are the starting point and the goal you’re looking to meet. Sometimes the right starting point is working on joint mobility, stability training, or lower intensity exercises, however, this can’t be the only focus point forever. Performance rehab includes safely progressing and strengthening to more challenging exercises and activities that allow you to meet and ideally exceed the limits of your injury to reduce it’s impact on how you function.
Metabolic Testing
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure” is an undervalued statement when it comes to the field of health and exercise. Many times individuals become frustrated and burned out in the pursuit of weight loss or gaining muscle because they may not be paying attention to details that effect where they put their time and energy. Having relevant information like Resting Metabolic Rate, VO2 Max, measured (not estimated) heart-rate zones, and blood lactate levels (relates to burning fats vs carbs for energy) can make a significant difference in achieving your goals and optimizing your metabolic health. This information provides better attention to how intensely and what types of training and exercise you should be focusing on.
Sports Chiropractic Care
Musculoskeletal injuries, neck, and low back pain can be a lingering and sometimes debilitating issue for many people when it comes to their health. Evidence-based chiropractic is a type of conservative care that helps people struggling with musculoskeletal conditions. Through a variety of treatments like joint mobilizations, hands-on soft-tissue treatment, dry-needling, and exercise prescription, these therapies can be great support tools to make larger priorities like strength training, diet, and other lifestyle changes more effective at reducing pain, risk of injury, and optimizing overall health.