TRAIN RUGGED IS NOT CONVENTIONAL “PERSONAL TRAINING” OR MASSAGE: IT IS A MULTIDISCIPLINE TRAINING & THERAPY SYSTEM FOR THE 21st CENTURY PERSON

PERSONAL FITNESS TRAINER & FITNESS INSTRUCTOR, SANTA BARBARA, CA

Training and exercise is most beneficial to the individual when the joint system is capable of withstanding stress from external forces. My training programs are where security meets performance to build injury resistant and durable bodies.

The Sustainability/Longevity Philosophy

IMPROVE HEALTH & FITNESS…WITHOUT JOINT PAIN OR INJURIES

The philosophy behind Train Rugged is rooted in the undeniable link between the body and the mind.

As a physical trainer and bodycoach of over 16 years, I see that as humans, we are in a constant state of flux, shifting back and forth between mental and physical experiences. At times, these processes work beautifully in sync; at other times, there are gaps in the connection between what our minds want and how our bodies respond. My aim is to help you to bridge those gaps and solidify those connections through training and increased body awareness.

FEEL THE EXPERIENCE OF TRAINING WITH ROB

As your bodycoach / personal trainer it is my focus to assist you in defining the purpose of your training program, expand on your physical movement, and to give you results. Whether you are looking for performance, injury prevention, rehabilitation, or comfort in daily life, my innovative approach will help you get what you’re seeking. Drawing from multiple modalities, I offer a variety of ways to teach you to move more consciously and efficiently while maintaining structural integrity and control. Together, we will reteach ( or “recode” ) your brain and body to work in harmony so that you can direct and disperse stress to the muscles and off of the joints. During our time together you will learn about any movement limitations and joint restrictions that have likely developed over the course of a lifetime, and together we’ll develop solutions to correct these issues.

 

CREATING SUSTAINABLE BODIES THROUGH TRAINING

Train Rugged seeks to optimize human biomechanics and bridge the gap between physical therapy, sport, and daily functioning. My training protocols are therapeutic and aim to improve the way your body moves in space. This is your prehab, rehab, and performance training all balled into one intensive and highly effective training session. We are going to save your connective tissues and avoid surgeries and injuries at any cost! This has got to be training for the long game of life, not for short term gain of merely “wanting a fix”. By prioritizing the health of your musculoskeletal system and joints, by minimizing gravity’s effect on your body, you will be able to see your body change over time. I wish to give the power to you, the client, to take control of your health through muscular re-education with me as your coach. Train Rugged will build your body with your brain and give you immediate results.

 

PRESERVING HEALTH ONE STEP AT A TIME

Health is multifaceted, and it takes more than working out to achieve a healthier lifestyle. I encourage clients to read up on some of the key factors that have helped hundreds of people I’ve worked with through tough times, pain, and other hurdles in life. Like any change, your brain has to be on board before your body follows suit. Together we work on getting the pain and chronic stress out of your body through mediums such as exercise and bodywork. It could be anxiety, irritability, depression, a nagging discomfort, whatever is blocking your right to health, we work on removing (through training) it so that the right hormones, metabolic processes, and healing events can surface. From there your metabolism goes up, energy increases, and mood stabilizes. Your health doesn’t need to be worked on, we have to let it be. Instead focus on what you have to remove that is interfering with your health. Figure out what is compromising your immune system and remove those things from your life. The body will find its way back to normal or homeostasis.

 

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TRAIN RUGGED TRAINING APPROACH

MODERNIZING TRAINING WITH BIOMECHANICS

Through Train Rugged, Rob makes it his priority to help you reprogram your body via the use of biomechanics. Biomechanics is defined as the study of the mechanical laws relating to the movement or structure of living organisms. Think of biomechanics as training with physics applied to it. Rob’s expertise in biomechanics will help you undo long held physical restrictions in order to optimize the way your muscles and joints function. Basically, Rob looks at where your body is and tries to train it to where it isn’t. He will look at your body as a whole system and figure out what needs to be where and, using modalities such as dynamic breathing, isolation sequences, and integrative pattern-training – anything to widen your comfort zone – he will teach your body a new, healthier way of being.

Rob’s goal is simple. The human body is not. When you begin to understand and feel what training with alignment means, you’ll realize why training with intention is so important. Harmony and balance of the body doesn’t just exist because we want it to, and there is no ‘cookie-cutter one fits all’ program for any person. Everybody has a unique posture, a native holding pattern, habits that they wear in their bodies. It takes rewiring your body in order for balance and efficiency to be restored.

Through awareness exercises and three-dimensional movement, it is possible to break patterns, change behaviors and open up new possibilities. If you want to be healthier, you must train in a way that promotes longevity of tissue, muscles, ligaments, tendons, fascia and everything in between. This is where training smarter versus harder and understanding constructive movement versus destructive movement comes in. 

When you can measure, see, and feel your own progress, it not only encourages you but can lead to long-lasting changes in any current condition you might be experiencing. But if you recklessly beat your body up when exercising, you end up irritating the joints, which can cause even more inflammation of the muscles, driving inefficient patterns deeper. Using biomechanics and alignment based methods will reduce stress on tissues and increase joint adaptability and motion.

The primary benefit of biomechanics training, besides the reprogramming of your muscles, is the new space it creates in your body. When you remove an obstruction or limitation, it opens up for unity, or ‘connectiveness’ to occur elsewhere in the body. When your muscles and joints can perform their function – and when they are able to create space where there was no space – your nerves, arteries, veins, gastrointestinal tracts, basically all the parts of your nervous system, open up to improved functioning. Training with biomechanics is not just about muscles, heart rate, strength, power and all that jazz. All that will be a result of it, yes, but more importantly, other parts of your body will improve in their ability to do their jobs. 

So, here is the staple at Train Rugged: to offer you a sustainable way to grow and build your body so that it takes on a change of its own; to help you live without pain and, better yet, how to address that pain when it throws your life off course. It doesn’t matter what you’re looking for; it could be health, fitness, competition, rehab, relaxation. Whatever the goal, alignment training with biomechanics will dramatically impact your life in a positive way. At Train Rugged the priority is to train you for daily life; to walk, sit, stand, run, throw, pick up, put down, reach for, and do everything else you want to do with more ease and understanding. At Train Rugged, you will learn to train with understanding and control of your body. Are you ready for this great change?

THE TRAIN RUGGED MISSION

Train Rugged aims to build healthier people today, and generations of people tomorrow, who value physical and mental health. My hopes are that the people I train will share these values with their families and communities. Through movement and bodywork I will help people access a stronger, more courageous, and Rugged version of themselves. Through personal growth, behavior change, and commitment, Train Rugged will become a lifestyle, not a workout program.

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