TRAINING THE BIOLOGY BEHIND MOVEMENT
KINSTRETCH is safe and specific strength training for the joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and motor control that make all movement patterns possible
Everything we do—walking, running, yoga, bench pressing—is a movement PATTERN made up of individual PARTS.
Take a squat. Conventional strength training starts with reps and sets of the pattern itself. But to your brain and biology, a squat is made up of parts: ankle dorsiflexion, knee flexion and extension, hip flexion and extension, and spinal extension under load. When one part is deficient, the body has to shift demand onto other joints and tissues.
Kinstretch is built on simple science: improve the parts, and our patterns get stronger—like building more flexion in the ankle, more usable range in the hip, more control through the spine, and more capacity to use those ranges under load.
KINSTRETCH OPTIONS
IN PERSON CLASS
Hosted by the Excelsior Community
Weekly 60-minute classes with demonstration, feedback, and sometimes homemade muffins :) Ages 8 to 80 attend; work at your own level.
M T Th 9AM, Su 12PM
ONLINE EXTENSION
Hosted by Substack
A library of 60 min live-recorded classes. Revisit favorite classes, practice between in-person sessions, or train off-site when you can’t make it to class.
Access anytime
HYBRID = BOTH
Come to class for coaching, feedback, and community. Then use the online library to keep practicing between sessions — or whenever your schedule takes you elsewhere.
USED BY EVERYDAY MOVERS & PRO ATHLETES ALIKE
You can be athlete, retiree, beginner, or somewhere in between. On the mat, those labels fall away. You have a body, and we train the body in front of us. A human skeleton is the only prerequisite.
