Expand Your Knowledge and Training
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LEARN CARs
In our clinic, in our coaching sessions, and in classes, we use a comprehensive movement system called CARs [Controlled Articular Rotations], a rubric to assess, treat and train all major joints. You will need to invest in learning CARs to work with us. Start with the video above. It’s about 40 minutes. The movements are timestamped so you can easily repeat the ones you are working on. CARs scale in intensity. The lowest range is the Daily CARs routine.
Daily CARs
Once you know CARs, running through them as a daily routine shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes. Daily CARs simply express and conserve the range you have. Daily CARs keep you from regressing.
Treatment CARs
CARs are also used in the clinic, as an assessment tool that help us pinpoint specific deficiencies and restrictions. You must know the CARs to work with us.
Training CARs
CARs are infinitely scalable— from daily maintenance to high-level athletic training. We use this system in our clinic, in our coaching sessions, and in classes.
Hands-On Education ⤅
KNOW YOUR BODY
All human movement occurs in the skeletal joint—two bones moving relative to each other. A healthy, fully functional joint needs articular space, soft tissue capacity and neurological control.
We teach you what these are, and how to cultivate them— to get out of pain, to restore function, to move more and better, to build a buffer against future injury.
Changes That Last ⤅
TRAIN YOUR WAY OUT OF PAIN + INJURY
At Excelsior we are teachers, coaches and trainers who happen to be skilled at manual therapy. The therapy table is not the end of the story, it's just the beginning.
Garden variety exercise and rehab are very often not specific enough. Banded clamshells don't segment the spine, back squats don't build strong hips, they NEED strong hips.
If you don't have the requisite range of motion for the patterns that are important to you, training the pattern isn't helping, it's hurting. You get what you train for, so your training should be as specific as possible. We help you do that.
Seventy-year-olds and elite athletes alike need joint-specific, tissue-specific, end-range training for performance and longevity.
“In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts.”
- Wallace Stevens