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🔥 Hot take: Load management isn’t about “full send” or full stop—it’s about finding your Goldilocks zone. 🏋️‍♂️🚦

Most athletes live in the yellow—tight, achy, not quite 100%. The key? Knowing when to push, when to hold back, and how to stay consistent without wrecking yourself.

Stop chasing PRs every session. Start chasing smarter training. 💡

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your and our time is valuable, especially after the new year!

we are now directing our clients to booking directly into an evaluation or an assessment in person - because we want to provide help to you as quickly as possible.

our evaluations/assessments are 60 minutes where we will help you put together a plan to help you prepare for your sport or help you get back to training regularly and reduce your pain/discomfort💪

our 20 minute virtual consultation is still available, and is for people that have questions and want to know what working with us would be like before committing to an evaluation.

you can book with us by going to matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or by going to our link in bio.

believe it or not, I got into it with this person on Twitter when I graduated from physiotherapy school in 2013.

I wanted so badly to be a manual therapist - to be able to put my hands on people to help them feel better, to heal with my hands, which was challenged when I initially saw a tweet from this person.

I believe it was something around his philosophy around prioritizing movement versus manual therapy, and it shook my world view.

“How could you not do that?”

It was one of the first steps in challenging the efficacy of, and the thoughts around manual therapy and what we really thought was happening versus what I learned in school.

I defended manual therapy and even was questioning his methods - lo and behold, here I am today, as a physio that now will challenge people’s views on needing my hands and the narratives around manual therapy as well as prioritizing patient self efficacy and self management.

I spent this weekend getting up early to walk the dog and finally see + meet + learn from the infamous @adammeakins at his simplifying the shoulder course.

it was a great time learning from someone that I consider important in shifting and developing my treatment philosophies as a physio and I’m super grateful to have had the chance to review and learn some new things about the shoulder.

What’s the biggest insight or lesson you have taken away from working together?

their words, not mine:

What’s the biggest insight or lesson you have taken away from working together?

their words, not mine:

What’s the biggest insight or lesson you have taken away from working together?

their words, not mine:

What’s the biggest insight or lesson you have taken away from working together?

their words, not mine:

The gym was the problem.

Not because L hadn’t been there before. He had, but it never felt natural. The concern about form, about his body, about whether he was doing it right — it was always there, quietly in the background.

And consistency? A lifelong pattern of not finding it.

Team sports had given him structure as a kid.

As an adult, without a team, without a season, without someone calling practice — nothing stuck.

He wanted to build something sustainable. Something that could actually become part of who he was.

He just hadn’t found the right environment to do it in. Yet.

Two things worked together to move the needle.

First — the pragmatic. Form, programming, how to arrange the weights, how to warm up. The fundamentals that make the gym feel less foreign and more navigable. He built quiet confidence over time.

Second — and the major difference — the mental and emotional support.

Erwin’s philosophy carried into every session: he was feeling like someone is on your team. Not just coaching the body, but the mental progress too.

And when injuries happen, that’s where it mattered most. Working through them without losing the momentum. Without losing the confidence. Without letting a setback become a reason to stop.

That’s the combination. Pragmatic and human. Both, every time.

Here’s what consistent actually looks like now:
L has a fitness regimen — a real one. He is showing up.
The gym doesn’t feel foreign anymore. It feels like somewhere he belongs.

And the shift in what he’s measuring? That might be the biggest result of all. Less focused on how he looks from the outside. More focused on the reality of his strength and the consistency he’s been building.

For someone who spent his whole adult life not finding this — that’s not a small thing.

That’s everything.

But what the routine doesn’t capture?

L came in carrying a story he’d been telling himself for years.

That story is gone.
For the first time, he’s committed to making fitness part of who he is. On his terms. At his pace. In a way that actually holds.
That’s the shift. Not just a new routine. A new identity.

inspired? book a free consult

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

@marmot88 is an OG.

if you have struggled with injury, I got you.

follow the link in bio if you’re tired of being tired (and hurt).

This one’s for the athletes who’ve had their time wasted in injury, with practitioners that didn’t ask the right questions or in practices that didn’t allow their PTs to make the time.

That’s not what happens when we work together.

DM me LFG if this is what you’re looking for.

One of the first things I teach every athlete I work with.

Red. Yellow. Green.

Red — stop. Something’s wrong. We back off.

Yellow — proceed with curiosity. Test it. Move slowly before you move fast.

Green — go. Build. Push.

Most athletes only know two settings: full send or completely shut down.

Martha was no different when she came in after her achilles tear. The instinct after a serious injury is to either protect everything — or ignore the signals entirely and try to get back to where you were as fast as possible.

Neither works.
What works is learning to read your own body. Building the skill of knowing which light you’re at — and trusting that read.
That’s what we spent five years doing together.
By the end, she didn’t need me to tell her when to push and when to pull back. She knew.

That’s the goal. Always.
Minimizing dependency. Self-efficacy.

The athlete who knows their own body and can stay available is the athlete who stays in the game.

That athlete gets more opportunities. More chances.

And when you’re always in the red — you won’t get those chances because sitting on the bench, hurt.

Book your free 20-min intro call. Link in bio.

She’d spent over a year away from competitive play.

Pandemic. No season. No field. Just waiting. Training on her own, in virtual sessions with the team.

When things finally opened back up, she felt ready, gearing up for the 2021 NY Gridlock season. Building her strength. Getting her body right.

The world was re-opening, slowly.

Then — at the first practice of the season — she tore her achilles.
I remember how gutting that moment was. For her. For the team. For us both.

She was no stranger to long-haul recovery. Ultimate players rarely are. But this one was different. The timing. The buildup. The year of waiting that came before it.

The season was over before it started.

But that wasn’t the end of her story.

Follow along…

it’s not motivation.

it’s not discipline.

it’s not working hard every session until failure.

it’s not hitting PRs every day.

it is showing up regularly.

it is doing the thing *while* allowing your body to recover.

it is pushing yourself within and around your capacity, not overwhat you’ve got every time.

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

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come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo

come grow.

slide for the details.

matchfitperformance.janeapp.com or link in bio for details.

📸 @marshalllian.photo