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11 years of back pain. Gone in 12 weeks. He never stopped training.
12 weeks · His testimonial below
Where he was when we started.
Old broken leg. Ankle sprain. Disc degeneration on top of that. Eleven years in, he couldn't sit through dinner without his back seizing up. He'd seen a string of practitioners. Physio, chiro, the usual. Most of them sent him home with the same handout: stretch this, foam roll that, here's a band, see you next week.
It helped for about a week. Every single time.
What I saw that they didn't.
His pain wasn't really coming from those injuries. They were old. What was actually going on was how he moved. He lived in extension all day. Anterior pelvic tilt, ribs flared, back doing the job of muscles that had quietly stopped firing.
And every rehab exercise he'd been handed reinforced the exact position causing the pain. Quite frankly, that's why nothing ever held.
Another stretch was never going to fix it. We had to teach his body a new default.
What we did. He kept lifting the whole time.
Positional work to bring his ribs and pelvis back into a stack. Reset the breathing. Rebuilt full-body mobility as actual capacity, not as a warmup. Then we loaded it, which is the part most rehab skips. Squats, bench, deadlifts, all three, with variations he could own at his current level and progress week to week.
By week 12 he was back to training he hadn't touched in years. No 40-minute warmup. No bracing for the flare-up that used to be coming. Daily life back too, renovating, going out, sleeping through the night. His energy now is a different story entirely.
"I forgot what it felt like to not think about my back."
— Étienne
Sound like your back? That's exactly who I built this for.
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Reveal → Reset → Rebuild · Full breakdown below
Where she was.
Amy's back got so bad she couldn't walk her dogs. One of her favorite things, gone. She didn't train for four months, and this is someone who loves to train. She'd seen multiple people. Each one moved the needle a little, none of them actually solved it.
Four months of treatment and she was no further ahead.
Phase 1 — Reveal. The Ground-Up Assessment™.
Your pain is the last thing to show up, not the first. By the time the back seizes mid-deadlift, the body's been compensating for weeks, sometimes months or years. Treat only where it hurts and you're walking in at the end of the story while the cause is still sitting there. That's why it keeps coming back.
So before I look at the painful spot at all, I read the whole story. Four things, in order: the foot, since it's the first thing touching the ground; hip internal and external rotation; where the body actually sits in space; and the training itself, because a lot of the time it's too much, too fast, too soon on a system that wasn't ready.
In Amy's photos you could see it from the front. Shoulder dropping. Knee falling in. Whole body shifted to the right, so her left side was working overtime just to keep her upright. That low-level tension was there before she ever touched a barbell.
Phase 2 — Reset. The roadmap, not the fix.
The assessment was the map, not the cure. I track every new client on a board over time: posture front, back, both sides, single-leg stance, toe touch, standing rotation, squat, split squat left versus right. We watch whether the body is genuinely reorganizing against gravity. Then she gets the roadmap sheet, Reveal, Reset, Rebuild, so she knows what we're doing right now, what she gets out of it, and when she moves up. Most people in rehab never get told where they're going. Amy did.
Phase 3 — Rebuild.
Once we'd actually dealt with the cause, she sent me a video of herself doing kettlebell swings. Walking the dogs again. Training heavy again. And in her words, she's back. Four months stuck, then back under the bar. We built the bridge nobody else built for her.
"I'm back."
— Amy
If your pain has cost you something you love, that's the conversation to have.
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6 weeks post-op · Her testimonial below
Where she was.
Stress fracture. CrossFit gone. Marathon training gone. Surgery booked for October 6th, and the only plan after that was rest and hope. Her medical team gave her a recovery timeline measured in months. She told me she was scared this might be it, that the running version of her wasn't coming back.
That's where she was when she came to me.
What I told her.
A stress fracture isn't bad luck. It's load management, more capacity demanded than her body could absorb at the volume she was running. So rest and hope, even with the surgery, wasn't a return-to-sport plan. It was a return-to-walking plan, and I wasn't going to let her settle for that.
She needed bone healing and tissue capacity and running mechanics. All three, sequenced properly, not stacked at the end and hoped for.
The phased plan.
Post-op weeks 1 to 2: foundational movement, pain-free positions, isometric loading at the fracture site inside healing tolerances. Weeks 3 to 4: progressive load through the chain, biking in as the first real cardio. Weeks 5 to 6: running mechanics drills, then a structured run-walk progression timed to her bone-healing markers, not to a calendar.
November 20th she texted me, cleared to run. I was on paternity leave. She was too excited to wait for our next call.
From "this might be it" to running again in six weeks. CrossFit and the next marathon, back on the calendar.
— Marie-Claude
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12 weeks · Testimonial below (FR with EN subs)
The cycle he was in.
Greg's lifted his whole adult life. Best numbers at 30, then seven years trying to get back to them. Train hard, hit a wall, push through, get hurt, three months off, start over. Shoulder one cycle, wrist the next. Every time he got close, something gave.
He was running internet programs and copying Jeff Nippard videos. Two naps a day. Pre-workout to train, sometimes pre-workout just to get through a work shift. He figured he was getting older. He was getting under-recovered.
What was actually going on.
The plateaus weren't an effort problem. He was working harder than most of my clients. It was structural. His ligaments, tendons, and connective tissue weren't keeping up with the muscle he was trying to build, so he was always one rep away from the weakest link going.
He was doing what felt good in the gym instead of what his body actually needed. After seven years, the gap between those two things stops being small.
What we changed.
First thing was AMRAP and endurance blocks, the kind of work he'd never have programmed for himself. He hated it for two weeks. Then his work capacity caught up and his recovery flipped.
Then progressive overload that respected what his connective tissue could actually take. Built around his body, not a cookie-cutter PDF. By month 3.5 he was hitting numbers he hadn't seen since 30. No naps. No pre-workout. More energy after training than before it.
"It's a difficult journey, but it brings so much."
— Greg
Strong but stuck and breaking down on repeat? That's a fixable pattern.
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Reveal → Reset → Rebuild
Where she was.
When Liz came to me she was frustrated. Four months of pain. Leg numbness. She could barely bend forward without it bothering her. She'd already tried chiro and nothing was really shifting.
What got to her most was that nobody understood her actual goal. She didn't want to just be "functional." She wanted to get back in the gym and lift heavy.
Phase 1 — Reveal.
We started with a Ground-Up Assessment™. What it showed was that she was constantly overloading the right side of her body. The same tissues taking the hit, over and over. The numbness and the pain weren't the problem. They were the last page of a story that started somewhere else.
By that point her body had lost its efficient ways to move, so it was borrowing from everywhere else just to keep going. That's usually when symptoms keep coming back no matter what someone tries.
That assessment gave us the roadmap.
Phase 2 — Reset.
First we brought the tension and guarding down so her body could absorb load again and find support from the ground up. Then came Movement Restoration™: a lot of single-side work, alternating patterns, rotational work. The goal was getting hip rotation, pelvic movement, and better pressure distribution back, so the right side stopped carrying everything.
Once she stopped guarding against movement, things moved fast. Less numbness. Less hesitation. Then she could bend forward comfortably again.
Phase 3 — Rebuild.
In the Rebuild phase we used Capacity Layering™ to rebuild her tolerance to two-sided lifting and layer load, volume, and intensity back in. She's pain-free now and back to lifting heavy, the exact thing she came here for and the thing nobody else would even build toward.
From four months of pain and leg numbness to pain-free and lifting heavy again.
— Liz
This is the real work, not a 7-day miracle. If that's the kind of comeback you want, apply.
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Read the Google reviews →I'm Gabe. Kinesiologist. Lifter. Same back-pain story as a lot of you.
I'm a licensed kinesiologist, a member of the Fédération des kinésiologues du Québec. That's a regulated health profession here, the movement and exercise specialist, working alongside the medical side, not instead of it. When a client's "cleared to run," that clearance comes from their medical team. My job is getting them ready to earn it and to hold it.
Before any of this was a thing I do for clients, I spent five years with my own back pain figuring out what rehab kept missing for me.
I work with a small number of lifters one-on-one at a time, some in person, most remote. The work is the same either way: a full assessment, programming built around your body, and weekly coaching through it. If you want to see how I think before you ever talk to me, the Rebuild Playbook is free and lays out the whole framework.
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One honest note: everyone walks in with a different history, body, and effort level, so I won't promise you these exact results. What I will promise is that if you do the work I lay out, your body responds. That part I've watched happen too many times to doubt.