We knew we couldn’t just throw 20 pounds on this frame.

We knew he would likely be “skinny” his whole career (and his whole life for that matter).

He just had that “ectomorph” body type, whereas Simmons had more of a mesomorph frame.

Technically, we could get him to gain weight, but it would only slow him down and make him less athletic.

We were faced with a judgment call.

We knew what the organization REALLY wanted. They wanted a great and CONSISTENT basketball player and we knew we could deliver that, just not the way they had in mind.

The problem with any NBA player is that, not only are they pushing their own physical limitations as to how high they can jump and how fast they can run. But they are pushing the very limits of the human race.

Brandon is 6-foot-9, runs like a deer and jumps 40 inches in the air. To get him to jump 41 inches or run slightly faster, it takes a MASSIVE effort and significant appreciation to the details.

When you read about all the benefits of exercising, you’re reading about exercise in general.

​For the average couch potato, yes, it is helpful for them to do literally anything fitness related…

But for elite athlete like Brandon Ingram, I don’t think he would get much out of that Zumba class.

This is the moment that you must cross the threshold from general fitness to elite performance.

No longer will the basics suffice. You must now commit to knowing the ins and outs of the human body better than anyone else.

This is what it takes to train the best.

​THIS is Athletic Restoration.

At the elite level, we are breaking down human health and performance into four distinct categories...

Each one of these makes up a large piece of the performance pie.

​Here's the rub...

Athletic Restoration works by comparing your body function to the optimal across these four categories.

When we get a clear picture of what's not working properly, the restoration process can occur at tremendous speed.

The body of a professional athlete is already working nearly perfectly. To make any improvements, you must be exceptionally detailed.

But for the non-professional athlete, you can make profound and sweeping improvements at radical speeds because there is much more room for improvement.

This is why so many of our Athletic Restoration say things like, "WOW! I started to think my brain was making it up because it went away so quickly."

​Now let's take a deeper look at each of the four pillars of Athletic Restoration.

Have you ever had any trouble with your iPhone and the usual fixes just aren't working?

You've tried turning it off and back on again.

You tried closing all your tabs.

But nothing seems to stick.

The last resort is to wipe all the data and restore your phone to "factory settings."

Good as new!

Like it just came out of the box.

This is the mission of Postural Restoration.

Reset your body back to factory settings.

To do this, we must identify any and all areas of dysfunction, postural misalignments, movement pattern issues and pain points so that we can clearly identify the root cause of the problems.

Once you know where it all began, you can correct the issue at the source which is far more efficient restoration model than strictly addressing symptoms like most Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and traditional medicine clinics.

​​Everyone we work with at 4A starts here.

The next question to ask yourself is: What do you need to be capable of?

The #1 objection that we get to Athletic Restoration is, "I'm not an athlete."

While that may be true, your body still has plenty of physical demands being placed on it every day.

Are you a salesperson who needs to be "on" every day?

Are you a software engineer who stares into a computer all day long?

Maybe you ARE an athlete and you want to train without limits, optimize your health or participate in endurance events like marathons or HYROX fitness racing.

The point is, we've got to train your body to meet the demands you will place on it.

Generally speaking, the average person needs long sustaining energy.

For the athlete, we will need to be more specific about their training needs based on the demands of their sport.

Our first step is to analyze the results from the postural restoration assessment. We've got to answer the question, what do we need to work on?

Next, we take those objectives and dial in the intensity. If we discover that we need stronger hamstrings, we want to put as much corrective force into them so as to generate the best and most efficient rate of restoration.

Lastly, we lean on the science.

We know that it takes 6-8 weeks to strengthen a muscle and we want to make sure you are spending enough time putting in the work, so you can be certain that you've made real changes in your body.

You know when you're lifting weights or doing some intense exercise and you feel that burn in your muscles? That's the release of hydrogen ions during the energy production process and a clear sign you are no longer using fat for fuel.

If we are training you for fat-loss, then this might be a problem!

One afternoon when I worked for the Arizona Diamondbacks, we had a very out-of-shape pitcher going for a run around our training complex.

It looked like he was barely jogging.

Some of the other coaches were yelling at him because he wasn't going hard enough, but we had him strapped to a heart rate monitor.

The data indicated that he was at the top of his "aerobic capacity." Which means if he went any harder, he would actually be training to have LESS stamina!

Without the data and the understanding of metabolic function, we would be training him entirely wrong.

In this category we are looking at things like

WHEN do you need to be at your best?

Unfortunately, your body is not capable of being at 100% of your performance capacity every day.

It comes in waves.

Imagine you do a really hard workout today.

Tomorrow, you're going to be tired, right? You might be sore or stiff and if you were to do that workout again, you wouldn't perform as well. 

The best athletes in the world know how to time it just right so they can be at their best when they really need it.

Think about a fighter trying to "peak at the right" just before the fight.

When do you need to be at your best?

Are you running a marathon in a few weeks that you want to peak at the right time for?

Do you have a big pitch to present at work on Thursday?

We want to control what we can control...

Do what we can to mitigate the effects of unavoidable stress...

Be proactive about improving our recovery so we can get back to 100% faster.

Athletic Restoration is the process by which we return your body to optimal performance.

We take the four categories of health and performance and identify the areas that need improvement.

These test results create your training program...just like they do in professional sports.