What is Foundation Training?

Foundation Training is a movement practice that teaches your body how to properly support itself and move as nature intended. This program is a systematic solution that enables one to reach, achieve, and experience incredible long-term health and wellness.

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Who started it?

FT was developed by chiropractor and movement expert, Dr. Eric Goodman, to heal his chronic back pain and avoid surgery for multiple disc herniations.

How does it work?

Foundation Training uses a combination of powerful movements, intentional poses, and conscious breathing work to activate the muscles in your posterior chain. When practiced regularly, your pain diminishes, your resistance to injury increases, and your body comes to life.

Your torso, pelvis, and back side strengthen

Your hips reclaim their intended role as the epicenter of movement

Your spine decompresses and space opens throughout your torso

Your breathing capacity and oxygen levels increase

Your muscles learn to correctly support your structure and posture improves

Your whole body becomes integrated and moves more efficiently

When these things happen, a cascade of healthful changes happen in your body and your life.

Effective

Foundation Training targets the source of pain- not just the symptoms- making it a long term solution for health. It brings the whole body, inside and out, into balance allowing you to function at your absolute best.

Person performing Foundation Training exercises to decompress the spine and improve posture.

Why Foundation Training?

Life in the 21st century all too often means living an extremely sedentary and immobile lifestyle- one that encourages too much time spent hunched over screens, devices, steering wheels,and desks. Assuming these poor positions throughout the day without adequate muscular strength to resist and push back against gravity can lead to degeneration of our joints, inefficiency of our muscles, and unnecessary pain. Our habits of sitting and curling forward, combined with the ever constant pull of gravity, cause a compression force on our bodies that is detrimental to every aspect of health. We modern humans must learn to live and move the way our bodies are designed or else we leave ourselves vulnerable to pain, illness, fatigue, and overwhelming general malaise.

Providing an Athletic Platform

For many of the world's top athletes and Olympic super stars, Foundation Training is a crucial part of their fitness. Collegiate and high school teams, coaches, trainers, and athletes of all types and abilities use Foundation Training to build structural strength, heal injuries, improve their game, and increase injury resistance.

Athlete performing Foundation Training exercises to build structural strength and stability.

      
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Meet our Foundation Training Expert

Dr. Chelsea Turgeon, specialist in concussion and vestibular therapy at Primal Physical Therapy

Dr. Jessica Calderón, DPT

PHYSICAL THERAPIST

Dr. Calderón brings a fresh perspective to gait analysis, emphasizing the importance of a holistic approach to physical therapy. Her expertise is instrumental in providing comprehensive care that aligns with our clients’ unique physical needs and goals.

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