Tummy Table

10/19/2026

The “slingshot effect” is what happens when the tool does all the work… and then suddenly gives your body the load back.

Inversion table: fall backward, unload, come back upright.
Traction machine: get pulled apart, machine releases, normal loading returns.

That transition matters.

Traction can temporarily change spinal loading and create space. But eventually gravity comes back, body weight comes back, and the tissues have to reorganize under load again.

That’s why I don’t want people just hanging there waiting for a machine to “fix” them.

I want breathing.
Movement.
Muscle participation.
Position changes.
Nervous-system feedback.

Internal feedback before external dependence.

And this is where I keep poking at the inversion industry:

After 40+ years, the consumer playbook still mostly revolves around a few minutes of passive inversion.

My beginner Tummy Table session is 15 minutes.

I’ve had older adults comfortably progress far beyond that — including a 74-year-old client with a hip replacement who has completed a 45-minute session.

Not because longer automatically means better.

Because I’m building a session, not just selling someone time on a piece of equipment.

The tool creates the opportunity.
The body still has to learn what to do with it.

10/18/2026

84 years old. One leg. Prosthetic.
Every other week he comes in and does a 15-minute Bailey Reset.
Meanwhile, the consumer inversion industry has spent decades teaching people to start at 1–2 minutes and eventually work toward roughly 3–5 minutes.
And here’s the part I find interesting:
Even Teeter tells users to come back up slowly and pause so the spine can gently recompress.
Exactly.
Because when you unload tissue and then suddenly put normal body weight back through it, the transition matters.
I’ve always called that abrupt return the “slingshot effect.”
Science would describe it more carefully as reloading, recompression, and viscoelastic recovery.
The relief people feel from traction can be real, but research also shows that many of those mechanical and pain effects can be temporary.
So maybe after 40+ years, the conversation deserves to be bigger than:
“Fall backward. Hang for 3–5 minutes. Come back up.”
My beginner session is 15 minutes.
It is structured. Progressive. Interactive. And this 84-year-old gentleman has been coming back every other week.
When he gets off the table, he reports no pain.
I’m not using one client to make a medical guarantee.
I’m showing what made me start asking a different question:
What if the missing piece was never more inversion… but a better session?
Forty years is a long time to keep rereading the same instruction manual. 😏

10/18/2026

10/17/2026

Have yall done your research to double check what I'm saying¿
In these videos is the current self-myofascial release and inversion table industry standard editions.
I didn't pay over $60 for any of my inversion tables and the foam rolling industry is all the same.
In my eyes, I have two real competitors: Teeter and TriggerPoint.

Not because they’re the only companies in recovery.

Because they became the templates everybody else copied.

Teeter defined the consumer inversion table.
TriggerPoint helped define modern foam rolling.

And for decades, most of what came after has looked like another version of the same playbook:

same cylinder.
same backward inversion.
same old instructions.
different logo.

That’s exactly why I’m not interested in making a slightly better version of what already exists.

I’m building around physics, geometry, leverage, positioning, progression, and curriculum.

Not another texture on a roller.
Not another angle on a seesaw.

If the industry has been living inside the same box for 40 years, my job is not to decorate the box.

My job is to build something outside of it.

That’s the difference.

10/16/2026

🔥🚨KC & DFW Update🚨🔥
This is the side of business I absolutely wanted no part of im in service business not retail but yall won't be sad when you try these out

Andy Frisella MFCEO if I can fix everyone at 1st Phorm 🇺🇸
I'll come to st Louis 🤙

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10/15/2026

Circulatory System 101: what happens when a Muay Thai kick lands?
When I was first taught to kick, my coach made it simple:
Muay Thai kicks are meant to end the fight.
That makes sense when you look at what one clean kick can do to the circulatory system.
Blunt impact can damage small blood vessels and capillaries inside the muscle and surrounding tissue.
Blood leaks into the area.
Bruising develops.
Inflammation increases local blood flow.
Fluid moves into the damaged tissue.
Pressure builds.
Range of motion can drop.
Keep landing kicks in the same area and that environment gets more crowded with blood, swelling, damaged tissue, and inflammatory debris.
That’s why a leg can go from “sore” to heavy, swollen, stiff, and hard to use.
The circulatory system isn’t just moving blood through the body.
When trauma happens, it becomes part of the damage response and the repair response.
One kick. One body. One circulatory system trying to keep up.
That’s Fluid Integrity.

10/14/2026

Somewhere along the way, self-myofascial release became “foam rolling.”

That’s like calling all massage therapy “rubbing.”

The foam roller is the tool.
SMR is the method.

And the method makes a lot more sense when you compare it to the therapy side of massage:

Deep tissue.
Trigger-point work.
Targeted pressure.
Finding a restriction.
Staying on it.
Changing position and leverage.
Reassessing what changed.

A skilled therapist doesn’t just roll their hands back and forth over somebody for 30 minutes and hope for the best.

So why did we teach people to do exactly that with a foam roller?

Stop worshipping the cylinder. Start understanding the tissue.

Foam rolling is part of self-myofascial release.

It was never supposed to be the whole thing.