Movement As Medicine

Movement As Medicine Come see what Movement As Medicine is all about! Visit our website: www.movement-as-medicine.com OUR MOVEMENT

Every human should move well and move often.
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Our mission is to help as many people do that as possible. At Movement As Medicine, we vision ourselves as “Movement Therapists.”

We pride ourselves on treating the person, not just treating the pain. No human body is exactly the same, and for that reason, no painful condition should be treated exactly the same. We take a unique, personalized approach to each individual who walks through our door

. Life should be lived in motion. We’re here to help you move more, move better, and keep doing the things you love to do. At Movement As Medicine we have multiple therapy options depending on your specific treatment goals. Read below to find the right therapy option for you. Orthopedic Massage and Movement Therapy

Orthopedic Massage and Movement Therapy is intended for clients looking to resolve a specific issue including but not limited to chronic pain/discomfort, acute injury, postural dysfunction and immobility. Our Movement Therapy sessions often resemble physical therapy more than traditional massage therapy. Every session begins with a comprehensive assessment followed by hands-on treatment as well as corrective exercise and movement re-education. We incorporate exercise and movement training into our treatments because we believe in not only resolving your pain but also re-patterning your body to move correctly to prevent future dysfunction. Book A Treatment: http://www.genbook.com/bookings/slot/reservation/30193613?bookingSourceId=1

Traditional Full-Body Relaxation and Recovery Treatment

Our Full-Body Relaxation and Recovery treatments are a great option for clients who are looking to reduce overall tension and stress, prepare for a competition, recover from competition or just loosen up a bit. Our full-body treatment is what most people would picture as a typical massage therapy session. Each session begins with a short assessment to determine focus areas that help us tailor the treatment to your needs. We provide a quiet relaxing atmosphere to accompany a full-body massage that incorporates traditional Swedish techniques as well as Myofascial release and stretching. Book A Treatment: http://www.genbook.com/bookings/slot/reservation/30193613?bookingSourceId=1


Who Are We? Brendon Rearick and Kevin Carr are educated beyond their years when it comes to physical training and rehabilitation. As strength and conditioning coaches at Mike Boyle's Strength and Conditioning, Brendon and Kevin have trained a wide array of clients ranging from U.S.Olympians to high schools stars to stay at home Moms. Recent graduates of Cortiva Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts, Brendon and Kevin enrolled in massage school knowing that they could better serve their training clients if they also became manual therapists. Their unique blend of strength and conditioning and massage therapy allows them to not only treat your pain but allows them to find the source of dysfunction and provide a permanent solution.

08/12/2026

The Diagonal Continuous Hurdle Hop is one of my favorite advanced plyometric progressions because it combines three qualities that are incredibly valuable for athletes: unilateral force production, multidirectional control, and elasticity.

🔺 Unilateral — Single-leg plyometrics have tremendous carryover to sport. They develop unilateral force production, stability, and coordination while also exposing side-to-side asymmetries that may be hidden during bilateral movements.

🔺 Multidirectional — Hopping on a diagonal challenges athletes to produce and absorb force outside of the sagittal plane. The feet, lower legs, quads, and hips must work together to create frontal-plane stability and control the body as it moves in multiple directions.

🔺 Elastic — We don’t start here. We progress athletes from stick landings > mini bounces > continuous hops.

Early variations teach the athlete to manage force and control loading, especially valuable for true beginners and injured clients. Once they’ve developed those braking skills, continuous hops challenge them to minimize ground contact time and rapidly transition from landing back into takeoff. The goal is to improve reactive strength and elastic efficiency, the ability to absorb, store, and rapidly return energy through the stretch-shortening cycle.

📖 I break down our complete plyometric progressions and approach to developing power and elasticity in Prescribing Movement As Medicine.

08/07/2026

Despite the name, I actually think of the skater squat as having a lot in common with a Trapbar deadlift pattern.

You get significant loading through both the knees and hips, while developing single-leg strength, balance, and multiplanar stability.

One of the reasons I love this variation is its loading potential. Once someone learns the movement, we can progressively load it pretty heavily while keeping overall spinal loading relatively low.

That makes it a great option for athletes and clients who want to train the legs hard but may not tolerate heavy bilateral deadlifting particularly well.

And because everything happens on one leg, we’re developing the strength and stability that carries over naturally to running, sport, and everyday life.

Single-leg strength.
Hip + Knee loading.
Balance and stability.
Plenty of room to progressively load.

The skater squat checks a lot of boxes

08/03/2026

Medicine ball throws aren’t just for athletes.

They’re one of my favorite tools for developing upper-body and trunk power in almost any client.

When most people think about power training, they immediately picture Olympic lifts or sprinting.

But there aren’t many safe, practical ways to train the upper body to produce force quickly. That’s where medicine balls are so valuable.

Using a light medicine ball (typically 2–10 pounds) allows you to throw with maximal intent, training your nervous system to recruit high-threshold motor units and produce force rapidly.

Medicine ball throws also develop power through multiple planes of motion. Side tosses, chest passes, overhead throws, slams, and shot-put variations all challenge the body to generate and transfer force in different directions while improving coordination between the hips, trunk, and upper body.

And while athletes certainly benefit from these exercises, so does everyone else. They’re incredibly useful and fun too to ability to move quickly, react efficiently, and coordinate the entire body—qualities that become increasingly important as we age.

One of the biggest misconceptions in fitness is that medicine ball training is only for sports performance.
I think it’s one of the best tools we have to help people move better, stay powerful, and preserve function throughout life.

Power isn’t reserved for athletes. It’s a physical quality that every person should train and every person eventually depends on.

I dive deeper into medicine ball training, power development, and how to safely and effectively integrate explosive exercise into a complete program in Chapter 6 of Prescribing Movement As Medicine: A Professional’s Guide to Exercise for Health and Longevity.

07/31/2026

Some Training Clips From The Week

- 265 Hang Clean
- Loaded Sled Sprints🛷
- 465 Deads
- Loaded Lateral Bears Crawls for no other reason than torture
- Love Single Leg Squats
- GluteSlide straight leg adduction
- Exactly how we want a medicine ball side toss #
- 60 lb skaters
- 🔨 the most underrated 🎾/ ⛳️ elbow tools

07/28/2026

We often think of osteoporosis as an “older person’s disease.”
It’s not, It’s the result of changes that begin decades earlier.

Around 30, the average adult begins losing bone density every year. For women, that process accelerates dramatically after menopause as declining estrogen shifts the balance from building bone to breaking it down.

But the challenge often begins even earlier. On average, women accumulate less bone during childhood and adolescence than men, a difference is often a result of lower participation in resistance training, under-fueling, and years of avoiding heavy loading.

As a result, many women enter adulthood with a smaller reserve and then lose bone more rapidly as they age. By the time osteoporosis is diagnosed, the foundation has often been weakening for years.

The encouraging news is that bone is living tissue.
Just like muscle, it responds to the demands we place on it.

Mechanical loading from strength training stimulates the cells responsible for building and maintaining bone, helping preserve, and in many cases improve bone density throughout life.

Strength training isn’t just about building muscle. It’s about building a skeleton that’s resilient enough to support you for decades.

Additionally, don’t overlook power training.

Falls are one of the leading causes of serious injury as we age. Power training helps us react more quickly, recover our balance, and reduce the likelihood of falling. At the same time, the high-impact forces generated during jumping and other explosive movements provide an additional stimulus for bone remodeling and bone formation.

Power training can help prevent falls and strength training helps make use strong enough to survive them if they do. Together, they form the foundation of lifelong musculoskeletal health.

The body you’ll have at 70 is being built by the choices you make at 30, 40, and 50.

Every workout is a deposit into your future skeleton.

To learn more, pre-order my book Prescribing Movement As Medicine: A Professional’s Guide to Exercise for Health and Longevity on Amazon today.

07/23/2026

How We Program Trisets

One of the biggest goals in program design is maximizing the value of every training session.

With lack of time being one of the biggest barriers to exercise, every minute matters.

Rather than sitting around between sets, we organize non-competing exercises into trisets. Instead of training the same muscles repeatedly, we pair different movement patterns so one area of the body is recovering while another is working.

For example:
A1️⃣ Hip Dominant
A2️⃣ Horizontal Press
A3️⃣ Mobility

This allows us to increase workout density without compromising exercise quality.
The goal isn’t to rush through the workout or eliminate rest.
The goal is to use your training time more intelligently.

When one muscle group is recovering, another can be training.

Think in movement patterns, organize exercises intelligently, and you’ll get more work done in the same amount of time while maintaining high-quality movement.

That’s how we program strength training at MBSC and CFSC.

For more information on how to build real-life training programs head to Amazon today to pre-order my book “Prescribing Movement As Medicine: A Professional Guide To Exercise For Health And Longevity.” Link in bio.

07/22/2026

The hip flexors deserve more attention than they typically get.

Whether your goal is returning from a hip injury, building more resilient hips, or improving acceleration and sprinting mechanics, I think there are three phases to training the hip flexors.

1️⃣ Build isolated strength and control

Start by teaching the athlete to create hip flexion without compensating through the pelvis or lumbar spine. Isometric variations are a great way to build strength, improve motor control, and restore confidence early in the rehab process.

2️⃣ Strengthen through full range of motion

Once control is established, load hip flexion through larger ranges and in multiple planes. Exercises like supine cable hip flexion and hip flexion + adduction strengthen the psoas, iliacus, re**us femoris, and adductors through the ranges where they need to be strong.

3️⃣ Train it fast

The hip flexors aren’t just strength muscles—they’re essential sprinting muscles. Wall drills, rapid hip switches, and sprinting teach the hip flexors to produce force quickly and transfer strength developed in the weight room to athletic movement.

This final step is especially important during rehabilitation, ensuring the athlete is prepared to return to sport after an anterior hip or hip flexor injury.

The exact exercises you choose will depend on the athlete and the goal, but the progression stays largely the same:

Isolate → Load → Accelerate.

It’s a simple framework I come back to over and over, whether I’m rehabbing a hip flexor strain or helping an athlete run faster.

What are your favorite hip flexor exercises?

Let me know below. 👇

Can your push-up score tell you something about your long-term health?The push-up has always been one of my favorite fit...
07/18/2026

Can your push-up score tell you something about your long-term health?

The push-up has always been one of my favorite fitness assessments because it’s simple, practical, and accessible to almost everyone.

What’s fascinating is that research suggests it may also be a useful marker of long-term health.

A 10-year study of more than 1,100 men found that those with higher push-up capacity had a significantly lower risk of future cardiovascular events. That doesn’t mean push-ups prevent heart disease but it reinforces that relative strength matters

Your push-up score isn’t about comparing yourself to anyone else as much as it’s a snapshot of where you are today and a benchmark you can improve over time.

Test yourself, keep training and track your progress over time.

Every rep is another investment in your future health.

Challenge: How many strict push-ups can you do?

Drop your age and your max reps in the comments and tag us in a video of your attempt!

“Prescribing Movement As Medicine” is released September 14th, 2026 via Human Kinetics and is available for pre-order today. 🔗 in bio.

07/12/2026

Exercise is one of the most powerful things we can do to support healthy brain aging.

Research continues to show that regular physical activity, cardiovascular fitness, and muscular strength are all associated with better cognitive health and a lower risk of dementia. Exercise also improves blood flow to the brain and stimulates the release of compounds that support learning, memory, and healthy brain function.

Not everyone identifies as an athlete or cares about physical performance. But almost everyone hopes to maintain their memory, independence, and cognitive health as they age.

Every workout impacts more than just your muscles. It’s an investment in your brain, your cognitive health, and your future.

“Prescribing Movement As Medicine: The Professional’s Guide to Exercise for Health and Longevity” - is available for pre-order NOW on Amazon.

07/09/2026

A lot of people ask:

“What’s the best type of exercise?”

Should I lift weights?

Run?

Pilates?

Yoga?

Those are the wrong questions.

The better question is:

“What physical qualities am I trying to develop?”

A complete training program isn’t built around one type of exercise.

It’s built around the adaptations your body needs to stay healthy, capable, and independent throughout life.

That’s why a well-rounded program should include:

🚶 Everyday physical activity to keep you moving outside the gym.

🤸 Mobility to maintain the range of motion needed for daily life.

🏃 Dynamic movement to improve coordination, motor control, and prepare the body for higher-intensity exercise.

⚡ Power to preserve the ability to move quickly and react as we age.

🦘 Elasticity to train your muscles and tendons to efficiently manage force.

🏋️ Strength to build the muscle and resilience that support nearly every aspect of health.

❤️ Cardiovascular training to improve endurance, heart health, metabolic health, and even brain health.

Each quality builds on the last.

Think of your program like a recipe.

No single ingredient makes the meal.

It’s the combination of ingredients that creates the final product.

The same is true with exercise.

Don’t chase a singular training method.

Build a program that develops every physical quality your body needs for a long, healthy, active life.

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