Personal Training · Athletic Performance
Sports performance training built around your body, not a template
One-on-one training with a physical therapist. Built to make you better at your sport and less likely to spend next season rehabbing it.
This is usually why athletes get in touch
- You've plateaued and more of the same isn't moving it.
- You pick up the same nagging injury every season.
- You're following a program written for somebody else's body.
- You came out of rehab cleared to play but not actually ready to play.
- Your sport demands something your training doesn't cover.
- You want to train hard without breaking, and nobody is watching your technique.
Train the demands, respect the history
Most programs are written for a sport in general rather than for an athlete in particular. What your sport asks of you, what your body has already been through, and where your real limits sit should all shape the program. Usually only the first one does.
I'm a physical therapist first, with a board specialty in orthopedics. That means I can read what an old injury is still doing to the way you move, and load you accordingly. Less guessing about whether something is safe to push, and more of the training actually landing.
Your first visit
What actually happens
A real conversation
Your sport, your position, where you are in the season, your injury history, and what you're actually trying to improve.
A movement and performance assessment
Strength, power, control and left-to-right differences, tested against what your sport demands. Old injuries show up here whether or not they still hurt.
The explanation
What's limiting your performance, what's a risk of injury, and what we're going to do about each.
A program built around your season
What we do together, what you do on your own, and how it changes between off-season, pre-season and in-season.
What we work on
Strength and power
The base under everything else, loaded properly instead of cautiously.
Speed and change of direction
Accelerating, decelerating, and the cutting that puts people on the sideline.
Injury prevention
Finding the asymmetries and the weak links before one of them costs you a season.
Return to sport after rehab
Closing the gap between cleared to play and ready to play, which are not the same thing.
Sport-specific conditioning
Built from what your sport actually demands rather than a generic engine.
Youth and high school athletes
Real coaching for a body that is still growing, which changes what you should and shouldn't load.
Before you start
Is this only for certain sports?
Any sport. The program comes from what your sport demands, so the first conversation is mostly me asking about yours.
Is this physical therapy?
No. If something is hurt, that's physical therapy and we should talk about that first. This is training for athletes who are healthy and want to be better.
Do you train high school athletes?
Yes, and a good part of this work is younger athletes who want real coaching rather than a program pulled off the internet.
Can you come to me?
Yes. I train clients at the Levin JCC in Durham and travel to clients across Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Hillsborough.
What if you don't think I'm a fit?
I'll tell you on the first call and point you toward who is. I would rather send you to the right person than take your money.
Start with a conversation
Tell me about your sport and what you're trying to improve, and we'll work out whether this is the right fit.