“Steve is unlike anyone I have ever worked with on my physical fitness. To refer to him as a trainer is to dramatically sell short the value he adds to one’s health and wellness. I think of him more as one of the most important healthcare professionals in my life, no less important than my doctor or dentist.

As a reconditioning specialist, Steve is less concerned with building up my body to look good at a beach and more focused on the overall efficiency of my physical function, power output, flexibility, elimination of friction and minimization of expended energy.  This approach is highly unique in the fitness world today because few trainers understand the concepts.  

Until I met Steve, my approach to working out for most of my life was to generate quick reversions to what I perceived as my mean bodily ideal,….to shrink a few inches off my waist, to add some width to my shoulders, to pump up my biceps, and to load up the muscle mass in my legs for skiing or biking.  What I never realized is that such futile attempts actually worked against my intended goals by creating big globs of energy-sucking muscle mass that hung isolated in my skeletal structure, unsupported by smaller, surrounding muscle groups that could have more easily achieved the output I wanted.  Steve has consistently demonstrated to me  the importance of these smaller, supporting muscles that once strengthened and called to the task, can work in unison to achieve the athletic function I desire in a more balanced and controlled manner without expending nearly as much energy as I used to when I relied mainly on bigger, isolated muscles.  Not only is my physical performance better and more controlled, but by redesigning ones muscular support structure to tax many muscles only a little bit rather than over-taxing one or two muscles in isolation, friction is reduced, inflammation is minimized and recovery happens much more quickly with much less soreness.  

I truly do not know of anyone else who thinks about conditioning in this way.  In fact, most conditioning fads of today (Cross-Fit, Barry’s Boot Camp, Soul Cycle) approach conditioning in the exact opposite fashion; by over-training a limited set of major muscles in a manner that uses maximum energy for limited output (extreme exertion).  This results in the participants of these classes ending each session with a feeling of total exhaustion that they mistake for fitness and conditioning, when all that they have likely accomplished is over-exertion and exhaustion that has produced un-balanced bulk and uncomfortable inflammation.  Sadly, such an approach does very little to improve function for the activities they were training for in the first place.  

Simply put, Steve is unique, Steve “gets it” and his reconditioning approach can get you “dialed in” for just about anything you want to do in your life at whatever age you want to keep doing it.”