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Joy Kenseth, Injury Rehabilitation


Chris Poljacik has been my personal trainer for the past 18 months. When we first started working together, I was in terrible shape. Having suffered a broken back in an automobile accident two months earlier, I was physically weak and had lost a lot of flexibility. To top things off, the accident aggravated an old […]

MTS A BIG HIT IN HAMMILTON, ONTARIO


Dec, 5th and 6th Master Trainer and owner Chris Poljacik traveled to Hamiliton Ontario Canada to conduct a Movement Training Specialist Certification. The group Consisted of 17 trainers from 5 different clubs who were eager advance there functional training knowledge and business skills. The two day workshop was a huge hit that left […]

Rotator Cuff Rehab


Back in the game!
“On November 10th I injured my right shoulder during a tennis match: a torn rotator cuff, according to a DHMC orthopedic surgeon.
I worked with the DHMC re-hab staff for a month, and then I started working twice a week with Chris Poljacik, a Movement Training Specialist. Chris worked with me for five […]

Principals of Lifting


THE PRINCIPLES OF LIFTING
By Logan Schwartz
The history of weight training has changed dynamically with the advent of Applied Functional Science. Traditional weight training basically had two main objectives. Athletes lifted to either increase muscle mass, i.e. hypertrophy, or they trained to increase strength. The theory was that the more force an athlete could produce, the […]