Everything gets written down, including what we could not measure, and every number you are compared against has a source we name.
What you want your body to still be doing, where it has hurt, what your physician, or whoever leads your care, is already managing, old injuries included. This conversation decides what the numbers mean later, so it is part of the work rather than paperwork before it.
30 min · beforeRange of motion at hips, shoulders, and ankles, measured with a goniometer. Grip on a dynamometer, both hands. On VALD force plates you jump, land, balance with your eyes closed, and pull against a fixed bar, so the plates record how much force each side produces and how fast. Under load, a velocity sensor reads bar speed, which gives us your lifts without a maximal attempt. A DEXA scan, booked by us before your session, gives us the muscle. A physical therapist watches all of it.
2 hrs · testingWhere your strength stands, part by part, what is holding each part back, and what to fix first. Written so you, your physician, your physical therapist and your trainer are reading the same document.
WrittenWe compare you to you. Every measure carries a margin of error, and we only call something a change when it clears that margin.
12 to 16 weeksWe change the protocol to fit you. If a test is not safe for you, we do not run it, and the report says which one and why. If no published reference exists for someone your age and sex, we say the comparison was constructed, and name what it was built from.
The report comes from the person who ran the session, and the raw data and every reference population are in the back.
Sometimes the answer is that something is not within reach, or not yet. Sometimes it is that what you came in worried about is already fine. The report says either one plainly, and says what to do about the rest. You will not finish it cured, and nobody will tell you the plan is conservative because they have given up on what you want.
Percentiles come from named reference populations: BodySpec, NHANES, VALD, and published norms. Every source is cited.
Force plates are precise, and precision is not the hard part. A plate records one moment, and that record does not include your fears, your medications, or what has changed since last time.
Three people hold what the plate does not. Two are in the room with you. The third is a physician: the one whose practice you came through, or your own.
I run your session, and I build your report with an AI model we have trained to our reporting discipline: every claim sized to the evidence, every number carrying its source. Nothing reaches you that I have not reviewed line by line and stand behind.
I ask about your training and your injuries, what worries you, and what you would like to still be doing in twenty years. I ask while we are testing, not on a form. Without it, the numbers have nothing to be measured against.
For twenty-one years I built strategies and roadmaps for companies. Yours is smaller, and it matters more: what to fix first, in what sequence, and a date to check it against.
Before anything is loaded, he decides what is safe to test and scales each test to your ability. Then he runs the measurements with you: the joint angles, the grip trials, the positions on the plate.
While you work, he is watching your mechanics. A person watching sees the side that gives out only once you are tired, the form that changes as load climbs, and the compensation that points to an old injury you did not think to mention. Nothing gets written down until it matches what he saw.
Holds what no instrument holds: your history, your medications, your labs, and the reasons you came.
When the assessment runs inside a physician's practice, that physician reviews your conditions before the day, can change what we test because of them, and reads the findings before you do. When you book directly, the report is written to be read next to their workup.
Precision is what the instruments give us, and it is the part you can buy.
If you do not have a physician or a therapist, we can point you toward people in Austin who read these reports. We take nothing for the introduction.