Tools + Training
Tools for understanding capacity. A framework for building it.
Functional Range Systems has had a significant influence on how I think about the body.
My training includes Functional Range Assessment (FRA), Functional Range Conditioning (FRC), Functional Range Release (FRR) and the Internal Strength Model (ISM).
These systems give me tools to assess physical capacity, work with the body through hands-on treatment, develop mobility and control, and progressively build strength.
At HART MVMT, the system serves the person.
We use the information that's useful, apply it to the body in front of us and build from there.
Functional Range Assessment
Find your starting point.
Assessment gives us a clearer picture of the capacity you have today. Functional Range Assessment provides a systematic way to explore joint movement, control and physical capacity.
What it means for you
The goal isn't to prove that something is wrong with you. It's to gather useful information.
During an assessment, I may compare different ranges of movement and look at how those movements relate to what you're trying to do.
Functional Range Release
Create an opportunity. Build from there.
Functional Range Release is one of the hands-on systems I draw from in treatment. It gives me techniques for working with the body's tissues while considering their anatomy, function and relationship to movement.
What it means for you
Hands-on treatment can change how an area feels and create greater access to movement.
Then we get to do something with that opportunity.
Move. Explore. Control. Strengthen.
Treatment creates an opportunity.
We build from there.
Functional Range Conditioning
Build movement you own.
Mobility is more than accessing a position. It's your ability to actively control movement and express strength through it. Functional Range Conditioning gives us ways to progressively explore, control and strengthen different ranges of motion.
What it means for you
Whatever you regularly do, your body gets better at doing.
So we practise. We give your nervous system experience controlling movement. We give your tissues opportunities to experience load. And over time, your body adapts.
The result is movement you can use.
More movement.
More control.
More options.
Internal Strength Model
Get specific about strength.
Strength training gives us a powerful way to build physical capacity. What I appreciate about the Internal Strength Model is the specificity it adds to that process. Rather than thinking only in terms of exercises, sets, reps and weight, ISM gives me a framework for looking more closely at the specific capacities we're trying to develop.
What it means for you
Training should be intentional.
Why are we choosing this exercise?
Why are we loading it this way?
What capacity are we trying to develop?
What does your body need to be prepared for?
When we understand the why, we can be more intentional with the how. Then we can choose movements, positions and loading strategies that reflect what we're actually trying to build.
The result is strength training with a clear purpose.
Specific inputs.
Useful adaptations.
Strength that carries forward.
Functional Range Systems® was developed by Dr. Andreo Spina. Official Site.
The framework gives us tools. You give them purpose.
I value Functional Range Systems because it has given me a deeper way of thinking about movement, strength and physical capacity.
It's one part of a much bigger picture.
Your body. Your history. Your experiences. Your life.
Those things give the assessment context and the training purpose.
At HART MVMT, we're interested in the capacity you have today and what we can build from there.
Understand your body.Build its capacity.Keep doing cool shit.