Redcord® training restores and enhances movement in both athletes and non-athletes alike. Guided by an elite trainer, this multi-point suspension system challenges demands your body to balance, build efficiency, and create habits that accelerate your movement goals. Our Salt Lake City trainer takes your performance goals seriously. We understand athletic performance can be challenging, and our goal is to help you overcome hurdles and maximize your potential. We analyze your movement deficiencies, assess weak-links in your muscle chains and design programs based on our findings.
Nikki is certified in Biomechanics, Redcrod, PBT, Pilates, Lagree, Fascial Fitness, as well as other movement modalities. She is a former professor of Dance and former full-time faculty with Ballet West Academy. Using years of movement training experience, you will be run through a pre-screening on your functional movement and build a plan geared at improving your individual weak-links. Clearly many individuals struggle with asymmetry in their strength and mobility. At STAC we balance the body utilizing neuron-training, biomechanics, and myofascial (muscular) chain training. These tools increases function, mobility, balance and protect you from injury. Many clients also report a decrease in pain! By increasing muscle coordination, Redcord® accelerates athleticism and/or alleviate pain by improving our body's ability to work with and against gravity. We implement redcord training into every session and frequently guide clients through biomechanics and neurotraining to optimize our entire bone-neuro-muscular system. Our elite trainer helps you achieve your movement goals. We are located in Salt Lake City's Sugarhouse neighborhood.
Redcord® training is as safe as training in a pool, and the outcomes in athletic performance are unparalleled. Personal training on Redcord® builds power and control in all bodies. The gains from Redcord® can be seen within a few exercises.
Alignment begins at the pelvis and ribs, and the correlating structures branch off from there. That is why, if, for example, we are looking at a foot alignment, we cannot address foot alignment without also considering the movement of the pelvis and ribs. Please consider if your ankle is hurting and we only look at your ankle, we may miss that your hips are pushed forward and the placement of the pelvis over your feet is putting your Achilles tendon in a chronically extended position, thus compressing the bones within the lower limb. By considering the “core” of skeletal structure, we can see the trickle effect branching out through the limbs.
The keystone to our entire structure lies within our pelvis, the sacrum.
The movement and position of the sacrum are of upmost importance in regaining motion, when this bone gets jammed (which is not uncommon) mobility is accessed through compensations.
The truth about movement is it occurs through this conduit:
BRAIN------------->BONES---------->MUSCLES
Without informing/introducing the brain on boney alignment, we ultimately are not going to reach our potential for healthy movement. Attempting to isolate body parts then seems ineffective. We are interconnected throughout our entire body, and one body part effects the movement of another. Think of it like the innerworkings of a grandfather clock, if you stuck a spatula in to one of the upper wheels and the bells stopped chiming on the hour, would you look at fixing the bells or the wheels when going into fix the clock? The approach used at Sugarhouse Training & Conditioning is to improve the body’s chains of movement by intentionally addressing the nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems in our training.
In training our brains about bony alignments, we use positional drills coupled with breathing techniques to increase range of motion within joint systems. Oftentimes people associate doing exercises with maximal effort to gain the most out of exercises. In completing positional drills, however, less is more. The purpose of positional drills is to down-regulate extra tone or tension in our bodies. Tight traps? Perhaps a positional drill will drop those shoulders down with a couple breath cycles intended to teach the body where the shoulders lie without pushing or prodding our bodies into inaccessible shapes and positions. When we teach the brain about bone positions that are accessible with little effort, we increase range of motion and often decrease pain (although movement training successfully helps many live more comfortably in their bodies, if you are in pain, it is always advised to see a medical professional). In positional drills we are taking our bodies into a more parasympathetic (think rest and digest) state to increase joint range of motion. This training for the nervous system helps train the brain for movement. For example, if you are squeezing a lemon and we want to work full range of motion hand exercises, letting go of the lemon a little bit is not going to result in full range of motion exercise. Fully releasing the lemon and relaxing the hand until there is no tension will give us more range of motion (ROM), thus enhancing the full function of the hand. The same is true of the entire body. The more joint ROM accessed through passive positional drills, the more we can enhance active and/or athletic movement in your body.
In positional drills we also work on training the eyes and tongue as these are input for the brain that impacts alignment. Developing tongue posture assists not only head placement over the spine, but additionally effects the movement of the fascial chains (moving muscle chains) within our bodies.
Redcord is specialized myofascial chain training that enhances quality of movement and balance almost immediately. In redcord the instability of the slings stimulates the body’s deep core stabilizers, resulting in better stability, range of motion, and higher quality movement. By offloading bodyweight, Redcord provides an opportunity for movement compensations to be whittled out of the body. Because of this, as well as muscle re-activation, clients often see results such as a decrease in back pain. In fact, Redcord offers the Gold-Standard in reducing back pain and clinical research illustrates that closed-chain sling exercises like Redcord surpass other forms of stability training, such as training on a swiss ball. The myofascial chain (muscle chain) training in Redcord demands muscle coordination that is difficult to find in other forms of movement training