What we do vs. what you do
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No way around it: You have to do the work. We make sure it's the right work.
Let's be honest with you from the start: nobody can train your nervous system for you. The repetitions have to be yours. What we can do is make sure every one of them counts, that you're training the right thing, in the right order, for the right reason. And if you understand exactly why, it becomes easier.
What we bring to it
- More energy, less fatigue. We guide you in how to train and how to recover, so training gives you energy instead of costing you the rest of your day.
- Train past that plateau. When progress stalls, we change what's being asked of you. We know we have to focus on the underlying layers first, instead of repeating what stopped improving.
- We teach you how to train. Not just a list of exercises to copy. It is more the skill of training itself, so you can achieve progress on your own.
- We explain the why. Every choice in your program is grounded in current research on recovery and motor learning. We'll tell you what that reasoning is.
- Bottom up, not settling for compensating activities. We build you from the foundation upward, instead of working around the not working parts.
Why we don't want you to compensate
What rehab taught you
To compensate
If you can get the task done, whichever way, whatever it takes, you have become semi-functional again. Rehab teaches you to let the strong side take over. It gets you through the day, and it's understandable from the financial perspective. But you want to reclaim your life. No work arounds. The catch is: Every time you compensate, you become better at working around the problem instead of solving it.
What we teach you
To not compensate
We take the shortcuts away and build the movement properly from underneath. It's slower at first and it asks more of you — and it's the difference between managing your limitations and actually changing them.
Read the No Compensation manifesto →The three layers you have to train
Reset the chaos in the brain
After a stroke the signalling is noisy and disorganised. Before anything new can be learned, that chaos has to be calmed down — this is the ground everything else is built on.
Create the potential state for new pathways
Next you bring your body and nervous system into the state where new neuropathways can actually develop. Without this, repetition alone has very little to work with.
Build the new pathways
Only then does the real training work pay off: the repetition that turns that potential into pathways you can actually use — movement that holds up in daily life.
All three layers, in this order, bottom up. Skip one and the layers above it have nothing solid to stand on — which is exactly why training harder often isn't what's missing.
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