Mobility Coach

Hi. Matt Bench here. I come to your home, apartment gym, local park, or private facility that I rent near Memorial.

I have performed as a professional acrobat on stage for 7 years, so when it comes to being strong and flexible I know what I’m talking about. You can also call it mobility training for Houston, or call me a stretching coach in Houston. If you want to have a bigger range of motion for your muscles to do the sports or activities you want, I can get you there quickly and easily. There is so much bad advice out there for mobility drills that are unnecessarily difficult, painful, time-consuming, and often counter-productive.

MOBILITY is the ability to actively move in large ranges of motion (RoM). Flexibility is the same thing but passively. Most people use the terms interchangeably so let’s not be a stickler about this. 

Range of Motion

In flexibility training prioritizing a large RoM in every exercise you do is most important. It’s no longer how much impressive weight you can lift. The larger that movement’s range becomes, the less weight you’ll be able to do. You’ll feel less strong, but it’s only in your head that you’ve ‘lost progress’ and you’ll get over it. Progress has many factors, not all of them are about how much weight you can lift. Working out is not performance. Now you don’t have to stretch after a workout because you were doing that the whole time already.

Attitude

There’s many many I’ve learned that I slowly teach my clients in stages. Next is an attitude of relaxation. Your body has to feel safe, calm, and content to open up and trust you. If you rush a lover to give you what you want quickly, that’s not going to happen nicely. So if you treat your body not like an opponent to overcome, but as a dear friend you want to enjoy, you’ll get more results. Depth of relaxation can be as if you just had a spa day, it’s possible to be only a few breaths away from this state. I allow myself plenty of time and don’t have any judgement of ‘oh this muscle should be longer’ or ‘i need to be able to touch my toes otherwise it means I’m a doodoohead’.

Stretching a muscle for minute+ holds to dominate a muscle into doing what you think is best…haha good luck with that.

Train Holistically

I often play with strength on a suspension trainer like gymnastics rings or TRX bands. This style demands you pay attention to your entire body as you move. Mindlessly doing reps trying to numb out the pain of a single joint movement just isn’t going to translate into a limber and graceful body throughout the day. Giving love to the fascia system will show you how you’re storing stress in your tissues, but only if you’re doing big multi-joint movements. Dance is unbeatable for this.

Movement Mentors

Hire a professional like me, or watch closely what the people are doing that can move the way you want to move. It’s not just the mechanical motions they do, it’s their attitude, the speed, the timing. It’s indescribable but the best we can do it imitate it until we stumble upon the magic feeling.

Areas served include Houston: Bellaire, Briar Meadow, Briar Forest, Galleria, Heights, Highland Village, Medical Center, Memorial, Memorial Villages, Midtown, Montrose, Rice Military, Rice University, River Oaks, Spring Branch, Spring Valley, Tanglewood, and West University.

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