Brendan Kittredge,
Founder of Movement Lab

I've been an athlete my whole life: wrestling, college soccer, snowboarding, running, training. Movement was my identity.

Then, in my late twenties, I shattered my ankle playing men's league soccer in D.C.

I got back to the things I loved, but my body had quietly reorganized itself around that injury in ways I couldn't see or feel. The compensations were almost imperceptible at first. Just small shifts in how I loaded a step, how I absorbed impact, how I distributed force. Nothing that showed up on a screen or in a movement assessment. Just slightly off.

But slightly off, repeated thousands of times a day over years, compounds. One dysfunction creates another. A compensation upstream breeds a problem downstream. Eventually I had a knee injury, then bad PT, then a surgeon who was a little too eager to operate. I kept coming back, but I never felt balanced. Never felt at home in my own body. Strong, but disconnected from it.

So I started searching for answers. I studied biomechanics, breathwork, mobility, and the nervous system. I got certified in NASM, Functional Range Conditioning, Oxygen Advantage, Gymnastic Strength Training, Steel Mace Flow, and I devoured everything from Functional Patterns to somatics to GOATA.

Nearly ten years later, Jiu Jitsu pushed me to my edge: two sports hernias, two pulled hamstrings. But it also gave me clarity. I finally understood why my body was protecting itself, and how to teach it to trust movement again.

Now I feel better at 38 than I did at 28. I can surf, train, and roll without feeling wrecked the next day.

And that's what I want for you: not just to fix pain, but to move freely again.