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Fitness is not something you earn once you’re already fit. We build it around where you are right now.

The Movement MOT is a physio-led assessment that adapts to you. Whether you’re recovering from a stroke, working around an injury, or just not sure where to begin, we scale every movement to meet you.

You leave with meaningful data and a clear next step. Not a generic plan. Not a list of things you can’t do.

If one movement doesn’t work, we find a variation that does. The goal is the same for all of us: moving through daily life with more ease.

Book your Movement MOT and start from where you are. Link in bio.

5 squat levels. Which one are you?

The squat isn’t pass or fail. It’s a continuum. The shape of your knees, hips, and ankles tells us where you sit on it.

Most people we assess sit higher on the squat than they expect to. It’s not usually where the gap lives. The bigger gaps tend to show up in your hinge, your pull, or your single-leg work.

A Movement MOT shows you all six patterns at once, where you sit on each, and what to upgrade first. 60 minutes, £15, you leave with a plan.

Link in bio to book.

Functional training is just training SPECIFICALLY for the activities that you love 💃

Alex didn’t train so he could look good in the gym mirror. He trained so his hips, ankles and shoulders could handle whatever the dance floor throws at them.

That’s the whole point of “functional.”

The word gets thrown around like it means wobble boards and BOSU balls. It doesn’t. It means specific. Specific to your sport, your hobby, your kids, your Saturday hill walk, your golf swing, your dance floor.

Train general, you get general.
Train for the thing you love, the thing you love gets easier.

So what do you actually want to be doing in 10 years?

Train for that.

📍 Not sure what your body needs to keep doing the stuff you love? Our Movement MOT maps how you’re moving now and what’s getting in the way. Link in bio.

“How strong is strong?” gets a different answer from everyone.

So we picked one.

Level 5 of our Movement Assessment is a clinically reasoned strength milestone. The threshold we think you need for long-term health and wellbeing.

Ross walks through it in this one. UKSCA S&C coach, and the person who’ll tell you straight where you actually sit.

Levels 1 to 4 look at how well you move. Level 5 is the strength benchmark on top. The job is simple: get there, then stay there.

You can always go further. You can always be fitter, stronger, faster. Level 5 is just “strong enough.”

Want to know where you sit? The Movement MOT measures all five levels.

Link in bio.

The single leg hop test is one of eleven tests we run in the Performance MOT. It measures how much force one leg can produce compared to the other. We call this the Limb Symmetry Index, or LSI.

Most people train with a 10 to 15% difference between sides and have no idea. The gap is fine until it isn’t. It shows up later as a ni**le that won’t shift, a knee that complains on hills, or a return to running that keeps stalling.

You can’t train what you haven’t measured. The Performance MOT gives you a baseline across capacity, strength, jumps and hops. We retest later so you can see what’s actually changed.
Ross runs it. UKSCA-credentialed, and the test protocol follows what’s used in elite return-to-sport settings.

Not for you if you’re currently in pain. If that’s you, book a free online physio assessment first.

Different specialisms, same thread, an awesome Physio and PT team in the same room, full client journey, evidence-led recommendations.

You’ve been dealing with that shoulder for six months. You’ve stretched it, rested it, googled it, given up on it.

Here’s what actually happens when you book an Injury.

First, a free online assessment with one of our physios. Fifteen minutes. What’s been going on, what you’ve tried, what you want to get back to.

Those notes go to your coach. The coach reads through them and your questionnaire answers before you walk in. They already know your story.

Then we take you through six fundamental movement patterns: squat, hinge, push, pull, carry, core. Each graded Level 1 to 5.
Level 5 supports an active lifestyle long term.

You leave with a clear picture of where you are and a plan for what to do next.

The physio and the coach are talking to each other before you ever walk through the door. That’s the bit you don’t get most places.

Book your Movement MOT. Link in bio. £15 with code INSTA.

Fay’s rope pull just hit 40. Her daughter couldn’t believe it.

That’s the thing about consistent, progressive training the numbers change. Sometimes faster than the people around you expect.

Fay has been putting in the work at Thrive. And the rope pull going up to 40 isn’t just a number, it’s evidence of what happens when you show up regularly in the right environment with the right guidance.

Her daughter’s reaction says it better than we could.

If you want results that surprise the people who know you start with a free online physio assessment. Link in bio.

Thrive works for a wide range of people at very different stages of rehabilitation. That’s only possible because the sessions are supervised and the approach adapts, to where you are that day, what your body can handle, and what you’re working towards.

The support isn’t generic. It’s specific to you and that’s what makes it sustainable.

Thrive runs Monday to Friday at 11am, 12pm, and 1pm. One session per week, £70 per month (free spaces available)

If Thrive sounds like what you need start with a free online physio assessment. Link in bio.