MAT ATHLETE
PERFORMANCE - PREVENTION - RECOVERY - LONGEVITY
AN INNOVATIVE ATHLETE WELLNESS ADJUNCT TO TRADITIONAL STRENGTH AND REHABILITATION
Many of today’s athletes are under recovered affecting their ability to engage in their sport at 100% and best tolerate the physical stresses imposed. The accumulation of practices, workouts, games, private skill instruction, injuries big and small along with academic and social pressures and often poor sleep and nutrition habits can take a toll.
What we see is this can create specific areas of neuromuscular weakness that creates specific muscles and movements that are more vulnerable. They now have weak links in their “athletic armor” that can affect both performance and recovery.
“Joel Woods introduced me to the benefits of MAT in 2006 when I was the head football coach at Westlake High School. That was the beginning of our use with MAT and we continue to use it today due to the consistent success in recovery and return to play. I highly recommend Joel and MAT to other organizations.”
“My secrete weapon is MAT.”
Bryson Dechambeau
Partner with Muscle Activation Cleveland
MAT optimally prepares an athlete’s body for their chosen discipline, addressing the negative impacts resulting from the physical stresses of intensive training and sports. As an adjunct modality to a program’s traditional performance and recovery strategies MAT creates a new paradigm to addressing athlete wellness experience in a powerful way.
Coaches, MAT Athlete can be an asset to your program in 2024! Here’s how we can work together to keep you players healthy and thriving.
You can refer your athletes to our Valley View Muscle Activation Clinic for 45-minute introductory session for $29.
We can provide on-site care at your school with 20 minute-sessions one day a week throughout the school year to make MAT Athlete even more accessible.
MORE ON THE MAT ATHLETE PROGRAM
MAT plays a pivotal role in maintaining athletes at their peak neuromuscular performance, enabling them to excel in their respective sports. MAT optimally prepares an athlete’s body for their chosen discipline, addressing the negative impacts resulting from the physical stresses of intensive training and sports participation. The MAT Athlete process emerges as a game change for identifying and rectifying biomechanical imbalances causing pain or injury.
However, the dynamic world of team sports performance and recovery has unique challenges compared to a clinical setting. With that in mind there is a new version of MAT called MAT Athlete that is tailored to accommodate demanding schedules with short 15–20-minute onsite sessions. The purpose of these sessions is to maintain an athletes peak neuromuscular performance enabling them to excel in their chosen sport with the physical demands of intensive training and game day participation. This process can be a game changer for your program in regards to addressing biomechanical imbalances causing pain or injury.
Professional teams are starting to incorporate the MAT Athlete program into their recovery/return to play teams including the Denver Broncos and San Francisco 49ers. Our mission is to give our local athlete community access to this powerful resource that the pros are just starting to utilize.