How many days after open play does your body stop reminding you?
Movement Coaching for Pickleball Players Who Do Not Want to Be Sidelined
You can play four days a week — or you can play two, tweak something, and sit out three. The difference is not luck. It is whether your body is prepared for the stops, starts, and reaches the game keeps asking for.
You Know Exactly Which One Is Yours
- —Your elbow aches for two days after open play, and rest only works until you play again. Read more →
- —Your calf or Achilles twinges on the first hard push-off, so you stop chasing the ball you used to get. Read more →
- —Your shoulder is starting to talk after every session on the court. Read more →
- —Your knee is fine during play and sore the next morning. Read more →
- —Your low back tightens halfway through a long night of games. Read more →
- —You play two weeks, tweak something, sit out three — and then do it again. Read more →
None of these mean you are done. They mean something in the chain is not holding up its end — and that is a training problem, not an age problem.
You Are Not Here for "Long-Term Health"
You are here because you want to keep beating the 45-year-olds. Because you do not want to be the one who taps out after two games while the rotation keeps going. Because sitting out three weeks means losing your spot and watching people who are not better than you get better than you.
That is not vanity. That is the whole point. The court is where you compete, where your friends are, and where you find out you have still got it.
So we do not train you to be generally healthier. We train you so the game stops being the hardest thing your body does all week — and you play every game, at full speed, and feel fine tomorrow.
Not chasing perfection. Building preparation.
This Isn't PT and It Isn't a Personal Trainer
Physical therapy gets you out of crisis and stops when the insurance does. A personal trainer hands you exercises and counts your reps. Neither one teaches you why your elbow hurts on a Tuesday and not a Thursday.
We live in the space between the two — and we teach, so you leave able to make your own next decision. Here is what that actually looks like.
We Watch You Move
Simple movements and physical tests to see how your body actually responds — how you rotate, how you load one leg, what your ankles and hips contribute. There is no passing or failing. The goal is awareness, and it usually explains the pain within the first twenty minutes.
We Find What Isn't Contributing
Pain shows up where the load lands, not where the problem started. Your elbow is often covering for a rib cage that won't rotate; your knee for hips and ankles that stopped participating. We work the cause, not the complaint.
We Train for the Court
Pickleball asks for four things: acceleration, deceleration, rotation, and repetition — over and over, for two hours. Playing more spends those qualities. We build them, plus the endurance to still have them in the third game.
Organized Through Four Connected Maps
Everything we teach runs through the Discover Your Life Through Movement system.
The Learning Map
Slow down, pay attention, ask better questions. You stop guessing about your own body.
The Healing Map
Stop being steered by an old injury or the story you've told yourself about it.
The Movement Map
Primers that prepare your body, patterns that organize movement, positions that build strength and control.
The Lifestyle Map
The 8 Essentials that determine whether your training actually holds — including sleep, recovery, and nourishment.
Clinicians Send Us Their Patients
"True movement experts! They first help me gain awareness of what my body may be telling me, then created movements just for me for specific areas — using objects easy to find in my house, such as a door frame. Overall great experience."
"I was surprised and thankful my spine deformity got straightened. I was afraid it would worsen and pain would surely ensue — but nope, no pain or discomfort. I feel and move like I am in my 30s and can dance up to 5 hours."
"I have been training with Alex and Sean for over 10 years. This is not about pumping iron — it is about being in touch with your body and understanding it. My strength, balance and flexibility have improved greatly."
Since 2012
Founded by twin brothers Alexander and Sean Courtney.
Inside a PT Clinic
We share space with Sports and Ortho Physical Therapy in Lake Forest — much of our work begins where therapy ends.
Still Competing
Alex started Brazilian jiu-jitsu at 38 — we don't just teach preparation, we live it.
Come In and Experience It
Your first step is a complimentary Movement Consult. We'll look at how you move, and you'll leave understanding why your body is doing what it's doing — whether or not you ever train with us.
Schedule your Movement ConsultFree · In person in Lake Forest or virtual · Call or text 847-416-8781