Athletes
Corrective exercise structured around training, recovery and competition.
About
Eric Paige
Corrective Exercise Specialist and wellness consultant. Founder of EPFfitness LLC, Raleigh, North Carolina.
The gap I kept running into.
I started in personal training, and the pattern showed up fast: clients would get better, then come back six weeks later with the same complaint. The program wasn't the problem. The assessment underneath it was.
So I went deeper: corrective exercise, movement assessment, and years of working shoulder-to-shoulder with clinical practitioners. Physical therapists, massage therapists, chiropractors and holistic providers all knew things their clients never quite managed to apply. That space between the treatment room and real life is where EPFfitness LLC lives.
Over the last ten years that work has taken me across the country, collaborating with fitness, wellness and holistic professionals. It all points the same direction: guide people to the specific action steps that get them the wellness lifestyle they actually want.
“Before we fix how you move, we discover what you're working with.”
The objective
Better education inside the wellness community.
Fitness, medicine and holistic practice each hold a piece of the picture, and they don't always translate well to one another, or to the person in the middle trying to follow three sets of instructions.
My work is collaborative on purpose: bridging those fundamental gaps and correcting the misunderstandings between concentrations, so a client gets one coherent plan instead of three competing ones.
Athletes
Meet day is its own discipline.
In a warm-up area there is no treatment table, no hour to work with and no second attempt. Assessment has to be fast, the intervention has to be reversible, and whatever gets done has to hold up in the next round.
The athletes range from masters competitors to international level. The constraint is the same either way, and it is the best training there is for deciding quickly what actually matters.
Credentials
Trained to assess before prescribing.
2018
Corrective Exercise Specialist (NASM-CES)
National Academy of Sports Medicine. Assessment-led programming for movement dysfunction and compensation patterns.
Oct 2020 to Present
Wellness Consultant · Living Well Balanced
As former Director of Rehabilitation, programmed progressive care for practice members and coordinated a rehabilitation team that included massage therapists, personal trainers, physical therapists and corrective exercise specialists. Hands-on oversight of corrective exercise quality, client education and communication, and long-term care for practice members under special-case protocols.
Ten years
Across fitness, wellness and holistic practice
Commercial fitness leadership, continuing education for training staff, wellness classes and corrective exercise programming for the active aging demographic, plus community outreach and special-case management.
- Movement assessment
- Corrective exercise programming
- Wellness professional coaching
- Wellness education
- Team management
- Public speaking
Continuing education
The coursework behind the assessment.
Certification is the floor, not the ceiling. Most of what shows up in a session comes from coursework taken since: screening, corrective strategy, and the specific populations this practice serves.
IDEA Health & Fitness Association
- Understanding and Interpreting the Functional Movement Screen
- From the Hip
- TriggerPoint™ Corrective Strategies for the Foot and Ankle
- Insights into Lower Back Pain and Functional Solutions
- Restoring Fundamental Movement Patterns with Corrective Strategies
PROnatal Fitness
- Training women through pregnancy
Club Connect
- GRID Foam Rolling Foundations
Who I work with
Different goals. Same starting point.
Clinicians & teams
Building movement and wellness programs, and educating the staff who deliver them.
Active aging
Strength, mobility and independence for everyday life.
Tell me what you're working with.
The first conversation is just that. A conversation.