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Pieter Schönfeldt | Mobility & Strength Coach

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Plus two events you won’t want to miss:

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🧘 Pilates with Yorke: physio-led Pilates for a stronger core and a happier back

💪Clubbells with Katherine: swing your way to stronger shoulders and a grip that means business

🎭 Exhale: Theatre Therapy with Ahmed Achrafi: breathe, move and let it all out

Clubbells with Katherine: swing your way to stronger shoulders and a grip that means business

🌀 Kinstretch with Pieter: build mobility you can actually use

👣 Movement Practice with Kris and Pav: from stillness to intensity, we build what our bodies are truly capable of.

🧑‍🩰Primal Moves with Laurent: blends natural bodyweight movements with strength, mobility and flexibility. Restoring balance and enhancing overall wellbeing. by @pieter.coach

Most people fix their joints only after they break. 🔧
So let’s check in before that happens.

Our Free Mobility Screen with Pieter takes 10 to 15 minutes. You come in, get tested, and leave. No kit and no sales pitch.

✔️ Shoulder and hip rotation, properly measured
✔️ A plain-language read of where you actually stand

🗓️ Every Tuesday, 10am to 4pm
📍 Joint Space, Alserkal Avenue

Slots are limited. Comment “FRC” and we’ll DM you the link to book.

[HYROX, Dubai run club, marathon, athletes, canal run, Dubai fitness challenge, 30 x 30, Joint prepping] by @pieter.coach

Stop guessing with your mobility.

Most people I meet have done plenty of work. Stretching, rolling, random routines from the internet. What they haven’t had is a structured process that tells them what’s working and what isn’t.

That’s what strength-based mobility training built on FRC gives you. We find the gap in your joint capacity, give your nervous system clear inputs, then re-test to see what changed.

No guessing. Just progress you can measure.

Comment the word TRAIN and let’s work together to get you moving better.

#mobilitytraining #frc #functionalrangeconditioning #fitnesscoach #jointhealth by @pieter.coach

Your shoulder still hurts. Here’s why…

You push. You pull. You tug on a band.

Your shoulder is a rotational joint, and most programs only train it in two lanes: straight pressing and straight pulling. Do that for years and you build strong muscles around a joint that’s never been asked to own its actual job.

What it needs is load in rotation, through variable angles. Different positions, different arcs, different amounts of tension at different points in the range. That’s what teaches the capsule and surrounding tissue to tolerate force everywhere the joint is supposed to move, not just where your gym lifts happen to take it.

The niggle isn’t telling you to rest more or push harder. It’s pointing at the range you’ve never trained.

Keep the presses and pulls. Just stop expecting them to do a job they were never built for.

Comment TRAIN if you want to learn how to fix your shoulders the right way.

#shouldermobility #FRC #strengthbasedmobility #jointhealth #mobilitytraining by @pieter.coach

Your body forgot most of the positions it was built for. Not because it got old, because you’ve been in a chair for the last 15 years.

If you want better mobility, the best place to start isn’t a new stretch. It’s the floor. Sit on it while you watch TV or working. Shift between cross-legged, kneeling, a deep squat, a side sit, long sitting with your legs out in front of you. Change positions every few minutes. Nothing fancy, no timer, no program.

Here’s what’s actually happening. Your hips, ankles and spine only know the ranges you’ve been giving them. A chair gives them one. The floor gives them dozens, and every time you move between them, your body gets a little more comfortable in positions it hasn’t visited in years.

Those first few days will feel awkward, maybe a bit humbling. Your legs will go numb, you’ll fidget, you’ll look for something to lean on. That’s the gap showing itself.

It’s the easiest mobility habit to build because it doesn’t feel like training. ~10 minutes in the evening, in front of whatever you’re already watching, and you’re giving your joints the variety they’ve been missing.

Save this and try it tonight.

👇🏻Then tell me in the comments how long you lasted before you reached for the couch.

#mobilitytraining #floortime #FRC #strengthbasedmobility #healthyaging by @pieter.coach

Ah well 🤷🏻‍♂️

#running #runclub by @pieter.coach

Same Exercise, different outcome.

Time under tension isn’t just a lifting term. Your joint capsule and connective tissue respond to it too, and they’re picky about the details. Position decides which part of the capsule takes the load. Angle decides which fibers get recruited. Intensity decides whether you’re signaling “adapt” or “back off.” Hold time decides whether the stimulus is long enough to register at all. Connective tissue also adapts far slower than muscle, so the dose has to be deliberate.

That’s why two people can do the “same” hold and walk away with totally different results. One just sat in a position. The other chose the position, the angle, the effort and the clock, and trained it on purpose.

So, next time you do a drill, don’t just ask what exercise it is. Ask which variable you can change to make it do something new.

Save this and pick one variable to tweak in your next session.

Comment TRAIN if you want me to show you how to program it.

#mobilitytraining #FRC #strengthbasedmobility #jointhealth #connectivetissue by @pieter.coach

Your shoulder is a rotational joint.

It needs rotation first, and more than anything else. Not as an afterthought at the end of your session, not as a warm-up you rush through. Slow, loaded, controlled rotation through the full range is the foundation everything else sits on.

But rotation work looks boring. No big numbers, no impressive videos, just you spending time in positions that feel awkward and humbling. So most people skip it and go back to what looks cool: more presses, more pulls, more volume on the two patterns the shoulder already tolerates.

That’s how you end up with a shoulder that’s strong in two lanes and fragile everywhere else. You’re not wasting time because you’re lazy. You’re wasting it because you’re training what looks good instead of what you need.

Pick the boring thing. Train the rotation. Your shoulder will thank you in about 6 weeks.

Comment TRAIN if you’re ready to build a shoulder that actually works.

#shouldermobility #FRC #strengthbasedmobility #jointhealth #mobilitytraining by @pieter.coach

Both of these futures are possible.

The scary part? I’m choosing one every single day.

When I look at these two versions at age 70, I don’t see genetics.

I see choices.

One version kept moving.
Kept lifting.
Kept looking after his joints.
Trained for strength, longevity, and resilience.

The other assumed there would always be more time.
Kept delaying because he was still feeling OK in his 40s…

He ignored the stiffness.
Skipped the mobility.
Stopped preparing his body.
Lost the ability to train, and with it, the strength and independence that once came so easily.

The difference didn’t happen at 70.

It happened in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.

In the workouts done.
The ones skipped.
The excuses made.
The priorities chosen.

This isn’t really about what I want to look like when I’m older.

It’s about who I want to be.

I want to carry my own bags.
Get off the floor without thinking.
Travel.
Play with my grandchildren.
Train because I can, not because I’m trying to get back what I lost.

The older version of me is being built right now.

So is yours.

#healthyaging #longevity #mobilitytraining #strengthandmobility #jointhealth by @pieter.coach

There’s “training,” and then there’s training. Which one are you doing?

One makes you feel good for a little while. Looser, more relaxed, a nice break from the day. The other builds body awareness, explores and expands your range of motion, and develops strength you can actually keep. They can look similar from the outside.

They are not the same thing!

This is a standing spine CAR, and it’s the 2nd kind. The wide base helps to keep your hips and pelvis still, so the movement has to come from your spine and nowhere else. Flexion, rotation, lateral flexion, extension, all of it without borrowing range from the rest of your body.

The medball and the band are just accessories. They create tension and irradiation, which loads the tissues and fires up your neurological drive at the same time. Your spine isn’t just moving, it’s being told to own every degree of that movement.

Slow, controlled, intentional is the name of the game. If you can rush through it, you’re not doing it right.

Save this for your next back day, and ask yourself honestly which kind of training you did today.

#spinemobility #CARs #FRC #strengthbasedmobility #mobilitytraining by @pieter.coach

Most people fix their joints only after they break. 🔧

Your shoulders and hips won’t send a warning. They’ll just quietly stop cooperating, and by then it’s not maintenance anymore, it’s a rebuild.

So let’s check in before that happens.
Our Free Mobility Screen with Pieter takes 10 to 15 minutes. You come in, get tested, and leave.

✔️ Shoulder and hip rotation, properly measured
✔️ A plain-language read of where you actually stand

🗓️ Every Tuesday, 10am to 4pm
📍 Joint Space, Alserkal Avenue

Slots are limited, so book ahead. DM to book.

Want the full picture? The Functional Range Assessment covers every joint and every compensation, and you leave with an actual plan. by @pieter.coach