Testimony

“Holy muscles batman! Foundation training with @slacky_j at @divinitree is a must for everyone. So subtle, yet powerful work. My muscles don’t know how to do most of this work, and in practice today those muscles spoke up to me. Muscles in my feet, my thighs, my abs, my back, my triceps… they are in jello mode right now. I love witnessing my body in everyday life, through emotional turbulence, through music, through movement, through my mind… basically I love listening to my body. Today she told me stories I had not heard (maybe neglected even), and I know now how important it is that I devote some time to foundation training. Good thing I have my membership (karma yogi trade) back! I’ll be taking all the classes 🙌🏼.”

-Vanessa S

“I’ve never felt anything like this”

-Impact Hubber

“Jenna’s Foundation Training classes have been transformational for me and my husband.I no longer get that low back ache on long bike rides and am noticing greater strength and comfort during cross country skiing and snowshoeing as well. I love hearing other students in our class mention that their chronic sciatic pain is finally better,or that Jenna’s FT class is the best thing they’ve ever done for their back. Our class seems to be a mix of older adults and young athletes….the results keep us all coming back.”

– Carol T

“ahhhhhhhhh……thanks jenna…..they all loved you and the training………and are into it!”

-Meganne F

“Been taking class with Jenna for a year and after the first class I knew I needed Foundation Training. I have had chronic back pain for 30 years and was having massage and acupuncture regularly to manage the pain. Since the first class I have not gone back to get a massage.

Jenna has encouraged a home practice and I have attended two classes a week. This has provided me with the ability to pursue pickleball as a new sport without aggravating my back, I could never have enjoyed this new sport without the FT. Jenna is an inspiring teacher and able to encourage me to stick with the training. I owe my new found activities which also include dance classes to the training. Foundation Training has made the most difference in my health of anything I have ever done. Thanks Jenna.”

-Rebecca D

“Jenna introduced me to Foundation Training as way to build on core strength and body train alignment to properly support weight lifting at the gym. All of this came as a path to full physical recovery after successful chemotherapy for lymphoma that left me well, but in a weakened state impaired by neuropathy. Thanks to foundation training, today I walk upright without slouching and sit with good posture at the desk and not slumped to the side. My gym workouts are safer, I stand taller, breathe bigger, feel better, and am proud of the way I present myself to the world. Thanks Foundation!”

-Jerry C

“I thought my lower back would be my Achilles’ heel forever. Foundation Training took that thought out of the equation. I feel strong and flexible, and my posture is better than it has ever been. This stuff is just plain good for you.“

– Matthew McConaughey, Actor

“My back likes to let me know when it’s pissed at me. When it does, life can become a bit more challenging. Foundation exercises have been a great addition to my exercise routine. I really notice a change in how I move. My back doesn’t just feel better, it feels strong. That is a big deal. These exercises let you move with some real confidence. Everybody with a bad back should do these exercises.“

– Jeff Bridges, Actor

“Practicing Foundation Training for the past 4 years has been one of the most critical decisions of my surfing career. I had recurring lower back problems when I was a bit younger, but since starting Foundation Training I have felt constant improvement with little to no pain whatsoever. My flexibility and stability are both the best they have ever been. As my career is growing and I am now surfing on the World Tour, I can easily tell you that Foundation Training is a huge part of my success as a surfer. It helps me continue to become the best athlete I can be.”

-Lakey Peterson, Women’s Surfing Champion

“Foundation serves as the backbone of not only my workouts but also my lifestyle.  At first I thought that it would just make me a better athlete, but after nearly 3 years under my belt, it has done so much more.  It just makes you a better functioning human being.  I like it so much that everyone around me knows how much I like it because I talk about it all the time.  Baseball players sit on airplanes and busses and in dugouts.  We have actions that are always one direction.  Our backs are a mess, our hips are screwed up and foundation helps to right all those wrongs.  Everyone I come into contact with has some issue and I get to share with them the gift of foundation.  I know its worked in my life and in my friends life – and I always get a kick when someone I’ve never talked to about it comes up to me and says “Hey, what’s this I’m hearing about your funny workout you do, can you show me?””

– Bryan Peterson, Professional Baseball Player

“I just wanted to say that I’m really impressed with the foundation training exercises and videos. I’ve been on the Canadian Snowboard Team for 10 years and competed in many World Champs, X-Games and 2006 Olympics in Half-pipe and snowboard-cross. We’ve trained with some of the best physical trainers and physios but your short training video make a world of a difference to me. Makes my back and core work at all the right places and feel my hips and lower back stretch as well. Thank you so much for making a difference. I’ve told countless amount of friends as well about your website and everybody is amazed in what a 18-21min video can do. Keep up the great work and TED conferences.”

– Dominique Vallee, Canadian Snowboard Team,
Many World Champs, X-Games and 2006 Olympics

“Dr. Eric Goodman worked as the Strength coach for our USA Olympic Water Polo team from December 2007 to July 2008 leading to the Beijing Olympic Games. All of these athletes are world-class and they felt that Eric did an exceptional job of keeping them injury free while performing at a very high level through some extremely tough months of training. In my opinion, this program was very critical to our success in Beijing. The team exceeded everyone’s expectations and became one of the great stories of the Olympics by winning the silver medal. We stayed healthy and performed at a high level and Dr. Goodman deserves a good deal of credit.”

– Terry Schroeder, D.C., Head Coach,
USA Olympic Water Polo Team

“[Foundation Training] was the keystone to my recovery… it gave me my career back. The Foundation exercises rapidly increased my strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance quicker than I ever could have imagined… I went from having a hard time walking up and down stairs to competing in the Amgen Tour of California in May of 2010… I was not only able to meet my goal of finishing the 7 day, 812 mile race but I was also able to finish inside the top 20 and be highly competitive day in and day out. Since, I have taken these exercises to heart and put them into my training regime year round. They helped get me back to racing competitively as well as cured other imbalances I had developed after years of racing my bike and neglecting my core strength. I encourage everyone to have the open mind I did when seeking help for my injury. Follow that path and a better, healthier lifestyle is right around the corner.”

– Lucas Euser, Professional Cyclist

“Using the hips to hinge, paying special attention to the head/neck relationship, developing the core strength of the posterior chain vs. limb strength or ab strength I’d heard all this before, thirty years before and have had decades of personal experience with the various systems out there that attempt to focus on these concepts. So I put the book down, ignored the DVD and didn’t try Foundation Training. (Hint, this was a mistake, don’t do this.) Fortunately I was offered a couple of sessions with a Foundation Training expert trained by Dr. Goodman to learn about the work directly and I grudgingly went along with it just to check out what the buzz was around Foundation Training. Literally two minutes into the exercises I realized something special was going on here. Dr. Goodman has taken a very well-worn path and blazed a completely new trail which is impossible to appreciate or understand until you get your first two minutes of Foundation Training and the light bulb goes on. Foundation Training is like powerlifting or Olympic weight training for your deep postural muscles. As we sit a lot, collapsed, and work on computers these deep postural muscles degrade and weaken to the point they can no longer function and hold us up. Even the “fit” among us, professional athletes, tend toward developing poor movement patterns from the years of sitting we all do that then translate into their sport whether it be basketball or cycling. Breaking these postural movement patterns is virtually impossible using most all of the existing systems. Yoga increases flexibility and strength, weight training increases muscle strength, the Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais make us aware of poor movement patterns, but Dr. Goodman has developed the unthinkable – one single set of exercises that quickly, almost miraculously create profound muscle strength and flexibility at the same time in just the areas we are weakest and tightest from our modern lifestyle habits.”

– Daniel Kalish, D.C., Founder, The Kalish Institute

“Eric has created the perfect storm, bringing together evidence-based science and functional training that is second to none. Their approach to building a solid foundation is my prescription for everyone from top athletes in the world to their mothers! Movement is life. Life is movement. And if you are limited in how you move against the constant forces of gravity, it is only a matter of time until you are injured. I know this to be true as I have experienced this roller coaster as a competitive athlete. Not until I retrained my movement patterns did the cycle of injury after injury end. It really is a thing of beauty to see such a brilliant melding of creativity and sports science built into a practical, low-tech program that focuses on posture, core, and fundamental movement patterns designed first and foremost to provide athletes with a solid foundation to apply to their chosen sport. I’ll never forget what Derek Fisher said to Eric about why he chose to work with Foundation Training: “I did not hire you to make me a better basketball player; I hired you to make me a better athlete.” True, true.”

– Tim Brown, D.C.
Inventor of Intelliskin Posture Apparel

“The human body is designed to thrive against gravity – else we tend to age rapidly and get injured. Foundation Training is the answer to my many years of research on the negative effects of sitting. It is a ticket to discover a more vibrant health life – no matter your age.”

– Dr. Joan Vernikos, Former NASA Director of Life Sciences
& author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals