Ohio Biomechanics

10/15/2026

09/10/2026

Repost from Functional Patterns “FP doesn’t build muscle.” We hear this one all the time, and it exposes a pretty limited understanding of what building muscle actually involves.

Old-school bodybuilders understood something that modern fitness seems to have forgotten: if you want to develop a muscle, you need to be able to feel it, lengthen it under the right conditions, create tension through it, and produce a strong contraction.

That requires awareness.

It requires proprioception. It requires interoception. It requires your nervous system actually knowing where your body is in space and how to coordinate tension across your entire structure.

The problem is that years of excessive stretching, isolated exercises and chasing arbitrary ranges of motion can leave people with plenty of “mobility” and very little ability to organize that mobility into useful tension.

That’s where FP approaches muscle differently.

We’re not simply asking, “How much muscle can we put on your frame?” We’re asking, “How well can you use that muscle within the relationships the human body actually depends on?”

Look at the biceps and triceps. They don’t exist as two isolated parts waiting for arm day. They coordinate with each other, the shoulder, scapula, rib cage and the rest of the body as the arms reciprocate during sprinting. One side flexes as the other extends. Tension is created and released. Muscles lengthen, shorten and coordinate across the structure. That’s the environment we want to build muscle within.

At FP, we’re trying to improve your ability to sense these relationships, organize tension through them and create stronger contractions without disconnecting the muscle from the rest of the system.

Because putting muscle on someone isn’t particularly impressive if the only way they know how to access it is through an isolated exercise in a controlled environment.

The goal is muscle you can actually integrate.
Muscle that contributes to movement.
Muscle you can continue using as you age.

You can build muscle with FP. We just care about whether your body knows what to do with it once you have it.

08/01/2026

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Posture, gait and body composition progress using exclusively Functional Patterns training methods.

Photos left to right- September 2022, September 2025, June 2026

Gait- September 2025, June2026

It feels like a lifetime ago since that first photo. I had lost the confidence in myself that I could even see this type of change in myself.

I know it may not seem that impressive to some people, but I don’t really care what those people’s opinions may be about how I look, because I worked my ass off to get where I am today.

Am I where I want to be physically or mentally? No, but I’m not finished yet!

I know this is said a lot in people’s posts in this community, but I am truly grateful to Naudi and the Functional Patterns method and how it has helped me to show up for my people and for myself. Onward and upward!!

07/24/2026

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05/31/2026

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For decades, fascia was ignored and viewed as little more than the material that wrapped muscles, organs, and nerves together.

That perspective is changing.

A recent paper published in the Journal of Anatomy, led by Professor Carla Stecco and an international team of researchers, has proposed recognizing fascia as its own anatomical system.

The proposed fascial system includes four interconnected components: superficial fascia, musculoskeletal fascia, visceral fascia, and neural fascia.

Why does this matter?

Because when the body’s connective tissue network is viewed as separate parts instead of a unified system, our understanding of pain, movement, rehabilitation, and recovery becomes fragmented as well.

Many approaches to health and fitness have focused primarily on individual muscles, isolated joints, or localized symptoms. Which is why they continue to fall short when it comes to addressing people’s pain long-term.

Our success comes from assessing the body as a whole. When someone comes to us with a shoulder, knee, back, or hip issue, we’re not focused solely on the area that hurts. We’re looking at how the entire body is working together and whether the way that person stands, walks, and moves is contributing to the problem in the first place.

Muscles remain essential, but they don’t operate independently. Every movement occurs within a larger connective tissue network that links the entire body together.

As research continues to evolve, we’re seeing growing recognition of concepts we’ve been exploring and applying for nearly two decades.

The body is not a collection of independent parts moving in isolation from one another.

It’s an integrated neuromyofascial-skeletal system.

If you’re ready to move better, feel better, and build a stronger foundation, start with the

05/30/2026

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Most people hear “fascia” and think foam rolling, massage guns, or stretching. That’s surface level thinking. Your fascia isn’t just something you loosen.
It’s something you program. It adapts to what you do most.

If your daily inputs don’t include standing well, walking efficiently, running with coordination and throwing with rotation, your fascial system doesn’t just sit there waiting. It reorganizes around whatever you give it. Sitting. Isolated lifting. Random stretching and movement with no real direction.

That’s where things start to break down. Not because your body is fragile, but because it’s adapting exactly how it’s being used.

Look at nature.

You wouldn’t train a kangaroo to walk on its arms all day. It wouldn’t just look wrong, it would eventually break the animal down. Its structure, its fascia, its entire system is built to hop.

Humans are no different.

We’re built to stand, walk, run, and throw. That’s the blueprint your fascia organizes around. When you train in alignment with that, things start to feel lighter. More elastic. More connected. When you don’t, the system stiffens, compensates, and starts sending signals.

This isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing what your body is actually designed for.

Train your fascia. Move better. Get stronger. Stay resilient. That’s FP all dang day.

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