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Structural integration for wrestling

Cervical, shoulders, hips, deep front line

A neck that has carried compression for years. Shoulders that have lost capsular range. Hips that no longer open the way they did. A fascial pattern compressed by years of contact. That is the work.

The off-season window

NCAA off-season is April through October. Twelve sessions over eight to twelve weeks, then preseason on a reorganized structure.

What is actually restricting you

  • Cervical compression. Years of stack pressure, headlocks, and bridge work shorten the deep front line at the throat and lock the suboccipitals. The head sits forward. Recovery between hard sessions stretches.
  • Shoulder capsule and arm lines. Underhooks, club work, and repeated overhead positions tighten the joint capsule and arm lines. Overhead range narrows piece by piece.
  • Hip rotation and deep front line. Shooting, sprawling, and bridging demand range the deep front line steadily loses. Shots get shallower. The bridge gets harder to defend.

The 12-session ATSI series

Twelve sessions, three phases, eight to twelve weeks. Full program detail on the 12-Session Series page. Off-season framing on the Off-Season Structural Reset.

Where this fits in your recovery stack

  • Massage releases tension locally.
  • PT and ATC rehab specific injury.
  • Chiropractic adjusts joints.
  • ATSI reorganizes the fascial system so your body needs the others less often.

Credentials

  • ATSI-certified, 750+ hours of training
  • Anatomy Trains teacher-in-training under Tom Myers
  • Santa Cruz studio. Mobile sessions throughout the Bay Area, including team facilities.
  • Working with pro and collegiate athletes since 2015

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Wrestler Questions

Questions, answered

My neck is shot. Years of cervical compression. Will this help?

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Yes. Cervical compression and the deep front line at the throat shorten over a wrestling career. The fascia adapts to the load. Free that chain and the neck stops living in survival mode. Most wrestlers I work with feel a meaningful change in the first phase.

My hips never quite open up the way they did. Reverse the pattern?

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Mostly yes. Years of shooting, sprawling, and bridging build hip rotation deficits and a short deep front line. The series restores the range the sport demands. Not all the way back to a teenage hip, but meaningfully more open than where you start.

When in the calendar should I do this?

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NCAA off-season is April through October. Twelve sessions over eight to twelve weeks, then preseason on a reorganized structure.

Can I train through the series?

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Yes. Most wrestlers train through the work. We time deeper sessions away from your hardest live wrestling and conditioning sessions.

Off-season is the window

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