REFLEXIVE PERFORMANCE RESET®
empowers athletes to create immediate improvements in pain, flexibility, and performance.
The most frustrating thing for a coach is seeing an athlete do everything right all off-season, only to have some unexplained nagging injury derail their championship dreams.
In 2009, world class sprint coach Chris Korfist had just one of those experiences. He had an athlete who was on track to being one of the best sprinters he’d ever worked with. The young man had just run the fastest 55m time in the country when he developed a hamstring issue that ultimately derailed his career. Haunted by this, Chris’s mission became to build a system that would prevent it from ever happening again. This is the pain that brought Reflexive Performance Reset® into being.
In 2010, Chris brought a man named Douglas Heel to the US to speak about a technique that he called Be Activated. He’d heard of Douglas through fellow speed coach Dan Fichter, who had seen Douglas present on his technique in London the year before. Dan, not a man shy to try new things, knew that Douglas was onto something and that Chris would be able to find some gems in the system.
With Be Activated, Douglas presented a treatment system that showed incredible and immediate (and frankly, almost unbelievable) improvements but was primarily focused on medical professionals. Chris saw in Be Activated the union of a wide range of different modalities but presented so simply that it could be adapted for a sport environment and yield enormous performance gains. True to his nature as an innovator, Chris began experimenting with the techniques on himself and eventually his athletes, tinkering with the system to elicit maximum performance. It worked so well that he started sharing it with other performance coaches in his circle.
One such coach was strength coach and creator of Triphasic Training, Cal Dietz. Working mainly with hockey and tactical athletes, Cal immediately saw the same transformative results Chris had. Together, they realized this system could revolutionize injury prevention and performance enhancement, not just rehabilitation.
if this is so powerful,
why isn’t everybody using it?
After much discussion, they realized there were two main factors holding things back:
Awareness: Be Activated was initially taught to medical professionals as a treatment method, it wasn’t widely adapted for performance and injury prevention. Chris, however, had already spent years transforming it into a proactive system. With the support of other forward-thinking coaches, the system began to take shape as a widely applicable performance tool.
Accessibility: Those exposed to Be Activated were often at the ultra-elite level and either kept it to themselves as a competitive edge or framed it as a specialized treatment method. Chris and his collaborators, however, shared a philosophy of abundance. They believed this powerful tool should be available to everyone, from coaches to athletes, to create lasting, positive impacts
With the adaptations that Chris and Cal made, with the support of Douglas, Reflexive Performance Reset® (or RPR®) was born.
RPR® is a system of breathing and neurological cues that help you move and feel better. The Wake Up Drills are simple enough that anyone can learn and do them on themselves. Whether you’re a sport or strength coach, a personal trainer, an athlete, or a medical practitioner, RPR® is made to be simple to implement no matter your environment. RPR® is being used by some of the top sports organizations and strength athletes in the world. Don’t just take our word for it! Check out how England’s Rugby team uses RPR® before every match!