The Practice
Train. Learn. Listen.
A coaching method built around how your body actually moves, learns, and recovers. Find the part of the practice you need.
The Practice
A coaching method built around how your body actually moves, learns, and recovers. Find the part of the practice you need.
Someone who takes care of your health sent you here, and they did it because the work is not finished when your appointments end. What you got back has to be built on, and they trust us to do that without undoing anything they did.
Stronger in Motion was founded by Dr. David Skolnik, a Doctor of Physical Therapy. Every program here is designed and overseen by a clinician, and we work with your provider, not around them.
Nobody here just hands you a workout.
Stronger in Motion was founded by Dr. David Skolnik, a Doctor of Physical Therapy who also teaches continuing education to other physical therapists and trainers. The method he teaches them is the method your program is built on, and every coach here is trained in it. That is the standard, and it does not change depending on who you end up working with.
Your history, your imaging, your surgery if you had one, whatever your provider sent along, and what you are trying to get back to. Nothing gets written until we understand what we are working with.
Not pulled off a shelf, and not the same thing the person next to you is doing. It is built around your body and your goals, and it changes as you do.
Sleep, stress, travel, how the last week actually felt. When life gets hard the training adjusts, because progress comes from what you can repeat, not from what looks impressive once.
You get coached, not handed a list of exercises. Form gets corrected as you go and a session changes on the spot if something is not right. That is the difference between training that helps you and training that sets you back.
We follow whatever they set. If something comes up that belongs in their office, we say so. You are never choosing between us.
This is not more of what you are already doing.
Whatever brought you here is doing its job, or already did. The therapy, the adjustments, the injections, the surgery, the changes to how you eat — all of it is aimed at getting you out of something. Pain, a flare, a bad scan, a number that needed to move.
None of it was built to make you strong. That is a different job and it takes different work. Real load, added on purpose, tracked week over week, so your body can handle the life you actually want to live: the deadlift, the kid on your hip, the ladder, the ski trip in February, another twenty years of doing your own yard.
If you are still seeing your provider, good. We work alongside them and we follow whatever they set. If you are finished, this is the part that comes next, and it is the part almost nobody gets handed on the way out the door.
The part nobody warns you about.
Your last appointment comes and goes. You feel good, so you leave it there. Four months later the ache is back and you are not sure what changed. Nothing changed. You just stopped loading the thing that got better.
A trainer or an app cannot see the shoulder, the disc, or the surgery. They will hand you a program built for someone who never had one. That is the exact thing your provider was trying to avoid when they sent you here.
The exercises that got you out of pain were built to get you out of pain. They were never built to make you strong. Staying on them is why people stall out and end up back in the same chair a year later.
We work alongside your whole care team.
Primary care and sports medicine doctors send people here when the answer is not another prescription. The goal is getting you moving and keeping you off the injury carousel.
PTs send people here at discharge, when the formal plan ends but the strength work has barely started.
Chiropractors send people here for strength work that makes an adjustment hold instead of wearing off by Thursday.
Surgeons send people here once you are cleared for activity and weight needs adding carefully rather than all at once.
Dietitians send people here because what you eat changes your body faster when there is resistance training underneath it.
Concierge and longevity practices send people here when nothing is wrong and the goal is another twenty good years.
Doctor of Physical Therapy · Founder, Stronger in Motion
Dr. David Skolnik is the founder of Stronger in Motion and its clinical lead. A Doctor of Physical Therapy, he also teaches continuing education to other PTs and trainers — the method he teaches them is the method every program here is built on.
His work centers on the people most trainers get wrong: post-surgical clients, patients with a history of pain or injury, and older adults who have been told to be careful. If your provider sent you, this is the practice they trust to build strength without undoing anything they did.
Certified Personal Trainer
Emily has been a Certified Personal Trainer for three and a half years. Her interest in learning about the human body led her to coaching.
“I think our bodies are amazingly capable. Through proper exercise, we can increase quality of life, improve mental health, and create undeniable self belief. As a coach, I want to share that with as many people as possible.”
Certified Personal Trainer
“I know what it's like to start from the bottom. After overcoming addiction, I discovered that fitness wasn't just about changing my body — it was about rebuilding my life through discipline, accountability, and purpose.”
“I believe fitness is about more than workouts. It's about developing habits, building resilience, and becoming the strongest version of yourself, physically and mentally. No matter where you're starting, I'm here to guide you every step of the way.”
Every coach here is trained in the same method David teaches to other physical therapists and trainers. Your program is designed and overseen by a clinician, no matter who you end up working with.
“I work in pain management, and I have been David's patient for five years. Through a disc bulge, multiple surgeries, and every flare in between, he is the first person I trust for rehabilitation and strength, and the person I refer others to without hesitation.”
— Kaitlyn, Pain Management Provider & Patient
It starts with a conversation.
The first step is a call, and it is not a sales pitch. It is how we both find out whether this is the right thing for you. It takes about twenty minutes.
If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better. If we are, you will get off the call knowing exactly what happens next.
Referred by a professional you trust
The people who care for your health already put their name behind us. Pick a time and we will handle the rest.