Dr. Rob Poliszuk PT, DPT, CSCS

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

Working 40+ hours a week can often leave us stiff, weak and feeling a little out of whack. Working out following a 8-6 day can be exhausting and painful, with each little ache and itch acting up with even the simplest movements. Maybe this is just how it is? Maybe you are just at that age? No. It doesn't have to be this way. Ideally, following a long day of work, we strep it into second gear and pound out a great workout that leaves us feeling great and exhausted! Sadly, this is not typically the case. Nothing is more frustrating than not being able to train as hard as we would like or simply being unable to do basic exercises in the gym due to nagging aches and pains, exacerbated from our long work weeks. This is why I created DrRP.com! I don't believe anybody should have their fitness goals cut short by the wear and tear or a career! That is where programming and collaborating with a doctor of physical therapy can have its benefits. ABOUT ME Hi, my name is Rob Poliszuk and I am a Physical Therapist (DPT) and a Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and my ambition for all of my followers is to achieve their health and fitness goals while also restoring proper movement patterns, correct imbalances, and address ergonomic concerns that are related to the wear and tear of the common business professional or laborer. Utilizing my awareness of typical conditions that affect the typical worker in both sedentary and physically demanding work, I can properly structure fitness programs to be both effective and healthy for any of your goals. Personal training, whether it be online or in person, should be just that, PERSONAL. That means effective progressive overload and gains, but also preventative habilitative and therapeutic exercises to keep you moving well and feeling better as you do so. While in Physical Therapy school I also had the opportunity to shadow and work alongside some of the most well respected practitioners in my field. Working with amputees, olympic and collegiate athletes, pediatric and geriatric, obese and overweight, back pain and neck pain patients and everyone in between, I have also seen a wide range of patients and continue to be exposed to and learn new treatment techniques and pathologies, daily. It is this experience that is necessary to grow as a practitioner, as each client presents with a different cluster of co-morbidities and symptoms that have to be taken into account when structuring any plan of care or routine. EDUCATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL BACKGROUND In 2013, I graduated summa cm laude with a bachelors of science (BS) in exercise science from SUNY Cortland. While in my pursuits at my undergraduate school, I participated in the running of corporate wellness challenges, fitness club programs and personal training of fellow students. This is when I really began to discover my itch to learn about the human body in greater depth than what a bachelors degree can provide alone. With each little piece of knowledge I acquired, I realized that there was so much more to learn about the human body, its response to exercise and which factors we could control and manipulate to optimize human movement as a whole, while achieving the fitness and lifestyle goals of my clients. Following my year off from undergraduate school, in which I personally trained and served as a wellness coach at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, New York, I decided that I was not done in my higher education pursuits. This past May, I graduated from the Doctor of Physical Therapy program of the University of Miami. It was at UM that I learned how to examine each individual patient and client, develop a focused plan of care, utilize my knowledge of the human body and carry through that plan of care that addressed the functional deficits of my clients and also encouraged increased mobility, pain reduction, and a capacity for a more active and healthy lifestyle. COLLIDING WORLDS FOR YOUR BENEFIT Although physical therapists are experts in human movement and anatomy, they tend to neglect the world of optimizing the personal training regimens and progression of patients beyond that, being a patient. However, this cannot be blamed on the practitioner as once a patient's insurance provider determines that they are functional enough to perform all daily activities, they no longer help pay for the cost of physical therapy. Conversely, proficient personal trainers and strength coaches tend to have an enormous amount of knowledge and experience on how to optimize the performance and physiques of their clients, but often lack all the ability to correctly identify many of the pitfalls in movement or static postures that can lead to possible injury, disability or pain when continued unchecked. This is why I find it so important to combine aspects of my DPT and CSCS in the treatment of my clients. Having experience in treating patients and clients in both the worlds of physical therapy and personal training, I am able to utilize aspects from each discipline to aide in the other. This is something that can fill in the gaps between the two professions and lead to even greater outcomes in the long run for anybody looking to reach their fitness goals while also remaining healthy in the process.