Team ACTIV

Team ACTIV ACTIV Therapy, Performance, Recovery. Upgrade your game. The ACTIV Team is:
1. Passionate about their own continued learning
3.

ACTIV provides physical therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, small group fitness classes, personal training, team training, stress management and mediation services. ACTIV Physical Therapy exceeds the perception and potential of traditional outpatient orthopedic, spine, and sports Physical Therapy services by delivering a proactive spectrum of care that includes integrative emphasis on preventio

n, rehabilitation, and functional training for those with active lifestyles of any age or ability, or those aspiring to become more active but who may lack the guidance or confidence to reach their goals. Dedicated to empowering and motivating each person to achieve success and maximize their movement health and function
2. Committed to delivering the highest level of care to each person every day.

What have repeated injuries taught you? Today we’re sharing ACTIV physical therapist Alesha’s strength journey! Find out...
05/02/2025

What have repeated injuries taught you?

Today we’re sharing ACTIV physical therapist Alesha’s strength journey! Find out below what her repeated injuries taught her, and how it changed the trajectory of her career!
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“From college track to the treatment table—and now to motherhood, coaching, and rediscovering my stride 💪🏃‍♀️👶

I started as a competitive runner, chasing PRs and living for the long run. But repeated injuries forced me to slow down and rethink how I trained. That’s when I found strength training—not just to recover, but to rebuild stronger, inside and out.

That shift didn’t just change my body—it changed my career. I became a licensed physical therapist to help others avoid the setbacks I faced and move through pain with purpose. Now, I get to combine my love for movement, recovery, and education every day.

I’m still a runner, just a smarter one—and now a coach too, guiding others toward strength and longevity in their training. And most recently, I became a mom. Postpartum recovery has brought a whole new layer to this journey. It’s no longer just about performance—it’s about energy, healing, and showing up fully for my baby and for myself.

This journey is about so much more than fitness. It’s about resilience, adaptability, and learning to honor your body through every season. From athlete to PT to coach to mom—I’m still running, just with a deeper purpose. 💥”

Give this post a 👍🏼 to show Alesha some support on her strength journey! 👏🏼

Today we’re sharing ACTIV Physical Therapist Dan’s strength journey! 💪🏼As a kid and throughout high school, Dan was alwa...
04/16/2025

Today we’re sharing ACTIV Physical Therapist Dan’s strength journey! 💪🏼

As a kid and throughout high school, Dan was always active - his life revolved around soccer year-round, and he also would snowboard each winter 🏂 He would also occasionally do workouts with friends at the school gym, or at home with P90X DVDs (who here is old enough to remember using DVDs? 😜 Let us know in the comments!)

After graduating high school and deciding not to play soccer in college, Dan was stuck figuring out how he wanted to stay active. It was hard to ignore what he was learning in his college courses - which was how important it is to maintain a healthy lifestyle! This led him to start going to the gym consistently, picking up his new hobby of weightlifting. The benefits were not only feeling stronger physically, but weightlifting helped keep him sane! It also helped him stay awake during the day - those 3-hour long PT school lectures with long bouts of sitting are not for the weak 😉… so hitting up the gym during classes was beneficial in more ways than one!

The last phase of Dan’s fitness journey developed over the past few years as he has been working as a physical therapist with ACTIV.

He has had his fair share of injuries - back pain, shoulder subluxation, knee pain from an old ACL injury. Rehabbing these injuries and learning how to manage them gave him much more insight into how his patients feel, and what guidance they need to recover and progress.

The one tool he has picked up over the past couple years to train and help patients is kettlebells. He started using them as he trained at ACTIV, and grew to appreciate their versatility. After 6 months of kettlebell training, he became certified as a Strong First SFG-1 Kettlebell Instructor 🎉

Dan isn’t sure where his fitness journey is headed in the future. But for now, he enjoys using a variety of tools including kettlebells, barbells, dumbbells, and bodyweight exercises to maintain his healthy lifestyle, stay active, and help his patients at ACTIV!

Comment below if you’ve seen Dan for PT and what injury he’s helped you rehab! 😃

We’re not your average team at ACTIV Physical Therapy…and we want you to get to know us better and what makes our team u...
04/01/2025

We’re not your average team at ACTIV Physical Therapy…and we want you to get to know us better and what makes our team unique!

All of the ACTIV team members have had a strength journey that led them to where they are currently at in their fitness.

This week we are sharing Juli’s strength journey💪🏼

Her strength training started while she was in college playing soccer⚽️ for Bowling Green State University. Before that, she didn’t have any strength training in high school for soccer, so this was the first time that she had been in this type of environment! And needless to say, she quickly fell in love with it.

Once she stopped playing soccer after college, she dove into training for a powerlifting 🏋🏻‍♀️meet, but realized it wasn’t something she wanted to pursue long term. After competing in powerlifting, Juli went back to her roots and started playing soccer again.

After going through a few different courses (such as CFSC & EXOS), her training has now started to look more functional and athletic, which allows her to continue to play soccer at a higher level, and keeps her healthy with no injuries!

Now we want to get to know something about you – add an emoji in the comments with the sport you played or play in high school / college! 🏀🏈🥎🏐⛳️🎾👟

Can you relate to Alexa’s strength journey? Keep reading until the end to see! 👇🏽Last week, we shared ACTIV team member ...
03/25/2025

Can you relate to Alexa’s strength journey? Keep reading until the end to see! 👇🏽

Last week, we shared ACTIV team member Ari’s strength journey, and how her interests changed from her college 🏫 days to her motherhood days👩‍🍼

This week, we are sharing about Alexa’s strength journey!

Alexa started weightlifting initially to improve her performance in track and field, in both high school and college.

In college, she focused on strength training as a preventative mechanism to injuries, after suffering from an injury in her first track and field season 🤕🩼

Post college, she fell in love with Olympic weightlifting and CrossFit 🏋🏻‍♀️ because it gave her the sense of competing that she still desired. Not to mention, she loved these sports because they looked cool, and made her feel strong! 😎

When she joined Team ACTIV, she shifted away from CrossFit and started more “functional” and performance-based strength training. This was so she could continue to demonstrate athletic movements for her ACTIV clients. And of course, to make sure that she “practiced what she preached” with the programming she provided and believed in for her clients.

After becoming a mother, she used strength training to lift and carry around her kids (along with carrying their many things – think strollers, car seats, etc!) without getting hurt.

The purpose and the way she strength trains may continue to change over time, but she intends to continue with strength training indefinitely, thinking of her future self so that she can continue to be strong, healthy and confident in her body well into her 70’s and 80’s! 💪🏼

Show Alexa some support in her journey by giving this post a 👍🏼 !

It’s time to introduce our team’s strength stories! 📖🌟We’re so excited to share this series with you and for you to get ...
03/17/2025

It’s time to introduce our team’s strength stories! 📖🌟

We’re so excited to share this series with you and for you to get to know our awesome team members here!

All of these stories are very unique, which shows that every individual has their own journey to discovering what type of exercises make them feel and perform their best.

First up in our series ➡️ Ari!

When Ari was in college, she felt like she needed to start a new activity, so she began distance running. During this time, she didn’t do any sort of strength training, just running.

When she was pregnant with her first baby, she learned how beneficial strength work was for mom and baby, so she began to strength train and loved it, but wasn’t extremely dedicated to it… yet.

Fast forward to 2024 and another baby later, Ari knew she needed to take lifting more seriously in order to keep up with her toddler and baby.  She also started to realize it was giving her more power during her runs! 💥

She focused specifically on strategic lifts that will help her carry her kids around, and being able to play with them WITHOUT getting injured!

You can catch her with her double stroller in CVNP - don’t hesitate to join her & her little ones on their run!🏃🏻‍♀️🧒🏻👶🏻

Many clients ask us this…What happens after you “graduate” from your physical therapy program at ACTIV? Don’t worry, we ...
02/28/2025

Many clients ask us this…

What happens after you “graduate” from your physical therapy program at ACTIV? Don’t worry, we don’t just abandon you 😉

We’re excited to share about an important part of ACTIV, and that is ACTIV Performance. This is not only an option for all of our PT “graduates” but it is also an
option for those outside of PT who simply want to move, learn and strengthen with support from our community! 👯‍♀️ This is a great option for enhancing your return to sport or return to daily life, but with more confidence and better movement 👟

We have a fantastic, state-of-the-art gym here where we offer small group strength and conditioning classes, semi-private training and personal training 🏋🏽‍♀️

One of our goals here at ACTIV is to create a challenging and fun environment for you, but with an emphasis on SAFETY and progressive learning 🧠You’ll train with the best - our performance coaches are awesome (if we do say so ourselves!). We are
here to listen to your concerns and hesitations, and we meet you at your current athletic level.

Our coaches bring the positive energy ⚡️you need and are dedicated to helping you correct and unlock your movement potential and get stronger so that you can
continue to grow on your own outside of our classes.

Follow along as we continue to share more about this part of ACTIV, and drop any questions you have in the comments section! ⁉️







Three words that are important to us…THERAPY✨PERFORMANCE✨RECOVERY✨We are different here than your typical physical thera...
02/17/2025

Three words that are important to us…

THERAPY✨PERFORMANCE✨RECOVERY✨

We are different here than your typical physical therapy facility - and we’re excited to share more about that in upcoming posts.

So today, let’s talk about THERAPY at ACTIV.

ACTIV Therapy delivers an individualized physical therapy experience from injury 🩼 to return to play🏓
It is our job to turn your recovery into the best experience possible within our healing and motivating environment.

Physical therapy is more than a list 📋 of exercises and physical injury is not only physical. ACTIV cares for the whole person, body and mind.

Your goals are our goals, and through a customized therapy plan, we will provide you with the time and attention you need to confidently return to what you love. Our approach is patient and athlete-driven, not insurance-driven.

Give us a call today 📲 or send us a message 💬 here on instagram!

It’s a new year, and it’s time for reintroduction on our page here! 👋🏼We’re TeamACTIV aka ACTIV Physical Therapy, Perfor...
02/03/2025

It’s a new year, and it’s time for reintroduction on our page here! 👋🏼

We’re TeamACTIV aka ACTIV Physical Therapy, Performance and Recovery! 💪🏼

What you’ll find here is a welcoming front office staff 👩🏻‍💻a skilled massage therapist 💆🏼‍♀️ and performance coaches and physical therapists who specialize in clinical orthopedics, are certified in strength coaching and are all former athletes 🏃🏻‍♀️

You will see that we are a one stop shop for health, fitness and wellness with our other services outside of physical therapy - including strength and conditioning classes, massage therapy, a sauna, and more!

We are excited to have you here following along! Drop a 😎 in the comments if you’re excited to learn from us, and hear all about what ACTIV has to offer!







12 Days of Liftmas all in an hour?! Happy Holidays from TeamACTIV! Swipe to see how the workout ended‼️
12/24/2024

12 Days of Liftmas all in an hour?! Happy Holidays from TeamACTIV!

Swipe to see how the workout ended‼️

Merry Christmas Eve from TeamACTIV! 12 Days of Liftmas all in an hour. Swipe to see how the workout ended‼️
12/24/2024

Merry Christmas Eve from TeamACTIV! 12 Days of Liftmas all in an hour. Swipe to see how the workout ended‼️

Do you need a last minute holiday gift?! ACTIV offers massage therapy gift certificates for 60 or 90 minutes! Stop in an...
12/18/2024

Do you need a last minute holiday gift?! ACTIV offers massage therapy gift certificates for 60 or 90 minutes!

Stop in and grab yours today! 3667 Brecksville Rd Richfield, OH 44286

Featuring the new team members at ACTIV! 🐣
12/17/2024

Featuring the new team members at ACTIV! 🐣

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3667 Brecksville Road
Richfield, OH
44286

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