Ruben Parada-Echeverry
Holistic Health Coach
At 23 I was over 300 pounds. Drinking a 6 pack of Bud Light every night. Blood pressure high enough to scare a nurse. My knees and my back had already quit on me, and I'd just washed out of nursing school by one point. So I took a desk job at a health insurance company, and I spent a year reading men's files and watching the same road open up under every one of them. Pills. Then a procedure. Then a smaller life. I wanted no part of it. I became determined to change my life. I started cooking my own food. I trained Martial Arts. I found ATG and rebuilt my knees and lower back from nothing, against the advice I'd been handed. A hundred pounds came off. The back came back, and the hips, and the shoulders. I won a full-contact kickboxing title and got to 6% body fat, while doing the splits at 28. I found Christ somewhere in the middle of all of it, married my wife, and became a father. I'm NASM CPT certified, Chek Academy Holistic Lifestyle Coach, ATG Level 3 under Ben Patrick (kneesovertoesguy), and trained in the Charles Poliquin lineage. That paper matters a lot less to me than this. I have lived in the body you're in, and I know exactly how you feel. So hear me on one thing. Pain isn't damage. Pain is your nervous system telling you that what you are demanding from your body exceeds your current level of ability. It is shutting off the muscle that was guarding the joint. Training through pain for years can cause for that mind to muscle connection to shutdown deeper. It's why your back goes out every six weeks. It was never your age. You're not aging. You're losing pain-free ability. And decline can be reversed through training at the right gradient, and viewing pain as your guide, not as your enemy. I've helped over 50+ people get back to being active & playing the sports they love without pain. A woman with twelve years of knee pain who couldn't kneel down in her own garden. A 67-year-old man told a shoulder replacement was his only option left. He plays tennis now, without problems. Picture a morning where you're up before the house and your body doesn't file a single complaint. Your kid yells "race you" and you're already moving, outsprinting them. Your wife notices something before you ever say a word about it. Your confidence is back, your look a decade younger, and you feel even better than you look. That man didn't go anywhere. He's been waiting on you. Bring me the thing nobody's been able to fix. I'll tell you what's actually going on in there, in plain words, and hand you your first step. No pitch at the end. You came for an answer and you'll leave with one. Book a call. Let's get your life & body back.
What I can help you with
Bring me the specific thing. Here's where I do my best work. Getting you out of pain. Knees, lower back, hips, shoulders. The ache on the stairs, the back that goes out every six weeks, the shoulder that won't go overhead. We find what's actually driving it and build the ability back, gradually, without surgery or a rest-and-decline prescription. Designing a strength program around your goals and your joints. Built around the body you have right now and the thing you're trying to get back to, with a gradient you can actually hold. Fixing your form. Send me video, or move for me live on the call. A lot of the pain I see traces back to a squat, a hinge or a press that's been quietly off for years. Getting you back to your sport. Sprinting, lifting, jiu jitsu, tennis, golf, skiing, whatever you walked away from because your body made it not worth it. Dialing in your food. Macros for a cut or a bulk, a protein floor that actually builds tissue, and the minerals and fat-soluble vitamins your tendons are built out of. Real food first, supplements last. Rebuilding after surgery or an injury that never came all the way back. ACLs, discs, frozen shoulders, the things you were told to live with. Postpartum rebuild. Pelvic floor, deep core, and a back that stops screaming by 4pm. Getting your energy back. The 3pm crash, the 2am wake-up, the second coffee. We work on light, water, ground and sleep before we ever talk about a supplement. Building a breathwork or meditation habit that sticks. We start with how you breathe at rest, because most people are breathing wrong all day and calling it stress. Setting your kids up so they don't inherit this. How to get them moving, sleeping and eating in a way that compounds, without turning your house into a boot camp. Figuring out why nothing has worked yet. I'm the coach other coaches send people to when they can't solve it. If you've already done the chiro, the PT, the dry needling and three new programs, bring me that. Faith and marriage are welcome in the conversation if they're part of what you're carrying. Plenty of people bring them. Nobody has to. Pain leads because it's the highest-intent thing a stranger types into a coaching marketplace. "Why nothing has worked" closes because it restates your last-stop position right above the booking button. The kids line is your real differentiator there. Nobody else in that Fitness category is selling what a child inherits.
What a call actually looks like.
We start with the thing that brought you. What the highest version of you is. I'll ask you to be specific about when it shows up and what you were doing right before it does. Then I widen out. How you sleep. When you see the sun. What you drink and how much of it. How you breathe sitting still. What you eat on a normal day, not a good one. What you've already tried, and who told you to try it. Most of the answer lives in that part of the conversation, and almost nobody asks for it. If it's a movement problem, I'll have you do a movement assessment for me on camera. A head to toe assessment. 30 minutes of watching you move tells me more than an hour of talking about it. Then I tell you what I think is going on, in plain words, and I hand you a first step you can take that day. Why I ask for 90 days. You can feel better inside a week. Rebuilding runs slower than that. Muscle responds in weeks. Tendon, ligament and the connective tissue around a joint remodel over months, and that tissue is the part that has to change for the pain to stop coming back. Ninety days is the shortest honest window I've found for structural change that holds. So I take single calls, and I'd rather you come in already knowing I'm going to point at a longer runway when what you're describing needs one. On the call we'll work out how many sessions that looks like for your situation. The more sessions we commit to together, the lower the rate per session goes. That being said, I am also happy to take you through a full workout live on our first call & if that's all you, want then you know my line is always open. None of that is an obligation. Book one call, get a real answer, get a world class workout, and decide from there. 12 sessions drops it 5%, 24 drops it 10%. 36 and up drops is 15%
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