Pure Performance Training

Pure Performance Training Personal Training, Physical Therapy, Group Training, Sport-Specific Training

Pure Performance Training is a full-service health and fitness training company, owned and operated by a skilled team of strength coaches and physical therapists whose expertise has been guiding professional athletes, clients and patients for over 20 year

Squirrel
09/04/2025

Squirrel

Meet ATC. CSCS. Nearly a decade in the game. Graduated from UNH. Started in a small clinic up in Vermont—grinding. Inte...
06/11/2025

Meet

ATC. CSCS. Nearly a decade in the game.

Graduated from UNH. Started in a small clinic up in Vermont—grinding.

Interned at Harvard: D1 football, hockey, lacrosse, and hoops.

Earned his master’s at BU while training BU Men’s Hockey under former Bruins strength coach Ken Whittier.

And now?

He’s coaching your kid.

Growth, Okay?!We welcome to the team.Born and raised in New Jersey, Karlee was a standout high school soccer player. Sh...
09/20/2024

Growth, Okay?!

We welcome to the team.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Karlee was a standout high school soccer player. She then had a four-year career as a Hoosier at Indiana University and was also the team captain.

At Indiana, she worked as a strength coach, supervising women’s basketball, wrestling, baseball, and men’s soccer, and graduated with a degree in Exercise Science. 

She moved to Boston two years ago to begin her doctoral studies in Physical Therapy at Northeastern University and work as a sports performance coach.

When she’s not in the weightroom or the anatomy lab, she can be found jamming out to Dad Rock, crushing half marathons and Costco chocolate chip cookies, or teaching classes at in Boston.

Pals
02/15/2024

Pals

Death or Kintsugi  I’ve always been a stickler for words.  And since today is New Year’s Eve, I’m reflecting on two word...
12/31/2023

Death or Kintsugi
 
I’ve always been a stickler for words.
 
And since today is New Year’s Eve, I’m reflecting on two words often used interchangeably:
 
Strength and Resilience.  
 
I don’t think they’re the same.
 
Strength is about how hard it is to break you.
 
Resilience is about getting back up after you’ve been broken.
 
Looking back on this year, I think strength is important, but resiliency is better.
 
Why?
 
Because no matter how strong you might be—how top-of-the-food-chain you may feel—life is harsh. And, the universe, is undefeated.
 
Earnest Hemingway captured this, writing:
 
“The world breaks everyone; afterward, many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills.”
 
I think he’s talking about resiliency.
 
It’s guaranteed that you’re going to mess up. Blow an opportunity. Lose your temper. Say the wrong thing. Make a costly mistake. Or otherwise, stagger under the weight of your circumstances.   
 
(For me, this is most days.)
 
But the question is: will that be the end of you?
 
Will you have the courage to admit when you’re wounded or need help and the nerve to get back up?
 
There’s an ancient Japanese art form called Kintsugi, whereby an artist applies a special lacquer to a broken piece of pottery—plates, cups, bowls, and those sort of things.
 
But instead of returning the object to its original state, it’s made better.
 
The breaks are reinforced and accentuated by gold or silver that’s mixed with the varnish.
 
The scars become the strongest parts—beautiful imperfections to be admired, rather than something to be hidden or disguised.
 
Doesn’t that sound familiar?
 
Our scars and bruises become armor.
 
Our struggles become experiences—they make us stronger.
 
They make us better—better than we were before.
 
They steel us for the future—for whatever comes next.  
 
So, I ask you: will you find a way to become stronger in the broken places this year?
 
Or will you cling to your old ways and allow yourself to be shattered?

A Day of Magical Thinking The ancient Greeks believed that a shooting star resulted from the gods parting the heavens to...
12/25/2023

A Day of Magical Thinking

The ancient Greeks believed that a shooting star resulted from the gods parting the heavens to look down on humankind, knocking it loose from its place in the sky.

They hypothesized that a wish made during this fleeting, magical moment would more likely be granted because the gods were within earshot.

Corny and outdated as it might be, it’s undeniable that there are moments in life—a day, an hour, a second—when anything seems possible.

To me, Christmas is one of those days when limitless potential seems to exist beyond children’s hearts and wish lists.

I think that’s why we make wishes for ourselves and others on this day more than any other.

Because we believe, against all odds, that by communing with something larger than ourselves, a brief window is opened.

A window of opportunity where for the change we want can occur.

That’s the magic of Christmas—the belief, the hope.

These are gifts we’d all be wise to receive on this day.

Merry Christmas, and thank you, everyone, for all your support, kindness, and trust.

I got into Harvard…Not exactly, but I did get to spend a wonderful afternoon with Dr. Sue Goldie and her team at Harvard...
11/30/2023

I got into Harvard…

Not exactly, but I did get to spend a wonderful afternoon with Dr. Sue Goldie and her team at Harvard’s Global Health Education and Learning Incubator.

I feel slightly smarter than I was a few hours ago. Big thanks for tolerating my questions and constant interruptions.

My bags are ready packed…When the legendary coach Jim Valvano was in high school, he told his dad that he wanted to be a...
11/29/2023

My bags are ready packed…

When the legendary coach Jim Valvano was in high school, he told his dad that he wanted to be a collegiate basketball coach.

He insisted someday he'd win a National Championship.
 
A few days later, his father called him into his room and pointed to a plaid suitcase in the corner.
 
"I'm packed," his dad explained. "When you play and win that National Championship, I will be there.”

“My bags are already packed." 
 
"My father," Jim would later say in his legendary ESPY award speech, “gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person…he believed in me."
 
Just think about the confidence this type of limitless support might instill in someone.

What do you think his dad did next…

Bulldozed a path for him?

Made some calls on his behalf or pulled a few strings to get him his first job?

Of course not.

Doesn’t that signal the opposite of belief?

Never doing something for someone that they can safely and competently do for themselves.

To do otherwise is to rob them of their independence, of their self respect.

I think the quote here is “prepare the child for the road not the road for the child.”

Competence breeds confidence.

With heartfelt gratitude, we thank each and every member of our training community for making PPT the amazing place that...
11/23/2023

With heartfelt gratitude, we thank each and every member of our training community for making PPT the amazing place that it is. We appreciate all of you and wish the best for your holiday season!

Hard Bodies In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or his body collapsed from exhaustion, the more experi...
11/19/2023

Hard Bodies

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or his body collapsed from exhaustion, the more experienced workers would say:
 
"It’s the trade entering his body."

Like cauliflower on a wrestler’s ear or the calluses inside your hand, we are worked upon by what we work on.

It's too bad that achievement, these days, is something to be expected rather than earned. 

Most people start a training program looking for a particular outcome. To look better, jump higher or set a new PR. They want to skip steps and get right to the sexy stuff.

As a result, they are challenging to teach and easily discouraged when things don’t go their way.

So yes, have goals. Know what you want. Then, like the craftsman developing his skill, prepare to work.

Be patient. Practice perseverence.

Let the trade enter your body.

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