Be Activated

‘The Douglas Heel Method’

Basic Principles

The Be Activated system is a powerful new understanding of the body. By using the Be Activated techniques you will see the body transform from a defensive, imploded state into one that is powerful and explosive. It is used effectively with a wide scope of clients including children, the elderly, social and elite sportspeople, business people and office workers.

When the body moves optimally, we fire what we call a 123-movement pattern. Here, movement is initiated in zone I, followed by zone 2 and then zone 3. When the body fires an optimal 123 pattern it allows for the body to expand as it’s moving, allowing the body to perform optimally.

This means more speed, strength, agility, balance and endurance. It also means less overload, less pain, less fatigue and improved mental abilities.

Powerful new perspective on why the body becomes dysfunctional

However, most of us, including most elite athletes, fire various compensation movement patterns. These compensation patterns cause implosion of the body which reduces performance and massively increases overload and risk of injury. In these compensation patterns the body initiates movement and breathing from either zone 2 or 3. Besides the negative effect on performance, it leads to overload of the structures of zone 2 and 3. Over time this leads to injuries and pain.

With the Be Activated system we are able to identify these compensation patterns. This allows for us to very accurately predict the injury risk areas for athletes. By using activation techniques, we are able to restore a normal 123 pattern, allowing for immediate increase in performance and reduced risk of injury.

When we teach the Be Activated principles, the aim is always to empower our clients, athletes and coaches by showing them how their bodies move very differently to what they think. When we understand our compensation patterns, we can learn to control it. We teach simple techniques to help the body maintain a 123 pattern.

Unfortunately, when we train, we still use our compensation patterns. Therefore, it is not the solution to changing our pattern. This leads to less effective training and more overload. Our aim is to have our clients and athletes fire a 123 pattern more often. When we are firing a 123 pattern, all the hours of dedicated training lead to more results and less injury and pain.

Clients, athletes and coaches learn to stimulate various activation reflexes on the body. Some of these areas are reflexes that stimulate the nervous system and increase the nerve innervations to the correct muscles at the right time. With other activations, we aim to remove the soft tissue (fascia) shortening that is limiting the body from moving correctly.