Keep golf, walking, and an active life in your future.
At Elite Muscle Mechanics in Glastonbury, CT, we help people dealing with tightness, weakness, discomfort, or limitations in movement build strength and confidence for the activities they enjoy. Our individualized approach respects your body, your history, and your goals.
For the golfer cutting rounds short, the walker skipping a favorite route, and the person cleared after joint replacement who still doesn't trust their body.
Request a Free Phone ConsultationStart with a free phone conversation lasting 15 to 20 minutes about what's limiting you and what you want to return to.
Is your body holding you back?
- Recurring tightness
- Muscle weakness
- Old injuries that never fully resolve
- Achy and painful joints
- Specific exercises keep causing a problem
Golf has become unpredictable.
Your knee or hip limits your round, or bothers you afterward. You want to enjoy your game with more confidence and a plan that accounts for how your body responds.
Walking comes with a price afterward.
Your usual loop, uneven sidewalks, or gentle downhills have become reasons to hesitate. You want to keep pace with friends and make walking a dependable part of your life.
You're cleared, but still uncertain.
You've finished physical therapy after joint replacement, but stiffness, stairs, or returning to your favorite activities still feel challenging. You want guidance for building strength and confidence beyond discharge.
Your goal is to make activity more dependable, and keep doing the things that matter to you.
Your painful joint is part of a bigger picture.
At Elite Muscle Mechanics, we assess how your muscles work together, consider your injury and surgical history, and identify an appropriate starting point for your goals.
Your plan may include Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT), individualized resistance exercise, and joint protection principles. We reassess and adjust as your response and capacity change.
We help you understand where to start, when to progress, and when to adjust.
How We Work With You
Understand your starting point
We discuss your history, current limitations, and the activities you want to keep doing. Your assessment helps guide the next steps.
Assess muscular function
We look at how your muscles work together and use MAT when appropriate as part of your individualized plan.
Build strength with joint protection in mind
We choose and adjust exercise positions, resistance, range of motion, and progression to reflect your needs.
Reassess and adapt
We review your response and progress, then adjust your plan as your capacity and goals change.
But What If I Already Know What’s Wrong?
Maybe you’ve been diagnosed with arthritis, a disc problem, bursitis or a torn rotator cuff. Maybe you’ve had a joint replacement, surgery, a dislocation or another significant injury.
Let’s be honest. By middle age, many of us have accumulated our fair share of injuries, diagnoses and surgeries. MAT isn’t about pretending those structural issues don’t exist. Our approach takes them into account.
Your muscles help support, stabilize and move those structures. When injury, surgery, pain or prolonged compensation changes how your muscles function, addressing the muscular system may be an important part of getting you moving again.
At Elite Muscle Mechanics, we’ve seen clients make meaningful progress when muscular function was addressed alongside their known structural limitations. That experience guides how we assess your needs and develop your individual plan.
The muscular system may not be the entire problem, but its role can be underestimated when attention centers on a diagnosis. For many, addressing muscular function may be the missing piece in restoring a more active lifestyle.
An approach built around your history and your goals.
- Knee or hip limitations are affecting golf, walking, or everyday activities.
- You have arthritis or a joint replacement and want individualized guidance for building strength.
- You've tried other approaches but still struggle with confidence or consistency.
- You want your injury and surgical history considered when planning exercise.
How the plan comes together
Your assessment guides the plan. We consider muscular function, exercise tolerance, and the activities you want to keep doing, then reassess as you progress.
Meet Your Muscular Specialists
At Elite Muscle Mechanics, Joshua Lewbel and Luanne Montella bring distinct backgrounds and a shared commitment to individualized muscular assessment, joint protection, and strength development.
Joshua Lewbel
MS, MATm/Rx, CSCS
Owner and Muscular Specialist
Joshua brings more than 20 years of experience with Muscle Activation Techniques and individualized resistance exercise. His background includes movement science, health and fitness management, strength and conditioning, and teaching anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology. His work focuses on understanding each client’s muscular function, history, and goals to guide an individualized approach.
Selected qualifications
- Master of Science in Health and Fitness Management
- Bachelor of Science in Movement Science
- MAT Master Certified Specialist
- MAT Rx Full Body Specialist
- NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Luanne Montella
Muscular Specialist
Luanne brings experience in personal training since 2009 and earned her MAT Master Specialist certification in 2021. Her 25 years of experience as an EMT and lab technician helped shape her appreciation for working with people whose histories include a wide range of medical conditions. Her approach emphasizes individual needs, exercise mechanics, and progressive training.
Selected qualifications
- MAT Master Specialist, 2021
- MAT Certified Specialist, 2018
- Resistance Training Specialist coursework in Trunk and Spine, 2015
- NESTA Biomechanics Specialist, 2015
- NESTA Certified Personal Trainer, 2011
What our clients have experienced.
"I came to him with chronic pain that I hadn't been able to resolve through physical therapy, acupuncture, or the many other things I had tried. That pain is now gone."
"I went in a skeptic but came out a true believer. The measurable difference in my lower back mobility is remarkable."
"I've seen amazing, substantial and lasting improvement from an old injury. Unlike any physical therapy I've experienced… When I mentioned it to my orthopedic surgeon, he was aware of this practice and told me to keep going!"
"It's amazing how Josh was able to fix my plantar fasciitis that plagued me for 2 years in 2 visits. If you have pain, do not hesitate to go see Josh."
Across 23 verified Google reviews.
We Work for You, Not the Insurance Company
At Elite Muscle Mechanics, you are the client. We don't accept insurance because insurance companies can dictate what practitioners can and cannot do, what services they will cover, how care must be documented, and how treatment is structured.
That can mean fitting the individual into an established protocol rather than building the approach entirely around what that individual needs.
We chose a different model.
Working outside the insurance system gives us the freedom to assess your muscular system comprehensively, determine what deserves attention, spend the time we believe is necessary, and develop an individualized plan based on what we find, not on what an insurance company will authorize or reimburse.
No insurance company deciding what we can do. No predetermined protocol. Just an individualized approach built around you.
Tell us what you want to get back to.
Start with a free phone consultation lasting 15 to 20 minutes with our team. Tell us what's limiting you, what you've already tried, and what you want to return to. We'll discuss whether our approach is a fit and explain the appropriate next step.
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