Tom Longo is the most experienced Resistance Stretching trainer in the western United States. A certified Resistance Stretching Instructor for over 17 years, he is co-founder of StretchWorks, located near San Francisco (www.stretchworks.net), where he offers group classes and private sessions. Tom was flexibility trainer to Dara Torres for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, where Dara won two Gold and three Bronze medals for swimming. Tom mainly works with individual private clients, creating custom Resistance Stretching programs for them while providing advice on diet, physical and mental well-being, and cross-training. His clients cover a broad spectrum of age and physical ability and they likewise come seeking help on a wide variety of needs and goals.

I work with all sorts of people on all sorts of issues. My clients have ranged from ten years of age to over eighty, and they vary just as widely in their levels of physical fitness. I help them become pain-free, more agile and strong, and better able to perform in any physical activity or sport. Some are recovering from hip and knee replacement surgery or simpler ones like ACL replacement, and I help them first to regain stability and strength in critical tasks like climbing stairs, then soon get them back to hiking and other more serious physical activities. Busy professionals come to relieve the physical and mental stresses from long hours and frequent travel, which often includes lower back, neck and shoulder pain. Other people come wanting to feel younger and more limber, and to be more physically active without pain and injury, and we typically focus on flexibility, alignment, balance and even diet. I help athletes of all ages and ranks find relief from chronic pain, increase performance and stamina, and ultimately to be pain and injury free. This includes young competitive swimmers or soccer players, older golfers looking to improve their game and reduce back pain, skiers looking for a better edge, or ardent marathon runners and Ironman triathletes. Professional ballroom and ballet dancers come also to improve their form and control.

The human body is a magnificent living machine, able to heal from injury, achieve a more stable balance and alignment, and perform at increasing levels of complexity, strength and stamina. My love of physics and masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT live on in my current passion for the human body, where I have gone on to study structural kinesiology, motor learning, anatomy, physiology and nutrition. I have spent hundreds of hours exploring the complex interaction between muscles, bones and joints, and analyzing how this brilliant biological machine can orchestrate all of these into intricate movements and feats of athletic prowess. And commonly the body must perform under less than optimal conditions, compensating for overly tight muscles, stiff joints, old injuries, and chronic pain.

Pain in your muscles and joints is really only an extreme manifestation of musculoskeletal imbalances that are robbing you of your potential for peak physical performance and agility. And so, simply stated, I work with clients to release any overly tight areas in the body and strengthen any overly weak areas, which then allows the body to do what it does naturally: move towards balance and alignment, heal from injury, maintain well being, and adapt to physical training demands by becoming stronger and more able to accomplish complex, strenuous activities. I initially help clients to reduce and eliminate their pain and discomfort, but only as the first step on a path to aligning their bodies, improving joint and muscle function, and helping them become more powerful and capable of performing their favorite physical activities. For some people being pain free is the most important goal, while for others it is merely the starting point on the road to fine tuning and super charging their bodies. And so my work with each client is quite unique, sometimes soothing and healing their body from trauma and injury, continually bringing them into a more upright, balanced posture, repeatedly helping them to experience and recapture the flexibility and strength that is innate to their body, and always seeking both physical and emotional excellence.

Doran, co-founder of Stretchworks is a resistance flexibility trainer. She has trained for many years with Tom Longo.

Doran’s background includes extensive study of yoga, meditation and mindfulness and holistic health. Currently Doran studies Insight Yoga with Sarah Powers. Insight yoga is a comprehensive path of study that bridges Yoga, Chinese Medicine and Tibetan Buddhism.

As a resistance flexibility trainer. Doran works with her clients to regain youthful agility, strength and power, and fluidity and suppleness in the joint capsules and connective tissue. She works to create a program of resistance stretching and strength that builds lean muscle tissue that is elastic and elongated, improved posture and alignment, and a sense of overall balanced well being. Doran considers her work to be an imperative component to injury prevention and recovery. A personalized program of resistance stretching creates changes in the body and stimulates a robust healthiness, strength and youthful agility, and increased balance for every body. Resistance stretch and strengthening uses leading edge positions that stretch synergistic muscle groups along their correct movement patterns.

Doran helps many women create a positive body image that may include hormonal balancing through stimulating and clearing acupuncture meridian lines activated with resistance stretching. Doran has experience working with women addressing menopausal symptoms as well as PMS and post menopausal symptoms.

Her training and certification from Esalen Institute in clinical hypnosis and relaxation techniques allows her to address with her clients, the emotions that may arise with life changes. Doran grounds her training with over 25 years of daily yoga/meditation practice and mindfulness training. Doran is clear thinking, practical in her approach and compassionate in her sensitivity. This is evident from the first time you meet and work with her.

Doran always brings a passion and vibrancy to every session. She includes teaching her clients the best ways to feed their bodies to develop sustained energy throughout the day and also feeding one’s body to create and support lean muscle tissue. She invites you to re-write your inner dialogue and affirm a positive body image.

As part of your sessions, you will learn how to easily incorporate and practice your program in your everyday life. Doran has the experience of having been in corporate management as the President of her privately owned corporation. She has walked her talk of how to remain healthy, invigorated, and empowered in a stressful and demanding environment.

Working with Doran you will learn how to join the best of yoga with resistance stretching to create, a flexible, strong and balanced body, a wise and positive attitude about yourself and clear thinking that invites inspired action. This can lead to new and meaningful direction that enhances the quality of your life and your interactions with others.

Rob has been training and studying the Ki-Hara Method of Resistance Stretching with Steve Sierra & Anne Tierney founders of Innovative Body Solutions since 2006. 

He currently resides in Pacific Palisades, California and works with clients throughout the greater West Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades and Malibu areas. 

Founder of Endurance Health & Wellness, Inc.an endurance, multi-sport & fitness company. Rob has made the resistance strength & stretching program the core of his business, due to overwhelming results and positive feedback from his clientele. 

Hailing from a background as an Ironman triathlete, Rob is currently training for his 4th Ironman distance race and uses the Ki-Hara Method of Resistance Stretching in his daily routine, as well as ensuring the athletes that he trains are well educated in the latest innovative strengthening, stretching and injury prevention system available.

If you are a professional, elite athlete or coach looking for the next secret weapon in your arsenal to crush your competitors, an age grouper and/or masters athlete pursuing ways to stay in the game longer, this is it! don't miss out on the opportunity to unlock your full potential.

Rob holds certifications with NASM, USAT, MFS