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At Elite Edge Fitness Atlanta, our Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT™) program is designed to help athletes achieve peak performance, overcome limitations, and recover from injury faster. MAT is a scientifically backed, cutting-edge approach that targets and activates muscles that may not be functioning properly, enhancing strength, mobility, and flexibility.

Our certified MAT specialists work one-on-one with athletes to identify muscle imbalances, tightness, and weakness that can impact performance and lead to injury. By using MAT, we focus on restoring full muscle function, improving joint stability, and increasing overall movement efficiency. Whether you’re recovering from an injury, dealing with chronic pain, or simply looking to improve your athleticism, MAT helps optimize muscle function and boosts performance while reducing the risk of further injury.

As the only facility in the Southeast to offer this exclusive program, Elite Edge Fitness provides you with access to the latest in recovery and performance enhancement techniques. Our MAT program is tailored to your unique needs and goals, ensuring a comprehensive approach to injury prevention, recovery, and athletic development. Experience the difference that MAT can make for your training, performance, and long-term health.

Neuromuscular Assessment

Total Body Assessment

MAT Practitioners are trained to assess an individual's neuromuscular function by performing isometic mobility muscle tests and then correlating any limitations with range of motion to identify with specific muscles are not contracting or activating efficiently.

Neuromuscular assessment

Muscle Activation

Our specialists are trained to precisely activate muscles through either isometric contractions or specific force applications to help restore function and re-establish connections between the nervous system and muscular system.

Restore function

Every individual and condition is different which determines how many sessions are recommended. Clients notice their initial symptoms will instantly decrease after having a MAT session because even after one session partial function is restored. MAT can improve your quality of life by reducing pain and improving strength and mobility.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS

“If you get to this age and you’re trying to keep playing, you need help. Everybody has a masseuse, but most guys do more now. Last year, when I flew Roskopf (founder of MAT™) to Indy, I was paying him what he’d make all day for his appointments in Denver. But if MAT™ helps extend my career by two years, with two more years of salary, its well worth it.”
Peyton ManningDenver Broncos
“It’s an investment. Your body is what makes you play and what allows you to be out there, so you have to take care of it. It’s an investment and preventative care.”
Matt ForteChicago Bears
“There were weeks where my arm was dead, and MAT™ was instrumental in rebooting my body.”
John Lynch
John LynchDenver Broncos
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HOW IT WORKS

This is a noninvasive process that uses a bio-mechanical evaluation and treatment process to identify a limited range of motion and muscle inhibition.  Specialists use this revolutionary approach to treat the muscular system and has successfully restored movement and control around joints. This treatment addresses dysfunction at its source, reducing compensations and significantly improving functional strength capabilities

This therapy uses a detailed Comparative Assessment of Motion evaluation to identify asymmetries. Muscle tightness is created as an orchestrated defense to avoid joint positions that cannot be actively controlled due to muscle weakness.  Practitioners use this method to identify and re-activate weak muscles through precise manual palpations and positional isometric exercises, restoring contractile capabilities and motion. There is a specific system of checks and balances in MAT™  that provides immediate confirmation that contractile ability has been restored and provides a measurable outcome. That is why MAT™ is beneficial to people on all ends of the spectrum with all types of goals. For Exercise enthusiasts and athletes MAT™ can increase performance, prevent the occurrence of injury and eliminate discomfort associated with training. For other people MAT™ provides increased physical ability to perform the activities of daily living and recreation.

Establish optimal muscle function
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MUSCLE SPECIALISTS

Only a MAT™ Certified Specialist (MATs) can perform Muscle Activation Techniques™. MATs understand complex mechanical relationships and recognize that every joint is interrelated and that abnormal mechanics at one joint inevitably affect another. MAT™ Certified specialists have completed a rigorous 10- month internship with over 300 hours of required coursework and over 500 hours of hands-on experience making them the most qualified professionals available.

Jason Colleran

Owner, MAT Specialist & Professional Biomechanics Consultant
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Jason has over 10 years of experience as a Muscle Activation Techniques Specialist and 18 years of experience as a Biomechanics Consultant for medical professionals and professional athletes. He also dedicates time to educate and mentor Personal Trainers and Performance Coaches. Along with his MAT specialty, Jason has also attended the RTS (Resistance Training Specialists) Mastery classes and will be testing out this fall. As a former baseball player and active competitor as a Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, he understands how to strategically train for competition or just to maintain overall health and well being.

He recently won the 2020 ABCA “Best of Show” award for most innovative product at the largest baseball trade show globally, with over 7,500 coaches and 350 exhibitors in attendance. “The Kinetic Arm” is a stress reduction sleeve clinically proven to reduce stress on the elbow and shoulder while throwing a baseball, softball, football, javelin, or playing tennis. Jason developed this patented MuscleWeb™ design to help keep athletes and sports enthusiasts safe while playing the sports they love. 

Trainer & MAT

Ken Westbrook

MAT SPECIALIST & ELITE EDGE INSTRUCTOR
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Ken Westbrook has lived in Atlanta since 1994 when he moved here from California to attend Clark Atlanta University. He was a sprinter and hurdler at CAU when a reoccurring injury cut his collegiate career short. As an athlete, Ken has always been drawn to a profession in sports medicine and athletic training. He graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a B.S. in Health Education in 1997.
Before college in 1994, Ken was an Army Paratrooper and is a Desert Storm Veteran. Years later, he was introduced to obstacle course racing and immediately fell in love. Unfortunately, during his training, Ken experienced another injury. During this time, Ken learned about and experienced Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT). Having not run for almost a year, Ken, with the help of MAT specialist Jason Colleran at Elite Edge Fitness, began running full 6-mile races in just 6 weeks. Shortly after his MAT experience with Jason, he enrolled in the Muscle Activation Techniques program and is now an MAT Specialist himself. Ken now pursues his passion and is dedicated to helping runners and active people of all skill levels achieve their goals while preventing the same types of injuries he experienced.

QUESTIONS?

If you have questions about Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) and would like to connect with one of our specialists, please fill out the form below. A certified practitioner will reach out to assist you.