MAT43 · Glastonbury, CT
MAT43 Strength Regeneration: A Systematic Approach to Rebuilding Strength, Improving Your Capacity, Optimizing Your Mobility, and Protecting Your Joints.
MAT43 Strength Regeneration builds measured, real-life strength and mobility for golf, walking, hiking, and everything your days demand.
MAT43 is designed for adults who want to build muscular strength, improve physical performance, maintain independence, or rebuild capabilities they've lost over time.
Whether you're dealing with previous injuries, surgeries, joint replacements, or simply want to develop greater muscular capacity, MAT43 provides a unique, specialized approach to reaching your goals.
MAT43 is not exclusively for older adults.
A strong movement can hide weak links. Some muscles can pick up the slack for others, so you might swing a golf club or climb stairs well even when individual muscles have room to get stronger. MAT43 assesses and strengthens your body one movement pattern at a time, building strength you can use on the course, on the trail, and in everyday life.
What if strength training could do more than make you stronger?
DIFFERENTIATOR 1
MAT43 uses Muscle Activation Techniques assessment principles to evaluate how your muscles function and guide how much to progress. The goal is to build strength, improve mobility, and help your muscles better support your joints.
You shouldn't have to choose between getting stronger and protecting your body. MAT43 is designed to help you pursue both. We increase resistance only when your body shows us it can handle more.
DIFFERENTIATOR 2
Getting older doesn't automatically mean you're finished getting stronger.
Through individualized assessment and progressive strength development, we work to help clients continue improving their muscular capabilities regardless of starting point. Our 82-year-old client with four joint replacements showed substantial improvements in exercise resistance across multiple patterns in just three months.
The goal isn't simply to slow down physical decline. It's to continue developing your physical potential. Restoring lost strength due to aging can have a profound effect on your quality of life.
DIFFERENTIATOR 3
MAT43 helps you build strength and mobility you can keep and add to over time. You may have noticed that traditional training requires weekly maintenance before a dropoff occurs. With MAT43, our clients have returned after time away without significant dropoff and in many cases measurable improvements in movement patterns they had previously trained.
Build strength you can keep building upon.
DIFFERENTIATOR 4
MAT43 lets us measure changes in muscular capability within a single session. We assess your starting point, apply an exercise demand suited to your body, and measure how you respond. That gives us a concrete way to see what changed during the session.
The goal isn't just to complete a workout. It's to leave with measurable improvements in muscular capability in the same session, an unheard-of concept in traditional fitness.
DIFFERENTIATOR 5
Most strength programs rely on a planned schedule, how an exercise feels, or a trainer's judgment to decide when to add weight. MAT43 uses the MAT system to assess your nervous system's response and determine when and by how much to progress.
Neither you nor your practitioner has to guess. Your body's assessed response provides concrete information that guides each progression.
Real client results
This client remained active after replacements of both knees, one ankle, and one shoulder. After three months of MAT43, training his core for roughly 90 minutes per week, he increased his working weights across several movement patterns.
| Muscular pattern | Improvement |
|---|---|
| Spinal Sidebend | +186% |
| Hip Flexion | +150% |
| Scapular Downward Rotation | +125% |
| Trunk Rotation | +105% |
| Trunk Flexion | +83% |
| Hip Rotation | +67% |
Your orthopedic history—including joint replacements and previous injuries—and your age are important considerations when beginning MAT43. Those factors alone don't tell us how much strength you can build. Getting older doesn't mean you're finished getting stronger.
Results represent changes in exercise resistance recorded within the MAT43 system over three months, not equivalent percentage increases in isolated muscle strength. One individual's experience; results vary.
One of my clients likes to live on his own terms. At sixty-two, he still snowboards, surfs, foils, water-skis, and looks for the next adventure. He also has autoimmune disease, scoliosis, muscular imbalances, and a history of injuries. His willingness has never been the question. Our responsibility has been preparing his body for the consequences of the life he chooses.
After working through MAT43, he spent ten days heli-skiing in the mountains of Chile and then added several days in the ocean. He returned feeling beaten up. He knew he had pushed his limits, and under our older expectation he assumed we would need to put him back together muscle by muscle.
When I reassessed him, the result surprised both of us. The muscle groups we had developed were still available, and seven of the nine groups we measured were stronger than before the trip. His activities had acted as training. Instead of returning with the broad loss of muscular capability we expected, he returned with most of the measured system showing greater strength.
MAT43 Working Weights | July 22 to October 26, 2026
The table compares the client’s first and latest recorded MAT43 sessions across the full period shown.
| Movement pattern | First session | Latest session | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trunk flexion, both sides | 40 lb | 90 lb | +125% |
| Hip flexion, both sides | 100 lb | 250 lb | +150% |
| Hip rotation, both sides | 15 lb | 40 lb | +167% |
| Spinal side bend, both sides | 30 lb | 70 lb | +133% |
| Trunk rotation, both sides | 215 lb | 260 lb | +21% |
| Humeral external rotation, left | 10 lb | 15 lb | +50% |
For rows marked 'both sides,' the listed weight applies to each side. Individual results vary.
One client's result does not prove that MAT43 caused every change, that an adventurous trip is safe for everyone, or that preparation makes a body invulnerable. It does demonstrate the outcome we are trying to create: not merely a body that feels better on the treatment table, but one that can retain capacity, respond to meaningful stress, and come home ready to keep living.
These are individual experiences, not promised outcomes. What your capacity becomes depends on your body, your history, and your effort.
Program options
Every program is a 10-week initial program of measured strength development, drawn from 23 muscular patterns across three regions — core (patterns 1–10), upper body (11–17), and lower body (18–23). Josh recommends the right scope based on your history, your goals, and your measurements.
MAT43 builds total-body capacity by systematically strengthening every movement pattern, movement by movement. The options below define the initial program's coverage.
Program Commitment
Program Commitment
Program Commitment
MAT and MAT43 are separate but complementary services. Completing MAT is not required before starting MAT43. We help determine the appropriate starting point.
Founder & Practitioner
Josh started working with clients independently in 2006 and founded Elite Muscle Mechanics in 2010. Josh is one of only 12 people certified to practice MAT43 Strength Regeneration. In MAT43, he brings that same mindset to strength: build total-body capacity, movement by movement, measure honestly, and progress only what your body verifies it can handle.
The next step is a conversation — about your history, your goals, and whether MAT43 is the right fit. Strength gains are measured, not guaranteed: what your capacity becomes depends on your body and your effort.
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