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• PROTOCOL: SHOULDER REBUILD // NOW ACCEPTING CLIENTS
- SHOULDER PERFORMANCE COACHING
REBUILD
YOUR
SHOULDER.
15+ years of training experience. I help people who've tried everything else get back to training pain free.
15+
YEARS COACHING
06
PRO LEAGUES
1:1
PROGRAMMING
UFC
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NFL
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MLB
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PGA
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AMA
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USA VOLLEYBALL
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USAPL
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NBA
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UFC
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NFL
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MLB
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PGA
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AMA
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USA VOLLEYBALL
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USAPL
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NBA
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01 — PROTOCOL: ORIGIN
WHO I AM.
I'm John Andrus, DPT, CSCS, a shoulder performance coach. I've spent my career in sports performance and movement coaching, working with some of the top orthopedic and sports medicine teams in the country.
I've trained and coached professional athletes from the NFL, UFC, NBA, MLB, PGA, and USA Volleyball.
But most of my clients today aren't pros. They're people who train hard, got hurt, and can't find anyone who can actually get them back to performing the way they want to. That's what I do.
"I've been exactly where you are. I lost a D-1 opportunity to injuries — that's what drove me to spend over a decade studying human movement."
I founded Kinaesthetic Performance where I build individualized coaching programs for people dealing with shoulder limitations. Every program is one-on-one, combining structured programming, movement coaching, and education to get you back to doing what you love.
FILE // ANDRUS, JOHN — DPT, CSCS
FOUNDER // KINAESTHETIC PERFORMANCE
STATUS // ACCEPTING CLIENTS
02 — PROTOCOL: CREDENTIALS
THE BACKGROUND.
DEGREES // 02
CERTIFICATIONS // 03
VERIFIED // ✓ ACTIVE
// 001
DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY
University of Southern California
· #1 ranked physical therapy program in the world
DPT · DEGREE
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BS KINESIOLOGY & EXERCISE SCIENCE
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
BS · DEGREE
// 003
STRENGTH & CONDITIONING SPECIALIST
NSCA
· National Strength & Conditioning Association
CSCS · CERT
// 004
APPLIED FUNCTIONAL SCIENCE
Gray Institute
CAFS · CERT
// 005
FUNCTIONAL GOLF SPECIALIST
Gray Institute
CFGS · CERT
03 — PROTOCOL: DEPLOYMENT
TRAINED AT.
FACILITIES // 04
REGION // SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
// 01
KERLAN-JOBE
• LOS ANGELES
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ELITE
ORTHOSPORT
• LOS ANGELES
// 03
REPAIR
SPORTS INSTITUTE
• HUNTINGTON BEACH
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UNIVERSITY
OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• LOS ANGELES
04 — PROTOCOL: DIAGNOSIS
THE REAL PROBLEM.
FILE // CLEARED ≠ CAPABLE
SCOPE // WHY STANDARD PT FALLS SHORT
"Cleared by PT"
Isn't the same as Capable.
Isn't the same as Capable.
You've done the rounds. Maybe an MRI. Maybe a cortisone shot. Maybe a conversation about surgery. Definitely PT — possibly more than once. The pain quieted down. Your therapist signed off. And then you tried to actually use your shoulder again — pick up your kid, swing a club, press a weight that used to be a warmup — and there it was again.
Here's what the standard system isn't built to handle. Conventional PT is designed around a specific endpoint: pain-free movement at low load, capable of basic daily activities. Reach a cabinet. Wash your back. Carry groceries. That's the goal, and once you hit it, the system considers the job done. It's a reasonable bar for a lot of people. It's a low bar for you.
The shoulder you've been handed back is technically pain-free at rest, but has almost no spare capacity. It hasn't been progressively loaded. It hasn't been trained back to the demands of a real athletic life — because the system that handled it wasn't built for an athletic shoulder. It was built for the average person, and you're not the average person.
"That's the gap. Not aging. Not 'wear and tear you have to live with.' The shoulder isn't broken — it's under-built."
Capacity is the missing piece, and capacity is exactly what conventional PT was never designed to deliver. That's what the REBUILD Method is built for: strength and movement coaching that picks up where standard PT stops, designed by a clinician who spent years inside the rehab system and built this program to deliver what that system can't.
05 — PROTOCOL: METHOD
THE REBUILD METHOD.
PHASES // 03
FORMAT // 1:1 COACHING
DELIVERY // REMOTE / WORLDWIDE
A three-phase coaching system to take a shoulder that's been holding you back and turn it into one you trust under load again. Built around how shoulders actually adapt and how strong men actually train.
// PHASE 01
Assess
UNDERSTAND WHAT'S DRIVING THE PROBLEM
We start by mapping exactly what's going on with your shoulder — the specific movement patterns, mobility limitations, and load tolerances that explain why it fires up when you press, swing, or reach. Doctoral-level movement assessment delivered through structured video screens, detailed history, and capacity testing. By the end of Phase 1, you understand your shoulder better than any provider has explained it to you, and the program ahead is built on that understanding.
- WHY IT MATTERS
Most programs apply the same template to every shoulder. Yours isn't generic. Your program shouldn't be either.
// PHASE 02
REBUILD
BUILD CAPACITY FROM THE GROUND UP
Standard rehab ends the moment pain calms down. That's the floor — we're building the ceiling. This phase builds your shoulder's load capacity from where it is today, progressively training it back to handle the kind of work a man who actually trains expects of his body. Structured strength and movement coaching, individualized to your shoulder, your sport, and your goals, with weekly check-ins to adjust as the work compounds. You stay in the gym. The shoulder gets stronger alongside the rest of you.
- WHY IT MATTERS
Capacity is what makes a shoulder reliable. Without it, you're always training around the shoulder. With it, the shoulder is doing the work.
// PHASE 03
RECLAIM
GET BACK TO THE THINGS THAT MATTER
This is where the work pays off. Phase 3 builds your shoulder past pre-injury capacity — the loads, the swings, the reach, the round of golf, throwing a ball with your son or grandson without thinking twice. The goal isn't getting back to where you were. The goal is being more capable than you've been in a decade, with a shoulder built to hold up for the next one.
- WHY IT MATTERS
Returning to baseline is a temporary fix. Building beyond it is what makes the result last.
06 — PROTOCOL: RESULTS
REAL REBUILDS.
CASE FILES // 03 OF MANY
FORMAT // CLIENT TESTIMONY
07 — PROTOCOL: OUTCOMES
WHAT YOU GET BACK.
OUTCOMES // 06 CORE
STATUS // VERIFIED IN-FIELD
Press, row, bench, and overhead lift at the weights you used to — with a shoulder built to handle them for the long haul.
Get back on the mats. Roll without favoring the shoulder, posting on it, or worrying about what the next scramble does to it.
Chop, split, haul, fish, build, work with your hands — without your shoulder being the part that gives out before the job's done.
Get through 18 holes, plus the range session before it, without paying for it the next morning.
Hit new lifts and new PRs that prove the shoulder is stronger than it was before any of this started.
Train hard, train often, train how you actually want to train — without the shoulder being the reason you have to back off.
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DR. JOHN ANDRUS · DPT · CSCS
This is a coaching service focused on movement and performance. It is not a substitute for medical diagnosis, treatment, or clinical care. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider regarding medical conditions.
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