Dr. Rori Alter has been working in the fitness industry since 2009. She became a licensed physical therapist in 2012 and sought her Starting Strength certification in 2013. She has since built a progressive physical therapy and coaching practice that emphasizes staying active and getting strong through barbell training and progressive overload. Her progressive and practical approach has helped elite athletes come back from injuries, weekend warriors realize ambitious goals, and people of all activity levels and ages move more freely, get stronger, and live their best lives.
When Dr. Rori is not helping her clients get strong and healthy or playing with her two pups, she can be found training for her next competition. Rori has been a competitive powerlifter since 2012 and has represented the USA at multiple World Championships.
In-Person Physical Therapy
- Conduct comprehensive, one-on-one physical therapy assessments and treatments for powerlifters, weightlifters, bodybuilders, CrossFit athletes, dancers, gymnasts and endurance athletes.
- The evaluation process continues every therapy session, allowing further diagnosis and improved treatment on a regular basis.
In-Person Barbell Coaching
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1-to-1 Coaching
- For the new trainee who has never touched a barbell OR the seasoned lifter who wants to master their performance
- 60 minute individualized training sessions based on your initial assessment (included with first package purchase)
- Free training program included with packages of 10 or more
Barbell Training Intensive
- A two-hour one-on-one session
- If you’re new to barbell training, you’ll learn the four fundamental lifts for effective strength training
- For athletes with physical limitations, your coach will tailor your intensive to ensure you leave with an understanding of how to train effectively for your unique situation
- If you haven’t lifted weights in a while, you can get technique feedback on your lifts from one of the most reputable coaches in the industry
Technique Session
- For when you’ve been lifting solo and need to check your technique on a single lift
- Perfect when you need just a single session with a private coach
All Online Coaching Services Include:
- An initial video call at the start of your program
- Analysis of your personal goals, timeline and needs
- Access to a private team Facebook group for support and technique feedback by PRS Teammates and Coaches. We'll meet you where you're at and help you progressively build a sustainable approach to your fitness, strength and/or nutrition goals
- Starting at $105/month
- 4-week and 12-week recurring options available.
Weekly or Monthly Online Barbell Coaching:
For athletes looking for a comprehensive, unique, and dynamic approach to strength training.
- Development of customized training
- Regular check-in correspondence and video analysis by your coach
- Program personalization and modification
- Unlimited email support with you coach for questions / concerns (Weekly Coaching only)
- Also encompasses pre/postnatal programming: Analysis of your goals, pregnancy history, objectives while pregnant and program modification throughout your pregnancy.
- Monthly coaching is not available while pregnant, for the first 12 weeks postpartum, if you are a new client joining us for the first time, or if you are a new client joining us within the first year postpartum.
Nutrition Coaching:
- A customized plan adjusted every week
- Personalized daily nutritional recommendations based on your objectives
- Weekly check-in correspondence and progress analysis by your coach
- Weekly correspondence for accountability
- Monthly progress video coaching call
- Unlimited email support with your coach for questions / concerns
Online Training Sessions
This new program is designed to meet athletes where they’re at; literally and figuratively. Work with a PRS Clinical Coach anywhere, any time. Whether it’s the comfort of your living room, garage gym, box gym, or commercial fitness center, if you have wireless headphones and a smartphone you will be able to maximize your strength and muscular development, reduce your injury risk, optimize your training outcomes and improve your longevity in fitness and life.
Whether you do one session a month or meet with your PRS Clinical Coach 4 times per week for all your training sessions, these sessions are right for you if you:
- Struggle with training confidence
- Need accountability
- Enjoy the social component of training
- Want to learn while you lift
- Value real-time assessment and modification of you lifts AND program
- Are injury prone
- Are avoiding public gyms due to Covid
- Have tons of equipment or zero equipment at home
Pre/Postnatal and Pregnancy Coaching:
- Analysis of your personal goals, pregnancy history, and objectives while pregnant
- Weekly check-in correspondence, video analysis, and troubleshooting by your coach
- Program modification throughout your pregnancy
- Unlimited email support with your coach for questions / concerns
Online Rehab Coaching:
- Follow-up video calls as needed based on discretion of coach
- Development of customized programming updated session to session via client check-in process
- Session-to-session check-in correspondence, video analysis, programming modification and delivery via client check-in process established by coach
- Unlimited email and text support with your coach for questions and concerns
- Collaboration with your medical and personal coaching team as necessary
Pelvic Floor/Incontinence Coaching:
- Analysis of your personal situation, program, lifting technique, and contributing factors to the incontinence you’re experiencing
- Recommend techniques, programming adjustments and equipment modifications based on the initial call
- Guide and direct you to the appropriate medical professional if the symptoms you are experiencing are beyond the scope of powerlifting
- Includes a 1-hour consultation call and up to 4 weeks of follow-up as needed
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14 Reviews on “Dr. Rori Alter, PT, SSC, PRSCC”
Discovering Rori & PRS 3 years ago to help with some hip impingement issues was the best thing for my strength training career and overall as a physical individual. From the care she took with me to get (and keep) me healthy to further down the road becoming a great powerlifting coach and asset to my strength journey, she’s been there through it all and I couldn’t picture myself with another coach. Highly recommend the PRS team!
They really know what they are talking about and have helped me improve my squat. Highly recommend.
I’ve been working Rori and PRS for a year now. She’s been wonderful managing my injuries and tailoring my programming to me. She’s also always there for me to work through personal things that may affect my training and she’s always incredibly open and supporting. More than anything she’s honest and is dedicated to making me a better lifter and person.
I worked with Coach Rori for about two years, first as an injury rehab client, then as a powerlifter returning to competition. She helped me understand how to approach injuries more productively, how to program appropriately given chronic issues, and improved my technique continually. I’m happily lifting heavy things today because of her. I also appreciate her very supportive approach to coaching, which helps lifters grow mentally and physically.
I have been working with Rori for on line nutrition coaching for just about 5years now. I cannot say enough how Rori has used her knowledge to help me transform my body to be the leanest and strongest I have ever been. I am 52 years old and definitely eating more than I did before I met Rori and I feel great.
Rori & her team are so amazing and responsive. It gives me (and my mom) so much peace of mind to be working with someone who is a PT and who has been lifting a long time herself. I would recommend 100%.
I’ve been working with Rori and PRS for almost a year. I’m not new to lifting, but I started working with PRS when I knew I wanted to switch to powerlifting specifically. In 10 months, I’ve put almost 100 lbs. on my squat and deadlift and 40 lbs. on my bench. As a DPT, Rori also knew how to appropriately adjust my programming when I tweaked my back several times in a relatively short period of time and helped me modify my training until the discomfort subsided. I’m so glad I found PRS.
Rori does my nutrition coaching. I’m a budding competitive powerlifter, with my first competition upcoming. I had been doing programming coaching with another SSC, but I decided to take it to the next level and work with someone on nutrition. I can say the following about Rori:
– She really knows her stuff on nutrition. I got a bit too fat doing the conceptual equivalent to GOMAD, so she decided that I needed to get leaner when we first started working together. I’ve lost a bit more than 10 lb under her tutelage (since we first connected) in about 8 weeks (give or take). I’ve still been progressing on my lifts (I’m an intermediate lifter on the early side of turning intermediate from novice), which speaks to the fact that she’s been able to balance the goal of getting lean with the goal of getting stronger
– She’s a really nice person, great to work with. She’s been super supportive
– She’s competitive on the world stage in powerlifting, which speaks to her own abilities. Somebody worth listening to and someone to look up to
– PRS does a great job with technology (they work in Google Sheets and Forms, and are quite organized)
I’ve been working with Rori for over a year. I came to her with a patella tendinopathy that I been trying to rehab for 2 years previously, and also went through around 5 other physios. She helped me fix my knee, and I was finally able to compete in power-lifting after having 2 years off because of the injury. I’m also now hitting PB’s on all of my lifts and my thighs are slowly developing elephantiasis from the gains.
Before working with Rori two years ago, I had been squatting with increasingly acute hip pain for over a year, and I was convinced I’d never squat pain-free again. In our first session, Rori identified at least 3 technique errors in my squat — errors that previously went undetected by 2 powerlifting coaches and 3 personal trainers that I’d worked with. In that same session with her, with a few tweaks in technique, I immediately felt significantly reduced pain while squatting. After two short months working with Rori, I was squatting pain-free. For the first time in many months, I was actually getting stronger and I had a renewed passion for powerlifting. Rori has exceeded my expectations as a physical therapist, powerlifting coach and nutrition coach, and continues to be the driving force behind my success at getting healthier, leaner and stronger.
I have been working with Rori for 5 months, and I’m not just stronger than I’ve ever been in my entire life…but I also FEEL better too. Her ability to integrate her knowledge about effective programming and physical therapy gives her a unique ability to promote continued strength improvements WHILE reducing injury risk as well. I highly recommend working with her if your goal is to get stronger and feel better!!
I have received nothing less than excellent coaching each time I have worked with Rori. She is very attentive to her clients, and creates an environment where they can succeed. If you are interested in Barbell Training, I would highly recommend her!
I’ve worked with Dr. Rori for 5 years now, first as a nutrition client to make weight for the Arnold, then for the last 4 years to prepare for and recover from shoulder surgery (while pregnant), then to return to lifting postpartum after a c section. Dr. Rori combines her knowledge and skill as a physical therapist and barbell coach with empathy for where her lifters are in their life and what they need to move toward their personal goals at that time. My goals and phases of life have changed over the last several years, but Dr. Rori has been a constant support and is always ready to strategize the next move with me, meeting me where I am, at each bend in the road, and that is a huge part of why I’m still able and wanting to lift.
Rori is an outstanding strength coach. She has given great advice and I would recommend her work.