Staying Fit and Injury Free in the North End

Tucked away on a small street in the North End, there’s an entire world where residents of all ages can find assistance for a healthy lifestyle inside and out.

Marc Hordon owns HordoN Health, located at 294 North Street.

The one-stop center, which has been in the North End for four years on Bennet Street and now in its new for a year and a-half, is a boutique and private group training facility.

Manager Thomas Morris (who people call Coach Cash dollar) explained how he came to work at HordoN Health.

“I’ve been working for Marc for two and a-half years and I came from the cross fit world,” he said.

“We offer everything from one-on-one training to small group training and all the way up to classes,” Thomas said.

There are three brands of classes at HordoN Health such as international truck training, elite bootcamp, and BLack yoga.

“We also offer our own proprietary brand of injury treating massage called NodroH Dynamic Neuromuscular Massage for injury treatment and chronic pain relief,” he said.

“We specialize in movement and not musculature.”

Overview of the manager

Thomas has been apprenticing under Marc for the two and a-half years he’s been at HordoN Health and holds the highest international certification of the company.

“Everything we do here is designed to reinforce correct movement patterns, therefore reducing the risk of injury and eliminating pain of all kinds,” he said.

HordoN Health runs the Boston Sports Institutes’ sports-specific strength conditioning and skill development that includes football, snow (skiing and snowboarding), Jump (volleyball, basketball and soccer) and Sport Performance for any sport.

Thomas is president of Boston Institute of Snow.

“I was an elite cross fit athlete but I was chronically injured,” he said. “I had shoulder, lower back, hip and knee pain.”

But within six months of working with Marc, nearly all of Thomas’s pain was gone.

“The combination of yoga, correcting movement patters and massage as well as our specific brand of international performance training is what helped,” he said.

Why the North End

“Marc came to the North End because he loved the sense of community and the fact that new development and new blood was mixing with the old,” Thomas said.

HordoN Health is suitable for men and women ages four to 84 years old with all levels of fitness.

“We have chronically injured people who are coming just to get fixed and start moving all the way up to professional athletes,” Thomas said.

The staff

Matt Fothergill, who is a coach, began working there as a member of the university of HordoN Health for just under two years.

Matt has been involved with the company for six years.

“I’ve been training with Marc for that long,” he said. “Two years ago, he offered me an apprenticeship as a coach.”

Matt heads the Boston Institute of Football.

“The methods we use are so different from anything I have seen or done before meeting Marc,” he said.

In addition to his Matt’s work at HordoN Health, he is the Account Executive for the North End Waterfront Health & Beauty Alliance (a non-profit charitable organization).

“Marc and I came up with this idea together because we’ve been involved in community service and charity work,” he said.

“We use health and beauty-related companies to increase awareness of what’s available in the North End.”

Thomas added that all the proceeds from HordoN Health’s events from the Health & Beauty Alliance go to charity.

Call 617-367-0035 for an appointment with Thomas or any other of the coaches.

The hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and closed on Sunday.

For additional information, look at the website (www.hordonhealth.com).

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