What is Pro-HPC?
Professional Health & Performance Coaching is the brainchild of Justin Roche, an osteopath, Strength & Conditioning Coach, nutritionist, and life coach. The path that lead Justin to the creation of Pro-HPC was not a typical health practitioner’s path. He entered the health field as a trained osteopath in Dublin, and wrote a thesis on patient management in a health and wellness practice. Through this research, Justin realized that very few health care practitioners took the time to educate their patients as to why they were in the office in the first place. This discovery lead Justin on a journey of corrective exercise, which eventually drew him into the high performance sector. While working with professional, national team and Olympic athletes, Justin dove deep into the relationships between workouts, nutrition, mental fitness and what was actually going on in the body on a cellular level. Justin gained an intimate understanding of how and why hormone profiles change, how that affects the body and mind, and the most affective methods of regulating and optimizing these profiles. Justin’s current perception on health challenges accepted health practices of today, and this is where the need for Justin to form Professional Health & Performance Coaching was born; as a medium to teach others the What, the How and the Why.
Through Pro-HPC Justin hopes to impart the knowledge he’s gained through 15 years in the business, educate the public on the fallacies of our current health ideas and change the public’s perspective on what is actually healthy; essentially, Justin wishes to make the world a healthier place, one willing participant at a time. To do this, Pro-HPC takes an alternative health approach, examining physical, nutritional, as well as spiritual health, while addressing the bio mechanical, hormonal, and metabolic changes that result.
Justin began his life practice in exercise and fitness in 1979 when he trained as a competitive swimmer. In 1983 he took up boxing and martial arts, a path he remained on for 22 years. He also played soccer and hurling competitively in high school. From 1996 to 2001 Justin attended the Irish College of Classical Osteopathy. In 2001 he began to study corrective exercise and High Performance Strength and Conditioning. Justin moved from Dublin to Toronto in 2005 to attend the National Coaching Institute where he completed his NCCP Level 4 High Performance Coaching Certifications. During his time with the National Coaching Institute, Justin worked as the Head Strength and Conditioning coach for the Athletics (Track & Field) as well as the Mens Volleyball program at the University of Toronto. Recognized for his work and success with the athletes in this program, Justin was given a position as strength and conditioning coach with the High Performance Units of the Canadian Sports Science Institute where he worked with International, National and Provincial athletes. Trained as an osteopath, Justin went on to gain knowledge in Functional Medicine and Advanced Metabolic Typing. He also earned certificates in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, Holistic Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching, Strength & Conditioning Coaching, Pre and Post Operative Care. High Performance and Specializied Corrective Exercise Training certificates from the CHEK institute, Tudor Bompa Institute of Periodization and fitness planning, as well as NCCP Level 3 Olympic Weightlifting specialists through an internship with Pierre Roy.