What is the Resilience Lab?

Two rooms at Holdfast: a fitness room for strength training and movement, and a recovery room with red-light therapy, vibration plates, a cold plunge, an infrared sauna and a dry sauna. It is run by Bobby Figueroa, Director of Resilience, who spent twenty years in the US Army, much of it in Special Forces.

Is this instead of therapy?

No, and Bobby is firm about that. The Lab is not intended to compete with or replace the clinical, counseling or spiritual work. It complements them. Recovery involves the whole person, and physical health, sleep and daily habits all affect whether a man can live well. The therapies page covers the clinical side.

Do the sauna and cold plunge treat addiction?

No, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. Heat and cold exposure have been studied for effects on circulation, perceived recovery, mood and stress response, and sauna use has been associated in observational research with positive cardiovascular outcomes. That is a different sentence from treating a substance use disorder, and the difference matters. The point of the recovery room is teaching men that recovery is something you can pursue on purpose.

Do I need to be fit already?

No. Men arrive in every condition, including straight out of detox. The programs are built to be simple, safe and sustainable rather than impressive, and the aim is skills you keep rather than a number you hit while you are here.

What happens to it when I leave?

That is the point of teaching it the way he does. The programs, the technique and the recovery habits are meant to go home with you, which is also what aftercare is built around.

The Resilience Lab

Two rooms at Holdfast, run by a man who spent twenty years in the US Army. Somewhere to get physically capable again, and to learn what recovery feels like when you go looking for it on purpose.

A fitness room for strength, calisthenics and movement
A recovery room: cold plunge, infrared and dry sauna, red light, vibration
Led by Bobby Figueroa, Director of Resilience, twenty years US Army
Alongside the clinical and spiritual work, never instead of it

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Pad work on the floor of the Resilience Lab, with strength training going on behind

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What is in it

A Recovery Gym, in Two Rooms

One for building something, one for learning how to let the body settle. Men use both.

The Fitness Room
Strength training, calisthenics and movement. The emphasis is on technique, sensible exercise selection, warm-ups and cool-downs, and programs simple enough that a man keeps running them after he leaves.
The Recovery Room
Red-light therapy, vibration plates, a cold plunge, an infrared sauna and a dry sauna. Somewhere to learn how your own body responds to stress and to recovery, and to build a routine around it.

What Twenty Years in Special Forces Taught Him

Twenty years in the US Army, much of it in Special Forces
Special Forces invests heavily in strength coaches, physical therapists, nutrition and human performance, because losing an experienced soldier means losing years of training and leadership
That world went out to the NCAA, the NHL and the NFL to learn how to keep people healthy and available
The lesson he took: build resilience before it is needed, rather than waiting for the injury or the burnout

“We should build resilience before it is needed.”

Bobby Figueroa, Director of Resilience

The fitness room

Strength Training Men Keep Doing After They Leave

Not a program for an elite athlete. Skills simple enough to still be running them in ten years.

One of the plainest responsibilities a man has is being capable of protecting and providing for the people around him. Few things build confidence like watching yourself get stronger on purpose.

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Proper lifting technique, and exercise selection that is safe and has a reason behind it
Warm-ups, recovery between sessions and cool-downs, taught as part of the work rather than skipped
Programs simple enough to keep using for life, rather than anything built for an elite athlete
Regular strength training is associated with improved muscular strength and bone health, better physical function and metabolic health, and positive effects on mood and well-being

The recovery room

Sauna, Cold Plunge, Red Light and Vibration

What the research actually says, stated the way Bobby states it rather than the way a supplement advert would.

Heat and cold exposure have been studied for their effects on cardiovascular function, circulation, perceived recovery, mood and stress response
Sauna use in particular has been associated in observational research with several positive cardiovascular and health outcomes
Cold exposure can influence the body’s nervous, metabolic and vascular responses, and may help some individuals with perceived recovery and alertness
None of it is intended to replace medical or clinical treatment, and none of it is a fix for anybody

The larger point of the recovery room is not that a sauna or a cold plunge fixes anybody. It is that recovery is something a man can go after deliberately, and that looking after the body is part of living a decent life.

The room itself

What It Actually Looks Like

Holdfast's own photography. Real coaching, real equipment, no stock.

One Building, Two Programs

The Lab is physically at Holdfast, and men in residential treatment at AnchorPoint are brought here to use it. Two separate programs, two licenses, one facility that made more sense to build once than twice.

About AnchorPoint

The line he wants carried

“With God, I can do this.”

Recovery involves the whole person: physical health, mental health, relationships, faith, sleep and the habits of an ordinary day. The Lab is where some of that gets practised somewhere you can feel it.

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