Kimberly Boulos spent her career on the other side of elite sport — as a professional athlete, then as a strength and conditioning coach working alongside top women’s soccer coaches and Olympic gold medalists. It was a good vantage point for noticing a gap that most performance programs never addressed: what happens to an athlete’s training when her body is doing something a standard program was never built around, like a menstrual cycle, a pregnancy, or a postpartum recovery.
She found the gap the hard way. After her third consecutive ACL surgery, Boulos tried to return to professional soccer while also navigating postpartum recovery — and ran into a system that had plenty of answers for rebuilding a knee, and almost none for rebuilding a body that had also just given birth. That collision became the founding premise of Root Performance & Wellness, the integrative wellness practice she now runs.
Root treats pelvic floor health, menstrual cycles, pregnancy, and postpartum recovery as performance variables, not side notes. The practice combines massage therapy, energy healing, pelvic floor coaching, strength and conditioning, and birth doula services, built around a simple operating rule: every client gets treated like an elite athlete, regardless of what “elite” means for them on a given day. A new mother relearning how to run and a former Olympian rebuilding after surgery get the same rigor, adjusted for where their body actually is.
That client-first instinct shapes how Boulos has grown the business, too. Rather than chase rapid client acquisition, she’s kept Root’s growth deliberately slow — prioritizing the depth of care for people already in the practice over scaling fast for its own sake. In a wellness market crowded with volume-based studios and app-driven programs, that’s a bet that retention and outcomes matter more than top-line growth.
Boulos’s own athletic history — three ACL reconstructions, competitive-level soccer, coaching at the level of Olympic athletes — gives her a credibility with clients that’s hard to manufacture. She isn’t asking clients to trust a philosophy; she’s asking them to trust a body of experience she’s lived through herself, repeatedly, at the highest level of competitive sport.
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