Tummy Table

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LEADERSHIP: LEAVE YOUR FINGERPRINT is written by retired Police Chief John Distelrath after 32 years in law enforcement and more than four decades teaching leadership, management, and organizational development.
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When I auditioned for with TummyTable, the goal was never just to sell a table.

The goal was to build a new recovery category.

I’ve said it before: I want to become the Peloton of the recovery world.

Not because recovery needs another gimmick, another stretch, another roller, or another machine. Because recovery needs a system people can understand, follow, and trust.

Peloton did not just sell bikes. They sold structure, coaching, accountability, community, and a reason to show up.

That is the missing piece in recovery.

Foam rolling is still treated like a cylinder you rub on sore muscles. I see it differently. Geometry changes force. Shape changes pressure. Position changes the conversation inside the body.

The inversion table industry is still mostly built around hanging upside down and hoping decompression happens. TummyTable changes that conversation too: prone positioning, gravity-assisted loading, breath, pressure, and control.

My plan is simple.

Build the products.
Build the education.
Build the recovery ecosystem.
Then either scale it, license it, sell it, or get bought out by the right company that can take it worldwide.

I don’t need to be famous forever.

I need to be right early enough that the industry has to notice.

The dream is to get bought out, get hired on, help build it correctly for a few years, and walk away on top — debt free, family first, and knowing I opened a lane that did not exist before.

The recovery world does not need more random tools.

It needs a platform.

TummyTable. Foam Rollers That Don’t Roll. Bailey’s Laws of Internal Motion.

This is not just product development.

This is category creation.

I’m not trying to make another recovery product. I’m trying to build the recovery platform the industry forgot to create

Carpal tunnel is real.

Thoracic outlet syndrome is real.

But in my opinion, both get used way too often as default explanations when people do not understand the whole pathway.

Hand numbness.
Tingling.
Grip weakness.
Burning.
Forearm tightness.
Shoulder heaviness.
Neck tension.

The body gets reduced to one tunnel.

First it is the wrist.

Cut open the carpal tunnel.

And if that does not work?

Now the conversation jumps upstream:

“Maybe it is thoracic outlet.”

Now we are talking about the collarbone, scalenes, pec minor, first rib, and the brachial plexus.

But here is my question:

Why are we acting like the nerve only has two places it can get crowded?

The brachial plexus is not one magic wire.

It is a whole communication network.

Neck.
Collarbone.
Pec region.
Shoulder.
Arm.
Elbow.
Forearm.
Wrist.
Hand.

Every region has fascia, blood flow, lymph movement, muscle tone, pressure, posture, and mechanical load affecting the quality of that signal.

So before we jump from “cut the wrist” to “remove the rib,” maybe we should ask a better question:

Where is the pathway losing space?

Because nerve symptoms are not always about one site.

Sometimes the whole line is congested.

Rounded shoulders.
Forward head.
Collapsed chest.
Tight forearms.
Crowded elbow.
Poor rib expansion.
Low movement.
Reduced flow.

Different structures.
Same communication problem.

This is why I study the body through Bailey’s Laws of Internal Motion.

Pressure changes flow.
Flow changes communication.
Communication changes function.

The nerve does not live alone.

It lives inside the environment.

Educational only. Not diagnosis. But if the only answers you have been given are “cut here” or “remove that,” it may be worth looking at the entire pathway.