Alex Cabrita

Alex Cabrita grew up in the Algarve competing in triathlons alongside his father, a national triathlon champion. From a young age he understood what it means to push a body hard, what happens when it breaks down, and how much it matters to have someone who actually knows what they are doing when it does. That understanding is at the core of every treatment he gives at Muscle Therapy Algarve in Almancil.

He studied Sports Science at the Universidade da Beira Interior in Portugal, graduating with a BSc. He then worked as a personal trainer, physical education teacher, and swimming instructor, spending years learning how different bodies move, compensate, and adapt. When he started encountering clients with chronic pain and old injuries that exercise alone could not fix, he knew he needed a different set of tools.

In 2012, Alex moved to Sydney, Australia to train as a Remedial Massage Therapist at the NSW School of Massage. He graduated top of his class. In Sydney, remedial massage is part of the national health system, the training standards are among the most rigorous in the world, and only therapists who meet strict government requirements are recognised as qualified providers. That is the standard Alex trained to.

He spent years in Sydney working alongside physiotherapists and sports medicine doctors at one of the city's largest physiotherapy clinics, treating professional athletes and everyday people with the same level of care. He became a full-body Active Release Technique (ART)® practitioner, certified in spine, upper limbs, and lower limbs. ART® is used by elite sports teams worldwide. Alex is one of very few therapists in Portugal with this full-body certification.

He came back to Almancil because this is home. He offers mobile massage across the Algarve including Vale do Lobo, Quinta do Lago, Vilamoura, Loulé, Quarteira, and Faro, and works with sports teams and training camps visiting the region.

When he is not in the clinic, he is training. After a 20-year break from triathlon, Alex returned to the sport in 2018 and has been competing at national and international level ever since. He knows what it takes to prepare a body for endurance sport, and what it takes to keep it going when things go wrong.