Can Exercise Be Medicine?
What’s the point of having a “6 pack” or a strong chest if you can’t function at a basic level and walk more than a city block without some form of pain or discomfort; or if you are exercising regularly but regularly suffer from a stiff back or achey knees. Exercise is medicine for all […]
Hurting After Exercise Is Not Normal
It’s one of those days, you just finished a grueling workout at the gym and your joints are aching, your lower back is stiff, and your tendonitis is flared up. Your workout buddies deal with the same aches and pains so you write it off as normal, just part of getting old, and what it takes […]
Your Guide to Squats
It’s time to educate yourself on the relevance of the squat. Prioritizing this movement in your training routine when it makes up a small amount of daily movement, neglects movements that you do majority of the time, like walking. Think about it… outside of the gym how many times a day do you squat compared […]
Exercise Less?!
Exercise can be bad when we go through the motions of our default movement patterns. We just pack on more muscle imbalance that causes a subconscious stress on our mental and physical state, affecting our physiology. Then we cope with drugs, alcohol, food, sex, whatever dopamine fix we need to temporarily feel better. We enter […]
Step Into Our Functional Gym
What makes our training different from other gyms is that we don’t let you go through the motions of an exercise, just to say that you exercised. We prioritize your posture during an exercise to activate muscles that are normally dormant, to support your body in a way that it normally doesn’t get supported. So […]
Hows That Working For You?
When you work hard in the gym, you expect the exercises you do to carry over to the real world. In the form of strength, flexibility, stamina, energy, health, and overall fitness. For the genetically gifted ones it does, but what about the average folks who do what they’re supposed to do and still fall […]
Something is NOT always better than nothing
Something is not always better than nothing. Usually it’s the other way around, the mindset that something is better than nothing. Jogging for a few minutes is better than not moving at all, but not if jogging causes your knees or your back to hurt. Our trainers are of the mindset that something is not better […]
Personalized Personal Training
How it started; how it’s going. Started with numerous issues, most notably was scapular dysfunction that contributed to pain in the upper traps. The first exercise is conditioning the muscles of the shoulder girdle & thoracic spine to integrate instead of putting all the demand on the traps. The second exercise is reinforcing the corrective […]
Functional Strength Training
In most gyms you’ll see lifters moving weights up and down, but that leads to compression on your joints and spine. In our gym, we prioritize lifting weights through a horizontal force to train the muscles to contract the way they do in the real world. Weight lifting that you see in most gyms builds […]
Exercise for Life
We teach our clients to move intentionally to connect the upper body and lower body contralaterally. Bipedal contralateral movement is what developed our muscles, and why they function the way they do. Modern times have made it difficult to keep our muscles functioning the way they were designed because we use the wrong lifting patterns […]
