Build a smarter body with less aches, and more freedom to do what you love!
Classes
*Class sizes are limited 8 - 12 (Depending on class) to maximize education, movement freedom, and personalization.
(because no one really enjoys being stuffed mat to mat in a tiny room)
Kinstretch
A joint specific training class dedicated to joint specific strength work for all the areas in your body you need to strengthen, but keep ignoring.
Smart Strength
A strength training class designed to integrate joint specific work with strength training work ranging from calisthenics to weight lifting.
Smart Conditioning
A heart rate monitor based conditioning class designed to get you sweaty with a variety of agility work, plyometrics and footwork based drills.
Smart Circuit
Keeping the 90's alive with some good old circuit training utilizing everything from battle ropes to kettlebells, and jump ropes to rowers.
Reformer Pilates
High quality pilates reformer classes with intimate class sizes, and high quality detailed instruction.
Youth Speed & Strength
Speed and strength development classes to boost agility, reduce injury, and build explosive athleticism 8 -18yrs. Speed, strength, and games!
Pricing - Packages - Memberships
YOUTH
*Class sizes are limited 12 to maximize education, movement freedom, and personalization.
LIFE
Build a smarter body capable of withstanding the chores, the unexpected slips, falls, and the unannounced three year old dive-bombing from the countertop.
PLAY
Having healthy powerful joints will ensure you can enjoy your activities with less limitation, more joy, and with greater skill much later into life!
WORK
Having robust joints ensures fluidity, and longevity, for your repetitive, not so glorious tasks. Leaving you energized and ready for fun on the weekend.
The reality is...
You want to and in some cases need to do everything, but your body might not feel like it can. Because the life you want to live requires a body that can withstand the demands of it all. Old injuries, joint restrictions, and feeble feeling knees can make getting stronger a challenge especially with every added birthday. By strengthening your body in a systematic and specific way you can build a smarter body that can do everything you want and need. It just requires a little effort, focus, and a lot of consistency, and...
a smarter training approach.
An approach that focuses on the areas where you're weakest and most injury prone (joints/tendons), but also helping you build strength and power where you need it (muscles/fascia). Movement Gyms unique training approach helps you build internal movement intelligence through an inside out training approach. Versus an outside in approach which focuses on exercises first, muscles groups second and joint range of motion last. An Inside out approach focuses joint range of motion first, ligaments and tendons second, and muscle groups last. This approach yields better results because we don't focus on arbitrarily improving exercises or form, we utilize solid biological and neurological scientific principles to teach you how your body works and moves from the inside out.
The Big 4
An orderly approach to getting stronger safely.
#1
Joint ROM & Connective tissue health
By focusing on rotational movements at the joint first we strengthen the tissues that are most easily injured. This also influences and informs movement planning behaviors at the brain. Tissues close to the joint are neurologically rich and are responsible for informing your brain centers how to best create movement, and what movements are perceived as safe. By improving ligament tendon strength we not only improve joint range of motion, but also strengthen the stuff that most often gets injured, or at least keeps you from moving naturally and fluidly. This also enriches the overall complexity of usable ranges of motion, and creates neurological confidence and allowance.
#2
Basic Movement & Movement Variability
By integrating joint specific work into movements big and small you learn, and relearn, how to move better through normal and natural movements like squatting, lunging, pushing, and pulling etc, but also through less typical movement paths, ones that you might avoid. Because movement isn't just about form or posture, its about learning how to navigate tasks, and environments fluidly and naturally inside your body. Building better movement is less about perfect form, and more about learning how to move where you can't, but once could.
#3
End Range & Total Strength
Getting stronger means strengthening places where you're weak and vulnerable. End range of motion is the most injury prone place in your body. By safely and strategically learning how to load your body where it's weakest you can increase your movement ROM, but simultaneously improve your overall strength. Because if you can't move there, you certainly can't lift weights there. Getting stronger isn't just about sets, reps, volume etc. Getting stronger is about building internal tissue organization, motor control and neurological drive.
#4
Elasticity
The gap between typical training, real life and sport is massive. Mostly due to the fact that most strength training, movement work, and workouts happen in a very controlled way. But the fact is life and sport move fast in very chaotic environments. By safely improving tissue elasticity and reactive stiffening you learn how to absorb, recycle, and produce force in ways that are most similar to what you experience in real life, during real activities. Having a process to safely introduce these training inputs can help bridge the chasm between training in the gym and what happens in real life.
RAELEIGH HARRIS
2016 Ironman World Champ 70.3
"I have never run so strong off the bike"
RUTH WIMBERLY
Hike-aholic
"I was able to hike 8 miles a day in Patagonia!"
Sean Butler
Rad Dad. Skier. Lawyer
"I can ski again without backpain!"
Jaymes Hansen
Explore. Experiment. Experience.
"Movement Gym makes my body ready for fun!"
Ali Loraine
Doctor of Physical Therapy
"I am finally able to dance, and perform pain free!"
Becky Hermsmeyer
Grandma
