Training puts stress on the body to force it to adapt in favorable ways. However, if the stress we use in training is too high, too frequent, or put through the wrong parts of the body, injuries can occur. We make training safer so you can put in the intensity needed to reach your goals.

We make training safer by ensuring that you’ll have the prerequisite joint mobility & strength before jumping into a movement, as well as monitoring your volume for you, and teaching you how to listen to your body.

Training independently doesn’t mean following a plan blindly - it means understanding the intention behind what you’re doing so that you can make educated decisions on the fly. We teach all of our clients to “fend for themselves” in the gym: how to make exercise substitutions, decide their own loading/weight used, and make calls on when to push vs. when to pull back. This independence not only helps you perform at your best when your body is ready, it also mitigates overtraining.

For any training goal, we prefer the use of a “strategy” instead of a “plan.” Why? A plan is a set of very specific instructions, which tends to be fragile - when people fall off of a plan they tend to fall all the way off. Using a strategy, on the other hand, allows you to train for your specific goals with flexibility in mind - following you through life’s ups and downs.

If we want to improve the system, we need to focus on changing the internal states.

- Is your intention to squat more, or create stronger leg muscles?
- Is your goal to do a pull-up with your bodyweight hanging off a belt, or be strong enough to crush your next project?
- What’s the reason for the season? Training to train harder, or training with a purpose?

We make sure that everything we do targets the underlying determinants of performance, so that you’re never training to train.