Move Well
Eat Well
Live Well

Whether you are training for serious performance enhancements, or for health and wellness aspects, what you do outside of the gym is just as important as what you do when you are training. Even if you train four hours a day there is still twenty hours worth of decisions and actions each day, that can impact the results of your training for the better or the worse. But even in the gym there are many decisions to make about training. Our philosophy involves the belief that every kind of fitness has value, whether its walking around the block, powerlifting, yoga, p90x, or anything. Everything. Just move your body. It's all good for you. There are infinite paths to fitness. But results may vary, and success is defined in countless ways. No matter what your goals or preferred method of fitness, our defining concept of move well, eat well, live well will give you actionable knowledge and mindset that will enhance the success of your efforts.

Move Well

The concept of moving well can mean many things to many people. To an endurance runner it may mean having a midfoot strike directly underneath center of mass, having a high stride rate with a quick, efficient turn over, and a good effort to output ratio. To your grandmother it may mean getting in and out of cars, chairs, and beds easily, climbing up and down stairs and walking briskly around the neighborhood.
When we talk about moving well we are referring the ability to do anything and everything you'd like to do in life without restrictions. To accomplish this we focus on creating ability in every aspect of fitness that we can. We push the boundaries of our experience in as many directions as we can. We try to improve every metric of fitness that we can identify. Cardiovascular endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, accuracy, mindset, etc...
We accomplish this through diversity of movement, intensity, and duration. We focus on strength through as large of a range a motion as our anatomy allows. We prioritize working on weaknesses over what we are already good at. We train injury prevention intentionally. We listen to what our pain tells us. We learn and apply biomechanical principles such as core stability and core to extremity movement. We strictly adhere to tiered progression models. Broadly, we use a 5 tier system that consists of Competence-Repeatability-Progression-Exception-Mastery.
Whatever your goals are. Whatever your preferred methods of fitness, or intensity. Whether you like to lift, run, or metcon, we will help you work towards those goals with longevity in mind. Whatever moving well means to you we will give you the tools, knowledge, and support to move better each and every day.

Eat Well

The concept of eating well is simple. The application is anything but. Eating well consists of eating foods in their most natural state, with minimal processing, and free from added sugars and artificial ingredients. To eat well you must recognize fiber as its own essential food group. Fiber as a food group must come in its original packaging, not in a pill, powder, or liquid supplement. Eat as much variety of these foods as you can and enough to sustain your activity level. That is it. The concept of eating well is that simple. You can intermittent fast, you can graze, you can gorge. Eat one meal a day. Eat ten meals a day. Just eat a variety of food in as close to their natural state as you can. Again, here at Move Well we will give you the knowledge, tools, and support to eat well in a world of poison passed off as nutrition.

Live Well

In the context of the gym how you live life outside of the gym affects the results of your effort. If you drink alcohol, eat processed foods, smoke, deprive yourself of sleep, use drugs, have too much unhealthy stress, and over work your body you will experience negative effects from these negative actions. Minimizing or eliminating these behaviors will have a positive impact on your training. It doesn't matter how dedicated you are to make it to the gym every day, how hard you work while you are there, or how elite your training program or genetics are. Your efforts will be hindered, and your results diminished the more you engage in unhealthy behaviors outside of the gym. Living well and eating well will help you move well. Our concept of living well surpasses the context of fitness, however. Through example and encouragement, we will nudge our community to train their helpfulness, to practice their kindness, to exercise their empathy, and to try to leave everything they encounter better off than they found it. We aim to build better humans out of ourselves and others.