Arizona Mobile Fitness Training

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Retired Special Operations Officer brings fitness to Valley doorsteps
Phoenix Examiner
August 8th, 2010
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Octive Radio on KWSS 106.7FM interview:
Get your body in balance! Veteran Special Operations Officer, Pilot and Certified Personal Trainer, Richard Snider is Owner of Body Church Mobile Fitness. Listen Now

The Key to Your Success? Our Mobility!

Beyond the walls of the big box gyms there are small performance fitness centers in every city like “crossfit” and others that have broken the mold of old nonsense ways of working out and have introduced the world to functional fitness training. At Bodychurch Mobile Fitness we have taken this a step further and have the capability to bring the gym to you and your friends. Our revolutionary mobile gym and training techniques increase the potential for you to reach your personal fitness goals. Imagine leaving the hustle and bustle of traditional gyms behind for the convenience of a gym waiting for you outside your door, or at a nearby park, where your workout experience is truly tailored to YOU.

Functional Fitness, what is it?

As described by Websters dictionary: Func.tion.al: 1. capable of operating or functioning; 2. having or serving a utilitarian purpose; capable of serving the purpose for which it was designed.

In layman's terms, useful or applicable. Does what most people do at a gym fit into this category?

Science have shown us for years that our bodies perform by movements (multiple muscle groups working in synergy to perform an action) not in isolation (single muscle contraction). Yet most gyms are chocked full of machines that will guide you through a set range of motion and isolated movement prohibiting your body from working the way it was designed and thus creating imbalances. In real life there are no isolated movements; as Mark Sisson states, “Isolation exercises run counter to functional fitness. If functional fitness refers to the natural interplay between corresponding joints, tendons, and muscles as they are meant to be used in everyday movements, isolation exercises ignore how the body is designed to function “ Dozens or more muscles contract and work together to provide every movement that you make. You are the machine. Bodychurch trains people to be powerful in structure, function, and stability. If the top athletes in the world across all sports train in this way then why wouldn’t you?

The benefit? a sculpted, lean, strong, functional, and aesthetically pleasing balanced body that defies the ravages of time!

Standard Protocol

Many people inherently feel breaking a sweat meant they worked out. Breaking a sweat does not mean you got a real workout. When you activate multiple muscle groups to perform a task which strengthens the neural network and increases your capability to safely perform functional tasks to a higher level of performance...now this is a workout. The human body performs movement by recruiting dozens of muscles to perform actions. Your body functions this way so why would you train it to perform differently?

When you increase you agility, flexibility, stamina, speed,, strength, balance ,and coordination consistently while shedding bodyfat, and still maintaining and building lean muscle mass this is real progress.

Isolating muscles have their time and place in re-balancing and rehabilitation but in general it is far inferior to strengthening the kinetic chain and improving all of the above mentioned attributes.

So, how does your current workout compare? If you are isolating muscle groups and performing bodybuilding type exercises...which most people are, than you are building a body that may look good in a display case but is limited in the real world. On the other end of the scale are you doing bootcamps or similar classes that just fatigue you and get you out of breath? This is an excellent way to get started in fitness with the camaraderie of friends and others around but as I fondly remember from my 10 years in the army, Basic Training or “Boot camp”, does not last forever. It is an introduction which lasted 10 weeks after which we went into advanced training and beyond. This is where Bodychurch Mobile Fitness comes in. We do train entry level individuals but they quickly progress to a much higher level of body awareness, physicality, and function. The human body was designed to work and be challenged and it rapidly adapts to new challenges. If you do not challenge your body than progress comes to a halt and degradation begins. However, if you ask more of your body and consistently ask it to adapt to new environments and tasks it will never stop evolving to higher level of beauty, strength, balance, agility, coordination ect...

Step outside of the box, and train indoors and outdoors with our mobile training gym.

The Best Part...The Gym Comes To You!