What is MovementLink.FIT?
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To boost all areas of fitness - strength, cardio, and flexibility.
To develop a great looking and healthy body composition.
To resolve nagging pains, to stay injury free, and to develop full ranges of motion and mobility of our body.
To maximize overall health and wellness.
The End Goal: Fit for an Amazing Life
Functional fitness is about creating a strong foundation of fitness and skills that carry over into what you want to do outside of the gym: vacations, adventures, sports, races, everyday life, and possibly even your specific career. With MovementLink, you’ll build a strong and able body, allowing you to experience anything you want in life.
Full Range of Motion and Mobility
Methods you’ll use in our warm-ups, workouts, and our cool-downs create daily habits that support developing strength and stability through full ranges of motion, so you’ll resolve nagging pains, create create a body that can move freely, without limitation, and feel great!
The key to living with a body that feels great: Developing Mobility and Technique. The key to maximizing your athletic potential: Developing Mobility and Technique. Luckily for you, you don’t have to choose which one you care about!
Aesthetics and Body Composition
Your self-worth should not be wrapped up in what you look like. Ultimately, it is up to you to determine how much or how little a role aesthetics plays in your goals. At MovementLink, we simply makes choices for extreme health and fitness and the body composition works itself out.
Healthspan
When most people think about living longer, they imagine being old, sick, and feeble for more years than others. To us, healthspan is about being functional and capable in life for as long as possible. Old does not happen at a specific age, old happens when you lose your health and fitness. We want to build a buffer zone of sustainable health and fitness while we can to maximize our good years!
The MovementLink workout program develops all aspects of one’s health and fitness, Strength, Power, Speed, Endurance, Stamina, and Mobility, in a personalized way designed to have maximal transfer to the life you want to live and the body you want to have.
Feel Great, Look Great, and
Live an Incredible Life!
Boost: Energy - Mood - Hormones - Brain - Overall Health and Wellness - Healthspan
Adventures - Hobbies - Range of Motion
MovementLink.FIT Gym has a social network of some of the most hard-working, inspiring, and successful people in Austin!
Think strength training and high-intensity workouts are too hard for you?
“The coaches at MovementLink.FIT Gym have taught me that I’m much tougher than I ever imagined. Now, when I hold a barbell over my head, I don’t feel 60. I feel strong.” -Mary T
Are you already experienced and looking for a new challenge?
“MovementLink.FIT Gym has provided me with better results and knowledge than all of my amateur and professional experiences combined.” -Kyle G
Ready to FINALLY get the results you’ve been after?
“I started this program wanting a new physique. I not only got that, I ended up improving my mental health and wellness!” -Lamia T
How We Build Strength, Cardio, and Flexibility
1. Warm-up and Movement Prep
Led by a Movement Coach, we consistently, each day, use functional yoga to put your body at the end ranges of positions that are useful to real life. At the end of classes, we consistently use highly effective mobility tools and protocols to improve tissue and joint function. This method gets the balance and flexibility results most are looking to yoga for with a fraction of the time commitment. Our warm-ups have three main goals:
1) Prepare us for the day’s workout. We will get your heart beating, blood flowing, and get your joints and muscles prepared for the day’s training though functional yoga.
2) Provide us time to learn, practice, and hone techniques foundational to human movement. Better technique equals better performance and less injuries. We leverage our warm-up to help us improve and understand how we move. This transfers directly into better technique for better performance and reduced risk of injury.
3) Over time, create dramatic, lasting, and meaningful improvements to your body’s range of motion. Through our members’ progress with flexibility, we have proven over and over again that you do not need an hour of flexibility training multiple times a week to make changes to your body.
2. Skills, Strength, and Accessory Work
High-intensity workouts are amazing, but cardio blasting and put-in-the-work workouts alone leave huge and detrimental gaps in the functional transfer to people’s everyday lives. To not only boost performance in high-intensity workouts, but also boost results, you need to build a foundation of technique, strength, and mobility. As adults, we lose the ability to perform certain movement patterns because we have habitual and favored movements, and neglected or avoided movements. We have unresolved injuries and chronic problems that cause us to move in a compensated way. When the average adult starts to exercise with one or more limited fundamental patterns, the increased activity actually causes the compensation behavior to get worse, leading to pain. Our skill, strength, and accessory work in classes allows our Movement Coaches to work with you in a way that builds enormous resiliency and performance.
3. High-Intensity Cardio and Full Metabolic Conditioning
On top of our foundation of quality movement, we learn to push hard. We want you to develop and be capable of participating in any activity, adventure, or sport you may be or may become interested in!
What we know: You will be challenged AND you will blow past your preconceived notions on what your are capable of. Our workouts will meet you at your level and everyone is more capable than they give themselves credit for. Our movement coaches help customize all workouts to each individuals' fitness level, whether that be helping to modify an exercise and choose correct weights and reps. What this means is although everyone may be doing a slightly different version of the workout, each individual is going at a pace, performing exercises, and using weights appropriate to them to maximize their results. This style allows us to provide beginners and elite athletes exactly what they need to improve. Embrace the challenge and enjoy the results!
Completing high-intensity workouts in a group not only provides incredible results, but builds enormous comradery with those who sweat with you.
4. Cool-Down and Mobility Exercises
The cool-down is an often overlooked, but extremely important aspect to an effective training program. Workouts, especially at high-intensities, increase acid and carbon dioxide while decreasing oxygen in the body. Your lymphatic system works to normalize your body and rid your body of excess waste, but it works primarily through muscle contractions and gravity. So, if you finish a workout and then sit around and do nothing, your body is less efficient at removing the built up waste from the workout. This can cause increased stiffness and soreness not to mention take away from potential results. After every workout, we cool-down to help flush your system and to maximize the results you get from your efforts.
To support the flexibility work we do in warm-ups, we use mobility tools, like foam rollers, and protocols at the end of class to further enhance our recovery and function of muscles and joints. We do self-massage, stretch, and do stability work to consistently make improvements to your capacity to move your body through a full ranges of motion.