Here’s the first intake of RTS Level 1 in one of the two facilities we deliver the course in - @bodyfactorygym
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I look for a few things in a good gym.
1) Location - it needs to be convenient or the level of friction involved in attending will reduce your frequency/regularity. It’s why so many people have gotten fit on lockdown; working out at home requires no travel time. I wish I lived closer to this one.
2) Equipment - the whole point of the gym is you’re able to manipulate gravity to load specific muscles. A large selection of well designed machines is key, though if you know how to analyse and adapt machines you’ll be able to make do with a large selection of mediocre ones. Luckily @kumareswarren is a seasoned veteran of the space and knew damn well what he was doing when he put certain machines in his shopping cart. 3 floors of machines to target pretty much any joint motion you can think of. Speaking of Kumar...
3) The owner - Probably the biggest contributor to the vibe of a facility. How you train is massively down to the culture a space fosters and unless it’s a big box gym (where the manager or the core demographic becomes relevant, or you just chuck headphones on and do your thing) then it’s the owner who creates this. He chooses the music, his mates were the first members...
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We teach RTS in the best gyms we could find because we want to show coaches how to assess and optimise as many pieces of equipment as possible. This means they’re prepared for whatever space they’re working in, and if they’re in somewhere with limited equipment then they at least know what they’re trying to emulate.
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The ongoing renovation has meant we’ve had to move the second RTS intake to the 10th, 11th, 13th & 14th of March. DM me if you’re keen on having a renewed understanding of how to manipulate gravity. You won’t be disappointed.
