Stoik Body Company

Comment REACH. Your arms will get overhead. The question is what your back did to help.

The test is in the slides. Two minutes, a wall, nothing else. Back against it, low back flat, reach up with the backs of your hands. The thing that matters is whether your low back stayed on the wall.

If it lifted off to get you there, the range came from your spine, not your shoulders. Almost everybody cheats this one and nobody feels it happen.

Came up short? Comment REACH and we'll send you the fix. Three moves, two weeks, check again.

This is test no. 2. A new one lands every few weeks, so do this one and watch for the next. Send it to whoever lifts overhead.

Strength training works differently for women, and the research is clear about how.

Across a workout you tend to hold your performance longer, recover faster between sets, and get more quality work in at heavy loads. That's physiology, not a pep talk.

The Women's Barbell Classic is April 24 in Clive. Bench press and deadlift, women only, ages 8 to 60 plus, every level welcome, and the money goes to Raise the Bar Initiative. Registration is open now.

Seven months is plenty. We do the assessment, write the program, coach the lifts, and keep you moving on the table between sessions. Our coach has stood on that platform. She knows what getting ready means and she builds it in.

The meet is the reason to start. The real win is what training for it does to the rest of your life.

Move better. Feel better. Live better. Come be part of Team Stoik.

Book at the link in bio.

Ask us what day it is and we probably couldn't tell you. Ask us how to brace for an overhead press and you'll get an answer before you finish the question.

Most people think recovery is the part where you do nothing. It's not.

The gym is where you break tissue down. Everything that makes you stronger happens in the hours and days after, and only if you give it something to work with.

That's sleep. That's food. That's moving on the days you're not training. And it's getting worked on when something's tight, sore, or just not moving right.

Train hard, then actually recover. Do it for a season and see what your body does.

Book at the link in bio.

Three generations of one family train with us.

Grandma, grandpa, their daughter, and the two grandkids. Same floor, same bars, everything from an empty technique bar up to loads that take real work to move.

The four year old has her own setup. A block she can reach, a bar she can actually move, and somebody on both knees next to her the whole time.

That is the part most gyms never get to. Nobody in here is too small, too new or too old to be on the floor.

We have been kicking around a class for grade school kids. Still working out if there is interest, so let us know in the comments.

There is no add on menu here.

Nobody is going to ask if you want to add cupping, or sell you a stretching package on the way out the door. Your therapist looks at what your body is doing that day and uses whatever it needs. Sometimes that is cups. Sometimes a scraper. Sometimes it is extra focus on one calf, because that is where the whole problem actually lives.

That is the session. That was always the session.

You go home with something to do too, because an hour on the table does not hold by itself.

Book at the link in bio.