R3VIVE’s Member of the Month, April 2024

R3VIVE Fitness • April 8, 2024
Woman lifting barbell overhead in a gym. The sign reads

Introducing our Gym M.O.M. (Member of the Month) for April 2024 … Gemma Sole! ⁠

We’re proud to honor Gemma as gym M.O.M., as her hard work and commitment to wellness has gone unnoticed over the last few months. Gemma is an avid 6’am goer — which in itself shows her commitment level — but during those waking hours, she’s able to lock in and put in the work while the rest of the world is still asleep.

Gemma’s personality is also one to highlight, as she is a vital part of our community standards. She’s welcoming to all and more importantly, she’s coachable and always willing to learn more, making her a perfect fit for our community. 

We’re honored to highlight Gemma and honored to have her as a part of R3VIVE.

Learn more about Gemma below:

Q: What made you decide to start functional fitness training?
 Post-COVID lockdowns, myself and my husband were bored. We live around the corner and had always driven past R3vive and finally decided to pull the trigger. Where we used to work out separately, R3vive has been a nice way to spend time together each morning (6 am crew) and make new friends.

Q: Are you a student/working professional/both? What do you do for a living?
 I run Go-To-Market (a combination of product, marketing, and business development) for a startup called Knode.ai – it’s a generative AI assistant that helps you with your work. Imagine having a helpful colleague in Slack who takes care of repetitive tasks for you, finds information you need, and even helps write emails and reports. That’s what Knode does. It’s trained on your company knowledge and helps upskill you for the future of work.

Q: What are your hobbies/interests outside of the gym?
I like to paint, travel, and eat my husband Chef Luke’s cooking

Q: What are some of your favorite movements (name up to three)?
 I like squats, single-leg RDLs, and skull crushers (because of the name, and I always feel it)

Q: What are some of your least favorite movements?
 Can I say burpees three times?

Q: What movement do you want to improve at?
 RDLs and Deadlifts…I have a feeling I am dropping too low and irritating my lower back…

Q: What advice do you have for someone considering our gym?
 You will do it and wish you’d done it sooner. So just do it now! Also, the benefits are multi-faceted – great fitness and great community.

Q: What is your favorite “cheat” meal?
 I don’t consider any food a cheat food but we try and pick special occasions for ice cream

Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
 Sleep. I consider it an activity, but I love sleep. Otherwise, probably sci-fi and fantasy movies which my husband will only occasionally indulge me in.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
 G, G$ – pronounced “G Money,” and Geezy.

Q: Tell us an interesting fact that we probably don’t know about you!
 I founded a venture-backed company in 2012 and ran it for 8 years. It was a nationally recognized software for the on-demand US production of apparel. We helped launch thousands of brands and got to power amazing experiences with Disney, Macy’s, and even NBC Universal making the first shippable Project Runway Season. I exited in 2021 but I got my real-world MBA and the roller coaster ride was exhilarating.

Also – I am a twin!

Ultimus Training Cycle

By Derek Saffold • October 30, 2025
Hey R3VIVE Athletes, The Ultimus training cycle, going from November 10th to January 2nd, is our next training cycle! Functional Fitness will be launching into a blend of olympic lifts and diverse strength progressions. Including more intense conditioning and gymnastic strength and skill development. Functional Fitness: We're taking the solid foundations from all our Machine work (which we know you loved) in the Persist Cycle and launching into a blend of olympic lifts, foundational strength, and diverse strength formats. Prepare for tough but fun challenges, gymnastic strength and skill development, and an intensified focus that will push your limits and build your confidence further than you ever imagined! Build: This Build cycle is your blueprint for forging general strength with a rock-solid, consistent split. While we will have linear progressions of Front Squats, and Bench Press, we will also be embracing varied, dynamic strength orgressions. That will not only keep delivering results but also keep our strength fun. Our gymnastics focus will be on pure, raw strict strength, helping you build capacity with both external loads and the incredible power of your own bodyweight. Prepare to feel incredibly stable and powerful! Conditioning will focus on unleashing your engine, that we built in the Persist Cycle . We will Shift gears to a fastermore intense "for time" AMRAP and Chipper style workouts, moving beyond simple interval work and aerobic base building. These conditioning workouts will rotate dynamically throughout the week to maintain variety and deliver a fun and powerful exeriance. our cycle test, "Super Bario Bros.", is a chipper that will progressively challenge your kettlebell/dumbbell and gymnastics movements, demanding peak intensity and absolute confidence in your strength.

Persist Training Cycle.

By Derek Saffold • September 22, 2025
Hey R3VIVE Athletes, Our next programming cycle runs from September 15th to November 7th. It's an 8-week cycle that will continue to see strength progression carrying from what we did last cycle in Functional fitness. While Pump will begin working unilateral strength progressions. Functional Fitness: This cycle will continue our progression from the skill and lifts from last cycle, while trying to integrate them into more of our conditioning. We will do this by focusing on different portions of the lifts during our strength portion then performing smaller sets of gymnastic skills in our conditioning. You will also see conditioning that is purely focused on our aerobic capacity and working mainly on monostructural elements, such as running, rowing and biking. Build: This A-B week cycle is designed to build foundational strength through consistent progression, with a strong focus on Back Squats and Strict Presses, including variations for balanced weekly training. Conditioning will have some longer aerobic pieces and begin to include more skills like strict Toes-to-Bar, and Pull-ups from last cycle. See the chart below for details.
Man performing a barbell squat in a gym, wearing dark blue shirt and shorts.

Functional Fitness Training Block: Resurgence Cycle

By R3VIVE Fitness • July 23, 2025
Our next programming cycle runs from July 12th to September 12th. It's an 8-week cycle, so it's a bit shorter than the last one. We'll be bringing back some Olympic lifts and continuing with the A-B week progressions. The post Functional Fitness Training Block: Resurgence Cycle appeared first on R3VIVE FITNESS.
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