February’s Gym “M.O.M.”

R3VIVE Fitness • February 7, 2020
Woman performing a barbell squat at a gym. She wears a gray hoodie and purple leggings.

Introducing our Gym M.O.M (Member of the Month) for February 2020 … Sophia Eleta !

Sophia’s hard work, consistency, positive mindset, and optimistic attitude have us feeling lucky to work with her as an athlete. Not only is Sophia a dedicated athlete, but a genuinely kind spirit and a joy to be around – us coaches as well as her fellow athletes love regularly having her in class! If you happen to see Sophia, be sure to congratulate her and keep an eye out this month for a workout named in her honor, including some of her favorite CrossFit moves!

Q: What made you decide to start CrossFit?
I got into CrossFit because I wanted to prove to myself that I was capable of so much more, both mentally and physically. I definitely wanted a challenge, but I also wanted to connect with people that could help me get there and I really wanted to get fit, too! Once I started seeing improvement in things that I was constantly practicing, I was hooked. It showed me that your hard work will dictate how you get better over time, and I loved that.

Q: Are you a student/working professional/both?
I’m currently a full time student at Northeastern University. My major’s mechanical engineering. I’m a 4th year (1 more to go!)

Q: What are your hobbies/interests outside of the gym & school/work?
My favorite thing to do right now is to spend time with my puppy, Nacho! But when I’m not playing with him, I love listening to all sorts of podcasts and audio books, walking around Boston, and road tripping! I’m deeply interested in world environmental policy, energy generation and sustainability.

Q: What are your 3 favorite CrossFit movements?
Double Unders, Cleans and Pistols

Q: What’s your least favorite CrossFit movement?
Assault bike, Thrusters and Pull-ups

Q: What CrossFit movement do you want to improve at?
I want to cycle my handstand push ups faster and maybe finally get my handstand walk.

Q: What advice do you have for someone considering trying out/joining a CrossFit gym?
I would advice them to never compare themselves to anybody else! You are your own competition.
Also, to be ok with being uncomfortable – nobody’s good at everything, and skipping class because you hate a particular movement in the WOD won’t get you anywhere close to getting better at it.

Q: What’s your favorite “cheat” food?
I would do anything for a massive box of chocolates or carrot cake!

Q: What’s your spirit animal and why?
I love to think it’s either eagle or tiger (or both sometimes!) I’ve always associated eagles with being noble and tigers with being passionate, and these are two things I try to live by.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
Self-inducing a food coma from eating a huuuge cheese platter with my friends, and ignoring everyone on social media!

Q: Do you have any nicknames?
I go by Soph or Sophie

Q: An interesting fact that we probably don’t know about you!
I have 2 beautiful hedgehogs back in Panama, (Dot and Oliver), I’m aiming to get my pilot license one day, and I’m currently working on getting my master of science in Energy Systems.

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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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