October Gym “M.O.M.”

R3VIVE Fitness • October 8, 2020
Woman in workout clothes lunging outdoors, holding dumbbell. October 2020 Gym M.O.M. text on left.

Introducing our Gym M.O.M (Member of the Month) for October 2020 … Kristen “Fenzi” Fennell !

Kristen has been a staple of our community since we first opened a year ago. Her consistency has paid off in many ways, making significant strides in her strength and aerobic development, skill work and gymnastics. She just recently accomplished her first strict pull-up!

It’s a pleasure working with Kristen. Her humor and light hearted spirit helps members feel welcomed and makes it fun for coaches to instruct!

Read more about Kristen below!

Q: What made you decide to start functional fitness training?
I had tried Crossfit gyms in the past, loved the challenge, but wasn’t ready to commit. I was super into running and indoor cycling and didn’t think I would be able to do it all. I needed a change and found R3vive and now I am fully hooked.

Q: Are you a student/working professional/both? What do you do for a living?
I am the Healthy Living Director for the YMCA in East Boston. I am a certified Personal Trainer, Group Exercise Instructor, and Running coach. I lead the personal training, group exercise, and Integrated Health programs at the branch.

Q: What are your hobbies/interests outside of the gym?
I love to travel, go to concerts, ride my bike, go to breweries, karaoke, run, binge watch Netflix, go to Celtics games, spend as much time at the beach as possible, and win every board game I play. I started learning the piano, but I am not a great student

Q: What are some of your favorite movements (name up to three)?
Power cleans, box jumps, HANDSTANDS!!

Q: What are your least favorite movements?
PUSH-UPS, Squats, Airbike

Q: What movements do you want to improve at?
All of them. Pull-ups and Handstand walking stick out though.

Q: What advice do you have for someone considering our gym?
Just do it, and be as consistent as you can. Embrace each step of way, and trust the process. Whether you have big or little goals, or just want to try something new, this gym and these coaches can help you find what you are looking for. Plus, I will always cheer you on

Q: What’s your favorite “cheat” food?
Pineapple and Jalapeno Pizza!

Q: What’s your spirit animal and why?
 Flamingos, they are great at balancing, love to eat shrimp, and stand out. I equally identify with sloths, because everyone needs a rest day.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
blasting and singing along to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston.

Q: Do you have any nicknames?
Here at the gym, Joel gave me the name Fenzi. My friends call me Kristone or Stoney.

Q: An interesting fact that we probably don’t know about you!
In 2016, I was a part of an ultra distance Ragnar running team that was featured in a short documentary, called the Ride, by Reebok. Two of our teammates had very inspiring messages about running and we were chosen. Reebok gave us a bunch free clothes and sneakers, and filmed almost our entire run from San Francisco to Napa Valley. Running 28 miles on little sleep (with a marathon a few weeks later) was awful, but I had the time of my life.

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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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