The Value of Assessment

R3VIVE Fitness • July 28, 2021
Man doing a seated dumbbell row on an incline bench, assisted by another man in a gym.

Why do we assess? We get this question a lot.

We love and value the assessment. We will not work with any individual without performing our thorough, ground up, joint by joint assessment. If we don’t assess, we are left to guessing and guessing would mean that we’d only be failing to optimally serve our members.

Assessments are the truth. They allow coaches to align what a client says they want to do for fitness with the truth of what they are presently capable of.

Each individual goes through our nine step screening that allows our coaches to clearly identify what an individual’s movements will look like before seeing them move and predict what problems will arise before they become problems.

How do we apply these findings? Through planning and exercise selection. You and your coach will take the findings of your assessment and determine what other avenues of movement we can look toward in order to increase areas of opportunity for a higher performing, safer, healthier, well-rounded athlete.  

For beginners, it may look like incorporating a basic patterns-focused approach to your training like we provide in our Build Track, individualized Program Design, or one-on-one Personal Training.

For intermediate and advanced athletes, you will identify why your gains have plateaued, why dead lifting and pull up sessions end in back and shoulder pain. We have a humbling Build Track for performance athletes to dip their feet into as well as coaches to help you modify your workouts and not skip a beat no matter how intense your workout is.

Wherever you are in fitness, we have solutions.

We use assessments as an opportunity to best serve our members, uncover what needs work and to provide quantitative metrics to monitor an individual’s progress.

How do you track your movement?

Let’s work together to get a deeper understanding on how and why you move the way that you do. Let us serve you and move you in the direction that best suits you and where you are.

-Coach Oz

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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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