RevoFit Is Not Random

Reminder; Intelligent, Balanced Training Is the Only Way to Stay Active for Decades — Not Just a Season

If you’ve spent any time in the fitness world, you’ve probably noticed a pattern. Many gyms or influencers will hyperfocus on one very specific training modality and blast you with it using language that suggests it’s the magic pill.

Every few years, a single quality of fitness gets elevated as the solution:

• Max strength
  
• High-intensity conditioning
  
• Endurance-only training
  
• Mobility-only training
  
• “Functional” training (whatever that means this year)
  

Each of these has value.
None of them are sufficient on their own.

For active adults — especially those balancing demanding careers, family life, and a deep love for outdoor sports — chasing a single answer usually leads to frustration, plateaus, or injury. Getting too specific on things done in the gym can often only make you better at the gym. It’s not because they aren’t working hard enough. It’s because true fitness is about systems working together, not just about training one or the other.

At Revo Training Center, RevoFit exists to solve that problem.

Not with shortcuts.
Not with novelty.
But with well-rounded, science-influenced training that’s been tested on hundreds of real people in our Missoula community — skiers, runners, bikers, hikers, parents, professionals — who want to stay capable year after year.

This is what that actually looks like.

The RevoFit Philosophy: Train the Whole System

RevoFit is built around a simple but often ignored truth:

Strength, conditioning, and endurance don’t compete — they complement each other when trained correctly.

Your body is not just muscles.
It’s not just a heart and lungs.
It’s not just “engine” or “chassis.”

It’s a coordinated system of:

• Musculoskeletal strength and tissue capacity & resilience
  
• Nervous system output and control
  
• Energy systems that must work together, not in isolation (Think bodybuilders vs. field athletes)
  
• Movement skill under fatigue
  
• The ability to recover, adapt, and repeat effort – Work capacity.
  

Most programs fail not because they lack effort — but because they lack balance, sequencing, and intent.

RevoFit uses a three-day structure to address that system intelligently while allowing you to enjoy your favorite activities outside the gym concurrently.

Day 1: Strength — Eccentrics, Progressive Overload, & Contrast Training

Strength training is foundational.
But strength done poorly — or chased for its own sake — is where many active adults get into trouble.

On Day 1, we focus on building usable strength, not just lifting heavier weights at the cost of movement quality outside of the gym or in your everyday life..

Why slow eccentrics and controlled strength matter

You’ll notice an emphasis on:

• Slow, yielding eccentrics
  
• Postural integrity under load
  
• Single-leg and unilateral work
  
• Anti-rotation and controlled rotation
  

This isn’t about making exercises “harder for the sake of hard.”
It’s about building tissue resilience, improving force absorption, and increasing your ability to control your center of mass through space — something gravity will demand whether you’re skiing, running, hiking, or simply aging well.

Strength training is primarily anaerobic and neurologically demanding. It stresses:

• The central nervous system
  
• Muscles and connective tissue
  
• Coordination and motor control
  

That’s exactly why we don’t pile conditioning stress on top of it the same day. For many people, you will get better results and feel better day to day if we split up these different demands and stimuli. There is context for that style of training, but it’s more advanced and extremely specific.

Why We Pair Strength with Explosive Work – Contrast Training

You’ll also see strength paired with jumps, bounds, and lateral movements.

This contrast:

• Improves power output
  
• Reinforces athletic movement patterns – Your body and brain immediately start implementing better movement patterns when paired with the chosen exercises such as squats
  
• Teaches your body to express strength dynamically, not just statically
  

For most of our members and any kind of outdoor athlete, athletic demands aren’t akin to the ability to produce force once like powerlifting or olympic lifting.
It’s the ability to produce, absorb, and redirect force repeatedly, in multiple directions, with coordination and rhythm.

That matters far more for real life and mountain sports than a single max lift ever will. At best, max lifts are tests that we can work around or discern in other ways without the risk.

Simplified takeaway:
Day 1 builds the strength and tissue capacity that protects your joints, improves posture, and gives you the raw material for performance — without unnecessarily draining your energy for the rest of the week.

Day 2: Metabolic Training — Power Endurance 

Metabolic training gets misunderstood more than almost anything else in fitness.

Done poorly, it becomes:

• Random fatigue
  
• Sloppy movement
  
• Ego-driven pacing
  
• “Crushed for the sake of being crushed”
  

That’s not what we’re after.

What HICT-Style Training Actually Does

High-Intensity Continuous Training (HICT), when programmed correctly, develops power endurance — the ability to repeat strong, explosive movements under controlled fatigue.

This is critical for:

• Long ski days
  
• Sustained climbs
  
• Technical descents
  
• Any sport where you don’t get perfect rest between efforts
  

Physiologically, this style of training:

• Improves mitochondrial density
  
• Enhances hormonal stress regulation
  
• Trains your body to manage fatigue more efficiently rather than panic under it
  

That last point matters more than most people realize — especially after 35.

One of the earliest fitness qualities we lose as we age is the ability to stay powerful when tired. Or just stay explosive in general. HICT addresses that directly, without wrecking recovery.

You’ll notice we cue:

• Powerful reps, not rushed reps
  
• Heart rate management
  
• Staying aerobic while doing meaningful work
  

It’s important to emphasize that this isn’t suffering for the sake of it. It’s intentional work under the keen eye of trained coaches to ensure you get the adaptations you want. This training leads to huge benefits in everyday life.

Simplified takeaway:
Day 2 trains your ability to work hard and stay efficient all the way down to a cellular level — improving performance, resilience, and recovery rather than just leaving you sore and depleted.

Day 3: Conditioning — Lactic Power, Efficiency, and Mental Skills

Conditioning day is often where programs go off the rails.

More isn’t necessarily better.
Harder often isn’t smarter.
And fatigue alone doesn’t guarantee adaptation. In fact, it could be inhibiting it.

What Lactic Intervals Actually Train

Lactic power intervals — popularized and refined in endurance and performance coaching circles — target the glycolytic energy system.

These intervals:

• Improve your ability to tolerate and clear metabolic byproducts
  
• Increase enzymes involved in anaerobic glycolysis – helping you stay explosive for longer
  
• Raise your ceiling for high-output efforts – They give you a better top-end
  

But here’s the key: the rest is necessary.

You cannot rush these adaptations.
If rest periods are cut short, your ability to perform at the necessary effort drops, and the stimulus changes.

That’s why we insist on:

• Maximal effort during work intervals
  
• Full recovery between reps
  
• Heart rate returning to baseline before repeating
  

This approach builds top-end performance without frying your nervous system or ruining your movement quality. Or your weekend.

Conditioning Is Also Mental Training

These sessions aren’t just physical.

They train:

• Focus under discomfort
  
• Breathing mechanics & posture
  
• Pacing awareness
  
• Task orientation instead of emotional spiraling
  

You’re not learning how to “suffer.” That’s just exposure: A core value of ours.
You’re learning how to stay organized when things get hard — a skill that transfers directly to sport and life.

We finish with deliberate cooldowns to:

• Downregulate stress and improve hormonal response
  
• Restore breathing mechanics
  
• Reinforce posture and recovery before you walk out the door.
  

Simplified takeaway:
Day 3 improves cardiovascular capacity, efficiency under fatigue, and mental composure — without unnecessary wear and tear.

The Weekend Question: “Will I Still Have Energy to Ski?”

Yes. By design. So you have no excuse to skip conditioning day =)

One of the most overlooked failures of generic training programs is that they compete with your life instead of supporting it. Many gyms want the gym to be your sport to keep you coming in like crossfit or Hyrox.

RevoFit is intentionally structured so that:

• Strength stress is separated from metabolic stress
  
• Conditioning is challenging but recoverable
  
• You’re not chronically sore or neurologically fried
  

Our programming is meticulously designed over the course of the week and built so you can:

• Bounce back quickly depending on your goals
  
• Feel athletic on the weekends
  
• Ski hard, ride hard, or run long for your adventures
  

We want your training to enhance your outdoor life, not replace it.

Why This Works for Missoula Athletes

Missoula isn’t a one-season town.

People here:

• Ski in the winter
  
• Run and bike in the summer
  
• Hike, hunt, climb, paddle, and play year-round

RevoFit isn’t built around trends.
It’s built around durability, repeatability, and long-term capability by coaches who are doing the same things, and have coached hundreds of others to do the same.

The Bottom Line: Intelligent Hard Work

This program isn’t easy.
But it is intentional.

You’ll work hard — with a coach by your side every step of the way.
You’ll be challenged — without being broken. Become antifragile.
You’ll build fitness that lasts longer than a phase, a season, or a headline.

That’s what intelligent training looks like.
And that’s what RevoFit is built to deliver.

2025 Year in Review

Wrapping Up 8 Years of Revo

As we wrap up 2025, I’m reflecting not only on the growth we’ve experienced this year as a team, but how far our Revo community has come in the last 8 years.

Wow.

We are so grateful for all of you for the hard work you put in every day. Missoulians are a hardy bunch — rain, snow, or sunshine — we like to work hard and play hard. We couldn’t be more proud to work with each of you.

Thank you for trusting us with your training.
Thank you for showing up, even when you don’t want to.
And thank you for inspiring us to be the best we possibly can be.

That is our mission as we roll into 2026: To be the best coaching center in Montana. Along with a theme of agency — but more on that in a bit.

Reflecting on Our Year

First, a bit of reflection about our year — as we grow, I find my attention (along with Callie’s) being pulled more and more to the business side. But our main purpose is and always has been to provide the best coaching in Missoula.

This year, Coaches Bobby and Mariah stepped into leadership roles, and I couldn’t be more proud of their growth.

Bobby is now aiding Callie with our Member’s experience, a role in which he is obviously excelling. On top of being a truly elite coach, his communication skills, happy vibes, and steady presence have been a wonder for our whole team.

Mariah is helping me (Mike) with our growth as a sales lead and communication center for all new members. She works as hard as anyone I know — juggling copious hours of coaching, extensive learning about our complex concepts, and now crushing it in her new role.

Both Bobby and Mariah balance these new roles on top of coaching in the trenches a great deal, and they deserve all the credit in the world.

Welcoming New Pros

This year we also added a new, very welcome addition to our team: Coach Nate.

Nate fits our culture perfectly — he has an insatiable work ethic, a deep knowledge base, a keen coaching eye, and is eager to keep learning. He’s already crushing it with our adults and is only just getting started coaching the youth athletes in our community.

Keep your eyes on Nate — he’s going to have a huge 2026.

A Thank You to Our Engine

I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out and thank our rock, Callie.

She continues to set the standard as the best trainer in Missoula, all while handling the duties of an extremely busy General Manager. We all lean on her immensely.

I was thrilled this year when she was able to join me in shadowing a mentor’s gym in Seattle. It’s important to both of us to keep learning from the best so we can bring it back here. We have lots to bring into the fold this year, and I couldn’t ask for a better partner in crime.

I’m very proud of our team, their hard work, and their continued development. I know we will continue to hone our practice and mission to provide the best coaching experience in Missoula — not just because of continued education or courses we’re taking — but because of the grit and diligence each of our team members demonstrate every day.

So Long 2025, Welcome 2026

Before we tie a bow on 2025 and our 8th (!) year in business, I figured I’d contribute to the end-of-year blurbs that are filling your emails and social media these days.

I have written out 8 Fitness Industry Observations after 8 years of gym ownership and almost 15 years of coaching.

This list isn’t designed to be hot takes or drive traffic — probably quite the contrary. They’re foundational beliefs and observations that we’ve been practicing or observing and have felt reinforcement with this year. I believe they will transcend “fitness trends” as we all sift through the rubbish that is the fitness social media machine.

At this point in my career, I’ve seen a lot of trends come and go. I’m now seeing some come back around — and there are some I’m happy to see go.

Without further ado, here they are.

1. Well-Rounded Programming Is King

I believe the days of “You just need HIIT / STRENGTH / CARDIO / CROSSFIT / HYROX / CYCLING / RUNNING / PILATES / ETC” are over.

People on social media or gyms that are just learning about marketing may still push this kind of dogmatic or oversimplified language on consumers. But the science and readily available information are really clear:

Everybody is better served with programming that includes strength training, metabolic training, and aerobic development — preferably not all squeezed into one workout.

2. Mobility Is Neural, Not Local Tissue-Based

Mobility is far more about your body and brain learning how to move actively through a full range of motion than trying to stretch local tissue into oblivion.

Contrary to popular belief, I am not opposed to stretching. It can be very useful to open up space for someone to move into.

However, if you do not follow up light, dynamic stretching with moving through the range of motion, you may be diminishing your body’s ability to use those muscles or joints by over-stretching — not improving your mobility.

If a muscle is chronically tight, that is usually for a reason. Often it means your body is overcompensating because it doesn’t trust other muscles, systems, or patterns.

And yes — breathwork helps you control your autonomic nervous system (fight-or-flight mode) and has a profound effect on mobility.

3. Coaching Far Transcends Exercises & Programs

For over 5 years I’ve been traveling the country to observe and learn from the best coaches and facilities, and one thing always stands out: their coaching eye in action.

As a team, we preach and believe in Coaching First — coaching the person in front of you, not dogma, trends, or what someone screaming on the internet says.

This year was a huge milestone as we hosted one of the best coaches in the world, Mike Robertson, for a seminar on programming and coaching. In the past, we’ve hosted others such as the Postural Restoration Institute, and I’m thrilled to tease that we’ll be hosting multiple courses and seminars in 2026.

Both of our programs — RevoFit and MTStrong Semi-Private Training — offer different approaches depending on your needs. And both will be even better in 2026.

At the risk of sounding jaded, I see too many young trainers reselling someone else’s programs and believing they can learn everything from YouTube. Going forward, we’re committed to in-person experience and exposure so our coaches can bring a deep toolbox to our community.

4. Experience Matters

The older I get, the more this stands out.

Experienced coaches provide far more than demonstrations or cheerleading — they communicate what you should feel, what matters, and how to adjust based on context.

Everyone should squat — but not everyone should back squat. If you’re looking to get stronger but you’ve been dealing with chronic lower back pain or just got through giving birth, back squats are probably a bad idea. A great coach understands when and how to modify movements based on injury history, life stage, and goals.

For this point, I considered switching out experience with exposure. Early on in my Revo journey, it was easy to stay in our own walls and get complacent with our methods. But seeking exposure is important to me in the gym and out in the world — whether that be seeking to ski big lines or learn from great gyms and mentors around the country — this principle and action provides perspective.

Much of our team will be travelling to learn in 2026, and I’m excited to bring that growth back to Missoula.

5. If You’re Over 35, You Need More Plyometrics & Speed Work

I say this from experience.

There were times I rushed strength work and ignored speed and plyometrics — and it caught up with me. Reintroducing them has dramatically improved how I feel, recover, and perform.

Plyometrics can be micro-dosed throughout the week. Simple, effective work before sessions builds reactivity, pliability, and resilience — qualities we naturally lose with age.

As mountain athletes, this matters. Nobody in our circles wants to be more rigid or slow – The dosage is the key.

6. We See Far More People Undernourished Than Overtrained

Recovery strategies are important — but many people struggle because they simply aren’t eating enough or planning intelligently.

Running or biking daily, strength training, and adult life require protein, carbs, fats, sleep, and down-regulation.

If this sounds familiar, you may not need less training — you may need a better plan. Better habits, adjusting your workout schedule, and eating/sleeping enough can do wonders for your wellbeing.

7. Abs Are Made in the Kitchen

I know, this one is obvious. But personally, I have swung back to the importance of nutrition knowledge for the everyday person and the benefits of macro tracking.

I constantly hear from folks that they “definitely eat enough” and then proceed to complain about nagging aches and pains from their favorite activities or the gym. That’s like never putting fuel in your vehicle and wondering why it’s always breaking down.

Tracking provides clarity and reference points — even if it’s not forever. Personally, it helps me avoid under-fueling early and over-eating later.

An experienced nutrition coach isn’t about dieting or echoing to “just eat more protein” — it’s about developing skills and habits that last.

8. Perimenopausal & Menopausal Women Are Being Targeted by Predatory Marketing

Here’s the only point I have that I think may ruffle some feathers.

There is a lot of noise, fear-based messaging, and dogma being sold.

It’s exhausting, but here’s the bright side: due to the dialogue, it’s being researched and tested better than ever. And yes, adjustments should be made. But many of the extreme takes are being disproven rapidly.

The science supports balanced strength training, metabolic work, and aerobic development — all adjusted to recovery.

Strength training is hugely important for maintaining muscle mass and bone density. 1-3 times per week is ideal depending on experience, goals, and background in the gym.

Metabolic training (HIIT) has huge benefits, particularly hormonally with all the changes happening, particularly insulin sensitivity (weight gain). It also aids in improving VO2 max, which is still one of the greatest indicators of life expectancy.

Speaking of VO2 max, everyone needs aerobic development. Cardiovascular and metabolic disease are still the leading causes or mortality of all populations in the US – no, zone 2 isn’t poisonous for women. That’s absurd. Contextually, it’s more about what you need based on your training background and what’s most efficient for you.

All of these need to be balanced based on work capacity – Your ability to recover. That’s why a good coach is key – they can help learn about you, where you’re at, and how to adjust accordingly.

Of course, this information can feel better received from someone with life experience similar to yours. But just remember, there’s a lot of people in the health and wellness field with something to sell. Algorithms encourage extreme takes and controversy.

Whether or not it’s ethical or truly science-based is really hard to discern in 2026. Like any realm of fitness, I’d personally view dogmatic or singular approaches as major red flags.

Theme for 2026: Agency

Before we send everyone off into 2026, I want to quickly address my theme for 2026 – Agency.

In my training and in life, there have been times where I felt adrift. As if I let proverbial or real storms dictate my direction. Where the ship was headed. 

In 2026 I am resolving to change this, and I challenge you to do the same.

To steer the ship.

Agency is the ability—and the willingness—to take responsibility for your life, your decisions, and your outcomes.

It’s recognizing that:

• You are not powerless
  
• You are not a victim of circumstance
  
• And while you can’t control everything, you can always control your response, your effort, and your standards

Agency is the opposite of outsourcing responsibility—to luck, genetics, the system, the weather, your schedule, your boss, your coach, or your past.

Are you taking agency in your life or letting a hectic schedule or a rough patch dictate your outcomes? 

This can be as simple as planning your lunches for the week as opposed to eating out 3-5 times per week. Or it can be about intentionally planning your workout schedule instead of trying to squeeze it in when it works. 

Or it can be about waking up or going to bed at the same time instead of always wondering why you’re tired or irritable. 

Your reasons will be your own – but let’s take on 2026 together and steer the ship, lest we end up adrift.

Let’s get it. Happy New Year.