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Stronger Starts Now – Rebuild, Realign, and Level Up for Fall: Why This RevoFit Block Might Be Exactly What Your Body Needs

August 7, 2025

By Michael Savasuk – Revo Training Center | August 2025

You’ve been outside. A lot.

Long trail runs, big rides, ridge scrambles, backpacking trips — it’s what you live for. It’s the whole reason you train in the first place.

But maybe lately, your body’s been whispering that something’s a little off. Or screaming.

That familiar twinge in your knee starts to show up by mile five.
Your hips or SI joint ache at night in bed — not enough to stop you, but enough to notice.
You need longer to warm up, or it takes hours to truly wind down after a big effort.
You’ve rolled your ankle twice this summer, even though you’ve been trail running for years. And now it seems to just keep happening.

This isn’t weakness. It’s just your body asking for a little backup. A little more resilience.

And that’s exactly what this next RevoFit training block is built to do.

What This Block Is All About

For the next six weeks, we’re dialing in a focused blend of restoring strength, movement precision, and targeted conditioning to help you:

Rebuild strength and tissue quality that’s been worn down by high outdoor volume
Address the subtle imbalances and compensations that show up when you move in the same patterns all summer at fatigue
Prep your nervous system and joints for higher output and contrast work in the fall
Provide your brain and muscles with a larger toolbox with which to move through space

This isn’t just about training hard. It’s about training intelligently — with intention, adaptability, and carryover to the life you actually live.

Day 1 & 2: Strength — Better Foundation, More Resilient, [Re]Building Strength

Normally we only do strength on Day 1, and our Day 2 is more metabolic. However, with this program both days 1 and 2 are strength-focused — but not in the way you might expect.

Instead of chasing PRs or volume for volume’s sake, we’re asking you to move with more control, stability, and conscious positioning than you might be used to.

But don’t worry if you’re on the gains train – We’ll be building a lot of strength this program as we head into our fall training protocols.

Day 1: Offset Strength & True Core Control

You’ll notice a lot of single-arm work, mixed rack positions, and anti-rotation challenges. That’s not random — it’s deliberate.

This type of loading forces you to deliberately maintain a stacked position in different movements, using your obliques, glutes, and breath to control your ribcage and pelvis, instead of defaulting to low-back tension or brute-force strategies.

This is what real core training looks like:

Moving with load while managing pressure and position – And being able to breathe while doing it
Bracing through movement, not against it
Learning to breathe under stress, so you can actually access your strength when you need it and keep doing so over time

We’re training proprioception and postural awareness in ways that carry directly into things like descending technical trails, picking your line on a bike, or scrambling over scree when your balance matters most.

Progression-wise? Expect loads to increase week-to-week as your control and movement quality improves.

An Analogy I like: “Think of this like training your body to stand strong in a storm. Not rigid, but anchored. Responsive. Ready. Defiant”

Day 2: Power Across Planes

In Day 2 we will continue with strength, but we will add movements that ask you to generate force — and absorb it — in multiple directions. That means more frontal plane work (think side lunges), more transverse plane (rotation), and more explosive effort.

A big mistake a lot of training modalities make is they only train in the sagittal plane (Flexion & extension, think a leg press) and then we go out in a world that moves in all directions.

If you want to be more athletic — not just stronger — you need to be able to move fluidly, under load, with precision in every direction. You need to be able to rotate.

We combine offset weights with vertical hops, rotational movement, and control-demanding transitions. Your body learns to coordinate different muscle groups together, instead of letting compensations dictate your strategy.

Built into each set, we still come back to postural reset tools — like slider pikes, bear plank variations, and bridge positions — to lock in quality positions before fatigue erodes it.

The goal isn’t just to be able to move better. It’s to move better under pressure & stress, so it carries over into the messy, beautiful chaos of the real world.

Day 3: Conditioning That Doesn’t Break You to Build You

We’ll say it loudly because it bears repeating: not all conditioning needs to be a sufferfest to be effective.

Joel Jamieson’s conditioning framework and a great deal of metabolic research — which we draw from heavily — teaches us that strategic conditioning can build athleticism, speed, and recovery capacity without trashing your nervous system or joints. Sometimes, pushing too hard is limiting your results.

Part 1: Aerobic Plyometrics

These look like jumps, throws, and low-intensity bounds — but they’re not about going all-out.

Instead, we’re training elasticity, joint durability, and fast-twitch aerobic capacity — all while staying submaximal.

It feels like rhythm and bounce. Think flow, not fight.

If you watch world class athletes – Particularly runners & cyclists – You’ll notice how fluid and rhythmic their movement is. This can be trainable.

Benefits include:

Increased tendon and connective tissue resilience
Improved ability to recover between efforts
Better running/athletic economy and overall joint health

Part 2: Explosive Repeats

This is where you will bring the power — but with full recovery between sets so you can actually maintain output.

We’re targeting the alactic energy system, which fuels short, high-force efforts — like charging up a hill, or picking up speed for a pass on the bike.

What this gives you:

More top-end power and repeatability
Better nervous system efficiency
A chance to train intensity without systemic overload

This is what sustainable, smart, performance-focused conditioning looks like. What’s great about both of these modalities is they should pair perfectly with a weekend packed full of adventures. You won’t feel beat up the day after these. In fact, they should help upregulate you so you feel up to the task.

And yes, it’s still hard — just not suffering for the sake of it.

This Block Isn’t Just for the Hardcore Outdoor Athletes

You don’t have to be training for a trail race or backcountry objective to benefit from this block.

If you’re:

Feeling a little beat up from a long summer of play
Coming back to training after some time off
Looking to feel better, move better, and train with more intent…

This block will meet you where you are — and help you build a stronger foundation for what’s coming next.

Looking Ahead: The Fall Ramp-Up

This block sets the stage for our fall programming, where we’ll introduce contrast training, heavier strength progressions, and more advanced power-skill development for those prepping for ski season or looking to peak physically before winter hits.

But that only works if your movement quality, strength foundation, and joint integrity are in place now.

Movement in the gym is a skill, just like any other sport. Don’t wait to strength train in the fall, only to find that you have to re-learn how to move first.

We’re laying the groundwork now — with precision, care, and intention.

You’re Stronger Than You Think

At Revo, we believe training is about more than what happens in the gym. It’s about what you get to do because of it.

We don’t coach workouts. We coach people — with real lives, real goals, and real limitations. And our job is to help you keep going — not just harder, but longer.

So if your body’s been talking to you lately, this block is your chance to listen, reset, and come back stronger.

We’re here for it — and for you.

Ready to train with purpose? Join us in this new block, or come in for a free strategy session and we’ll help you map it out.
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