For a lot of you the answer is… NO.

Why…

You’re still making excuses.

You want “fast” results without doing the work.

You don’t actually want to work your ass off.

You groan about price and aren’t willing to make an investment in yourself.

Are you still reading?

Did that last section get you all fired up?

Okay… maybe Beyond Strength IS for YOU.

Let’s talk about what happens when you join up.

Most group training programs just throw you into class and say, “good luck!”

We hate that crap. Why? Because it’s not the best thing for YOU!

During the certainty session you sit down, one-on-one, with Beyond Strength founder, Chris Merritt, to find YOUR starting point.

You’ll do strength and conditioning tests.

You’ll determine the EXACT exercises that you’ll start with during your first day in class… and which classes you should attend.

You’ll get certainty that you’re doing the right things for YOU and YOUR GOALS, right now…

… so that all you have to do is show up to class and put in the work.

We have four different types of classes, each designed to build the strength, power, endurance, and resilience that you need to take on any challenge.

Each class begins with a group warm-up that improves joint mobility, raises your heart rate, improves athleticism, and gets your body ready to work.

After the warm-up, you follow the path through class that’s right for you. Whether it’s the right kind of deadlift to fit your body or intensity of the exercises during one of our conditioning classes, every aspect of the workout is tailored to fit YOU.

Strength

Full-body workouts that develop power and strength. They include all of the major movements: squats, deadlifts, pushing, pulling, jumping, throwing, and core training. Our strength workouts are designed to challenge you and build strength in an intelligent way…so that you get stronger instead of injured.

Vigor

Interval-based workouts that train both of your body’s major energy systems—aerobic and anaerobic. That means they help you power up that big hill on a hike, finish a run strong, or keep you playing hard at the end of any game.

Resilience

Muscle is the most metabolic tissue in the body. That means if you want to stay lean, athletic, and strong, you need to build muscle. Resilience is a high-volume, interval-based strength training class that builds muscle to help you keep the fat down and your stamina up.

Endurance

One of the biggest mistakes other gyms make is that they have their clients work at high heart rates. All. The. Damn. Time. But if you want all-day energy, you need to develop  a strong aerobic base. That means training your heart and lungs to send more oxygen and nutrients to your body. Endurance is designed to train your aerobic system to work more efficiently so that you have all-day energy and better recovery from your other training sessions.

You know how other gyms tell you to maybe watch the scale or pay attention to how your clothes fit, but they don’t give you any way to know whether or not you’re actually getting real results? That’s bunk, right?

How can you know if you’re getting results if you’re not measuring anything?

Spoiler alert: you can’t.

That’s why we test.

Every thirteenth week at Beyond Strength is testing week. You get to display the hard-earned results that you’ve trained for during the previous twelve weeks, while seeing exactly which level of training you’re at.

We have four levels of training: Green, Yellow, Blue, Black.

At each level the difficulty of the training and the testing increases. Each test gives a snapshot of what you’ve accomplished, but also what you currently need from the standpoints of strength and conditioning. Guiding your path through training for the next twelve weeks. That way you continue to have certainty about which classes you should attend and what you should do during those classes.

But the levels are bigger than that.

They give you goals to aspire to that drive your motivation to train so that you can be the strongest, most conditioned, most resilient version of yourself.

You might be thinking, “What if I’m already at the Black level?”

Trust us, you’re not. 😉

Here’s the deal: your body doesn’t care about workouts.

It cares about adaptation and survival so that it can thrive. That means you have to give it the right kind of training stress at the right time so that it adapts to grow stronger and more resilient.

Strength—it’s the result of your body overcoming the threat of lifting weights.

Endurance—it’s the result of overcoming the threat of elevated heart rates and sustained effort.

Fat loss—it’s the result of teaching your body to use energy while teaching yourself how much you actually need to eat.

The problem is most people and most gyms just think about workouts. They don’t see the big picture and they don’t see how it all fits together. But just thinking about the workout sets you up for long-term failure…even if you see some short-term benefit.

Why? Because too much of the wrong kind of training stress at the wrong times causes your body to regress…or worse puts you into a cycle of injury.

Our training works over the long-term because it’s designed based on how the human body actually works. How it adapts to threats and survives to thrive and kick that threat’s ass the next time around.

Each of our workouts is designed to fit into the big picture. Zooming out as far as a year and zooming in to how each interval is designed during our conditioning classes and how each set and rep is chosen during our strength classes.

This shit is meticulous. 🙂

To make sure you’re training the right way at the right time, we follow the neural-metabolic continuum. It’s a scientific way to organize training so that your body gets the right kind of training at the right times.

That means the right kind of training at the right times so that you get long-term, sustainable results.

Strength and power are mostly neurological adaptations, and metabolic stress limits your ability to access the full power of your nervous system. It also takes your nervous system longer to recover than your muscles.

So, having your last, “heavy” strength training session during the middle of the week gives your body plenty of time to recover before the strength session at the beginning of the next week. It also limits the negative effects that metabolic stress has on your ability to access your strength. In our system, the heaviest strength efforts are placed early- to mid-week so that you can access your strength and get the full benefit of training.

You can recover from metabolic stress, or the type of stress you experience from conditioning and high-volume resistance training, faster than from the neurological stress of heavy strength training (provided that you’re hydrated, sleeping, and eating like an adult).

But we also have to be mindful that our conditioning efforts don’t take away from our strength building efforts. To make sure it’s all in the right balance, we sprinkle metabolic stress throughout the week in the right doses—placing the heaviest doses of metabolic stress at the end of the week. That way you have plenty of time to recover before hitting the next week, hard.

It’s our science-based approached to giving you the right training at the right times so that you kick ass over the long-haul.