Megan Galata has transformed after two years and change of training at Beyond Strength. Like, big time transformed. She went from never really strength training before to achieving our current highest level of fitness standards, the Black Level. She’s the first woman to do it. Her journey started with Beyond Strength started with hesitant...Read More
Heads up: This article delivers some harsh truths. The goal is to inspire you to think about how you’re approaching your internal and external dialogue in the gym. It’s not written in judgment. It’s written with well-intentioned honesty. Okay, let’s proceed. “Shit, this is workout is going to suck.” “At work today, this...Read More
Standing there in the middle of Wegmans, a couple of bags of dinner rolls in his shopping cart, Jake wore a frown on his face. He felt his knuckles tighten around the shopping cart as stress started sliding up to the surface. Why does tomorrow have to be Thanksgiving? My diet has been going so...Read More
“Other gyms I’ve been to in the past don’t care what I do, as long as I’m paying my monthly fee. At BSP NOVA, I feel like I’m visiting my family when I walk in to workout.” -Danielle Does this sound familiar to you? You pull up to an empty parking spot, step out of...Read More
“We all need something to struggle against and to struggle for. The aim in life is not to avoid struggles, but to have the right ones; not to avoid worry, but care about the right things; not to live without fear, but to confront worthy fears with force and passion.” – Eric Greitens Have you...Read More
“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and need a comrade to pull you up? So what?” -Marcus Aurelius In the spring of 2015, the spring break of my junior year at JMU, I was sitting on the coach...Read More
Twas the night before Christmas, except that it wasn’t, because it was actually December 1st and 8am in the morning. This time marked the beginning of BSP NOVA’s first Santa Around The World (SATW) competition and it was a blast. We started this competition with the hope to create a fun event for our members...Read More
The world lost an amazing woman in Diane Melick on Saturday April 28th, 2018. She fought long and hard to beat all the odds with pancreatic cancer, and seriously kicked it’s butt for somewhere in the ballpark of 16 months longer than she was given to live. But even Diane, one of the strongest humans...Read More
Today’s blog is an actual email we received from a BSP NOVA member, Katie Jacobson, last week. You may recognize Katie as the BSP NOVA homepage cover model—you know, the girl smiling ear to ear at the top of her deadlift—yup, that’s her. And with her permission we’ve decided to turn that email into a...Read More
“Most New Year’s resolutions are actually January resolutions. We’re so eager to have an amazing month that we exhaust ourselves in the first three weeks of the year and never make it to February.” – Jon Acuff in “Finish” So how do we make real, lasting change? Don’t be so hard on yourself. Make that...Read More
