Getting Started with Functional Fitness at R3VIVE

Derek Saffold • January 18, 2022
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A new year often sparks fresh goals, hobbies, and intentions. Health and fitness are among the most popular resolutions, whether it’s improving physical fitness, mastering a new movement, or building connections within your local community. At R3VIVE Fitness, we welcome individuals at every stage of their fitness journey, from beginners to seasoned athletes.

Starting at a new gym can be intimidating, but we believe in a structured and supportive approach—not the “sink or swim” mentality. Our process ensures you feel comfortable, safe, and set up for long-term success.

Here’s what you can expect when you begin your journey with us:

Step 1: Initial Consultation

Your fitness journey begins with a 30-minute consultation. During this session, our expert coaches will:

  • Understand your fitness goals.
  • Assess your starting point.
  • Get to know you on a personal level.

This consultation helps us create a personalized plan, which may include:

  • On-Ramp Program : Ideal for beginners to ease into our training.
  • Movement Assessment : To identify strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Class Recommendations : Tailored guidance to match your goals and experience.

We’ll collaborate to select the best path forward to help you thrive.

Getting started with a consult is easy and can be done by scheduling an in-person or virtual / remote visit. 

SCHEDULING A CONSULTATION...

Getting started with a consult is easy and can be done by scheduling an in-person or virtual / remote visit. 

Step 2: Movement Assessment

No two fitness journeys are the same, which is why a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work. Our Movement Assessment is designed to evaluate your current fitness level and gather critical information about your unique background, strengths, and areas for improvement.

By understanding where you are right now, we can create a personalized plan that sets you up for long-term success and helps you achieve your goals efficiently and safely.

 

WHAT IS A MOVEMENT ASSESSMENT?

WHAT IS A MOVEMENT ASSESSMENT?

Our Movement Assessment is a comprehensive, joint-by-joint evaluation that provides valuable insights into your:

  • Flexibility (passive range of motion)
  • Mobility (active range of motion)
  • Core strength
  • Aerobic base
  • Potential movement limitations due to prior injuries

This detailed assessment allows us to tailor your fitness journey, ensuring you can train pain-free and make consistent progress. The information we gather helps our coaches provide better guidance during classes and customize your On-Ramp experience to meet your specific needs and goals.

 

Step 3: Foundations Program

At R3VIVE, we believe every athlete should start with the basics. Our Foundations Program provides a unique opportunity for one-on-one coaching, where we guide you through essential movement patterns and the core methodologies used in our functional fitness classes.

This personalized approach ensures you build a strong foundation, develop proper technique, and gain confidence as you progress toward your fitness goals.

Coach instructing class

Our Foundations Program is specifically designed to set you up for success before transitioning into our functional fitness, PUMP, or barbell classes. These sessions provide a thorough understanding of fundamental movements, ensuring you feel confident and comfortable performing them in a class setting.

By mastering the basics, you’ll enjoy more efficient and enjoyable workouts, maximizing the value of each day you spend at R3VIVE. Plus, this foundation allows our coaches to focus on refining your progress, creating a fun and productive experience for everyone.

Read more about how we value and conduct our foundations program.

Functional Fitness Classes

When you join our Functional Fitness Classes , you’ll be welcomed by our coaches, who will guide you through the class program. Classes are designed to be flexible, offering a challenge tailored to any fitness level.

Each class features two tracks , allowing you to choose the movements you feel comfortable with. The coach is there to guide you, personalize the experience, and modify any exercises based on current abilities. This ensures that every athlete can train safely, progress at their own pace, and get the most out of every workout.

Getting started with classes

Getting started with classes

At R3VIVE, we offer two distinct tracks to help you progress in your fitness journey based on your goals and experience:

  • BUILD Track
    Focused on foundational strength, structural balance, and movement patterns, the BUILD track helps you develop functional skills that seamlessly transfer to your everyday life. It’s perfect for those starting their fitness journey or looking to reinforce their fundamentals.

  • PERFORM Track
    The PERFORM track is designed to take your fitness to the next level by incorporating higher-skill movements and increased intensities. This track enables you to push your limits and achieve advanced fitness goals.

Both tracks are tailored to enhance your functional fitness for daily life—it’s all about how you want to get there. Our coaches will work with you to identify the best path for your needs and guide you every step of the way!

We can’t wait to see you in the gym and for the opportunity to help you improve your fitness!

By Derek Saffold December 26, 2025
Hey R3VIVE Athletes, The Apex training cycle, going from January 5th to April 3rd, is our next training cycle! This will be the firt training cycle of the new year! this is a chance to refocus and get in some good work to help you reach your goals! lets all work together to crush this training cycle! Functional Fitness: The Apex Cycle is designed to make your year-long strength work truly functional, focusing on controlled, powerful movements, complexes under fatigue, and mandated touch-and-go reps to prepare you for mixed-modal workouts. Our strength culminates in the classic CrossFit Total and the "R3VIVE Other Total," while conditioning features a wide variety of time domains, movement volume builds (like wall balls, toes-to-bar, and burpees), and regular Friday retests of past workouts to track your progress and ensure you perform your absolute best. Build: Designed to bring together all your training from the past year and prepare you for your strongest performance yet. Our strength work will focus on controlled, powerful movements, building you up to test your limits with both the classic CrossFit Total and the "R3VIVE Other Total," which challenges your skill and strength balance. Expect a well-rounded program including unilateral strength, skill work, and core stability, with dedicated days for deadlifts, squats, gymnastics, and varied accessory work to keep you healthy and constantly progressing. For conditioning, we're tailoring the work to challenge you in new ways, featuring a wide variety of time domains and movements, and a specific volume build on common movements like wall balls, toes-to-bar, and burpees. Instead of a standard test/retest, we'll be performing regular retests of past workouts on Fridays, allowing you to easily track your progress and see how far you've come. Our weekly template balances intensity—with short, fast metcons on Mondays—with recovery, incorporating lower impact endurance work on Thursdays, and a strategic taper toward the end of the week to set you up for success on Friday! Partner workouts will wrap up your week every Saturday, bringing the whole community together.
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.
By Derek Saffold September 22, 2025
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