By Brad Bloom, Publisher
We love a good adventure. Nothing says fitness like pushing your own limits, fresh air and the chance to begin with organized adventure and then take it beyond to ‘off the beaten path’. So when Athletic Business focused on Adventure Fitness we were like – let’s do this!
Faith & Fitness Magazine is pleased to partner with Athletic Business and hold our national Redefined Conference at the AB Show. In their Digital Focus on Adventure Fitness, they open up their archive to share some of their best recent coverage of adventure fitness. In it they talk about how fitness businesses can adapt their facilities for Ninja Obstacle Training, course design and activating green space for outdoor exercise and wellbeing.
Over the years Faith & Fitness Magazine has featured some incredible examples of how Adventure Fitness can do much more than providing a fun and challenging approach to the obvious – physical exercise. As Andy Berg says in Athletic Business, “Our definition of fitness has expanded beyond the narrow measures of muscle tone and cardiovascular health. Professionals in the athletics, fitness and recreation industries now understand true fitness to be an amalgam of many aspects of our being.”
This collection of our adventure fitness content comes from 2 of our departments: Intense Intents (named because the featured content and programs are both of a higher intensity and have outcomes intentionally more than just physical) and Spa & Fitness Retreat. So, let’s get exploring what all adventure fitness has to offer.
We begin with an audio interview with Wayne Burns, owner of Fortified Warrior Ninja Training in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Then we go to Oregon where Matt Antis shows how to jump on the adventure fitness movement at Revolution Parkour. In Maine adventure athlete Katie Spotz may be just the person you want to hire to be your adventure fitness coach and trainer. Our next stop is in St. Croix Falls, Minnesota at Amy Sotis’ Luminaries Retreat. Then in the UK explore FitFish with Gaynor Burton. Our whirlwind exploration of adventure fitness finally arrives at Elevation Fit with the opportunity for you to plan your own adventure.
FORTIFIED WARRIOR NINJA TRAINING
Wayne Burns, owner of Fortified Warrior Ninja Training in Murfreesboro, Tennessee shares about the potential of Ninja training programming to achieve advances beyond the physical.
REVOLUTION PARKOUR
Matt and Whitney Antis at Revolution Parkour in Oregon help members truly discover how to take a leap of faith with their fitness.
ADVENTURE ATHLETE KATIE SPOTZ
Nothing says ‘we’re serious about adventure’ more than having an adventure athlete coach your adventure fitness program. AND Maine’s adventure athlete Katie Spotz really knows adventure!
LUMINARIES RETREAT
So you might be asking, “What does fitness retreats have to do with adventure fitness? Enlighten me.” Amy Sotis, owner of Luminaries Retreat in St. Croix Falls, Minnesota can do exactly that. A sense of adventure is only the beginning to rest, reflection, focus and inspiration — the things that create a well-lit path to daily life where spirits shine brightly.
FITFISH
In the UK Gaynor Burton’s FitFish fitness retreats bring spiritual renewal to those who want to make steps toward healthier living in supportive surroundings. They offer programs in various European destinations.
ELEVATION FIT
Finally, Faith & Fitness Magazine takes you to Shenandoah National Park to invite you to take the next step in adventure fitness. Elevation Fit gives you a way to begin to consider how you can imagine, plan and do a fitness retreat that can powerfully shape perspective, fuel enthusiasm for fitness, and strengthen deeper driving forces to a wholistic, healthier and passionate lifestyle. CONTACT US and we can help you do your own fitness retreat.
