I saw a gap in the community for middle and high school aged girls when it came to this.  To increase my daughter’s gymnastics skills, even after seeking out private lessons, it became clear that she needed to develop strength and power, not specific to gymnastics.  Things that I LOVE to do as a weight lifter, things I teach my clients as a personal trainer, but NONE of which she is learning in school gym class or her gymnastics practices.

Rather than send her to a male-athlete-focused program at another local gym, I got together with some other parents who found themselves in similar situations.  Wanting their girls to succeed, but not knowing how to help them.  Watching them lose their confidence in themselves, juggling those adolescent feelings of overwhelm, body image issues, and self doubt.  We decided it was time to take action.

Our methodology is foundational strength, speed and agility, stability and power.  Our goal is to create well-rounded athletes that train hard with less injury and see progress each season.  But FUN is also a main priority for our girls.  Phoenix is NOT a place to be judged, its a place to try new, hard things, and get BETTER.  In classes we will talk about food as fuel, overcoming self doubt, and dealing with stress in healthy ways.  We will talk about the fact that ALL women can be athletes.  ALL women can be powerful.  ALL women are worthy of taking care of themselves, mentally and physically.  These are VITAL conversations we need to be having with our girls, both in and out of the gym.

Classes will run on a weekly cycle. While we will identify benchmarks for training, we will not make that a focus or assessment (we all remember those awful fitness tests in gym class, THIS is not that).  We’ll make sure to communicate with you how they are tracking toward their goals and the progress they are making, every step of the way.  Because class sizes are small (less than 10 girls per class) we will give your girl lots of personal attention at each class.  It is my deep desire for Phoenix to be an outlet for them with trusted coaches and mentors they can count on.