Overcoming Injury and Fear in Strength Training

Last week, while squatting 205#, I heard a pop in my lower back followed immediately by quite a bit of pain and muscle spasms. Luckily, being a Physical Therapist myself and an Original Strength Certified Clinician, I knew what to do. Injury comes with pain and often localized swelling (and occasionally bleeding). Being an injury …

Rebecca Lyons – Moving Pain Free and Smashing Goals

Rebecca Lyons is our Spotlight Member this week!!!  Rebecca has been at OSI for a year and we love having her and her family with us!  She has accomplished some amazing things while she has been here and when she is in class we always know it is going to be awesome and encouraging!  Keep it …

Meet Jayne – Her ‘I CAN’T’ excuse became ‘I CAN’

Our Spotlight Member this week is 63-year-young and strong, Jayne Koch!!   We love Jayne and we are so glad she is at OS Institute with us!  She is one of those people that everyone wants to partner up with and is an awesome encourager.  We always know that when Jayne is in class, the class …

New Dad – Lost 20lbs and 8 inches and Gaining a Better Life!

Meet our Member Spotlight of the week, Tim Byers!!!  Tim and his wife Tenille have an adorable baby girl named Ellie, we love when they visit class!  Tim has been coming to OSI for a couple months now and he has seen some great results so we want to celebrate with him.  He recently participated …

Fischer and Hunter Pearson – Brothers, Baseball, and Brawn

Our Spotlight Members of the week are Fischer and Hunter Pearson!!!  Fischer and Hunter are brothers, amazing baseball players, and great kids; they always give it their all in class and meet anything thrown at them by their instructors head on!  They both have seen many improvements in their strength and baseball skills since starting OSI, read …

Michael Colón – Resetting and Changing for the Better

Michael has been with us at OSI training at mostly the 5:30am class for almost a year and a half!  His dedication to fitness and OSI is apparent in everything he does.  Because of this show of commitment he is being recognized as our spotlight member this week!!  Congratulations Michael and keep doing you! How …

Exercise: Don’t Be a Hater

The word “exercise” invokes different feelings depending on the person.  Your mindset toward exercise (and everything really) influences how your kids react to it.  Kids don’t usually “exercise” in the formal, go to the gym, way.  They don’t need it because they have sports, playgrounds, and the ability to run around like crazy people all day …