Wagner, a Gym Jones instructor at Equinox in Chicago, walks over and points at my bloody shin. That, I’d learn is a Gym Jones “standard.”Ĭ.J. “Man, I could get you to twice your body weight in eight weeks,” he says. “It forces better form,” Owen says, “to a point.” He adds a few small plates till I hit a one-rep max. Five reps.” My quads are screaming, but something about it feels easier with more weight. Most of the other attendees have some degree of Gym Jones education and came to this seminar with personal records, or PRs, in mind. There are groans and the sound of big weight hitting the floor around me. Shoulders broad, not rounded, chest proud, bar close to shins. I need to lift from my heels, not the balls of my feet. The instructors float, pointing out form adjustments and issuing weights. The group goes to work, lifting weight and putting it down. He’d rather see me lift 100 pounds with good form than an ugly 200, he says.
“What’s your goal with all this?” Frasier asks me as I slot 45-pound plates on a bar. We move into the first heavy lift of the weekend. Matt Owen, owner of Project Deliverance and a Gym Jones certified instructor, gives us a quick lesson on proper deadlift form. There are a few ripped young women, and a “cheer mom” coming back from a leg injury. There’s a 45-year-old firefighter from the Chicago ’burbs who wants to “run into burning buildings when I’m 55,” and a squad of big lifters from Project Deliverance in St. Circled up, everyone introduces themselves. We shuffle toward the stack of 1-inch pipe, 6 feet long, and Frasier leads us in a stretch routine to open up shoulders, knees, and hips. “Grab a PVC pipe,” says Kurtis Frasier, Element26 owner and Gym Jones instructor. There’s a fleet of Concept2 bikes, rowers, and skiers, and a group of us assembled for a Gym Jones Fundamentals seminar. On the floor at Element26, this all starts easy enough.
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Photo by Kurtis Frasier for Free Range American. Matt Owen, a nationally ranked powerlifter and Gym Jones certified head instructor. Boshard still jokes about “the clever marketing of no marketing.” To fully grasp Gym Jones you had to show up, and put out. If the first rule of CrossFit is tell everyone you do CrossFit, Gym Jones took the opposite approach. This early Gym Jones programming became legendary in the fitness world, but details were limited. Instead of a Venice Beach-style, “back and bi’s, chest and tri’s” protocol that dominated bodybuilding at the time, Twight combined high-intensity interval programming and compound movements like Olympic lifts and kettlebell work with a “mind is primary” philosophy that pushed climbers, brawlers, and warfighters to peak physical performance.
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As the story goes, Snyder so admired Twight’s charisma, he said, “That guy could get people to drink poison in the jungle.” The business was soon after named Gym Jones.įor the movie 300, Twight turned 35 actors and stuntmen into Spartans. In 2005, Boshard, who did wardrobe work for Zach Snyder, connected Twight to Hollywood. It quickly earned a reputation for the hardest workouts in America. Members of the US military special operations community heard about this powerful new program and were invited in. Boshard, long involved with jiujitsu, soon brought mixed martial artists to train with their core group of climbers. The movement started in 2003 when Mark Twight, an accomplished climber, and his then-wife, Lisa Boshard, opened the original, invite-only Gym Jones in Salt Lake City. In the world of hardcore fitness, Gym Jones stands alone. Nothing about this place - Element26, run by an ex-Army Ranger - is normal. There are no tall lockers here like in a normal globo gym. There’s a wire shelf in the corner where I sat my gym bag. Next to the urinal is a poster of King Leonidas from the movie 300, looking ripped as fuck. Over the sink in the restroom where I’m hiding hangs a 1 st Ranger Battalion flag. On the south side of Bloomington, Illinois, in a warehouse next to an empty golf cart dealership, a small tribe of men and women prep to suffer.
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