Here at Encompass Fitness, it’s our mission to support and empower others to have the ability to live life to the fullest. This means being able to stay healthy, strong, and active to do the things you love, and experience new things you didn’t even know were possible. For longevity and energy, a well rounded fitness program and lifestyle is key. 

SWAT

Not as frightening as it sounds, SWAT stands for strength, weights, agility, and toning. Each day brings a new workout, focusing on the key elements of fitness, and a well-rounded routine. Our programming includes each of the following to maximize your metabolism, build strength, promote cardiovascular health, and ensure mobility and flexibility to be able to tackle activities of daily living with stamina. Weekly programming will be shared with you in the weekly newsletter, and at your goal-setting session for any introductory programs and offers.

Our classes cycle through the following to help you build a strong, capable, versatile body.

Strength Training: Whether upper body, lower body, total body, core strength, or a combination of all of the above, strength training makes it easier to do the things you need to do on a day to day basis, prevents the natural loss of lean muscle that comes with aging, and fuels the metabolism. This is achieved by providing a load to overload the muscles so that they adapt and gain strength. Do to this, we can use body weight, weights, kettlebells, TRX, and more. 

Cardiovascular Training: Engages the heart and lungs to help blood move more efficiently through the body and strengthens the heart, lowering cholesterol and reducing the risk of heart related disease. To do this, we can use body weight. Cardiovascular equipment like cycling or rowing, and even the TRX. 

Endurance Training: Combines strength and cardiovascular training and is important for being able to sustain strength over time. Activities like house cleaning, playing with children or grandchildren, hiking, and kayaking all require strength to be used repetitively over longer periods of time. 

Flexibility and Mobility: With age and inactivity, we naturally lose flexibility; limiting range of motion, reducing balance, and increasing risk of injury. Restoring flexibility, increasing mobility, and increasing balance are important for everyday life, correcting imbalances within the body, and overall abilities (especially with aging!). To improve balance, flexibility, and mobility, we offer specific stretch classes (stick and stretch, and stick mobility) as well as add elements of mobility and flexibility into our fitness classes to turn strength into efficient, practical strength and reduce injuries. 

Power: Power is the bodies ability to respond quickly and explosively. This means being able to quickly respond and react to a sudden slip, hurrying to get across a busy street, or even the muscle recruitment needed to get out a chair with aging. We train power by quickly and efficiently recruiting muscle fibers. This can be done through jumping, activities that mimic jumping, or others that recruit type II muscle fibers. (Don’t worry - we always have modifications - no jumping necessary!) 

Know that our classes are never the same. So, while we focus on these areas, you’ll never be bored, stuck in a rut, or feeling repetitive.

Stick & Stretch

Stick and Stretch focuses on bringing physical and mental balance to the body through relaxing and restorative stretches combined with postures and stretching to bring alignment and stability while reducing tension within the body. You can expect a calming class that includes releasing tight muscles, fascia, and joints while improving balance and posture using equipment and techniques like foam rolling, stick mobility, bands and static stretching.

Stick Mobility

Stick Mobility involves using carbon fibre sticks to help improve flexibility, strength, and coordination. The practice is similar to yoga in some of its standing postures, but also completely different in its enhanced ability to provide joint stability (think core, shoulder, hip, and ankle strength and stability) and active stretching. Whether you’re looking to increase athletic performance, reduce the risk of injury, or accelerate recovery, you’ll be surprised at the benefits you experience!