Oklahoma's only nationally acclaimed training facility and the home of Continuum Training™ and Custom Fit Exercise®

For over 30 years...

Focus on Fitness® has been providing both physical therapy and personal training via a seamless continuum of exercise to meet the needs of "REAL people".

Focus… on YOU

"REAL people"...

  • are not built for exercise the way it is offered by those who are!

  • are not orthopedically tolerant of exercise the way those who love exercise often are!

  • have lives that allow little time for exercise unlike those who neurotically devote hours to it!

  • are not fond of or comfortable in the traditional gym environment, a foreign culture that often includes intimidating clothes, attitudes, and general atmosphere!

  • simply want to feel and look good… and maybe recapture a former sense of ease or even vigor throughout the course of everyday life!

These goals don’t require extreme versions of exercise like Crossfit® or boot camps that wrongly turn fitness into a competition. Quite frankly these are inappropriate and often injury-inducing for the vast majority of the population. Health, wellness, and quality of life are not a competition and require sustainable exercise rather than this month’s flashy movements and secret routines promising the magic of quick results!

Sports are not exercise!

Sports are competitive ballistic activities!

There is no “competition of health”!

Sports are the reason we have sports medicine

In essence, exercise is supposed to BE a medicine!

Have you ever felt like exercise is imposed as “one size fits all”. Certainly, there is a significant number of people that “fit in”…. and the tougher it is the better …for them! We might call them “exceptional”, not necessarily meaning great, but “exceptions to the rule”.

At focus we have spent decades honing the skills of creating and progressing Custom Fit Exercise®. Quite simply, this is the minute by minute, trial and error process of determining exactly what's right for YOU based upon your goals, ...and more importantly, your current needs, abilities, and tolerances.... that may be different every day... or every minute! By analogy, painting by number is for kids. Masters create!

Likewise there should be no predetermined sets, reps, weights, programs, or routines, because at best these are simply historical accounts... just guesses about what's appropriate today! Everything must be "now-determined" after you walk through the door. Progress requires constant and strategic manipulation of many factors that all depend entirely upon the version of YOU that shows up each day! Sometimes long-term progress is best served by backing-off when the body dictates!

Focus... on HOW

It’s not WHAT you do! It’s HOW you do it!

Certainly, what you do matters. But just doing it can be anywhere from a waste of time to potentially injurious over time. Focus is not just a facility. It’s a way of doing exercise. It’s the mindful performance of every fraction of every movement utilizing your attention and intention as the most powerful tools you have for changing your body!

HOW before how many!

HOW WELL before how much!

Don’t “Just Do It”!

It doesn’t matter how much weight is lifted, nor how many times, if it’s poorly executed! Olympic sprinters build speed by honing quality of movement, not just “running fast”. The priority …and continual endeavor… is always “motor learning”. “Owning” one’s body as displayed by progressive control over any movement is the prerequisite for that movement to be challenged safely and effectively… thereby becoming a productive and appropriate “exercise”.

Focus… on Internal Performance ®

Most people focus on the outside and assume that optimal changes automatically occur on the inside. We focus on the inside in order to produce the desired outward results. A simple analogy: Using your car won’t make it better. You would never drive farther or faster to improve or repair it. Likewise, when you walk, run, or play sports you are using your body for locomotion or recreational activities, and these don’t necessarily create the specific improvements required on the inside.

The reality is that these activities require properly functioning “parts” not only just to participate, but also to keep these activities from becoming yet another source of problems. The place to focus your efforts is on the condition of the muscles and joints that produce all of your activities… and even influence “weight loss”! For example, before you can really work on "balancing" you must have adequately functioning "balancers", i.e. the muscles and sensory mechanisms in the toes, feet, ankles, knees, and hips, on which balancing depends. Similarly, before you pound away on the treadmill you should have adequately functioning "walkers".

The function of the parts determines the function of the whole!

This is not a popular sentiment in today’s “just do it” exercise world, but it‘s an undeniable fact of basic human function… the status and interaction of the “parts” influence the function of the whole. Consequently, one must fully understand how to strategically influence the function of the body’s parts and then, via the skilled teaching and progression of motor learning, integrate them to improve the function of the body as a whole! .

Focus… on Results (and Reality)

The most popular guarantee made during the sales and marketing of fitness, exercise, and training is, always has been, and always will be “RESULTS”. The truth is that no trainer or facility can possibly guarantee results because quite frankly they have the least influence in your outcomes. In the same way that it is impossible for a month of exercise to reverse a decade of bad habits, poor lifestyle choices, laziness, busyness, sports injuries, etc., two hours a week with even the best advice, coaching, and exercise cannot possibly counter your decisions the other 166 hours of the week. And overcompensating with extreme exercises and excessive effort beyond one’s current tolerance is simply childish and has never produced sustainable results.

The truth is that any professional… doctor, lawyer, therapist, or trainer… is only responsible for providing appropriate, ethical, client-specific advice, education, and encouragement. They cannot make you heal, legal, healthy, or fit. No spiritual leader can make you a better person. Ultimately YOU are responsible for the effort and commitment that influence your outcomes.

So...

...if you want quick, easy, responsibility free, one-size-fits-all, "guaranteed" results, there’s no shortage of people and places out there making those unethical promises. Focus is not one of them.

Success is not driven by motivation.

Motivation is always temporary.

Success is powered by commitment.

It keeps you going on the days you aren’t motivated!

 

Focus, commitment, and a strategic, sustainable process are the keys to long term success!