About Us

Knowledge ~ Experience ~ Reliability

Making the commitment to hire someone to work with your body is a paramount decision. And honestly, just getting up, out of the house, and into a gym is a commitment! Embarking on a fitness plan with a body you need to carry you throughout life should be a well thought out plan with all workouts containing purpose, direction, and most of all safety. Options in the field of fitness and wellness are vast and range from Personal Training to Yoga, to Pilates, and more. The choice, the path, the environment, and most importantly the person you choose to work with should involve many questions.

Here are but a few:  

  • What was your impression of the instructor at the initial meeting?
  • What did the facility look like and what equipment did it contain?
  • What Goals do you have for the long haul, what expectations do you have of the Instructor to get you there, and how did he/she lay the plan out?
  • Are you and your potential instructor committed to creating an exercise process of health and longevity rather than a program of routine exercises and short-term goals?
  • Will the workouts be constructed strategically with purpose and direction and progressed appropriately, or be a bunch of random exercises slapped together haphazardly?
  • Do you know anyone else in the community using their service to get feedback?

A Deeper Dive:

  • Do the words force, resistance, joints, time, range of motion, control, and effort ever enter the conversation?
  • Is the instructor capable of assessing, predicting, and explaining each exercise being assigned from a mechanical perspective, and have a detailed understanding of the factors that comprise each exercise being assigned such as:
    • How your individual structure, current ability, and joint tolerances can affect ranges of motion and internal force generating capabilities toward success in executing the exercise.
    • What are the potential, (expected), actions, effects, ranges of motion, and patterns of movement once force is applied to the individual?
    • Orchestration: is everything contributing correctly and precisely?
    • How even a slight manipulation in an exercise can have major outcomes, (good or bad,) on muscle recruitment, (or inhibition), and neurological availability/output.

FITNESS FACILITY

I have acquired a large array of the best equipment pieces by the best manufacturers. Not one company offers a complete line of effective equipment. The Gym is 4000 sq/ft with an 18 ft. ceiling. Since I do not offer any open-gym memberships, there is always ample space to workout without distraction.

Bill Leavitt

Bill is originally from Calgary, Canada and prior to fitness toured as a professional musician/lead trumpet player from 1990-1996 working on cruise ships around the world, various road tours, playing with the likes of Petula Clarke, Ben Vereen, Tony Bennet, Vic Damone, Lew Rawls, and many more, concluding his music career with Andy Williams at his Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri.

As often in life, one door closes and another opens. For me a career in my favorite pastime of sports and exercise seemed the obvious choice. I re-located to Overland Park in 1995, started Personal Training and delved into studies of Anatomy, Kinesiology, Biomechanics, and Natural Medicine.

I enrolled in the Resistance Training Specialist Program and attained Master Level status in 2000. RTS is the only education in the world for the exercise professional to study Physics, Orthopaedics and apply it to exercise. Workout construction must begin by client investigation and analysis of joint interrelationships, the neuromuscular system, and all forces involved to effectively apply resistance to the human body.

I began the Muscle Activation Techniques program in 2001 to compliment my training ability and address muscle imbalances which can hinder progress. MAT is a therapy-based bodywork method which identifies and treats muscular imbalances through biomechanical analysis for injury prevention and rehabilitation.

I was faculty and continuing education provider for both RTS and MAT for three years and enjoyed sharing knowledge with other fitness professionals throughout the USA and Canada.

Throughout my 28 years in fitness, I have strived to live a process of Mastery by continually improving upon my knowledge base to better serve my clients and improve the quality of the industry as a whole. I must give credit to my mentor and friend Tom Purvis, founder of The Resistance Training Specialist educational program, who initiated my thought process and changed the trajectory of my career.

With the opening of this facility in 2014 a new journey begins. To offer multiple fitness, wellness, and therapy practices under one roof and work alongside so many talented practitioners has been a vision of mine for years. I hope you enjoy what we have created.