REVVERCISE

REVVED Fitness in Brookside offers high-tech individualistic training

REVVED Fitness just opened in Tulsa, offering a highly-specific, individualistic approach that combines fitness, technology and science to help people achieve results.

Located at 3409 S. Peoria Ave., next to the Brook Restaurant & Bar, REVVED Fitness enjoyed its grand opening celebration, complete with an actual ribbon-cutting ceremony, on Wednesday, Jan. 11.

With plenty of free weights for a core muscle emphasis, along with airbikes, rowing machines, and other new, state-of-the-art equipment, REVVED Fitness looks on first glance like a regular gym. But they also utilize special heart-rate monitors, a detailed body-scanning system, and DNA analysis to help customize workouts for each individual. Workouts are 60-minute group sessions of no more than 24 people at once.

“We focus on high-intensity interval training in a small group setting,” said REVVED Fitness co-owner Kevin Wilson. “It gives our certified trainers the ability to coach and educate but it also gives our clients the ability to be part of a small group, which usually is a bigger fuel than a trainer—being with your friends and your peers and having a little competition.”

The use of the advanced technology is crucial to the REVVED Fitness approach, because it allows for continual feedback and adjustments during the workout process. The heart-rate monitors, for example, display real-time results on TV screens in the workout room, so both client and trainer can view them and react immediately.

“Nobody’s a statistical average, there’s no such thing,” Wilson said. “And so if you can, whether it’s through the DNA testing or whether it’s through the heart-rate monitoring system or whether it’s through the body-scanning system, you can take all those elements and specifically talk uniquely to an individual, and that becomes their own. And it’s not something they learned on TV or a popular magazine, it’s them, and that will drive results when they apply those elements.”

The unique idea of DNA analysis, which is done through a simple swab test, provides yet another level of specific data to help sculpt your workout and nutritional plan.

“It just gives us another element of accountability and knowledge for each person,” said co-owner Emily Wilson. “It’s just one more element of information that helps us distinguish what their body needs specifically. A DNA test gives us what your macro-nutrient breakdown should be, and there’s a lot of schools of thought out there about how much protein, how much fat, how much carbs we should take in. It will also give us sensitivities to certain foods, it will tell us what supplements your body needs based on your DNA, not based on some opinion in society. It’s a very specific guideline.” 

Based on the DNA results, the Wilsons also help coach each client on their nutritional intake, part of the individual’s overall fitness outlook.

“Obviously, it takes effort, and the nutritional element that goes along with that is another major piece,” Kevin Wilson said. “We educate on that and we help those elements apply into what we’re doing here. Because you can work very efficiently, work very diligently, but if you’re not feeding your body the way it needs to be fed, your goals will not be met.”

The additional emphasis on nutrition will become even more pronounced when the Wilsons open a new Nutrify Juice Bar and Café right next door in the coming months. (There is currently a Nutrify at the northeast corner of 91st and Yale.)

“At both locations, we will have cold-press juices and organic smoothies,” said Kevin. “Here, we will have the only drive-thru smoothie place in Tulsa and we will also have a fresh market here. It’s a bigger menu with a bigger offering in a café setting, not just a smoothie bar.”

REVVED is an interesting and technologically progressive fitness concept unlike any other currently Tulsa. But its near-prohibitively high costs beg the questions, can you afford it and is it worth it? A full-year unlimited access membership costs $1499, while one individual session costs $25, with various steps in between—10 sessions cost $180, 20 are $320, 30 are $450.

While definitely more expensive than a regular gym membership, or even yoga classes, the fees are what they are because of the detailed individual feedback you receive. If a drop-in yoga class averages $12-15 with 20-30 people in the room, double the price for one-on-one training and feedback sounds like a fair deal. 

“It’s about each person reaching their potential,” said Emily. “Everyone is going to have a different goal, a different success for them, and it’s us individualizing workouts that they can find their success. It’s not about being a cover model. It’s, ‘Do you feel good, are you sleeping well, is your nutrition right, how’s your mood?’ All those things come into a factor in what we do here, so we can treat the whole body.”

For more from John, read his article on the 2016 USA BMX Grand Nationals.