Gravity Janes is Issaquah's first training facility and program designed exclusively for the most serious and highly motivated fitness seekers. If you are one of those, we can promise you the most
professional and efficacious fitness education and coaching available anywhere. Your efforts, and our guidance, will produce profound gains in all useable elements of fitness: capacity,
vitality, and body composition. Plus, your new-found knowledge will make you more resistant to injury and illness, and able to create healthier behaviors in your life outside of the gym.
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"The price of admission is a willingness to learn, a commitment of time, and a dedication to the work. Results are predictable and duplicative. The process is hard, and there is no substitute. However, within a period of 12 to 24 weeks you will be amazed at the ease with which you will perform just about every athletic activity compared with your experience today."
GJ Head Coach, Dave Young
The Angie Challenge
Here's a little Christmas gift you can give to yourself: a better Angie time. Take the Angie Challenge by committing to at least 1 Angie test per week between now and Christmas. Ask about the many training strategies for bringing your time down. Angie is a truly universal pure body weight circuit.
If you are unfamiliar, here it is:
- 100 pull up reps
- 100 air squats reps
- 100 sit up reps
- 100 push up reps
Everyone taking the challenge will have their times tracked on the whiteboard and can check them all on line. No better time to start than today.
Picture at right: yes, that steam is coming from Derek. Cold morning + lots of sweat = steam. How about a clever caption, like "someone get a hose and put this man out." Got one of your own? Post it in Comments below. Click picture to enlarge.
...And We Have A Tie
The plot thickens: Long-time GJ athlete Julien Verbrugghe - on a weekend visit home from classes at Western Washington U - decided that Chris Sakas needed a little muscle-up competition. Attempting to best Chris' record by 1, the actual result was another 9-rep muscle-up set (image of the set at right). Once again, the set was captured on video and appears below.
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Windows Media video of Julien's 9
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QuickTime video of Julien's 9
Stay tuned to see who else rises up to take the challenge, and/or which one of these 2 finally gets 10. Whenever it happens, you'll see it first here.
Gym and Personal Muscle-Up Record
The gymnastic ring Muscle-Up is a deceptively difficult move that few outside of strict gymnastics training circles can accomplish. Gravity Janes has several athletes that can perform 1 or more, but none more than Chris Sakas. The camera was handy for his latest attempt, and it turned out to be a personal best 9 reps.
The most significant thing about this effort was not the rep count (however impressive), it is that Chris is hardly the typical gymnastics material: he's 6'2" and weighs 230#.
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Windows Media video of Chris' 9
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QuickTime video of Chris' 9
New Web Site Content
There are now several new whiteboard images available on the
Whiteboard Page. There are some powerful workouts on these boards so check on your scores and update your log books now.
As most of you know scores on the whiteboards are attributed to the ahtlete by their gym number. As this list grows it gets more difficult to keep all those numbers straight so I've added a Gravity Janes
Team Roster to the web site. This will help identify the performers when you're looking at the whiteboards.
The Gravity Janes Wednesday evening Ski Camp is now accepting drop-ins. As with most of our groups, you can book and pay for this through the on-line booking page.
Equipment Highlight
Anyone who has visited our gym knows that a little education and less than $200 worth of equipment will get you a world-class workout and more than a little variety.
Here's the list:
- Medicine Ball, 6 - 14 lbs
- Jump Rope, length to suit
- Dumbbell(s), 15 - 45lb (depending on experience, sex, and size)
- Ab Mat
- Paralettes
Please shoot us an email if you'd like to start your home gym and we'll make sure you get what you need at a price you can afford.
GJ Ski Camp
The Gravity Janes Ski Camp is accepting drop-ins for the Wednesday night sessions between now and December 3rd. Please call for details, or take a look at all the information and
reserve a spot in the camp on line.
New Weekend Sessions
Gravity Janes is expanding the Gravity Kids program to accommodate a wider age range. Kids will now be divided into 2 age groups: 3 - 6, and 7 - 12. The 7 - 12 year olds will meet at 8A Saturday, and the 3 - 6 year olds at
9:30A.
Reserve your 3 - 6 year old child in the Saturday 9:30A class
Reserve your 7 - 12 year old child in the 8A Saturday class
There is also a 2nd Saturday morning Gang Up workout at 9:30A. The 8A - 9:15A Gang up remains unchanged except that both groups will now be limited to 12. Sign up early.
Reserve a spot in an upcoming Gang Up
GJ Program News
Gravity Janes is offering a 6-week Ski Conditioning Camp beginning October 29th with long-time ski coach Chris Sakas. The Camp will meet Wednesdays at 6P for 75 minutes.
Take your ski game up a notch this season. Camp size is limited; reserve a spot on line.
More details here
1st Responder Day Reminder
A reminder about the 1st Responders Appreciation Day coming up Sunday, October 19th, from 9a to 3p. The day will include 3 full hour workouts, plus a lecture and exercise demos.
The workouts will be led by a Gravity Janes head coach Dave Young. Please reserve a spot in the free workouts with our on line booking system.
Saturday, October 11th, was the inaugural Gravity Kids session. We had 8 five to ten year olds for our first session. Pictures on our Picture Page.
Salmon Days 10K
Gravity Janes fielded a team of 15 runners for the latest Salmon Days 10K run on Sunday, October 5th. It didn't hurt that the start line was practically at our doorstep. It was great to see so many
GJ shirts in the pack. Thanks team. You done Jane proud.
A Parkour Primer
Those of you that have asked about Parkour ought to take a look at this video. It's 2:47 of pure Parkour. Don't let the preponderance of young male practitioners fool you, anyone can and should learn
at least the basic moves. View the Parkour Video and then ask where you should start.
