Making movement a joy, not a job
It starts with gumption.
Courage and imagination led you here.
You shopped for your dream active vacation and now have a destination, deadline, and distance in mind.
We're here to coach you using 1-on-1 sessions, progressive charts, resistance training, education, and community so you have the confidence to embrace the adventure.
An Achievement
You see active travel as self-care - a way to live a vibrant life that's both challenging and joyful. You are pushing yourself because you recognize how profoundly satisfying the rewards will be. In this goal, you realize that even obstacles can be fun with the right support.
An Evolution
You see a chance to change your relationship with exercise so that it's more than a chore to check off. You want to combine daily movement with travel, adventure, and enticing new experiences. This is a holistic way to measure what you can do using an entirely new metric.
An Alliance
You see your purpose clearly and want support to move forward courageously. While apps provide fitness training and exercise progression or health coaching and tracking, the level of connection can feel frustrating and forced, often leaving one to wonder if you’re talking with a bot.
about us
We're a group of behavior virtuosos, personal trainers, and health coaches with training in sports nutrition, habit change, and corrective exercise.
We've coached every aspect of the health continuum, and we're great listeners. You may work with a specific coach, but we're all here to support you while you maximize your time with us.
Choose your Starting Point
Free Consult
You have individual needs and want to know if this is a place you can thrive. We're happy to answer your questions and help you envision how this can work for you.
Let's talk about your vacation, and your dream experience. You may be surprised at how helpful it is to talk it through and we're excited to hear all about it!
4 Months
Gain strength, build stamina, and create a solid foundation to tackle your vacation worry-free and ready to ride. Your coach will answer all your questions and make any exercise modifications via text or during predetermined 1-on-1 video check-ins at strategic points throughout the program.
4 Months Premium
You gain strength and stamina, and you receive regular 1-on-1 video support to address motivation dips and lifestyle challenges. Because we meet with you weekly, you receive all the benefits of our program as well as more personalized coaching to help you address your unique challenges.
Overcome your obstacles
Find your motivation
Motivation evolves, and it's not natural to sustain it. We're here when it fades to help you work through those moments by focusing on your strengths because when the couch calls, we all need reminders! We're the boost, the fresh perspective, and the understanding nod. In fact, we built in the science of motivation, knowing exactly when you'd need some support (hint: it's right in the middle when the novelty fades and the finish feels oh-so-far!)
Build resilience
Anticipate the challenges—whether physical, psychological, or environmental. We help you build the skills to navigate whatever obstacle you're facing. This is because we know behavior and understand how brains adapt. We get the burden of perfection, and we never aim for it. We're great at listening, designing strategic workarounds, and focusing on progress. It’s the continuous appreciation for small victories that creates resilience.
Balance the load
The other side of work is the necessary recovery. Part of that recovery is room for things that help you thrive. It's part of the plan.
We're usually looking for a way to do less, not more because we understand that the quality of the miles matters. We took care to make things challenging, not stressful so that you can maintain a healthy mindset.
Work smart
Do enough—not too much—to reach your goal and build your confidence. It takes experience to know when to push and when to pull back.
With your intuition and our understanding, we can work together through those sticky moments so that you feel good moving forward. It's instinctual to sprint but then fizzle, and we know how to navigate it.
how about now?
What’s next?
You're done only questioning, waiting, and dreaming. If it taught you anything, it's that you're always going to yearn to be out there in the world, challenging yourself and breathing it all in, even in those moments when you'd rather talk yourself out of it. But what's next once you've got the gumption to take that first step?
We're next. We're here to support you so you can take a spark of forward momentum and bring your dreams to life. Using our easy-to-follow weekly assignments, you'll learn how to address obstacles, work with your unique strengths, and build yourself up a little bit at a time. Muscle and mind, we know how people work and are here to talk you through it.
We took all our years of experience to build something that makes us love coming to work. We're excited by all your victories, and nothing is more satisfying than helping you prepare for a fulfilling adventure. Your journey is meaningful to us, too, and we're honored when you share it with us.
our story
In The Wizard of Oz, Glinda the Good Witch told Dorothy that she always had the power to do as she wished, prompting the scarecrow to question why this wasn't revealed sooner. Glinda replied, 'Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.'
This moment captures something we deeply feel because helping people believe has always been the best part of a coach's job. Sure, it takes some knowledge and a little sparkle, but mostly, it takes ordinary people bravely reaching beyond what's comfortable until they realize their dream.
Throughout our two decades of coaching, we have often shared the image of Dorothy clicking her ruby slippers with a triumphant client who found their power and used it.
And we're eager for more of those moments.
As fitness transitions from childhoods filled with cartwheels, running barefoot, and climbing trees to boot camps, food logs, and picking heavy stuff up just to put it back down, the coaches at Gumption couldn't help but think there were better ways to build healthier bodies while still witnessing the triumph.
We pondered, what if we embraced fit travel and adventure, only with fewer burpees or low-level clerical work? Heather, Kris, and Summer envisioned this fresh approach and decided to support people in finding that same sweet spot where fitness goals fit snugly and comfortably into lifestyle pursuits.
Our Team
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KRIS
HEALTH COACH
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HEATHER
HEALTH COACH / FITNESS TRAINER
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SUMMER
HEALTH COACH / FITNESS TRAINER
