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Welcome to Revolution Conditioning, home of the urban fitness coach. This is a hybrid site which is the portal between my bricks and mortar training studio and my online community. My name is Maria Mountain, MSc, CSCS and at the Revolution studio I work with Olympic, professional and amateur athletes. We tailor my training systems to help them perform at their highest level while reducing their risk of injury. I often refer to my clients as Urban Athletes because they are busy people who are looking for maximum return on their time investment.
Consider many of my adult clients who may lack the time to train the way they used to when they were in high school or college, they do not lack the desire; they want to be better or perform better in their sport or simply want to be the best they can be! Just like you, you know that you do not want to go into a typical fitness club and put your muscles to sleep by training on machines all night. You want to build a strong and stable body.
If you really want to learn more about how I became the strength and conditioning coach to varsity teams, professional athletes including a Stanley Cup champion and a World Series pitcher or if you want to hear how my Dad talked me out of my first career goal click here…
As a child of 10 or so I remember begging my Dad to bring me home a set of dumbbells during my parents annual trip to Toronto. My Dad delivered and it all started with that pair of blue, moulded plastic, concrete filled 10lbs dumbbells. Thank goodness they had not yet invented the pink fuzzy 2lbs dumbbells back then or I might have ended up with those. Now, you may be asking yourself, why does a 10 year old girl want dumbbells? Well, I thought it would really help me train for my chosen career – quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys!
Now, you may be asking yourself, why does a 10 year old girl want dumbbells? Well, I thought it would really help me train for my chosen career – quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys!
Fast forward a couple years and my Dad convinced me that I would never be the QB for the ‘boys. New career path. After getting a bachelor’s degree in Phys. Ed. I started working at a hardcore bodybuilder gym. The guy who interviewed me basically pointed to the biggest guy in the gym who had just finished a set of 800lbs dumbbell bench presses and said to me, “Go tell that guy to put his weights away.” I did and he did, so I got the job. I phoned the gym after 8pm every evening to find out if I had any Personal Training sessions the next day. I was thrilled to have this job – I could not believe I was getting paid to help people train. Every year I get phone calls and emails from brand new – fresh out of school personal trainers with half a year of experience who feel that working in a gym is beneath them and they are going to start their own business and only train professional athletes. Where is the passion for the job?
Every year I get phone calls and emails from brand new – fresh out of school personal trainers with half a year of experience who feel that working in a gym is beneath them and they are going to start their own business and only train professional athletes. Where is the passion for the job?
Fueled by a strong desire to know more about how the body works my husband and I sold one of our cars so we could afford for me to head back to the University of Western Ontario for a MSc where I was lucky enough to have Dr. Peter Fowler as my thesis supervisor. I learned a lot from him – including a few new swear words, or just ways to rearrange existing swear words making them much more effective. The biggest things I learned from him were that it is never wrong to ask a question and that I will never know it all.
The biggest things I learned from him were that it is never wrong to ask a question and that I will never know it all.
After finishing my MSc and working as the exercise specialist at the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic for five years I finally started my own business which has now has expanded to include this online resource for athletes of all sorts. My goal here, as it is in my Revolution Conditioning Studio in London, Ontario, Canada, is to provide the highest quality training information available. Delivering training systems that help maximize performance effectively and efficiently. I am thrilled to have this job – I still can’t believe I get paid to help people maximze their fitness.
