(805) 531-9403
530 Los Angeles Ave., #102, Moorpark, CA 93021 (View Map)
Monkey Bar Gym offers a fun alternative way to workout and keep in shape!
Want you to get back in shape or train for a marathon? Whether you want to lose weight or enhance your athletic abilities, the Monkey Bar Gym will provide you with a unique fitness experience. Their certified trainers will revolutionize how you think about movement and nutrition by teaching you the basics.
If you think about all the different types of movement in fitness, you might imagine yourself running on a treadmill or riding a bike. At Monkey Bar Gym, they ask you to step off of the machines and get away from the mirrors while we demonstrate the four, basic natural movements: Running, Jumping, Crawling and Climbing.
Mastering these movements will provide you with the stability, strength and power you need for all of your favorite activities. What’s more, you won’t ever work out alone because at Monkey Bar Gym, they're committed to teamwork, too. Many of their members consider MBG their “third home,” because we work hard and we play hard to help you stay fit for life.
History of Monkey Bar Gym
The history of the Monkey Bar Gymnasium began when Jon Hinds was a little boy, playing on the playground or at home. He remembers running after (or away from) friends, jumping on and off obstacles, crawling across the ground or over logs, climbing trees like a little monkey. Parts of these experiences were also spent reacting to others, thrown balls or surprise attacks from his dogs or cats. Fitness came naturally to Jon as a child, because staying active was a natural form of movement that was both instinctive and intuitive.
Jon recalls that, “No one had to show me the skills from my childhood, I just did them and the more I trained them the better I became at all the games that involved these skills.” Playing skill-based games was a big part of Jon’s life, until traditional training methods took over when Jon started to play high school athletics. To Jon, he felt that “the skill playing was replaced by a machine and it took one-hundred percent of the natural fun and movement out of the equation. This new way of developing my skills was the norm, all the kids did it, but the goal of staying active had changed as well. Instead of having fun or staying in shape, it was 100% about how you looked, then if it helped you out in your sport, great!”
Jon continued on this new isolated “skill” training path off and on for several years following those early days in the gym. It wasn’t until Jon was training an NBA player named Lucious Harris when he realized he wasn’t having fun working out and he wasn’t getting the results he truly wanted. That experience restored Jon’s focus not only on what defines the phrase “great athlete,” it also forced Jon to re-evaluate what true health and happiness really means. In Jon’s mind, “results” from working out equate to a tri-fold approach that includes an increased skill level, better overall health and happiness.
That single moment of realization led to a philosophy and the opening of the first Monkey Bar Gymnasium in August of 2000.
Since its opening, the Monkey Bar Gym’s mission has been to create a revolution in health and fitness with a primary focus on “function” rather than “fashion” or “trends”. The MBG focuses on intuitive, skill-based movements that do not require any machines and can be performed anywhere, inside or outside a gym. The staff of the Monkey Bar Gym trains members to rely on their instincts for the basics of movements to train. These basic movements include; running, jumping, crawling, climbing, rolling and reacting.
After focusing on the basics, the Monkey Bar Gym challenges its members to increase their skill level to achieve the ultimate performance in strength, speed and stamina. The result of this skills-based training offers all members the chance to achieve success in life and in any sport imaginable.
Incorporated into these sessions, is a natural, restorative means of re-aligning and rehabilitating mind and body with the only form of Yoga in the world that teaches Active poses and partner hands on feedback.
Biology has proven that animals employ their own form of “training”, progressing skills and using regular active stretching to keep their bodies in top physical condition. This type of training has worked successfully with all of the world’s varied species, including humans. When you visit the Monkey Bar Gym, you’ll see for yourself how this unique type of training works for their committed members today.
Today, the Monkey Bar Gym is recognized world-wide as a health and fitness leader. By incorporating whole body training, restoration and plant-based nutrition, Jon Hinds has started a fitness revolution, forming one of the most unique gyms that exist today. Here are some of the milestones the Monkey Bar Gym has achieved in its short history:
* First skill-based gym in the U.S. that does not use exercise or weight machines, mirrors, or require shoes to train members.
* First gym that incorporates plant-based nutrition in the U.S. to achieve power and strength, rather than relying on animal by-products or supplements.
* First gym in the country to integrate Eischens Yoga-balanced activation into each workout, providing health benefit to all parties working out.
* One of the first gyms in the U.S. to offer challenging, partner-based training regardless of fitness level.
Through its holistic approach, the Monkey Bar Gym helps its members reach their health and fitness goals to achieve success. Find out how the Monkey Bar Gym can make a difference in your life and give them a call today! ...and let them know you saw them on Best Deals!
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