Ivarifitness

09/16/2025

Visualization isn't just for sport-it's a way of approaching life's bigger challenges. It doesn't replace physical "practice", but when combined it amplifies learning, resilience and performance under pressure. It is a powerful tool!

Getting your Goals over the bar…

07/23/2024

In-home personal training is a special privilege!

It has afforded me valuable experience and vast challenge. The requirements for each interaction and relationship are different, making program design unique.

For busy people, while I I advocate strongly for thier wellness, part of that package includes hobbies and social interactions. A lot of busy executives and professional people I educate about exercise partake in the sport of pickleball. This post is about enhancing enjoyment of the sport while helping to mitigate the risk of injury.

Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the USA. It is particularly popular for people aged 55 and older. With its growing participation rate has come a corresponding rise in pickleball related injuries.

The ivari fitness d***s and picks workout is a multi-planular sport specific suite of conditioning exercises, progressive shot patterns and drills aimed at enhancing participation, performance and enjoyment while helping to mitigate injury by elevating the aspects of mobility, stability (balance) and strength. The principles of acceleration, deceleration, power and agility are also addressed.

Pickleball can be competitive, yet provides a social element for most. The workout promotes and provides a comprehensive template of relative warm-up exercises while also accounting for
- physical limitations
- the importance of warming up
- using the appropriate equipment (particularly footwear)
- "form" consciousness
- hydration and nutrition
- rest and recovery

Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the USA. It is particularly popular for people aged 55 and older. With its growing participation rate has come a c...

06/28/2024

Every moment of every day is an opportunity to grow your personal and professional skill set. I use aspects developed during my previous career every day at ivari as I connect with people through the context of fitness...

Crossover personal and professional skills developed from a twenty year career as a Lumberjack, sharpening saws and felling tree's.In this story, ivari fitne...

05/22/2024

There's a lot to this one but fundamentally it connects the many chapters of my life and how all of those experiences have helped inform the way I train, design sessions, write programs and then relate to others through the medium of fitness.
What a privilege that is!
Exercise is medicine!

How and why I hiked my concept2 rower one mile in to a remote lake in Palos Park on the outskirts of suburban Chicago to execute a 5k time trial and then bac...

05/20/2024

Congratulations to who graduated HS yesterday and has signed on for Providence. It has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to be witness to his commitment to both academic and sporting pursuits! Thanks for having me along for the ride and I'm excited for you in this next chapter of your life!

12/01/2023

As a member of Innovation DuPage, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to pitch my business, ivari fitness at yesterday's Member Meetup. ID's mission is to empower entrepreneurs by providing accessible education, technology, networking and as an innovation incubator community it compliments ivari fitness' goals for growth.
Ivari fitness increases the accessibility of at-home workouts by offering experience, expertise, personalized training programs, equipment and accountability tools tailored to each client. Including bespoke in home gym design and fitout.
We share ID's commitment to clearing obstacles through practical solutions and exercise education. Much like ID levels the playing field for business owners through hands-on support, ivari knocks down barriers to high levels of health and fitness for the body, mind and spirit through customized in-home services.

03/23/2023

Danny McGavock is a student, song writer and talented musician. Please have a listen to some his best work from the link posted below.

What blows my mind is that he writes the music, then plays and mixes each individual instrument that accompanies his own lyrics.

Much like a workout, they're individual pieces that he builds from the ground up.

Recently, I really appreciated him asking me to be a subject for one of his college assignments.

As much as I have watched and admired his growth as a musician, we shared that he had also observed me over many years as a trainer and business owner.

Below is the production he came up with about his interpretation of ivari and how fitness enhances both productivity and creativity.

I feel that he represented us both authentically and the whole body, mind and spirit ethos of ivari accurately.

Thank you Danny. I appreciate what you've done here...

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2mTK7MwqBoJEv7FYmrxzvk?si=4qEyHQCgRCSwiy2lMzhPnA

02/04/2023

In todays episode of famous five, the ivari fitness vlog, Angelo and I share some of what went on during the workout session. It lines up perfectly with my philosophy of training being that it should nourish the body, mind and the spirit.

The text body below the video previews what Angelo had to share with us all during this workout where he earnt a 140 beats per minute heartrate average.

It was a tough yet well executed workout.

After todays workout session, Angelo and I took about 5 minutes to discuss a part of what we did during it. We call it the "Famous Five", and sometimes what ...

01/17/2023

The latest episode of the Lumberjack Lore Podcast just dropped on Apple Podcasts
In this episode my guest is Graham Muir, owner of Manic Steamboat.

It felt right to bring this man's story to bear!
Over ten years, unknowingly to most, He's built up an impressive array of not only cycling skills, but in conjunction, survival skills as well.
He has an impressive resume of finishes in some of the Worlds most obscure, extreme yet iconic Bike endurance races.
Hailing from Taupo, New Zealand, Graham Muir now resides in Steamboat, Colorado where he owns and operates Manic Steamboat. A perfect adventure playground for training to take on these massive physical, mental and logistical challenges.
Graham is not going to share these sorts of stories with you unless you ask. In this episode of the Lumberjack Lore Podcast he candidly shares his stories of wisdom, knowledge and tradition giving us an inside look into the world of Ultra Cycling.
I'm so pleased I asked!

‎Show The Lumberjack Lore podcast..., Ep Episode 4. Graham (Bushy) Muir - Jan 17, 2023

01/14/2023

We're not "all Hat and no Cattle" over here in the ivari Cubicle.
In our weekly post workout vlog "Famous Five" we mostly discuss the session.
Here Angelo demonstrates a sample of some of what we do...
A snippet of Angelo's story is in the text body of the clip.

The ivari fitness famous five vlog is a post workout weekly chat that Angelo and I share about our workout session. Normally it is centered around some relat...

01/13/2023

In this, (for 2023) the first episode of "Famous five" our ivari fitness vlog, where Angelo and I spend about five minutes speaking about a topic we either worked on or talked about during the session we have a conversation about goal setting...

"You cannot manage what you don't measure".In this, the first episode of "Famous Five" for 2023, Angelo and I have a timely discussion about goal setting. We...

01/11/2023

Accountability