Vagaro Fitness

With the pandemic easing and more people venturing out, many are looking for gyms and fitness centers to reclaim an active lifestyle. If you’re one of these people, you’ve probably noticed that you have options—a lot of them.

It’s a type of strength training that uses a special machine to measure the amount of force a person can generate. The machine can have a variable resistance, but it allows people to exercise at a constant speed, regardless of the level of resistance throughout the range of motion.

We recently interviewed Brian Kretsch, trainer and manager at Traverse Fitness, a Ninja Warrior gym in Richmond, California. You’ll find the same daunting (and iconic) obstacles inside Traverse that you’d find on the American Ninja Warrior TV show, from the Warped Wall to the Salmon Ladder.