According to owners Mark and Stephanie Boyens, BODY20 is a workout for every body. It’s what differentiates BODY20 from all other business models: it works for the younger highly motivated athletes looking for the extra edge, the working parents with limited time to work out, and the aging population motivated to build muscle mass to maintain an active and healthy quality of life.
With BODY20, clients get full-body strength training in 20 minutes once a week that focuses on the value of time—one-on-one private training that allows for personalized workouts and accountability with results, without the need to pick up a weight or use traditional gym equipment.
“We wanted to bring a unique full body strength training concept to Omaha that could target every body, not just the population that currently works out routinely,” Steph Boyens said. “This revolutionary technology allows all people the ability to have access to a unique method of building lean muscle mass.” The benefits of strength training with EMS (Electrical Muscle Stimulation) are the following: low impact to protect strain on joints and injury, optimized posture, strengthens core and abdominal muscles, reduces fat and cellulite, relieves back pain, increases muscle definition, corrects muscle imbalances, and improves balance and stability.
“As we age, we naturally fight sarcopenia, a gradual loss of muscle mass, strength, and quality, especially in the older population,” Boyens said. It is critical to have a steady diet of strength training to ensure we don’t lose our balance, stability, mobility, and strength to perform our activities of daily living reliably and without injury.”
BODY20, which the Boyens opened last December, is a training program that combines intentional, controlled movements with an electro muscle stimulation (EMS) suit. The suit mimics the impulses your brain sends your body when exercising, creating muscle contractions on a level that would not be normally achieved with traditional modalities of movement. The impulses are delivered to 16 major muscle groups and create up to 36,000 muscle stimulations in a 20-minute period, which is 150 times more than a traditional workout.
“Because the sessions are delivered in a one-on-one setting with a personal coach, we are able to address any movement restrictions a client may have,” Boyens said. “The suit is objective, so muscles that would normally not be activated due to limitations are consistently contracting, which leads to increased blood flow and improved mobility that results in regained strength, range of motion, and endurance. It is very effective in correcting muscle imbalances and targeting small stabilizer muscles you cannot contact in a traditional workout.”
Boyens said that technology has revolutionized this fitness modality because it now creates a solution for individuals who currently don’t work out or can’t due to varying circumstances. The EMS technology aids where needed across 90 percent of someone’s muscles, whereas traditional workouts reach anywhere between 30-50 percent of your muscles in a single workout routine. “The strength training, endurance, and relax modes for a fitness model are revolutionary, but EMS technology has been around for a very long time in training high-level athletes and in the therapy and rehab community,” Boyens said.
While BODY20’s focus remains on strength training, the business also offers an endurance and relaxation mode for additional benefits to assist members in their fitness goals. The relax mode provides similar benefits as a deep tissue massage in stimulating your muscles and flushing lactic acid from your body. It also provides specialized workouts targeted at golfers to improve core strength, flexibility, and low back injury prevention and strengthening.
“We are much more than a gym where people workout,” Boyens said. “We are a fitness-oriented physiological health program where individuals find and pursue their true potential. We focus on each client’s ‘why’ and assist them in achieving their goals through strength training, diet, hydration, and additional wellness activities outside of the gym. We routinely say, ‘you just have to experience it.’” To register for a free demo session, visit BODY20/west-Omaha.
