Motive Training

Tracy Barkdale is officially part of Motive Training. Boom!

I've wanted another trainer on the floor who can handle pain, beginners, and people who want to get strong, and Tracy does all three. She offers corrective exercise, strength coaching, and martial arts, and she was formerly licensed as an LMT. She co-owns Fox House Martial Arts here in South Austin with her husband Rob.

What sold me is that she's been on the other side of it. Between motherhood and a corporate job, training fell off her list for a while, and getting back to it was rough. She knows what that first session back feels like. Nobody gets made to feel behind with her.

She's taking clients now and will be in the gym a lot more often in the coming months. 😀

-Brian

Animal Flow with Angelica was fun, tough, and a great opportunity to meet some new folks in . 😁

Thank you for coming out, everyone! We will host more classes soon, as well as 🪢 (in September).

We escaped. 😁 Best team in ATX right here!

Free Animal Flow intro class. Saturday, August 15, 10 to 11ish AM at Motive Training ATX.

This one is taught by Angelica Guzman. She's an FRC Mobility Specialist and an Animal Flow Certified Instructor, so she knows this system inside and out.

Animal Flow is ground-based movement training. You move through positions on your hands and feet, working strength, mobility, and coordination in the same movement instead of separate exercises.

No equipment. No experience needed. Scalable for anyone and everyone.

Motive Training ATX. Space is limited to 16, so RSVP today (link in bio)

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Start with an assessment. That’s how every new client relationship begins.

We spend about an hour looking at how your joints move, where you have capacity versus where you’re compensating, and what’s driving your pain or limiting your ability to move the way you want. From there, we can tell you what we’d focus on and what a realistic plan looks like.

We don’t put people into group training or sell packages until we know what they need. The assessment gives us both enough information to know if this is the right fit.

If you’re in the Austin area and want to set one up, send us a DM or book through the link in bio. Start with an assessment to see what you need and whether this is the right fit.

We strength-train and address movement. For most people, those two things go together.

A lot of training programs load what’s already working and route around what isn’t. We go after the weak points directly. That means assessing how your joints move, finding where control breaks down, and building targeted work around those gaps alongside a real strength program.

We primarily use Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) as our training backbone. However, we draw on the modalities and tools we know will get the job done.

The goal isn’t just to feel better. It’s to build a body that’s stronger, more resilient, and capable of doing what you’re asking it to do.

We work with two kinds of people, and there’s more overlap between them than you’d think.

The first is someone dealing with chronic pain, limited mobility, or a recurring injury that hasn’t responded to what they’ve already tried. They’ve usually been through physical therapy or spent months stretching without much to show for it. Not because those things are bad, but because they weren’t targeting the right problem.

The second is someone who’s already active and training, but wants to move better, build real strength, and make sure their joints can handle the demands they’re putting on them.

Both groups end up doing a lot of the same work. Building capacity at end-range, training positions the body currently avoids, and developing strength that carries over into how they actually move. The person who walks in with hip pain and the person who wants a stronger squat aren’t as far apart as they sound.

The challenge with Instagram is that many of you already know this; it’s the untapped audience who doesn’t.

But mobility is something everyone needs. It’s not ancillary to your regular strength work; it is PART of the work.

Mobility isn’t just stretching.

It’s learning.

It’s going internal and digging into areas of the body that you may have unintentionally ignored.

It’s tackling the things you’re not good at head-on.

Because mobility training doesn’t give you wedges to squat on when your ankles are tight, it says, “Let’s spend 30 minutes in deep, loaded, intentional stretching in positions your ankle clearly avoids.”

And that’s why we love it.

It’s the closest thing to making you a more complete human being, giving you strength in versatility.

I live and breathe this stuff for a reason.

Come to a class. Try it for free.

We’ll handle the rest.

-Brian

(Written from the heart. No AI slop here)

Big shoutout to and everyone who came to last Saturday.

We’re thinking of doing quarterly KINSTRETCH there—who is in? 💪🏻