MOVEMENT COACHING | PERSONAL TRAINING

A more personal path for building strength, mobility, skill, confidence, and a better relationship with your body.

Start with a consultation

Many people come to personal training looking for better exercises, harder workouts, or a more effective plan. But often, what they actually need is a more intelligent relationship with their body.

At The Movement Standard, personal coaching takes a holistic, systems-based approach to physical practice. We do not look at strength, mobility, coordination, balance, skill, pain, limitation, and confidence as separate issues. We look at how they relate, how they influence one another, and how they can be developed into a more capable whole.

Coaching is not only about working harder. It is about learning how to move, how to practice, how to build capacity, and how to develop a body that is strong, adaptable, coordinated, responsive, and available for the life you want to live.

We use training as a doorway into something larger: a more capable physical life.

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Who is this for?

Personal coaching may be a good fit if you:

  • Want to improve health and vitality in a holistic way

  • Want individual guidance before joining group classes

  • Are returning to movement after time away

  • Want to build strength and mobility without feeling beat up

  • Have specific skill based goals like handstands, floor work, bodyweight strength, or better coordination

  • Are working around pain, stiffness, fear, or uncertainty

  • Want a more thoughtful alternative to conventional personal training

  • Need accountability, structure, and a clear process

Work With Us

A few key areas our coaching supports.

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Develop usable range of motion, joint control, and the ability to move with more freedom and confidence. For individuals working with pain, injury history, or physical limitations, we help create a more thoughtful path forward.

Developing foundational strength

Improving mobility and ease

Build useful, adaptable strength through bodyweight training, rings, weights, and progressive strength work.

Opening to a more aware body

Learning new skills

Develop greater body awareness, coordination, and confidence through attentive practice. Learn to sense, organize, and trust your body more clearly in movement and in daily life.

There are very few movement skills we cannot help you develop. From handstands, floor work, locomotion, balance, and coordination to more specific personal goals, we help you build the strength, awareness, and foundations needed to progress with clarity.

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Our Process

1) Start with a consultation

We begin by learning about your goals, health history, current capacity, and what kind of support you need.

2) Get matched with the right coach

Once we have a detailed assessment and understand the direction we’ll build out a guided coaching program to help direct the process

Based on your needs, we help determine which coach and coaching path will be the best fit.

3) Begin your coaching plan and process

Work With Us

Coaching Paths

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  • For newer students who want to build strength, mobility, coordination, and confidence from the ground up.

    Rather than rushing into advanced skills, this path builds the physical base that makes deeper practice possible: strength, joint preparation, body awareness, balance, rhythm, and the ability to learn through movement.

  • For students who want to build a more capable, adaptable body, not just through exercise, but through a deeper understanding of strength, range, control, and ease.

    This path supports the development of usable strength, active mobility, joint preparation, and the ability to move with more confidence in daily life and practice.

  • If there is a movement skill you want to develop, we can help you build the path toward it.

    From handstands, floor work, locomotion, rings, and bodyweight strength to more personal or specific movement goals, we approach skill development holistically, building the strength, mobility, coordination, awareness, and patience needed for real progress.

  • For kids and teens who need more than early sport specialization.

    This path develops the general physical qualities that are often missing in modern youth activity: strength, mobility, coordination, balance, rhythm, body awareness, confidence, and creative problem-solving through movement.

  • For students who want a clear plan for what to practice between sessions or on their own.

    This path includes personalized programming, progression planning, and support in organizing strength, mobility, skill work, and recovery into a sustainable long-term practice.

Meet Our Coaches

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Brian Johnson

coming soon.

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Carter Twitty

coming soon..

senior coach
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Associate coach

David Smart

coming soon.