About Fit2Play

Fit2Play Beginnings

After witnessing huge gaps in training methods for athletes, we created Fit2Play in 1997.

We were also disturbed by the lack of long-term physical preparation that we knew could be life-changing for the way people, both young an old, approached overall fitness.

A Long-term Approach to Fitness

So we developed a systematic, practical and long-term approach to fitness.

Here’s what I mean:

  • Start with a simple assessment
  • We develop a plan based on your assessment — where you are right now (your point A)
  • Implement the plan with close supervision
  • Check the gauges and tweak as needed
  • Readjust goals and repeat
  • Fit2Play isn’t a fit for everyone. Many people want a “quick-fix” program and the Fit2Play system starts with a foundation of quality movement, and builds from that.

Ya gotta do the work…and be consistent

We are not your go-to for a six-pack in six weeks. We’re not going to double your strength in two months. This is about learning — and mastering — the essential lifts and movements that underlie A) athletic ability, B) longevity in sport and life C) Durability … meaning you are going to be strong for years to come with our quality, long-term approach.

Don’t Just Do It … Do It Right!

A commitment to learning good technique is absolutely ESSENTIAL to your success — you’ll “earn” the next lift, movement or progression by showing competency in fundamental movements.

About Coach Jeff Turner

Looking back it’s hard to remember a time when I wasn’t interested in sports. Growing up in southern California, I surfed and played baseball. I never made it to the Pro tour or MLB, but I had a blast.

I started lifting weights around the age of 16, like most guys I just wanted to get big (er). I’d love to say that I was focused back then, and that my training was all about increasing performance, but nobody did the stuff we do with athletes today.

I knew this was my ‘passion’ and it provided me a laser-focus and a never-quit mindset to make it a career.

Along the way, I met some guys who changed my life forever. They were some of the best sport scientists in the field — and they still are. After hanging with the docs for a short time, I came to realize how much I didn’t know. This started an educational process that has never ended for me. I went back to school, attended UCLA, studied exercise science and continued to work with my mentors.

I learned to question current trends and training systems and determine if theory and application met as one. It was during this time that I learned how much “art” there is to the science of strength, conditioning and overall fitness.

Over time, I developed a very successful training practice in Los Angeles working with individuals, corporations, high-level athletes and everything in between.

From there it was to the North Shore of Oahu for a couple of years, and then in 1994, relocated to Columbus, Ohio.

In 1996, I became the first Strength and Conditioning Coach in Major League Soccer for The Columbus Crew — culminating in 2002 by winning the US Open Cup.

Today I spend most of my time with the “over 40″ time-crunched men and women. Some of them competed in high school and college sports and others are just getting started with fitness. I still work with teams and groups of athletes, if they’re a good fit with Fit2Play system.

Experience

  • MovNat, MCT & Certification Team Instructor
  • Master of Sport Sciences (International Sports Sciences Assoc.)
  • FMS Certified
  • 1994 “Trainer of the Year” (ISSA)
  • Former strength, Conditioning and Movement coach for the Columbus Crew, MLS (2002 U.S. Open Cup Champions),
  • Ohio Premier Soccer Club,
  • Midwestern Force Lacrosse Club,
  • Columbus Destroyers
  • Founder of Fit2Play, LLC
  • International Sports Sciences Association member
  • National Strength and Conditioning Association member

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It's About the Movement

You don’t need to be an Olympic athlete or compete with anyone other than yourself to benefit from using the methods of world class performers.

By focusing on movement, you’ll perform better, minimize injury and increase longevity and durability at the same time.

When kids do not pass the minimum standards in school, they don’t move to the next grade. If someone cannot pass the minimum standards of movement they should not be able to move to more complex exercises.

We have a simple screen for this that only takes 10 minutes. Move freely, without pain before you move on to the next level.

Are you moving with proper form?

Proficient movement and technique — the core of a good strength, conditioning and fitness program.

One of the first goals is to increase body awareness in a slow progressive manner — we like to start with body weight exercises. Think of this phase as “learning to move.” Even those with more experience sometimes need to re-groove bad patterns.

Fitness should be fun, especially when we combine movements from different methods like MovNat, Martial arts, Olympic lifting, Kettlebells, endurance sports — the possibilities are limited only by our imagination.

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