John Richards
MovNat Level 3 Certified Trainer
Found MovNat years ago when he was looking for a way to still be active and healthy without feeling like he was working out.
Read full bio →Driftless Region · Unglaciated Bluffs · La Crosse, WI
Bluff Bound
Moving in natural spaces
We train the movements people were built for: climbing, carrying, crawling, lifting, throwing, breathing… where the environment shapes the experience.
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Home base: La Crosse, Wisconsin
Terrain: Bluffs, coulees, parks, and the Mississippi
Method: MovNat
“Be strong to be useful.”
— Georges Hébert, founder of la méthode naturelle
Our question to you:
If you had to save someone from a burning building right now, could you… for real?
Natural
Movement patterns drawn from how humans have always moved.
Practical
Skills that carry over to a trail, a rescue, a move, or a friend’s yard.
Progressive
Increasing Volume, Complexity, and Intensity
Honest
Results come from practicing and challenging yourself in new ways, new movements, and new environments.
How we work with you.
Outdoors
Skills work in the bluffs, along the river, and on the trail.
Saturdays at 8AM
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In development
Workshops
Focused sessions on specific skills, open to anyone ready to learn.
Learn more →Important: If you are not on our chat yet, reach out before you come. Sometimes locations change last minute due to weather or serendipitous inspiration.
Get in Touch“For in everything that men do the body is useful; and in all uses of the body it is of great importance to be in as high a state of physical efficiency as possible.”
— Socrates
Who you’ll train with.
Alicia Skiles
MovNat Level 2 Certified Trainer
Transitioned to MovNat after years of Burn Bootcamp to combine getting outdoors, obstacle course racing, acro yoga and living healthy.
Read full bio →Teaching natural movement since 2024
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The official source & where we train
“Try to imagine an out-of-shape tiger stepping on an exercise machine to get a workout. It doesn’t make any sense, does it? Wild animals simply move the way nature intended, and they become powerful, healthy, and free in the process.”
— Erwan Le Corre
In real life
Training on the bluffs, along the river, and in the gym.
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Come experience a new normal.
We train Thursdays at 7AM in the gym and Saturdays at 8AM outdoors.
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