Meet Matt (left) and Zach (right)! The two owners and operators of the Movement Collective in Boulder. The Movement Collective is an athletic training facility that doesn’t have a specific focus, such as weight training, or jiu-jitsu but instead, puts its emphasis on the greater task at hand, movement.

The Movement Collective spawns from the teachings of Ido Portal.  For those of you unfamiliar with who Ido Portal is, he is an Israeli man who, in his quest for pinnacle fitness, found that there was something lost in translation between all of the specific movement training that was being done around the world.

So, Ido set out to become a student of all disciplines and his goal was to have a greater understanding of his body and how it moves.  After speaking with everyone from Osteopaths and MD’s to circus performers and professional fighters, Ido began to grasp the importance of movement for your body and seeks to share that information with athletes everywhere.

The goal of Ido Portal’s movement training is to, “create a cross-disciplinary exchange of info between various types of movers.” And Matt and Zach are doing their part here in Boulder to spread the teachings of Ido Portal.

Both Matt and Zach are students of the Ido Portal Mentorship program but with the amount of knowledge these two have about movement, it’s hard to consider them “students” of the discipline.

Matt is a Brooklyn native, who began his movement teaching back on the East Coast working with Broadway performers and Tony Award winning actors before moving west to Colorado.

Zach hails from the Pacific North West and has always been a gym guy, but after his experience combining Crossfit and movement training in the Seattle area, his passion for movement blossomed.

The classes at movement collectively focus on strength and mobility and strive to develop “movement intelligence” through martial arts, aerobics, dancing, and gymnastics.

The point is really to train your body to be able to access its strength at a moment’s notice, and, “develop greater body intelligence.”

As Zach so eloquently put it in a class, “I don’t want to have to warm up in a sauna for 20 minutes before I can do anything.  I want to be able to wake up and kick myself in the face while standing in a freezer.”

Be sure to check the Movement Collective.  These two are cool, funny guys that are extremely knowledgeable about the human body and eager to share their knowledge with the community.

Brad Fagan

Brad Fagan is a photojournalist and filmmaker who hails from the Greater Boston area and is the definition of a travel lover.  Upon his graduation from Roger Williams University in 2016, Brad set off on a two month, cross-country road trip that began his love affair with Boulder.   The 31 states and 10 national parks that Brad visited on his road trip only scratch the surface of his travels, which also include a short jaunt around Europe and exploring both coasts of our Canadian friends up North.   Brad enjoys covering a wide variety of topics from environmental and social justice issues to sports and anything in between.  Everyone deserves to have their story told and Brad knows, a picture is worth a thousand words