AREAS OF SPECIALTY. 

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“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • Strength and Conditioning + Athletic Performance

    • Holistic approach to enhancing functional strength, power, agility, speed, balance, and coordination

    • Customized Conditioning Training through Energy System Specific Adaptations

    • Sport Specific Program Design

    • Body Composition Enhancement, Hypertrophy & fat loss

  • Longevity and Healthspan Training

    • Optimize training for longevity and cellular health + energy production

    • Achieve and maintain recommended levels of cardiovascular capacity, strength, and mobility clinically proven to increase health-life expectancy

  • Movement and Mobility Training

    • Full Body Movement Screening

    • Postural and Spinal Health Assessment

    • Increase Functional Mobility

    • Progressive exploration of new movement patterns, gymnastics strength training, and soft acrobatics

  • Martial Arts + Self Defense

    • Striking (Kickboxing, Boxing)

    • Grappling (Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling)

  • Injury Prevention + Rehabilitation

    • Identify and address primary limiting factors

    • “Bulletproof” joints

    • Correct muscular imbalances, faulty patterns, and postural defects

Joshua’s BIO.

He/Him/His

Joshua Berkovic believes we can explore our potential, inspire positive relationships, and enhance our quality of life through effective training. Josh’s passion for developing himself, and helping others to do the same, has been a guiding force throughout his life.

Josh employs a holistic training approach, based on principles of exercise and sports science, that emphasizes strength, conditioning, functional mobility, athletic performance, and rehabilitation. He is a lifelong athlete, certified yoga instructor, and mixed martial arts champion. Josh served as head strength and conditioning coach at the world-renowned El Nino Training Center for six years and for the past 12 years has trained, coached, and mentored a variety of individuals from youth to elite professional athletes.

Whether you are a complete beginner to exercise, an experienced athlete searching for an intelligent approach to take you to the next level, someone who is looking for a sustainable and integrated system of self-care, or a competitor who needs to separate yourself from the opposition: Josh welcomes anyone with a sincere desire to better themselves, to achieve their goals, and to enhance their quality of life through training to join him.

EDUCATION.

  • National Strength and Conditioning Association | Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

  • Brown Belt in Jiujitsu | Jake Shields AJJ

  • Yoga College of India | Certified Yoga Teacher

  • Onnit Academy | Certified Durability Trainer

  • Bachelor’s Degree | Economics | Wesleyan University

 

TESTIMONIALS. 

Josh is the full package: The high value combo of having expert knowledge in human anatomy while being an elite athlete and dedicated teacher. His holistic approach to unlocking your body’s potential is right at the frontier of modern health, fitness and moving culture. What Josh teaches today will be what everyone else will be emulating in the future. Just after my first month I had loosened and dynamically strengthened structural areas of my body from chest to back to hips. My body is more capable, more explosive and more comfortable all at the same time. Whether an elite athlete or someone looking to put their body back on the right track, that was given to us at birth, Josh is your man. Training is an inspiration and I couldn’t recommend him more.
— Daniel D,
Avid Muay Thai Practitioner and fan of combat sports

 

I was 5 feet and 220 pounds when I began working with Josh, and within a year was down 50 pounds despite not having made any changes to my diet or doing more than 12 min of cardio a week.

Unlike other trainers, Josh didn’t begin our relationship by promising me gains and getting excited about the hard work ahead. He asked me what I wanted to achieve...and then built a smart and approachable program towards that goal adjusting for the body limitations I had developed over two decades. 

For example, I’ve always had trouble with a simple pushup and was told by other trainers to fix this by trying more and more pushups. Instead of relentless and endless attempts at boot camp style pushups, which never yielded results, Josh identified issues with my shoulder and back muscle integration. We spent months activating these connections through small isolations and viola - the push up became easily available. 

His integrative evidence based approach to movement gave me the confidence to stick with non-traditional exercises knowing that free and easy movement was around the corner. 

I would recommend Josh to anyone, but especially to people who appreciate evidence-based training, who haven’t made significant strength gains through traditional boot camp or weight training, and who want to become not just stronger and faster be also freer with their movements.
— Martha W,
Connoisseur of hiking, tiny houses, and domestic felines

 

Josh Berkovic is a phenomenal strength coach. His knowledge of human movement and ability to re-train people on how to become better movers is unmatched. Josh has been a huge asset for myself and my patients in being able to assist with rehabilitation and getting people back into the game. Whether you are looking to improve in sports performance or you are looking to recover from an injury, Josh will develop a program to suit your goals!
— Albert S,
Founder of Accelerate Sports Medicine, Go-to Physical Trainer & Therapist for the Oakland Raiders, SF Warriors, Giants, & UFC athletes & Proud soccer dad