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<p>KINGSTON TWP. &#8212; Ken Wall is breaking through the traditional stereotype fitness center business model with a cutting-edge plan to help his clients&#8217; strength train and condition their bodies.</p><p>The Back Mountain native and his business partner, Hilary Greenberg, kicked off their entrepreneurial endeavor Friday night with an open house of a fitness facility called Move Better, located at 1290 Memorial Hwy. in Shavertown, next to Sheetz.</p><p>Move Better is not a typical gym. There are no trainers to give patrons a clipboard with a chart of what equipment to use and how many reps to do.</p><p>Instead, Wall and fellow coach, Owen Christman, use the Mike Boyle Strength and Condition (MBSC) method to teach clients to move correctly first and then begin strengthening their bodies.</p><p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t move well, you should not move often,&#8221; Wall said. &#8220;I really think the (current fitness facility) model is broken. I think that the idea of solving people&#8217;s issues by giving them access to a facility is a shortcoming. Our program is led by coaching.&#8221;</p><p>By learning how to move addresses issues of movement-related soreness, he said. For example, a sore back is caused by the way you move, he said.</p><p>&#8220;If I said, let&#8217;s make you move more, what would happen?&#8221; He asked. &#8220;You would hurt more. We teach people to move better (through exercises) first.&#8221;</p><p>Wall has been in the fitness industry for 20 years and worked the MBSC program a few years ago and saw amazing results.</p><p>&#8220;I had people tell me &#8212; they called it the Advil quota,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So they went from 15 Advil a week to none.&#8221;</p><p>Move Better also provides clients with access to ProCoach Precision Nutrition, a program that addresses habits that prevent adults from making good food choices.</p><p>&#8220;You know you should eat breakfast. You don&#8217;t need me to tell you that,&#8221; Wall said. &#8220;But there are reasons behind why you don&#8217;t eat breakfast. Maybe you don&#8217;t wake up early enough to give yourself time to have breakfast. Maybe that is because you go to bed at 1 a.m. If I asked you to try and go to sleep a half hour earlier and get up a half hour earlier, maybe you would have time for breakfast, which would make you feel more energized and less grumpy.&#8221;</p><p>Move Better also offers a sports performance program to help not only the seasoned athlete.</p><p>&#8220;We can work with middle school-aged children up to adults,&#8221; Christman said.</p><p>Strengthening and conditioning muscles help cut down on sports-related injuries, Christman said.</p><p>&#8220;We are in the best position to help the average adult and the athlete,&#8221; Wall said. &#8220;One of my best clients is an 84-year-old.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Rick Morgan, right, of Shavertown, goes over a piece of exercise equipment with his son, Ricky Morgan, left, Marissa Udzella, of Larksville, and his wife, Janet Morgan, on Friday at the open house for Move Better in Trucksville. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_movebetter01.jpg</photo0><caption0>Rick Morgan, right, of Shavertown, goes over a piece of exercise equipment with his son, Ricky Morgan, left, Marissa Udzella, of Larksville, and his wife, Janet Morgan, on Friday at the open house for Move Better in Trucksville. </caption0><photoCredit0>Pete G. Wilcox | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_movebetter02.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Ken Wall, owner of Move Better, talks with visitors at Friday&#8217;s open house. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/web1_movebetter02.jpg</photo1><caption1>Ken Wall, owner of Move Better, talks with visitors at Friday&#8217;s open house. </caption1><photoCredit1>Pete G. Wilcox | Times Leader </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Move Better opens in Back Mountain</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Eileen Godin</p><p>egodin@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta><p><strong>Move Better</strong></p><p>1290 Memorial Hwy.,</p><p>Shavertown</p><p><strong>Hours:</strong> 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday</p><p>7 a.m. to noon, Saturday</p><p>Closed Sunday</p><p>Hours are subject to change.</p><p><strong>Phone:</strong> 570-301-6757</p><p><strong>Online:</strong> www.facebook.com/Move-Better-570</p></factboxMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Eileen Godin at 570-991-6387 or on Twitter @TLNews.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Move Better opens in Shavertown