About — INTENTIONAL FITNESS

Our Mission at Intentional Fitness:

To optimize your physical, emotional, and cognitive experience on this planet through intentional movement, tailored resistance training and education of your body. As Muscular System Specialists, we strive always to think critically, so you can thrive and flourish on your health and fitness journey. We aim to nurture and nourish with safe, thoughtful, and appropriate movement, training and exercise so that we maximize your progression with no setbacks.

Our passion lies in bringing you into our world and opening your mind to a whole new way of thinking about movement, exercise, and the body as a whole. We delight in teaching and giving you an educated game plan, providing you with sensible, well thought out direction, and most importantly, inspiring hope, fire and drive to accomplish every goal that you set for yourself!

Why Do We Exist?

To improve and optimize our clients physical, emotional and cognitive experience on this planet through movement, resistance training and education. We as muscular system specialists strive always to think critically, so our clients can thrive. We aim to nurture and nourish with appropriate exercise, and maximize our clients progress with intelligent training.

The Need For Something New

There are far too many exercise “professionals” in the fitness industry making irrational decisions for their clients. We gravitated toward the field of exercise science and muscular system training because we love to think outside the box (constructively, creatively and critically). It excites us to take on clients who have been given up on, beaten down by generic fitness programs or turned away by other health care providers because “they just can’t understand what’s wrong.” Clients come to us and they are at the end of the line, exhausted, losing hope, thinking they will be in pain forever. Our passion is taking that client and opening their mind to a whole new way of thinking about their body, giving them hope, a plan for their muscular fitness progression, giving sensible direction, expanding their potential, and removing limitations… The reason we got into this business is to help humans feel alive and in their bodies again.

The Main Objective

Holistically bolster our client’s neuromuscular systems while concurrently educating them every step of the way. That way, our clients can confidently make better life decisions regarding their health and fitness. Teach our clients how to control their bodies appropriately and create and implement tailored training programs specific to each individual client. This will help them target their individual muscular needs and fundamental objectives and goals.

The Benefit to You

We strongly believe our client’s quality of life will increase exponentially. It is our goal to diminish and/or eliminate our client’s pain, while improving their strength and endurance. We stive to instill more confidence and improve control in their bodies. Their capability and capacity to do life, and do life well, will be elevated and they will have solid systems in place to continue pursuing their health and fitness journeys. Getting stronger by the day.

Meet the Team

A team is like the root support system of a redwood tree grove. The redwood tree roots grow shallow and wide and these massive trees can only grow as big as they do, because their roots intertwine with the roots of other redwoods. This interconnectedness of the root system provides support and stability for the grove. We like to view our team and the relationships with our clients in this very light. It is absolutely imperative that we surround ourselves with a wonderful team to provide us with stability and support so we can grow and flourish. I am excited to provide you with the opportunity to work with our team of highly qualified Muscular System Specialists. Our team is deeply committed to your success and progression, and we will do everything in our power to ensure that you actualize your potential. It is our goal to support you with a stable root system, so that you can grow and flourish.

Jazz Lewis is a husband to his beautiful wife, son to his two wonderful parents, a muscle and exercise nerd, and the creator and owner of Intentional Fitness. Jazz has been immersed in the exploration of the human body for over a decade now. His journey and inspiration began as did many other exercise professionals, with a massive injury and a life-changing experience going through a rehabilitation process. This is where Jazz was introduced to the world of neuromuscular (brain-to-body) training.

In the 10+ years since that injury, Jazz has pursued a wide range of educational experiences which built his unique thought process revolving around movement, neuromuscular health, optimizing bodies, and building the best possible experience for his and all Intentional Fitness’s clients, on their muscular health journey.

Jazz’s passion lies in exploring, problem solving, educating, nurturing, and building indestructible human temples. He sees potential for growth with every project and opportunity that lies in front of him and his tenacity and relentlessness to pursue a solution and think outside the box is a major component of his success with his clients.

The pursuit of continuing education is very important to Jazz. He feels that without constant exploration of new material there would be stagnancy which could hinder his client’s growth and progress on the journey to optimizing their systems. Jazz’s greatest educational accomplishments are his: Kinesiology and Exercise Science degree from Humboldt State University, where he emphasized his studies in biomechanics and physiology, his Muscular System Specialist Certification from Exercise Professional Education, his time studying in the Resistance Training Specialist Curriculum, his Certification as a Functional Range Conditioning Specialist, and his certification from the Titleist Performance Institute

Jazz feels that he has been put on this planet to share optimism, joy and passion with the world. He believes that team is everything and hard work and dedication to process and craft are absolutely essential components of life. Jazz likes to view human relationships in a similar light as the redwood grove and its root support system. The redwood tree roots grow shallow and wide and these massive trees only grow as big as they do because their roots intertwine with the roots of other redwoods. The interconnectedness of the root system provides support and stability for the grove. The support of our community and the bonds and relationships that we form are our foundation for our stability and growth.

Jazz’s biggest goal and ambition right now is to continue building out a team of muscular system specialists so that we can help more of our community thrive on their muscle health journey and his three-year plan is to build a full blown exercise science facility from the ground floor up with every tool possible for optimizing the human body.

Jazz eats, breathes, sleeps and lives for exploring, understanding, and improving the neuromuscular system. He feels so grateful for the opportunity to have met so many wonderful people throughout his journey to help his community thrive and flourish.

Jeremiah Stilwell is a Muscle System Specialist at Intentional Fitness who is passionate about his work
with the human body. Jeremiah helps people understand their bodies and how to move them properly.
He believes that having a strong muscle mind connection is key to moving (i.e., life) in the most effective
and efficient ways possible for optimized outcome, whether that’s arresting pain responses, training for
a specific event, or wanting to be better at Activities of Daily Living.
With nearly 10 years of experience as a personal trainer and nutrition coach, Jeremiah’s journey into
neuromuscular health was love at first sight. After suffering a shoulder injury and seeing Jazz
professionally, he knew this is how he wanted to help people moving forward, so he decided to pursue a
career as a Muscle System Specialist. Jeremiah has been at Intentional Fitness as a Muscle System
Specialist helping people solve their bodies problems ever since.
Exploring, problem-solving and nurturing the human body to cultivate well-being by leveraging
knowledge about biomechanics and the neuromuscular system is Jeremiah’s passion. Helping individuals
become the best versions of their physical selves by optimizing the muscular system his mission.

Our Facility

Our State-of-the-art facility in Arcata, California has everything you need to get your body back to work and achieve your fitness goals with the experts at Intentional Fitness.