Health & Fitness in Tulsa

Since its founding in 1980, Sun & Ski Sports has remained true to its philosophy: “do a few things, but do them better than anybody else.” The shop stocks equipment in five categories of extreme and outdoor activities, including camping, skating, running, bicycling, and water and snow sports. It specializes in these to ensure its merchandise maintains a high standard of quality, and its employees are knowledgeable participants in the sports their department represents. Bikers can drop off their steeds for tune-ups from certified mechanics who put all brands through the rigors of a 12-point inspection, checking chains and adjusting wobbly pedals and malfunctioning spoke-card motors. While waiting, curious eyes might linger on a North Face two-person tent, a Blackburn Airtower bicycle pump, or a vast selection of shoes from brands such as New Balance and Asics. Men and women can traipse nearly barefoot in the park with Vibram FiveFingers, which offer minimal structural encumbrances for a more natural stride, or cast their feet aside for the new-wheeled prowess that comes with a Fuji SL-1 LE Ultegra performance road bike.

Whether educating clients on the most nutritious foods or showing them how to build up their biceps, Fitness Together's trainers make fitness goal oriented and fun. The company also believes it's important that no one embark on this journey alone. All programs are designed to hold participants accountable and provide a supportive atmosphere. The nutrition program, for instance, monitors clients as they balance food portions and meal frequency, helping them make healthy choices when shopping for groceries or raiding the walk-in fridges at restaurants. A cardio program combines Fartlek, interval training, and tempo-focused workouts to build muscle endurance and get hearts pumping. The Aspire 8 program, meanwhile, uses resistance training as a path to fitness. Participants plunge into rotating functional workouts?such as MMA-style training, weight training, and Tabata?that keep muscles working even after they should have plateaued. As part of its mission to foster a communal environment, the gym also specializes in training for youth and older adults.

Stephen and Elizabeth, the certified instructors of Tulsa Yoga Therapy, unite more than 20 years of combined yoga-teaching experience to lead beginner-friendly yoga classes. Their focus is on mindful poses and slow transitions, which is also James Cameron’s focus whenever half his filmed scenes for a movie go missing. With backgrounds in massage therapy, anatomy, and rehabilitation movement, Stephen and Elizabeth structure their classes around students recovering from injuries and those new to yoga. In addition to one-hour group classes, they invite clients with more serious physical limitations to one-on-one therapeutic bodywork or private sessions. During these workouts, instructors tailor moves to specific imbalances or injuries.

Founder Stephanie Flynn's passion for fitness and self-empowerment helped her to become the Bill Phillips Transformation champion in 2009, and she now channels that determination to help others to get fit. Focused on encouraging women held back by low self-esteem, Fit Body's instructors motivate clients through cardio and resistance training while sharing healthy-eating principles to launch a two-pronged assault on fat. Supplemented by accountability and peer support, the programs strive to burn calories in a short time period without forcing clients into starvation diets or extreme workouts such as gator wrestling.

Natural Lullabies unites community support and yoga to create a safe haven for families. Boasting two birth suites alongside its class studio, the space focuses on easing the mind and body during planning, pregnancy, and parenthood alike. Owner Melissa Cameron has supervised childbirth classes for more than 500 families, and together with certified nurse-midwife Ruth Cobb, she leads seminars on multiple aspects of maternity. Cameron and Cobb relax expectant moms with prenatal yoga lessons and welcome babies to play alongside their guardians during Mommy & Me classes. Their workshops can cover couples yoga, baby sign language, and Mama's Night Out activities, which allow mothers to de-stress without tuning baby monitors to the smooth-jazz station. By dismissing rigid philosophies, the staff further cultivates a serene environment, encouraging guests to discover their own yoga viewpoints through self-reflection.

With more than 1,000 quality supplements ranging from herbs to amino acids, Herbs & More rouses immune systems and repossesses the body's collection of toxins. Sheltered under the wise wing of board-certified naturopathic endocrinologist Dr. Jack Wise, Herbs & More's expert staff helps patrons meet their diet-boosting needs with a variety of essential oils, enzymes, and encapsulated remedies. In addition to their own line of natural health goods, Herbs & More also boasts a large selection of Nature's Sunshine products such as multivitamins ($21.40–$75.40), weight-management supplements ($20.65–$74.95), and children's chewable calcium, which ensures that young skeletons grow up to be strong, healthy skeletons in the closet ($20.25). To help alleviate the symptoms of gluten intolerance, customers can pick up a bottle of J&L Health intestinal calm ($124.95), snag sleep aiding melatonin to snooze through insomnia ($7.50), or relieve chronic fatigue syndrome by taking home Energique's Cat's Claw formula ($29.95).