Kinesis

Kinesis at 3271 M Street NW is a movement and fitness studio in the upper Georgetown commercial district, in the M Street block adjacent to the Aesop and Diptyque boutiques. The kinesis concept, which takes its name from the Greek word for movement, reflects the studio’s organization around the functional movement principle: the fitness approach that trains the body in the movement patterns of daily life and athletic activity rather than the isolated muscle contraction that the conventional gym’s resistance machine produces.

Functional movement training, which is organized around the fundamental human movement patterns of squatting, hinging, pushing, pulling, carrying, and rotating, develops the coordinated strength, the balance, and the joint stability that the Georgetown active lifestyle requires: the Georgetown runner who wants to prevent the knee injury that the imbalanced training creates, the Georgetown parent who wants to carry children and luggage without the back pain that the weak core produces, and the Georgetown professional who wants to counteract the postural patterns of the desk-bound workday all benefit from the functional movement approach.

The Georgetown M Street commercial location at 3271 places Kinesis in the mid-M Street commercial block between the main Georgetown commercial cluster and the Georgetown University approach, serving the residential and professional Georgetown community from the accessible M Street address.

The studio’s class schedule provides the Georgetown client with the class format options appropriate to different fitness goals and different experience levels, from the introductory functional movement class through the advanced conditioning formats.

Hours run from early morning through evening on weekdays and Saturday morning. The functional movement training at Kinesis at 3271 M Street NW differs from the conventional personal training program in its emphasis on the integrated, multi-joint movements that replicate the body’s actual movement demands rather than the isolated single-joint exercises that the gym machine is designed to train. The Georgetown Kinesis client who trains the squat pattern, the hip hinge, the push, and the pull in the coordinated form that the functional movement approach requires develops the functional strength that the Georgetown daily life, the athletic recreation, and the prevention of the injury that the imbalanced training creates.

The studio’s Georgetown M Street commercial location at 3271 places Kinesis between the Aesop skincare boutique and the Diptyque fragrance store, in the upper M Street commercial block that serves the Georgetown shopping audience with both the personal care and the fitness services in the same commercial stretch. Hours run from early morning through evening on weekdays and Saturday morning. The Kinesis studio at 3271 M Street NW provides the Georgetown fitness client with the movement quality assessment that precedes the training program: the functional movement screen that identifies the movement restrictions and the asymmetries that the Georgetown client has developed from the professional lifestyle and the previous training history allows the Kinesis instructor to design the program that addresses the specific movement quality deficits before building the strength and the conditioning on the improved movement foundation. Hours run from early morning through evening on weekdays and Saturday morning.