Mapp To Fitness
Raleigh, NC
- Address
- 2810 Yonkers Rd Ste 2A, Raleigh, NC, United States, 27604, Raleigh, NC, 27604
- Phone
- +19195140289
- Website
- mapptofitness.com
About Mapp To Fitness
Mapp to Fitness began with a number: 110 pounds. That is what Rock Mapp, a U.S. Army veteran who served with the 82nd Airborne, lost before he decided the process that changed his own body could change other people's. Out of that experience he built the Lifestyle Training program, and out of that program he and his wife, Rhonnie Mapp, built a gym at 2810 Yonkers Road in Raleigh. The two of them run it as a husband-and-wife team, and the veteran-owned, family-driven character shows up in how the place is organized. The tagline is "Where Coaching Meets Community," and the structure behind it is a coached-class model rather than a rows-of-machines model. Members follow a weekly split that moves through the body across the week: lower body and core on Monday, an upper-body push-pull day with cardio on Tuesday, a Full Body Recharge midweek, lower body and conditioning on Thursday, a Full Body Build on Friday, and the gym's HIIT'n The Body session on Saturday. The programming runs on what MTF calls a three-block Lifestyle Training system, delivered in group classes and reinforced through the MTF app, which carries more than a hundred on-demand workouts and nutritional guidance for members training on their own time. Rock coaches as a certified personal trainer and strength-and-conditioning coach and heads the gym's programming. Rhonnie, also a certified personal trainer, works as a nutritionist and a glute specialist and holds multiple ISSA certifications; she came to fitness first as a way to manage anxiety and now concentrates much of her coaching on strength training for women. Two additional coaches, Jasilyn Brown and Tammy Hunt, round out the team, both certified personal trainers and group fitness coaches. The services are built to meet people at different points. A single group training session runs $30, a one-on-one personal training session is $85, and the shorter HIIT'n The Body class is $15. The gym's membership, MTF Total Access, is $189 a month and opens up unlimited group training, the premium classes, the three-block coaching system, app access, nutritional resources, and the community group, with a bi-weekly payment option and a $35 annual maintenance fee. For anyone still deciding, there is a free phone consultation and a seven-day gym pass, and the gym extends a ten percent discount to military members, veterans, first responders, teachers, and couples. What holds it together is the founding idea that the gym is not a place you visit but a group you join. The coaching is guided, the accountability is built into the class structure, and the environment is aimed squarely at everyday people at every fitness level rather than at those who already look the part. That was the point from the beginning, when one person's own transformation became a method, and the method became a room in Raleigh where other people could work through the same thing with a coach in front of them and a community around them.
Mapp to Fitness grew out of founder Rock Mapp's own 110-pound weight loss. A U.S. Army veteran of the 82nd Airborne, he turned the process that changed his body into the Lifestyle Training program, then opened the Raleigh gym with his wife, Rhonnie, a certified trainer, nutritionist, and glute specialist who first found fitness as a way to manage anxiety. They run it as a veteran-owned, family-driven, community-focused gym built around coached group classes rather than a floor of machines, under the tagline "Where Coaching Meets Community." The gym positions itself as a welcoming, accountability-driven environment for everyday people at every fitness level, coached by the Mapps alongside trainers Jasilyn Brown and Tammy Hunt.
Services
- Cross Training
- Yoga
- Stretching
- Free weights
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