The Most Powerful Medicine for Body and Brain? Movement.
Exercise is your most powerful lever for health.
It’s not just about staying fit — it’s a tool to improve nearly every area of your well-being. From preventing disease to boosting energy, from building strength now to preserving function as you age, movement is what holds it all together.
That’s why I see exercise not just as a longevity tool, but as a quality-of-life tool.
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To make it truly effective, we train with purpose — built on four essential pillars:
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1. Stability – a strong foundation for safe and efficient movement
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2. Strength – the power to support your body in everyday life and beyond
3. Aerobic efficiency – steady-state endurance for heart and metabolic health
4. Peak aerobic capacity (VOâ‚‚max) – your body’s highest potential for oxygen use, performance, and resilience
When these four pillars are addressed together, you don’t just move better — you live better.
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From Core Components to Complex Performance
When these core components are in place, everything else starts to fall into place.
As we build stability, strength, and aerobic capacity, other essential abilities develop naturally alongside them — like balance, coordination, mobility, and more refined types of strength such as power and explosiveness.
These elements aren’t trained in isolation — they evolve as part of a smart, integrated system that helps your body move better, respond faster, and stay more resilient in everyday life.

Once stability, strength, and aerobic capacity are in place, we can build toward more advanced, integrated abilities — what I call complex performance.

This includes:
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Compound movements
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Functional movement patterns
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Lifting techniques
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Gymnastics skills to develop control, mobility, and body awareness
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Throwing and power techniques to train timing, precision, and force
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Plyometrics to develop explosive power, speed, and reactive strength
Client Experiences
Since I started training with Michaela, I have seen excellent results: I have a lot more energy, my balance and flexibility have significantly improved, I developed a new attitude in me to combat my inner comfort zone and I’ve never felt stronger.
MANUELA SCHWINGSCHACKL
Strategy, branding and marketing, sparring & consulting
I’ve been training with Michaela for over 5 years plus. She is my dedicated trainer when I work in Zurich. I hire her every day and she is one of the best trainers I’ve ever worked with. Her knowledge about the body and her creativity are powerful. I highly recommend trying her.
BROOKE GELB
SVP Business Development at SHENKMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC