What if regular high doses of intense pleasure made you more beautiful?  Natural bodybuilder Arde Johnson transforms exercise into ecstasy for all comers.

Everyone would like to be fit and healthy, to move gracefully through the world.  We want power; we want longevity; we want people to be drawn to our lithe figure, our commanding frame.  It’s just that we don’t want drudgery; we don’t want tedium—we don’t want to be dragged off to do things we can’t do right or can’t afford to learn.

What we want to do, what we return to again and again, are the things that give us intense pleasure, the things that brush every inch of our bodies with a knowing joy, the things we do so beautifully that we would find it painful to abstain from them.

Arde Johnson, natural bodybuilder extraordinaire and the soul of Body Technics Fitness Studio in southeast Portland, Oregon, knows intimately the joy in exceptional strength, the wonder in beautiful movement.  But where others present this joy as stuck permanently behind walls of boring repetition, uncomfortable expense, or an I-can’t-do-that mentality, Johnson has created a fitness space so devoid of barriers that this joy easily washes over, and through, every body that crosses his threshold.  This isn’t fitness for other people.  This is fitness for you, and once you start personal training under Johnson’s wing you’ll wonder how on earth you went without it before.

A training experience tailored to your unique form and attuned to your comfort

Central to the Body Technics ethic is the “personal” in personal training.  Arde Johnson trains men and women of all ages and from all walks of life.  He works with champion bodybuilders; he works with the seriously obese; he works with every body-type and existing level of fitness.  When you train at Body Technics, you don’t just begin a program, you begin a relationship—a relationship marked by careful listening, enthusiasm and encouragement, and unparalleled expertise directed precisely at your individual needs and desires.  You haven’t got a cookie-cutter body, you haven’t got a cookie-cutter life; and you need never settle for cookie-cutter workouts again.

Central to the Body Technics experience are comfort and convenience.  At the close of each training session you luxuriate under the shower in a private bath while your workout clothes are laundered for you and Johnson—Arde to you—prepares your favorite smoothie.  Your workout clothes are stored on site, so there is no need to drag a cumbersome gym bag back and forth.  Professional massage is available, the coffee is fresh and delicious, and there are plenty of fitness videos and other materials on site for your continuing education.

A training experience with immediate dramatic and pleasurable results

But amenities and even attention would be meaningless if the training itself weren’t exceptionally effective.  How many times have you exercised in the past while wondering if it was doing any good, or if you were even doing it right?  When you’re not even sure that your workouts have a purpose, it’s very easy to stop working out.  This is where training at Body Technics makes all the difference in the world.

Arde Johnson guides you through movements so precise and so immediately effective, you will amaze yourself.  He will tell you, at each step, exactly which muscles will come into play—and at each step it is almost as if someone has marked those muscles with a magical ink; so perfectly will they come to the fore as you articulate the movement.  This is pure pleasure:  getting to watch and feel yourself doing all kinds of things you didn’t think you could do, all at the behest of someone who not only believes in you, but knows just how to bring out your best.  The delight in each workout makes working out irresistible, and your best just keeps getting better.

Natural, humanistic and user-friendly

What drives Johnson’s superb technique; what approach makes his training so spectacularly effective?  The first thing to understand about Body Technics is that its programs of physical development and weight loss are entirely natural.  Johnson will not agree to train a known steroid user.  He is not interested in a false appearance of fitness.  He will give you the tools and the motivation you need to build the sort of fitness that carries lifelong benefits; the sort of fitness that not only increases your physical appeal but improves the quality of your days outside the studio.

The second thing making Body Technics so well equipped to meet your fitness needs is the multiplicity of humane and humanistic resources its founder mobilizes on your behalf.  Arde Johnson is an accomplished, creative and compassionate man.  Now 67, he has been a champion bodybuilder, a dentist of many years’ standing, an artist, a writer, a mentor, a father and grandfather.  He has served his country as an Army sergeant, and was also once offered a naval commission.  He is warm, gentle, generous, and fun to be around.  He will take almost as much genuine delight in your achievements as you will.

Finally, Body Technics training does not require unusual equipment or expenditure to be reproducible, portable, able to be supplemented at home or anywhere you wish to experience the pleasure of getting it right.  The time you spend training becomes a model for effective workouts you can have anytime and anywhere.

Your questions are invited

BODY TECHNICS FITNESS STUDIO is located at 4426 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, Oregon 97215.

Feel free to phone ARDE JOHNSON at 503-459-2002 or 503-808-9895 with any inquiries.  You may also e-mail him at arterjohnson@comcast.net

Training sessions are generally an hour in length and arranged by appointment.  Packages and “special training for special occasions” are also available.

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