MISSION STATEMENT

We proclaim that re-Creation Fitness is the BADDEST FUNCTIONAL FITNESS JOINT in the known universe. We have located the re-Creation Fitness facility less than two blocks away from Central Park and we have sourced and array of equipment including weight sleds, tractor tires, Flip Sleds, wrestling dummies and Bulgarian bags that you won't find at most gyms. We invite you to come by and try to complete one our infamous fitness challenges to see what kind of shape you're really in.

My goal when I opened this fitness studio a few years ago was never just to open another gym. My goal was to create a place where people who embrace fitness as a lifestyle could come together, exchange ideas and collaborate with each other.

We, as humans, find ourselves under constant assault today. We are under assault by a big system run by little men who are too greedy and too short-sighted to change course. The very few at the top of the food chain now strive to exploit all people everywhere, all the time. Think of it as a world plantation system.

One of the few ways that we can still affirm that we are alive is to use our bodies, to move, to ride bikes, to dance - to play hard.

My ambition in establishing re-Creation Fitness was that it would serve as the hub and the flagship for fitness and wellness from a Black Pan African perspective, while still leaving room enough to take inspiration from and to embrace the health and fitness traditions of other people’s, especially other people of color.

So, the lofty goal of this tiny fitness studio in Harlem is to embrace the spirit of the artists of the Harlem Renaissance, only in this iteration we use fitness and wellness as our medium to strengthen our community, to learn lessons and to share findings that hopefully help people to live better all over the planet.