ZSP Fitness is a small group exercise gym and personal training facility in Crozet led by Dr. Carl Zovko, DPT.
Carl opened ZSP Fitness in 2017 to bring his 15 years of physical therapy and personal training experience to Crozet, VA. Carl created a space where people can improve their strength and endurance in a welcoming environment that implements safe, knowledge based exercise regimens.
Whether it be in group fitness classes, one-on-one sessions, or through online coaching, Carl is there to personally guide and encourage members/clients as they move towards their fitness goals.
Group Fitness: What to expect
Workouts are designed to vary movement and offer a combined strength and cardio experience that is proven to address all areas of one’s overall physical health and performance.
Simply put, ZSP Fitness isn’t a gym or app that hopes you’ll sign up for a recurring membership and then forget you joined.
Carl cares about you and your progress, and he believes being accountable for the work you need to put in to achieve your goals is an important factor to help you reach them.
Guiding beliefs and principals:
Movement is Medicine
(For your body and your mind)
Whether you’re coming off of surgery, have chronic pain, would like to lose weight, or simply want to feel good in your body while moving around, Carl believes that movement is the first step towards being healthy...and often times can eliminate the need for any other form of intervention.
Strength is Non-Negotiable
Want to lose weight? Want to train for a marathon without ruining your body? Want to be able to still walk well and have good posture at age 92?
You need to incorporate strength training into your life.
There are many ways to build and maintain strength, but intentionally using your muscles must be a part of your workout regimen if you want to meet you fitness goals or simply maintain your skeleton.
You Have to Get to Active
Theraguns. Massage. Heat. Ointments. Chiropractic manipulation. Weight loss surgeries. These are passive, TEMPORARY modalities that are designed to give you instant gratification and make you feel better for a short while.
They can make you feel wonderful in the moment, but they require zero commitment or effort from you.
So ultimately you’re giving the power to someone or something else to provide you with relief, which begins the cycle of never feeling accountable for your own change and always needing an external something to make you feel better.
If you want to actually progress and create lifelong change that sticks, you have to get to active.
Which means: You have to move. You have to build strength. You have to keep doing the work that allows you to realize it’s only you that can create the changes and habits that will provide you with long term health and wellbeing.