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Solar Flexes
Hayley Stall

Solar Flexes

Scottsdale, Arizona’s fitness scene heats up.

SCHUYLER DIEHM, FOUNDER AND HEAD COACH, REACH FAT LOSS & FITNESS

“The goal is to eliminate diet culture and help people create a healthier relationship with food, exercise and their body while they lose weight and build muscle, putting a large emphasis on the mental side of losing fat.

It’s a strategy that involves small nutrition shifts, fasting, weightlifting and walking. The idea is to work with your body instead of against it and to feel good while you drop weight.” Since launching Reach in 2017, Diehm has helped clients sustainably lose over 1500 lbs., including Amy (70 lbs lost), who joined the Reach team in 2023.

JEFF DAVIS CEO, DAVISFIT ACADEMY

As an elite parent transformation coach, my main focus with parents across the world is creating a man or woman they admire on an everyday basis—the healthiest and strongest version of themselves physically, mentally, and spiritually— through nutrition, fitness, and personal development work.” Husband to an amazing wife and father of two, including Ariana (pictured), Davis started coaching online eight years ago, going solo at the height of the pandemic in 2021.

SHANNON AHEARN, BODYBUILDER, BIKINI COMPETITOR, PHYSICAL THERAPIST

“Deep in the role of being an empathetic health care provider, I forgot how to take care of myself. I took a leap of faith, quit the toxic full-time job... and now, on the Doctor in a Bikini podcast, I share experiences of myself and others with the goal of helping people achieve a healthy and balanced life – without losing themselves in the process. I’m still a big coffee and dessert junkie. I don’t believe food is evil even though I’m an avid competitor!”

A nationally qualified bikini competitor with six shows under her belt, Ahearn competed in Amateur Olympia weeks after her wedding last year. She recently put her PT specialization in dance medicine to the test, joining Dancing with the Stars in Arizona to support the duos backstage.

RESET MIND & BODY

The success of the RESET Method—compression therapy, red light therapy, infrared sauna, cold plunging, and the classic hot tub topped with a second cold plunge finisher— has RESET Mind & Body Cofounder Spencer Davis at three locations and counting, plus outside-the-studio health and wellness events, pop-ups, and partnerships across the Scottsdale area. “In 60-90 minutes you’ll have burned calories as if you did a HIIT workout, yet feel as though you just finished a yoga class and massage all at the same time. You feel so relaxed but mentally clear and energized.”

JAKE COYLE, OWNER TODD SMITH FITNESS

“With our unique personal training sessions or micro group sessions, we guarantee progress within your first 30 days. We address every facet of your health to build strength, increase mobility, improve your postures, and lose weight.” Specializing in the critical aspects of mind-muscle connection and biomechanics, Coyle—mentored by the eponymous Smith himself— takes a holistic approach to fitness. His credentials stretch from Corrective Exercise Specialist to Precision Nutrition Nutritionist, with a personal training certification in Sports Medicine.

TRUE FOOD KITCHEN

At True Food Kitchen’s historic Biltmore Fashion Park location, the surrounding gardens and fountains play host to the restaurant’s anti-inflammatory twist on elevated cuisine. Founded by integrative medicine specialist Dr. Andrew Weil, True Food Kitchen optimizes its menus ingredient by ingredient. Last year, all 45 nationwide locations stopped cooking with seed oils, swapping in avocado and olive.

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