Power Monkey Gymnastics & Weightlifting Camp in Tennessee

Power Monkey Camp runs across five days at the team's base in Crossville, Tennessee. Each day is split into training blocks across the disciplines they actually coach: gymnastics-based bodyweight work, Olympic weightlifting, still rings, handstands, kettlebell, rowing and jump rope. Rather than picking one discipline for the week, you rotate through them, so a lifter with no gymnastics background still spends time on the rings and a gymnast with no barbell experience still gets coached through the snatch and clean and jerk.

Coaching groups are kept small and sessions are scaled — the same movement patterns get regressed or progressed depending on what you can already do. If you can't hold a handstand, you work the wall drills and positioning that lead there. If you can already hold one, you work on press-to-handstand and handstand walking. The same logic applies to the barbell work and to the ring strength progressions.

What makes this different from a lot of skills camps is that Power Monkey Fitness also runs a training app and one- and two-day courses at gyms around the country, so the camp is an extension of a method people already follow at home rather than a one-off event. The coaching staff travel as a unit and the camp sits on their own property, which means the equipment list is specific to what they teach — rings, platforms, parallettes, kettlebells, rowers and jump ropes — rather than a generic gym floor.

Crossville sits on the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee, roughly halfway between Nashville and Knoxville. It's rural, wooded country, and the camp is set up so that you stay on site for the duration. That means the days aren't broken up by commuting; you finish a session, eat, and come back for the next block.

Expect the schedule to be full. Most people arrive with one or two disciplines they care most about and leave having spent real coached time on the others as well. It's a working camp rather than a holiday with a few classes bolted on.

What's included

- 5-day all-inclusive camp at Crossville, Tennessee - On-site accommodation for the duration - Meals throughout the camp - Daily coached gymnastics sessions - Daily Olympic weightlifting coaching - Rings and handstand training blocks - Kettlebell sessions - Rowing technique work - Jump rope sessions - Small-group coaching scaled to your level

What's not included

- Travel to and from Crossville, Tennessee - Travel insurance - Personal training equipment and clothing - Any additional one-to-one coaching not part of the camp schedule - Personal expenses