Fortify Athletics and Therapeutics

11/03/2025

Join Fortify Athletics & Therapeutics, Pulse Portsmouth, and Pride Heating & Air Conditioning for Aquidneck Island’s Big Give — our annual Red Truck Rally 🎄

Bring the family and your donations for hot chocolate, apple cider, DJ Scott Preuit live musc by Jack, Andre & Rhys and festive photos with the iconic red truck right inside the gym!

We’re accepting donations to help local families in need —

🎁 Christmas gifts
🧥 Winter jackets
🧤 Hats & gloves
🥫 Non-perishable food
💵 Cash donations

Let’s fill the truck with warmth and joy — proving once again that strength isn’t just built in the gym… it’s built in community.

📍 Fortify Athletics & Therapeutics
📅 November 23, 11am-2pm
🎶 Live DJ + Live Band + lots of other fun stuff TBA!

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11/02/2025

When Dr. Gabrielle Lyon was just 5 years old, her dad took her on 10-mile bike rides—and physical activity became part of her everyday life. That early exposure to movement laid the foundation for her passion for strength, muscle, and now, her career as a board-certified physician and author of “The Forever Strong Playbook.”

“When you instill that kind of physicality into the cultural dynamics of the household, it changes the trajectory for children,” says Dr. Lyon. Now, she’s teaching her own kids the importance of resistance training—much earlier than when she started herself at 17 years old.

As more families bring structured fitness into their routines, experts are noticing a shift. “This generation of children is seeing their parents at the gym, and so it’s more common for a family to do that together,” says Dr. Eva Seligman of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

And even though the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) has been issuing position statements on the importance of youth resistance training since 1985, getting kids involved still feels a bit “avante-garde,” Dr. Lyon says.

“There are these outdated myths, for example, that training affects bone growth and there [are] lots of injuries,” she says.

The other component at play is that culturally, young girls aren’t encouraged to pick up, say, kettlebells from an early age, but instead to enroll in dance classes, for example.

“There is this very early mental programming that I think changes the landscape of musculature in kids,” Dr. Lyon says. “We have to be very conscious of that if we want to change the metabolic landscape.”

10/31/2025

Good Luck tonight boys!

Portsmouth Patriots Football

10/30/2025

Injury ≠ Setback.

It’s a chance to rebuild smarter, move better, and come back stronger.

At Fortify, we specialize in keeping you safe, strong, and progressing through every phase — rehab to return-to-sport.

Strength. Resilience. Recovery.

10/30/2025

🚨 Big news, Portsmouth! 🚨

Fortify + Pulse = The Performance Collective.

We’ve joined forces to bring you the most complete wellness experience on Aquidneck Island — combining Pulse’s high-energy group workouts with Fortify’s precision-based performance training and recovery care.

Together, we’re creating a community built to move, recover, and thrive.

Stay tuned for exclusive member perks, events, and offerings from both teams 💥

10/16/2025

New Blog Drop: The Hidden Epidemic

We’re on a mission to keep you out of the medical model and living strong. Read the new blog on how Fortify is changing the conversation.

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10/14/2025

⭐️New Blog Post Up at FortifyRI.com⭐️

When most people think of the leading causes of death, they picture heart disease, cancer, or stroke. Few realize that one of the deadliest threats in modern healthcare isn’t a disease at all — it’s the system itself.Every year, an estimated 250,000 to 400,000 Americans die from preventable me...

10/08/2025

You can’t see it.
But it could be quietly shaping your health.

Visceral fat lives deep within the abdomen, surrounding your organs and influencing everything from hormones to longevity. The good news? It’s reversible — and measurable.

Discover what’s happening beneath the surface with a Fortify InBody 580 scan.
Knowledge is power. Longevity is the reward.

When most people think about body fat, they picture what they can see in the mirror: a bit of softness around the stomach, hips, or thighs. But there’s another type of fat that’s far more dangerous—and it can’t be pinched or spotted from the outside.It’s called visceral fat, and it lives d...

10/05/2025

The doors are open, the air is fresh, and the pumpkin protein smoothies are flowing. 🍂

Fall feels better at Fortify.

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10/01/2025

⭐️Congrats to our trainer Nicole Toppa for finishing 175th out of 1290 this weekend at HYROX Boston….

She pulled off 35th place in the burpee broad jumps AND 31st for sandbag lunges!

If you see Nicole around Fortify be sure to congratulate her!!!!!

06/18/2025

Fortify Fam!!!! Let’s get our little community the recognition it deserves!!!!!

Vote ⭐️ Gym⭐️Personal Trainer ⭐️Physical Therapist ⭐️Thank you!

Best of Newport County The Newport Life Magazine Best of Newport County Awards Are Back—Bigger and Better Than Ever! You spoke, we listened—and now it’s time to do it all […]