THE BIRTH

Psycho Gym was born out of raw necessity.  In 2006 Co- Founders Travis Williams and Russ Kimzey were fed up with the big corporate box gyms.  Travis was stuck there as a trainer and Russ was stuck there as a client.  We both needed more.  We needed something more intense, we needed to get away from people sitting on machines and coming to the gym for social hour.  We wanted to be around people like us; Hardworking, Dedicated, Serious, people that will push us to make ourselves better.  How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you’ll raise your expectations of yourself.

We needed a place where it was O.K. to drop a weight if you couldn’t hang on to it any longer.  We wanted to be able walk around and train barefoot because it makes us stronger.  We wanted to get away from bodybuilding style workouts with machines and dumbbells; and develop real world strength by training with kettlebells, sandbags, tractor tires, sledge hammers, suspension trainers, and battling ropes.

A year and a half later in 2008 after countless hours of working and experimenting with these training tools Psycho Gym opened its doors in Deep Ellum.  We have been pushing ourselves and others to the limit ever since.