Radically Fit gym offers inclusive workouts
on September 17, 2018
Radically Fit is a new community gym in Oakland with a mission to provide
equitable access to exercise spaces. According to founder Lindsey Page, the
gym seeks to focus on the needs of queer and trans people of color, as well as whom she refers to as big-bodied and fat identifying folks. “It’s about a safe, communal queer trans POC [People of Color] space that you can go and have a good time and feel good about something you’ve done during the day,” said Page.
Radically Fit opened earlier this year, emerging from a program Page led at
Bayan Roots, a massage and fitness studio in Oakland. Radically Fit is located in the Fruitvale neighborhood and offers fitness classes all week, catering to people with different abilities and using a sliding-scale membership model to make the gym affordable to more people.
During this year’s Oakland Pride festival, Page led a stretch to kick off the annual 5K run at Lake Merritt. Click the audio button below to learn more about the gym.
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- Lindsey Page discusses access as it relates to fitness at the gym’s new Fruitvale location.
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- Gym members Ally Noyes (upper left), Ivón Hernandez (upper right), Emma Craig (lower left), and Gabrielle Hooks (lower right) gather after completing Page’s Power Circuit class on Sept. 7.
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- Page’s dog Logan sits in her Power Circuit class.
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- A crowd gathers by the Lake Merritt pergola for Oakland Pride’s annual 5K run, led by the Oakland LGBTQ Center this year, early Sept. 8.
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![Run participant Matt Randoph stretches to Page's instructions in preparation for takeoff. Following the run, Randoph said, "I really appreciated how much the 5K was about building community, and the reference to ancestors in the beginning [made by Oakland LGBTQ Center's Kin Folkz/Monica Anderson]." He added, "It really fueled me."](https://oaknorth.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/5-300x200.jpg)
- Run participant Matt Randoph stretches to Page’s instructions in preparation for takeoff. Following the run, Randoph said, “I really appreciated how much the 5K was about building community, and the reference to ancestors in the beginning [made by Oakland LGBTQ Center’s Kin Folkz/Monica Anderson].” He added, “It really fueled me.”
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- Oakland LGBTQ Center’s Kin Folkz/Monica Anderson (center) stands with the center’s co-founder Joe Hawkins (right), and DJ Grey (left) of the Hella Gay monthly community dance party following the 5K run on Sept.8.
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