Strength. Performance. Optimal. Resistance. Training
About
At SPORT Fitness, we aim to deliver the most effective full-body, butt-kicking workout .
SPORT Fitness offers a one-of-a-kind bootcamp class, Boxing meets Bootcamp, that combines practical kickboxing techniques with functional weightlifting movements. It’s fun and challenging. It will get your heart rate soaring and your muscles screaming!
Learn firsthand from Certified Personal Trainers and active Mixed Martial Arts competitors and coaches to fully optimize your fitness goals. You’re guaranteed to leave here dripping with sweat and feeling like you accomplished something great. Come check us out!
Classes
SPORT Fitness Boxing Meets Bootcamp
This is the ultimate full-body workout. A SPORT Fitness Bootcamp class will consist of high-intensity interval training (HIIT), punching and kicking techniques, and weight lifting movements to help you burn fat, tone muscles, and build strength. Each instructor brings their own personal touch to make the class fun and unique.
SPORT Fitness Kickboxing
We promise not to waste your time with useless “cardio kickboxing” workouts that aren’t practical in the real world. Our boxing and kickboxing classes are taught by instructors with actual ring or cage experience. In these classes, you’ll build confidence and learn proper, real life techniques that will torch calories and give you the abilities to defend yourself against real life attackers.
SPORT Fitness Personal Training
Are you looking for an individualized program to meet your specific fitness goals? Try a one-on-one session with a certified personal trainer. Our trainers have expertise in helping clients burn fat, lose weight, build and tone muscles, and achieve personal bests in strength gains. Check our clients’ testimonials to read more about what our trainers can help you achieve!
SPORT Fitness Lifting Club
Join our community of lifters at the Lifting Club every Monday at 6PM! This high energy barbell lifting class for individuals of all skill levels- whether you are looking to build a new foundation or are an experienced lifter aiming to perfect your technique. Each class, you will focus on mastering the 3 essential lifts: the squat, deadlift, and bench press. You will learn proper form and ways to progress your lifts in a supportive, fun atmosphere.
Coaches
Adam Dicker
SPORT Fitness head coach, Adam Dicker, has been a personal trainer since 2009. He specializes in weight loss, athletic conditioning, strength training, bootcamp workouts and MMA/kickboxing.
Adam has been training in Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Jiu Jitsu and MMA since 2010. He has traveled to Thailand to learn and appreciate the art of Muay Thai. He holds an amateur Muay Thai record of 3-1. Adam is undefeated in MMA, and last competed in 2014 winning by Guillotine Choke in the second round. He also holds a Brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Jay Valko.
Adam has coached boxers and MMA fighters in amateur events including the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Xtreme Fighting Organization (XFO), the World Muay Thai Organization (WMO), and more.
Mayla Arceo Dicker
Through her experience as a certified personal trainer and yoga instructor, Mayla fuses physical movement with mindfulness to help others perform at their best. She believes that everyone has immense strength within, and her mission is to help others in their journey to discover their strength. Mayla is a NASM-certified trainer and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). Her area of focus is Ashtanga Vinyasa, with emphasis on powerful athletic flows. She has trained in more than 30 studios around the world, and has trained under Katarina Rayburn, Stewart Gilchrist, and Sarah Hatcher.
Katie Brower
Katie understands the struggles of weight management intimately. Having battled with weight fluctuations and poor lifestyle choices over the years, she finally made a commitment to transform her life. She has since shed over 80 pounds and proudly maintains a healthier lifestyle, allowing her to excel in combat sports and all areas of her life. She comes with over a decade of boxing experience and a winning record in Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitions.
Through her life and fitness experiences, Katie can create a tailored program that aligns with your goals, whether it’s striving to compete, lose weight, gain muscle or simply embrace a healthier lifestyle.
Matthew Hill
Matt began training Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2010 under Jay Valko and holds the highest rank as a black belt. He’s competed in numerous grappling competitions and has won his divisions in NAGA, Grappling Games, Five Grappling, US Grappling and the IBJJF Chicago Open in both gi and nogi. He has also taught and coached students for competition and is still actively training and competing himself.
Malcolm Ward
Malcolm “Coach Sauce” Ward is a fitness, nutrition, and mindset coach with a lifelong passion for movement and wellness. A dad, boxing enthusiast, and artist, he blends authenticity with deep experience to help people move better, feel stronger, and live longer.
Raised in a health-conscious home where fitness and balanced meals were the norm, Malcolm stayed active through swimming, martial arts, wrestling, and boxing, competing in high school and college. After getting certified through NASM in 2019, he began with group fitness and quickly expanded to 1-on-1 and virtual coaching.
After earning his nutrition certification from NCI, his coaching evolved into a holistic approach that emphasizes sustainability, strength, and mindset. Today, he specializes in helping busy people get and stay fit, without spending all day in the gym or following extreme diets.
Coach Sauce offers small group classes, personal training, and virtual coaching built to fit real lives.
Alyssa Martinez
Born and raised in Chicago, Alyssa has worked in the health and wellness business since 2012. She has been certified in all cryotherapy services since 2019, and also became a trainer to certify others in cryotherapy machines and services. In 2019, she became the Director of Operations at a cryotherapy spa, where she oversaw four cryo-spas in the Chicagoland area. This helped her grow her passion to help those recovering from anything such as post op recovery, injuries, joint pain, inflammation, arthritis, other ailments, and post physical training recovery. She began personal training in 2014. Alyssa continues to enjoy growing her craft and help people not only look their best, but feel their best!
Steve Carlson
Steve is many things; personal trainer, martial artist, kettlebell, husband, dad, and big ol’ nerd. But, above “what” Steve is, there is WHY Steve is…
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To help people to get stronger, so they can always be capable of doing hard things.
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Steve’s passion for movement began at the early age of 5 when he started wresting. Through primary school and college he continued playing different sports such as football, soccer, track and field, and golf while also practicing a wide variety of martial arts with a primary focus of Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai.
After Studying Exercise Physiology at Southern Illinois University, Steve began his training career and has continued ever since, apart from a brief but amazing stint as a “stay at home dad.” Now, after almost two decades of personal training, group classes, attending certifications, coaching, gym consulting, teaching at certifications and refining his craft of strengthening people, you can find Steve teaching kettlebell skills, hiking National Parks with his family, or playing Dungeons and Dragons.
"Not only are the workouts about making changes to your body, but about learning the discipline of pushing past the limits you think you have. " - Lexi L.
“Boot camp classes are the perfect way to get a great workout in while surrounded with other motivated people of all shapes and sizes.” - Aaron G.
“My only regret is that I didn't start sooner!.” - Jason K.
