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Barefoot Style Fitness
Fortify your feet and enhance your stability. Elevate not just your foot strength, but also your overall body health, fostering improvements from your foundation upward.
Our Story & Philosophy
We build strengthfrom the ground up.
A Portland, OR based fitness studio with a unique approach: knees-over-toes methodology, barefoot training, structural balance, symmetry, breath and body awareness, and ability-based goals.
Community Focused
Meet like-minded people with similar goals.
No Easy Feet uses a partner training system to build community and foster a greater understanding through shared physical expression. Programs are ability-based, so they meet you where you are.
We're one of just a handful of gyms in the world run by a Level III certified ATG coach.
The Ground-Up Idea
Most training starts at the top. We start at the floor.
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Fortify your feet and enhance your stability — fostering improvements from your foundation upward.
We train barefoot to fortify the feet and enhance stability — building strength and overall body health from the foundation upward.
From there we use the Knees Over Toes (ATG) system for strength and flexibility. It builds mobility in the ankles, knees, hips, spine, and shoulders. No Easy Feet is one of just a handful of gyms in the world run by a Level III certified ATG coach.
Alongside that, we train for structural balance — symmetry, breath, and body awareness — and set ability-based goals built around your body rather than a one-size-fits-all template.
Our Approach
Three things hold up everything we coach.
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Barefoot Style Fitness
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ATG Training
No Easy Feet is one of just a handful of gyms in the world run by a Level III certified ATG coach. Embark on a journey of strength and flexibility with the “Knees Over Toes” system. This transformative approach doesn’t just build strength; it’s a game-changer for mobility in your ankles, knees, hips, spine, and shoulders.
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Community Focused
Meet like-minded people with similar goals. No Easy Feet uses a partner training system to build community and foster a greater understanding through shared physical expression.
A Note From The Founder
Adam Shumaker
Adam rehabilitated his own ACL tear and severe meniscus tear using the ATG method, and interned under Ben Patrick, the Knees Over Toes Guy. That's where the ground-up approach comes from.
Adam has been a certified personal trainer since 2013. With a background as a visual artist, musician, professional copywriter and English Teacher, Adam loves to bring creativity, humor and abstract thinking into his sessions. Since he began his fitness career, he’s been a fitness manager for a big box gym, a PR rep for a big box gym, and an intern under many nationally renowned coaches and fitness professionals including Ben Patrick (Knees Over Toes Guy). Adam has also successfully rehabbed a full ACL tear and a severe meniscus (knee cartilage) tear using the ATG or Knees Over Toes method. With over a decade of experience, Adam delivers excellent results to clients near and far. In addition to fitness and the arts, Adam is also an experienced meditator and cold plunge practitioner. He loves to integrate mindfulness and mental toughness into his teaching style.
Wellness Garden
An outdoor garden and fruit orchard, managed by plant specialist Rachel Dumont — supporting local wildlife and year-round healthy food production.
Cold Plunge
Cold plunging is part of the practice here. Steven, our cold-plunge master, focuses on the stress-management benefits of training.
Partner Training
Small group training puts two to four people on the floor at once — shared cost, shared energy, and the community that grows out of training together.
Find us at 10957 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97216.
Train from the ground up.
Start with a free consultation and a movement assessment.
