Elite Body was founded by a group of fitness experts with backgrounds in martial arts, dance, massage therapy, and competitive sports.

With past training experience and success in designing programs inside and outside of a gym environment, they were early adopters of functional training and the National Academy of Sport's Medicine's (NASM) approach to fitness.

Their exercise programs, which fused techniques from systems as diverse as yoga, Pilates, wrestling, gymnastics, rehabilitative science, martial arts, and sports medicine were very successful in providing results for clients. At the time, very few people outside of a few elite gyms in Manhattan were benefiting from this neuromuscular-based approach to training. For most, exercise regimens consisted of push, pull, and move with no deep understanding of the structures involved to create an efficient workout.