Joshua Nelson

Raon is 15 years of research, continual mentorship and rigorous experimentation in the realm of human performance and mental health. Josh comes from an unlikely background of writing and philosophy before finding fitness as a path, but growing up a baseball player, was always fascinated by the endless detail in something as simple as perfecting a swing or throwing a devastating curveball. That curiosity took him to experience more unconventional sport such as rock climbing, kettlebell sport, functional fitness, Hyrox and recently jiu jitsu.

He has studied under experts, PhDs, scientists and coaches across rehabilitation, sports performance and psychology.

His creative nature has never waned — not through starting a gym in the thick of Covid, through years of cutting his teeth in boutique commercial gyms and privately-owned spaces.

Raon is a creative company, dedicated to changing how we experience fitness; we are defined by what we hold onto, what we let go, what and who we let in. The goal is to live a better life, to understand and articulate what it means to get there. To keep going.

We curate experiences, most of all we train, and think together, much like the Greek Stoa that was set thousands of years before us. Here, we harbor our curious nature and turn it into effort.