Melanie Webb’s “Adventures in Mother Nature’s Gym”

Melanie Webb of WebbWell. Photo: Melanie Webb

PARK CITY, Utah. — Melanie Webb has over 20 years of expertise leading people to healthier lives through fitness. In 2019 she published, “Adventures in Mother Nature’s Gym: The Ultimate Guide to Planning and Leading Your Own Outdoor Fitness Retreats.” Through the publication of her book, Melanie aims to provide physical trainers with tools to bring clients outside.

After obtaining a bachelor of science from BYU, Melanie launched into a wildlife biology career in southern Utah. She relished exploring remote desert regions until she moved to Washington D.C. to work as an environmental consultant on a one-year contract.

In Washington D.C., Melanie dove into full-time fitness instruction, utilizing her expertise as an American Council on Exercise (ACE) Certified Personal Trainer. Unfortunately, she began noticing dissonance in her client’s gym training regimen.

I was in D.C for seven years, my clients were dreaming about what we [Utah residents] live and breathe every day… They were bored and sick and tired of the gym,” she explains, “My clients there [in D.C.] started hiring me to bring them to Utah and take them on their bucket list adventures.

Inspired by her trips with clients to Utah, Melanie began weaving together her skills as a personal trainer and her love of nature immersion, “I had the tool kit to guide them. I would train them for months and get them ready for these big trips.”

Visits to Utah did not satiate her need for wilderness. A vision of Zion National Park called Melanie to move from D.C. to the west, where she founded a customized outdoor fitness retreat company, Sol Fitness Adventures.

Through Sol Fitness Adventures, Melanie noticed amazing transformations when people moved outdoors; “I would see the change in my clients… It was like ten years would come off of them,” she explains.

Her Sol Fitness Adventures groundwork is the foundation of her book, “Mother Nature’s Gym.” In the book, she pulls science and research that back her methods of bringing fitness outside. The book is a manual for fitness instructors looking to expand their practice.

Melanie elaborates her mission, “To give trainers who are already fitness leaders, who their clients already trust with their health and their bodies, give them this extra tool kit. They are going to be able to make massive transformations in the health and wellness of American’s and abroad.”

Melanie’s current company WebbWell is a tool to share her fitness method and ideology. “We need a different solution, and here is mine… I’ve boiled down my methods to mind, body, and nature. There are components of each one of those that we have to master to go through my work and my program with clients,” she explains.