SBA-Certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
Complete health, fitness, and wellness programs for the members and constituents your agency serves, organized and fulfilled end to end by one vendor. A credentialed practitioner team. Live online and on-site delivery, embedded staff, and one-to-one coaching. Non-clinical by design.
Certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Verify at certify.sba.gov under UEI VXV2WZ7YR2L6.
The mission
Body Ops is a fitness and health coaching practice built to help service members, veterans, and the wider communities your organization serves feel better in their bodies and function better in their lives.
We designed it around the barriers military populations actually face: service-connected disability, old injuries, chronic pain, mental health, and age-related limitations. Coaching meets people where they are, builds confidence safely, and focuses on progress they can feel. Less pain, more energy, better sleep, better movement, and a sense of momentum again.
We stay in our lane. Delivery is health education and fitness instruction, with clear boundaries, psychologically safe design, and physically appropriate programming.
"I built it because I hit rock bottom after service, physically broken, mentally lost, and ashamed of what I saw in the mirror."
Matt Priess, Owner and President
What structured programs produce
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improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness among 5,703 participants in an Army workplace health promotion program
Rivera LO, et al., American Journal of Health Promotion, 2018
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change in body fat across the same cohort, alongside a 6 to 12 percent drop in perceived stress
Rivera LO, et al., American Journal of Health Promotion, 2018
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decline in musculoskeletal injury referral odds in brigades with embedded health and fitness teams
Thompson AG, et al., Sports Medicine, 2026
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duty days restored per brigade per year in the same evaluation, with a 4 to 1 or better return in 99 percent of modeled cases
Thompson AG, et al., Sports Medicine, 2026
What your organization receives
Body Ops organizes and fulfills the work from program design through delivery and reporting. Your organization gets one accountable partner, and the people you serve get consistent support.
A complete program designed around your population, priorities, schedule, and delivery environment.
Live virtual delivery that expands access, with on-site classes available when the contract requires them.
Credentialed practitioners selected for the scope, with qualifications verified before placement.
Programming that can be scaled for different abilities, age groups, fitness levels, and specialized cohorts.
Participant communication, scheduling, coaching, and support managed as part of the service.
Built-in accountability that keeps people engaged instead of leaving your staff to drive participation.
Consistent delivery, attendance tracking, and aggregated reporting from one accountable vendor.
The gap from engagement to outcome
Availability is not the issue. Engagement and retention are. Accountability is the missing infrastructure.
Average weight change at twelve months
Littman AJ, et al., Preventing Chronic Disease, 2012. Wadden TA, et al., Obesity, 2009. Uusitupa M, et al., Nutrients, 2019.
More than half of MOVE! participants had two visits or fewer. Most participants never receive enough dose to change an outcome. Body Ops is designed as the non-clinical accountability layer that closes that gap.
Services
Class delivery online and on site, embedded human performance staff, and individual nutrition coaching, each delivered as a complete, turnkey service.
Live, two-way interactive video classes with real-time instructor feedback. Dedicated veterans-only and women-veterans-only cohorts.
Read the detailCertified instructors delivered in person to installations and medical centers, with setup, attendance tracking, and substitute coverage. Dedicated veterans-only and women-veterans-only cohorts available on site, just as they are online.
Read the detailCredentialed staff placed with a unit or facility, verified at the issuing registry before placement.
Read the detailIndividual, non-clinical nutrition and lifestyle coaching in a structured six-week format, fully virtual.
Read the detail16
years coaching and program development
9
years owning and operating fitness facilities
5,000+
total clients served
60%
of current clients are Veterans
37+
classes delivered weekly
15+
instructors hired, scheduled and managed
Past performance
Matt Priess has been putting instructors in front of groups since 2012, first through gyms he owned in Lincoln, Nebraska and since 2021 as Body Ops Coaching LLC. Every engagement below is a real customer with a reachable point of contact, available on request.
References are available on request. Every engagement above has a named point of contact at the organization, provided directly to contracting officers rather than published here.
Turnkey program delivery
A high-accountability coaching and structure system that Body Ops organizes and fulfills in full under contract. Not a class, not a lecture, and not a passive wellness event.
Why agencies choose us
A credentialed practitioner team. Certifications are verified at the issuing registry, not self-reported, and documentation is a standard contract deliverable.
We do not request medical records and do not require diagnosis information. Outcomes reporting defaults to de-identified and aggregated.
Delivery rates, platform availability, credential currency, reporting deadlines, and response times are published and go into the quote.
Compliance and boundaries
We do not request medical records or diagnosis information. Reporting defaults to de-identified and aggregated.
Delivery is designed to run without agency networks or accounts, which reduces compliance burden. Where facility access is required, we follow federal identity credentialing requirements.
General and professional liability coverage, with certificates provided consistent with the solicitation or award.
Contact
Tell us the agency, the location, and what you need. We provide a written response to any government inquiry within two business days. The capability statement is a direct download from the button in the header.
