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And so UAB remains a rumor. A password (not really, but knocking twice, waiting, then knocking once seems to work). A place where you might find an Olympic medalist doing Turkish get-ups next to a farrier sharpening his hoof knife.

Local lore says the founder—a woman named , who allegedly once carried a 120-pound elk quarter 14 miles alone—started UAB after watching Bozeman fill with “athletes who could squat 400 pounds but couldn’t carry a canoe to the lake without wheezing.” universal athletic bozeman

Here’s an interesting, slightly speculative piece on — a name that sounds like a small business, a philosophy, or perhaps a secret society hidden in the Montana Rockies. The Enigma of Universal Athletic Bozeman: More Than a Gym, Less Than a Cult In most towns, “Universal Athletic” would be a franchise selling treadmills and protein shakers. In Bozeman, Montana, it sounds like a manifesto. And so UAB remains a rumor