OUR MISSION
We help people build the balance and confidence to stay on their feet through every stage of life.
In Stride brings evidence-based fall prevention, strength, and mobility to Scottsdale through on-site Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance® programs for senior living communities and other organizations, and through one-on-one sessions at home.
Evidence-based fall prevention, strength, and mobility programs in Scottsdale. On-site for senior living communities and organizations, or one-on-one at home.
OUR APPROACH
A program built on three pillars
Every session and program we offer, at home or on-site, is built on the same three pillars.
Fall Prevention
Balance, reaction time, and confidence on your feet.
Functional Strength
Real-world strength for the movements of daily life.
Mobility
Range of motion that keeps you moving freely.
In Stride is not a physical therapy practice and does not treat or diagnose medical conditions. We are a specialized fitness and wellness service — and we can work alongside your healthcare team to make sure your program is safe, appropriate and effective.
MEET THE FOUNDER
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Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance® Instructor
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OTAGO Program Trained
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NASM Senior Fitness Specialist
Kira McPeake
TJQMBB® Instructor · NASM Senior Fitness Specialist · OTAGO Program Trained
In Stride was founded by Kira McPeake, a certified Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance® instructor and NASM Senior Fitness Specialist trained in the OTAGO Exercise Program, with a deep commitment to the science of healthy aging.
After earning a BS in Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University and building a corporate career, Kira left her job in 2024 to care for her mother through cancer treatment. Seeing firsthand how quickly mobility can decline, and how hard it is to recover without the right support and someone by your side, led her to create In Stride.
WHY IN STRIDE EXISTS
The story behind In Stride
My mom was 57 when she was diagnosed with aggressive Stage IV breast cancer.
She stayed remarkably active at first, hiking nearly every day, even through the Arizona heat. But after multiple hospital stays and the malnutrition that came with chemo nausea, even standing up from a chair was impossible without help.
Her doctors at the Mayo Clinic prescribed physical and occupational therapy. I attended every session, and at home each day I built routines from what her doctors had given us while adjusting to how she felt, pushing her gently when she had more in her, pulling back when she didn't. With consistency and hard work, she bounced back remarkably and even started speed walking outside again.
Over the course of two years she went through multiple cycles of that same journey — becoming very weak in the hospital, then rebuilding her strength at home, session by session. Towards the end of her last hospital stay, I was helping her walk the hospital corridor when she told me she wouldn't have been able to regain her strength time after time without someone by her side holding her accountable, keeping her safe and guiding her through the exercises.
She also told me she couldn't imagine having recovered the way she did without the baseline of fitness and mobility she had going in.
What those two years taught me is that the foundation you build now is what carries you through the hardest moments later. And having the right support beside you makes all the difference.
Now I bring that same approach to communities and individuals alike, so more people have that foundation before they need it.
-Kira McPeake