Core Principles: Fitness Advice for Newfield, Westover, & Glenbrook

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What Does a Personal Trainer Actually Do During Your Workout?

“Eight…nine…ten!”   If that’s your picture of personal training, it raises a fair question: Why do I need someone to count repetitions for me?   You don’t.   The valuable part of coaching happens around those repetitions: deciding what you should do, watching what actually happens, making small adjustments and...

Do you sometimes feel like giving up? Does it seem like your weight loss goals are so far from where you are that you doubt if you’ll ever get there? How do you keep showing up and making changes even when you have a long way to go? When progress...

Might As Well…

Have you ever burned a piece of toast and thought, “Well, I already burned the toast, might as well burn the whole house down!”? Hopefully not! Pretty extreme, right?? I have heard the phrase “might as well” over and over again with my clients who are struggling with a specific...

What My Meal Prep Looks Like

Are you tired of seeing recipes and meal prep ideas that take hours and hours to finish? If you’re like most people, you have important goals but also don’t have 8 hours on a Sunday to make perfectly portioned complex meals for the whole family. Today I want to share...

How to Eat While on Vacation

As Summer is wrapping up, and people are going on the last of their vacations before fall, I wanted to share something that often comes up in conversations with my clients. How do I eat while I am on vacation? Many people who are working on their eating skills don’t...

Eat This, Not That.

Do you believe that foods can be “good” or “bad”? Or maybe you think of food in terms of a points system where some are “free” and others will cost you. Perhaps you know precisely which foods belong on the “red list” (those you should avoid) and the “green list”...