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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...

Why Do You Eat?

Why do you eat?   It may seem like a pretty simple and easy question right?   Some of your answers may be, “Because I am hungry.” or “Because my body needs energy.”   Eating becomes somewhat of second nature to us. It is a good thing because we have...

Be Kind to Your Spine: Love it, So It Loves You Back

Ok, so let’s face it, the spine is pretty important to human life, function, and all things that come to training. I love the science behind it and get so confused by the amount of shi% that comes with understanding how and why it functions. Simply, the spine is connected...

The Empowered Woman: 4 Week Project

What does it mean to you to be empowered as a woman? It seems like in today’s day and age that word is simply thrown around. At Core Principles we believe that in order for a woman to be truly empowered she should be able to make her own choices,...

Is Your Path To Weight-loss Is Backwards?

We all have goals in life whether they are fitness goals, health goals, work related goals, family goals, recreational goals, or whatever they may be, goals are what drive us as humans.   Everything we do in life has a reason; we want to achieve something so we take certain...

Where Does Strength and Conditioning Play Out in Your Everyday Life?

Simple is always better. Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of understanding that my reasons for exercise, strength and conditioning, and love for movement is not the same as others. Now, I say this with tongue in cheek, because for a short while I struggled with the...

Push it to the Limit: Lynn’s Superhero Story

In our women’s group at Core Principles we have a lot of amazing ladies who workout with us on a weekly basis. Each of them is unique in their own way, and pushes each other to do better. Lynn is one of those women, and she is definitely a success...