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Anatomy of a 50-Minute Strength Training Session After 50

If you haven’t exercised in years, 50 minutes can sound like a long time.   You might picture 50 minutes of nonstop exercise, trying to keep up with everyone around you, or wondering how you’ll know what to do next.   But a well-coached strength training session after 50 doesn’t...

Mobility vs. Flexibility – What You Need to Know!

The fitness community often uses a lot of words that are very confusing, especially for people who are new to exercise or just getting back into it after a while. I have been having a lot of conversations with clients and friends lately about stretching vs. mobility work, and though...

Stepping Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Often times the gym can be a place where many people feel uncomfortable, they are nervous they may get hurt, scarred about what other people think about them, afraid of failing. These are all very common and normal feelings you may have.   Our job as coaches is to help...

Employ A Strategy Already Known: Using Your Own Strategies To Nutrition Success.

How have you come about where you are in life? Did you wake up one day and hope for the best? Did you rub a magic lamp and yell “Abracadabra”? Did you go on an epic Indiana Jones quest, and find the forbidden water of success?   If you did,...

So You Want To Do A Pull-UP: A Path To Upper Body Strength

So you want to do a pull-up, huh?! Well I am here to tell you it’s not an easy path, but a simple one. You will work hard, but the fruits of your labor will lead to a rock solid body that feels impervious as you dangle your feet underneath...

Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork

One thing we always focus on at Core Principles is a sense of a COMMUNITY.   We pride ourselves on making our studio feel homey and having our members and coaches support each other in a common goal – to get fit and improve our health!   Why do we...

Subtraction By Addition

The other day I was sitting down with a client getting ready to take her through her first session here at Core Principles. We were getting some technology working, getting her all set with signing up for sessions and getting set up on the software we use for our Accountability...