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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...

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...

Challenge Yourself With Inefficient Movement

Last month, I wrote group programming and I thought it was great. I organized every day with some sort of push, pull, squat, hinge, and carry. I brought a partner element to every day so people could work together and push one another. I even wrote a conditioning piece where...

She Believed She Could So She Did

Have you ever been unsure of starting something new, but then took a leap and realized that it wasn’t as hard and uncomfortable as you thought?!   I think many of us can relate. I want to tell you a story about a client who despite her uncertainty about starting...