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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...

Leading By Example

A lot of the time people will ask what is the best diet? What is the best workout? What is the best way to burn this stubborn fat? Most of the time people are looking for a quick fix or some secret answer but unfortunately it does not work like...

Common Nutrition Myths

Ok, so lately we have been getting a lot questions about Nutrition. Some of them include:   When is the best time to eat Protein to get the most out of my workout, you know nutrient timing? Should I be counting calories, you know Calories in vs. Calories out? Do...

Simple and Effective Way to Program for Strength

So you want to be strong, lean and mean?? Do some resistance training!   Strength training is a big component of fitness and a very important one because it can create various health benefits and has become a fundamental part of disease and injury prevention. Some of the benefits of...

Online Training vs. In Person Training

For the past two months we have ran an online training program for women here at Core Principles. I am happy to say we have had so many awesome women in the program and I look forward to continuing to run online programs. Online training seems to be the new...

Habits Of A Balanced Meal

What are the habits of getting a well balanced meal? Today, we are going to discuss what the habits of creating a manageable, sustainable well balanced meal for the long haul looks like.   Attached is a picture of my breakfast. Pretty delicious looking right. It’s a 4 egg omelette...

Desk Job Got You Feeling Stiff? Here’s 7 Tips on How to Get More Fit at Work.

Did you know an average person spends approximately 10-11 hours per day sitting down?   Add on another 7-8 hrs spent for sleep and that amounts to a lot sedentary time with minimal activity. Unless you’re out doing manual labor or work as a fitness coach at a gym (pun...