Getting Stronger Doesn’t Have to Feel Overwhelming: A Guide for Adults Over 55 🌟

“I don’t know when it happened…” That’s how Jannine started our conversation at Core Principles. “One day I just noticed everything was harder. Walking around the city after a Broadway show. Walking up the stairs with a laundry basket. Even getting out of those soft restaurant booths.” Understanding Your Brain’s Hidden Battle 🧠 Here’s something […]

Using the Right Tools: Why Walking Isn’t Enough for Staying Strong in Stamford, CT

Picture this: You need to dig a hole in your backyard for a new garden. You head to your toolshed, grab your trusty screwdriver, and start scratching at the dirt. Sounds ridiculous, right? Yet that’s exactly what we’re doing when we rely solely on walking, gardening or anything besides strength training to keep us strong […]

Overcome Intimidation: Find Your Perfect Gym

Overcoming Gym Intimidation: Your Guide to Finding a Welcoming Fitness Environment If you’ve ever thought about getting stronger or just feeling better, only to feel a wave of anxiety about stepping into a gym – you’re definitely not alone. In fact, it’s one of the most common feelings people have about fitness, and we totally understand […]

# 1 Secret of People Fit & 50+

Have you ever wondered why Michael Jordan, even after securing 6 NBA championships, still spent every practice shooting 250 basic free throws? At Core Principles Personal Training in Stamford, CT, we’ve spent the last decade helping hundreds of members unlock their fitness potential. The secret? It’s not about fancy equipment or trending workout programs […]

Feel Strong & Confident at Any Age! 💪 Exclusive Workshop for Adults 50+ Who Want to Take Control of Their Fitness

Ever walked into a gym and felt completely lost? You’re not alone. In fact, that’s exactly why we created this exclusive seminar. ✨ Introducing: “Essentials of Strength Training After 50” – Your Fast Track to Fitness Confidence Imagine walking into any gym just 60 minutes from now, knowing EXACTLY: Which machines to use (and how […]

Underutilized Shortcut to Getting Strong

Ever feel like “getting fit” is one big guessing game? You try one workout routine after another, hoping for results but never really knowing if you’re on the right track. It’s frustrating, often boring, and let’s face it—exhausting. The good news? You don’t need to navigate this journey alone. Why “Standing on the Shoulders of […]

Quick & Satisfying No-Prep Lunch Ideas | Nutrition Q&A

Several weeks ago I asked you to send questions you have about nutrition, eating skills or body image and I got a bunch of great questions! Thank you!!! In this week’s video, we are covering a question that comes up a lot: What can I eat for lunch that: requires little to no prep, […]

Easy Meal Planning = Instacart?!

Eating at home more than going out to eat is one way to make progress on your health and nutrition because it puts you in full control. The trade off… eating at home requires having food on hand to prepare those meals, which requires time each week for planning and the time it takes to […]

You Don’t Have To Be Perfect!

Are you a “perfectionist”? When you strive for perfection, you have good intentions. You want to take care of your health, feel your best, and live a long and happy life with loved ones. One way that perfectionism can show up in our health is through a fancy term known as cognitive distortion […]

Cravings Keeping You Stuck? Try This.

Have you ever felt “snackish”? That underlying feeling like you just need to nibble on something but you’re pretty sure you aren’t hungry, because you just ate like an hour ago? Those snacking gremlins can rear their ugly heads when you are most vulnerable and before you know it, you are reaching for handfuls of […]

Jennifer Putman

The small group classes are fun and the trainers very supportive and knowledgeable. They definitely get me to do the exercises I usually don’t like to do!

Mara G

Update #2: I just passed 75 sessions (!!) and am still loving this place. My body is stronger and healthier than it's been in years. I feel so lucky to have this fitness program nearby. Haylin, Emily and Colleen make the space inviting and fun. One of the gym's taglines is "adding more life to your years." When I first met Haylin and Colleen, I remember one of them saying that we have to grow old, but we don't have to grow frail. Both those ideas really speak to the culture of this place. From the very first appointment, the staff has been kind, encouraging, non-judgmental, and non-pressuring in their approach: they want to know what my needs and limitations are, and they do a great job of working within them. The owner, Haylin, and his training staff (I've worked with Emily and Colleen) are encouraging, knowledgeable, and help create a culture that is fun and inviting. I really look forward to seeing the people at each session: there is always laughter, and people ask after one another. I'm up to 3x per week, and I definitely have more energy, optimism, and a greater desire to take better care of my body because of the sessions. I hope to be a very long-time member and to see my body grow in strength, flexibility and balance. Thank you!

Pxlz

Excellent program for older adults. Instructors will take time to understand your body and tailor program to your needs and limits. Program varies daily to address different areas of the body. It includes strength, balance and endurance. Classes are conducted in small groups of up to 6 people. Gym is modern and well equipped.

Ken Kurtzman

If you’re looking for a great gym with outstanding trainers this is the place. The exercises provide a good well rounded workout, the trainers are knowledgeable and the environment is great if you’re interested in increasing your strength, flexibility and overall fitness. If you’re looking for a gym where everyone is competing to lift the largest weights and have the biggest muscles, this isn’t the place for you. If you’re looking for a friendly environment where you can focus on your personal fitness, this is the perfect place.

Irene Hendricks

I was not a fitness person but needed it! A friend recommended Core Principles and it’s been a great experience. They are fun, positive and challenge me but take my limits into consideration as well. Give them a try!!! I can see improvement after only 2 months.

Trish Connolly Tomlinson

This is the gym and trainer experience I have been seeking for decades. Every other trainer I saw in the past relied on a one-size-fits-all approach that resembled bootcamp tactics that wore me down quickly both mentally and physically. I'm not a traditionally athletic person, but I want to stay healthy and in shape. Other gyms push you to be an athlete with the stamina of a 20-year-old, but the team at Core Principles meets you where you are, just as you are, every single time. Workouts are just challenging enough but not impossible, and I can feel myself getting gradually stronger after just two months. I can't wait to see where I'll be six months from now.

James Bitzonis

The staff is excellent. You get a great workout and will definitely sweat. I am much stronger since I started and feel better without question. Highly recommend.

Nick L.

It is a truth insufficiently acknowledged that the contemporary fitness-industrial complex, in its unrelenting valorization of the hypertrophic and the twenty-three-year-old, has effectively abandoned those of us who have rounded the half-century mark and found ourselves regarding the squat rack with something between wariness and outright existential dread. Into this lacuna steps Core Principles Training of Stamford, an establishment that has accomplished the not-inconsiderable feat of rendering the pursuit of strength, endurance, proprioceptive competence, and that most fugitive of quantities, confidence, into an experience one anticipates rather than merely endures. The pedagogy here is meliorative rather than punitive; one is not exhorted so much as accompanied. Chief among the accompanists is Emily, a trainer whose gift for tonal calibration borders on the uncanny. She contrives, session after session, to be simultaneously rigorous and disarming, insisting on the work while somehow divesting it of its customary grimness, so that one arrives braced for penance and departs having been, improbably, entertained. That she does this while attending to a roomful of disparate bodies and their attendant idiosyncrasies suggests a species of situational intelligence rarely encountered outside the better sort of conductor. Administrative matters, that perennial solvent of goodwill, are dispatched with unfussy competence by Colleen, the office manager, whose accommodations are rendered so frictionlessly that one scarcely registers having required them; the highest compliment available to the genre. A final word on what is blessedly absent. Those arriving, as I did, from the conventional commercial gymnasium will recognize the ambient afflictions of that milieu: the vasculature-obsessed bro conducting his soliloquy in the mirror; the relentlessly effervescent overachiever; the percussive, cortisol-elevating music selected apparently by adversarial algorithm. Core Principles is the antithesis of all of it. What obtains instead is a kind of unpretentious collective seriousness, warm without being cloying, which turns out to be precisely the condition under which people over fifty actually get stronger. Unreservedly recommended.

Larry Goichman

Great way to regain strength

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