How To Rock At Fat Loss (Even When You Can’t Workout)

Have you ever had a time in your life when you just can’t get to the gym, because you are injured or sick, or you are taking care of a loved one and life is nuts? It is SO frustrating and the fear of losing all of your progress (Or gaining weight) comes creeping […]

Does Your Weight Loss Need A Fresh Start?

It’s been a few weeks since you’ve heard from me, but I am BACK! How has the start of your spring been going? I know as the weather gets warmer and with the change of seasons, many of us feel extra motivated to focus on health goals. The change of seasons can do that. Many […]

Inspired?

I came across something that I found extremely motivating and inspiring, and I thought that I would share it with you guys. Meet Joan MacDonald: Joan started weight training at the age of 70. She says in her website, “I was on medication for high blood pressure and acid reflux, I had terrible edema in […]

Ultimate Guide: Lose Weight While Eating Out

Have you ever stopped going out to eat in order to lose weight? Can you still enjoy happy hour with friends or a date night and still reach your goals for health? I have spent HOURS talking with clients talking about the challenges they face trying to balance their social life with their desire to […]

How To Create A Balanced Plate

Do you want to know an easy step you can take to lose weight without going on a diet, counting calories, or weighing out each macronutrient? It’s a skill you can practice for each meal and you don’t need a scale or MyFitnessPal. It’s all about how you set up your plate. Having a balanced […]

How To Come Back From A Diet Slip Up

Whenever we’re trying to change a behavior, even if it is a change we really want to make, we inevitably have days where we don’t follow the plan 100%. That’s NORMAL, you’re not a robot after all. . Yet, when we keep “messing up”, we feel defeated and wanting to give up. Here’s the Truth: […]

How To Diet During The Holidays (Don’t).

We are in the throws of the 2022 holiday season and with that, comes: LOTS of food. More sweets, alcohol, and parties! This can lead to… More grazing/snacking and overindulging with food and alcohol. (#BeMerry) and all the feelings that come with the increased intake. I get asked the question “how do I eat during […]

Sick Of Calorie Counting? Try This.

Have you ever counted your calories? If you have been part of the dieting world for any length of time, you may have had experience with calorie counting. Most of the clients I work with have been there and done that and would like to not ever do it again. Yet, with calorie counting comes […]

Need Some 1:1 Support? [LIMITED TIME OFFER]

I am taking a break from my regularly scheduled skills videos to share something worth celebrating with you. I have been working 1:1 with several of you for a while now and the success stories they’re creating must be shared. We all know how hard changing our habits around eating can be and this crew […]

Thirsty Monday?

DRINK MORE WATER!!! Is this not one of the longest-standing (albeit least “sexy”) pieces of advice for weight loss? Yet sooo many clients I talk to on a weekly basis are telling me that they are just NOT drinking enough water, and they want to drink more… “I just need to DO IT!!” they say. […]

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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