A Gym For Those Who Don’t Like The Gym

Today I am going to be completely honest with you. Most of our superheroes don’t actually like the gym!!! (Mic Drop) That’s right, most of our superheroes who show up 2-3x a week don’t really love working out. In fact, we have gone so far as to call ourselves the gym for people who don’t […]

My January Goal

Happy New Year!! Just before the New Year, I posted a blog post talking about new years resolutions and how to actually make them last. If you didn’t get a chance to read it you can check it out HERE. Today I want to share with you what I am working on this month! […]

New Approach To Resolutions

Have you ever set a New Year goal only to find yourself giving up after a week because the goal was way too hard! If so don’t worry we all have been there. Maybe your goal was to work out 5 days a week, or avoid all carbs, or give up alcohol for […]

The Best Holiday Gift!

With the holiday season here everywhere you turn it seems like you are seeing an ad for something new. New cars, new toys, and certainly new fitness equipment. The big thing in fitness this year seems to be Tonal, Mirror Home Gym, and Tempo Fitness. To be honest with you from a […]

Too Cold To Walk?

Can you believe it is December already? Time seems to be such a weird thing lately. Some months feel like an eternity and others just fly by! If you live in the northeast you know the winters can be brutal up here. Snow, ice, the cold, wind, and talk about some dirty […]

Failing to Succeed

Last week I told a story of how one of our superheroes came in one day when she didn’t sleep much but was still able to feel better walking out the door. We talked about the concept of treating your training like a dimmer instead of an on-off switch. In case you missed it […]

Light Switch or Dimmer?

Just this past week I had such a great conversation with one of our superheroes that I wanted to share with you all. To give you some context this superhero was here for her second workout of the week. The first workout was Tuesday morning after a long night with very little sleep. […]

The proven # 1 skill for fat loss: Hunger

I talk about hunger a lot with my clients for two reasons: 1)This skill is the single most important skill for fat loss. If you only picked up ONE new skill with your eating habits, this would be a good one! Like a foundation is to a house. And 2)So few of us […]

How I broke a bad habit

After writing all these blog posts about habit change it has me thinking about last year when I started falling into a habit that was not in line with my goals that I knew I wanted to change. It was during the beginning of the Covid-19 situation, and I found that I was starting […]

If you procrastinate, read this right now

Have you ever been checking your phone … or vegging on the couch … and suddenly start thinking about a goal you want to work toward? It’s a little push from deep within you – something you can feel in your gut. Almost everyone has felt this way at one point or another. […]

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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