How To Overcome New Challenges

Remember back to psychology 101 where you learned about our basic instinct of flight’ or fight. Recently I picked up a new hobby and have mixed feelings about just wanting to give it up and keep on going so I can continue to get better. As I am going through this and picking […]

The Easiest Way To Get Started

Today I am going to open myself up and be vulnerable. It is easy for me to come up with every excuse under the sun, I am too tired, I don’t have enough time, my workouts are too long, I get frustrated because I can’t lift as much weight as I used to. […]

Save HOURS with my simple meal prep trick

Are you ready for the first day of spring? Spring is sometimes a time where life gets a little busier, kids have more outdoor sports, you might want to go on a few hikes, or whatever you enjoy. It’s possible you want to spend a little less time in the kitchen and more time […]

How Much Can A Coach Help?

We talk so much about the benefits of having a coach and why it is important to have someone guiding you along your journey. help you get results. Hear us out. The idea for this post came to us when a client said the other day “ Coaching can help but […]

Do This To Have A More Positive Outlook

Today we want to talk about the importance of collecting data while trying to reach our goals. During workouts it is important to keep track of what exercises you’re doing, how many sets/reps, and the weight. This way you track your progress and see when you are getting stronger. We use a skills […]

Upgrade Your Metabolism W/ A 20 Min Workout

It’s hard to believe that it is almost a year since things shut down. For most people that means a year of working from home! You no longer have that social environment of the office, you’re stuck in the same place all day, it’s super easy to snack, and most importantly people find themselves […]

Showing Up For Yourself When You Don’t Want To

Are you ready for a short little story? Just this past Monday as I was greeting all of our superheroes in the garage, taking their temperatures, and seeing how their weekend was I got a few different reactions. Some people had a great weekend, we’re feeling rested and rejuvenated, while others were not […]

Why Your Workouts May Be Ruining Slowing Down Your Weight Loss

Would you believe me if I said your workouts actually might be slowing down your weight loss progress? Yes, I know it might sound crazy but hear me out. As you have heard from us before, weight loss comes down to calories in vs calories out. You can control your intake of calories by […]

The Best APP You Are Not Using

Did you get to check out Haylins’ spectacular email last week? If not no worries it was so great a turned it into a blog post you can check out HERE. After reading his email I realized two things about my calendar. It just so happened that on Friday we took an awesome […]

I Know What Your Priorities Are

My friends, We’re inching our way through January, the weather has been mild but there have been a few days of what I consider “hot cocoa worthy.” I had hot chocolate for the first time in a few years this winter and introduced my boys to it about a week back. Now […]

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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