You can have hips that move better and help pull you out of pain

The basics, like many things in life, are something you always need to revisit. I went through a short period that I arrogantly thought I was better than the basics. Doesn’t matter where you’re at we have the right hip movement for you I quickly realized that revisiting them for periods of time never […]

You Can Save Money By Eating More Vegetables

The process of cooking for me has always been the same, what meat and sides should I make. This a huge problem because it not only sets me up for a longer time cooking but an unnecessary waste of money. Let’s Rewire how you think about your plate. When we picture a plate of […]

Working in a E.R, Traveling and getting a master degree

When it comes to working out in the company of friends, energy in the gym is vital. I remember one time I was working out in a gym during a bad storm and the lights went out, instead of leaving me the and group I was training with railed and had a great work out. […]

You can figure out now if you should plank or not

We have all seen people doing planks and from what we heard there important. It’s like flossing your teeth we know we should, but some people ask do we have to and the answer is it depends. Depends is never what anyone wants to hear so I will give you clear starting points so get […]

Men and Women’s Nutrition, What’s The Difference?

In today’s world, it is easy to think that the way a woman should focus on their fitness and nutrition is different than the way a man should. Marketing can be very deceptive at times, there are even separate magazines dedicated to Men’s Health and Women’s Health. With social media and marketing having such a […]

Your Very First Step To Changing Your Life

There are a few reasons we don’t give out specific meal plans here at Core Principles that say “eat x amount of y at a certain time of the day”. One of them is without any background knowledge of what your current eating habits are like there is no way someone can provide you with […]

How Little Voices In Her Head Helped Renee Overcome A Big Obstacle

We all have little voices in our heads, sometimes telling us good things, sometimes not so good things and then other times the most random things you can ever think off. Often times it is your own voice that you hear in your own head talking to yourself. What if I told you that […]

4 Simple Delicious Meals To Help You Stay On Track

Today I want to share with you a few of my favorite “Go-To Meals” that help me stay on track with my nutrition. Before I do that I want to talk about what a go-to meal is. In my opinion, a go-to meal is one that you enjoy to eat, is relatively simple to […]

You can move like Pat but you have to be consistent

Today we going to take a little bit of time to talk about Pat. He’s what you would classify as your ideal client. Pat is a home town boy, born and raised in Stamford Ct. He’s been with us for over a year now and only getting better every day. Pat’s an Ideally […]

Are Sports Drinks Right For You?

Last week a client asked me a great question about whether or not sports drinks like Gatorade are good for you. To be completely honest with you when I was younger I would drink a sports drink such as Gatorade often. I was an athlete so I would drink them during sporting events, but […]

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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