How A Broken Leg Changed Peter’s Life For The Better

You probably have heard us talk about making small incremental changes over a long period of time. We have mentioned that those changes will help you build habits that last a lifetime and make real change. It probably makes sense logically, but may be hard to imagine at times when your “end goal” seems […]

Part Two: Nutrition Prep

Two blog posts ago, I discussed the benefits of food prep and the specifics of my own food prep. During that post, I attached three videos that went into detail about the meat (protein) I cook for the week, so I can meet the needs my body requires. This week I have posted […]

3 Bootylicious Moves For a Solid Junk in the Trunk

Today we are talking about the booty! Why? Because who doesn’t want a nice, strong, firm badonk? And what if I told you, you can have one without a butt implant?! All you need is a little exercise and you can have a booty like JLO. Photo cred: stylecaster.com In all seriousness though, I wanted […]

New Age Nutrition Club

It seems like every year the same things happen. The holidays come at the end of the year, which means tons of eating, drinking, parties, and probably not a lot of time for yourself. At the end of it all, you may be feeling regretful, like you gained weight, lethargic and not as good […]

Holiday Party Survival Checklist

Party time!!!!!!!! Other than sounding like Snookie from the Jersey Shore. It’s that time of the season again, where little kids are better than usual, people are nicer (except in parking lots), and we all have a holiday party (or two) to attend. This is where we tend to let loose and unwind from […]

3 Exercises to Tone Up Your Back

In the last 2 weeks I had a few clients ask me how to tone up their back and specifically, get rid of the jiggle in the rear behind their armpit. In order to lose fat, we always need to clean up our nutrition and create a calorie deficit. That is really how fat loss […]

Perfect Does Not Exist!

In life when we decide to start something new it is often a little scary at first. Sometimes we make a list of pros and cons, debate if now is the right time to start and possibly try to push it off until a later date. It can often be a difficult decision trying […]

What My Meal Prep Looks Like

Hey Folks, It’s dawned on me recently that people learn a lot from when others show what they do. Since you trust us, over the next few weeks I am going to post videos of my meal prep habits and foods to give you an idea of what I eat week in and week […]

Should I Train Even Though I Have an Injury?

The Simple answer, yes and no. Why do I say this? Because, while I am not a doctor I know that movement is medicine and has tremendous benefits to healing the body. I will explain what I mean through my own story. For the last two years I have been in pain. No not in […]

Why Don’t I See Weight Loss With Consistent Exercise?

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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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