Why We All Need Help and Accountability

We hear it time and time again; “I am going to try it on my own.” Whether this is a through conversation during a Strategy Session or a client that has been here for a while, and life seems to be getting in their way which just makes it harder and harder for them to […]

A Great Attitude Makes Training Better

Clients give coaches the best job ever. We honestly get the opportunity to witness people grow, change, and come to realizations of how they can get better. As a strength and conditioning coach I get the fortune of watching people undertake obstacles they thought were tough or impossible. Through strategy and practice, people develop a […]

Detroit Hustles Harder: The Story of Nicole

Let me tell you a little story about Nicole, a dear friend and member of ours at CP. Nicole has joined Core Principles over 8 months ago and she is an awesome girl who has continuously proven that no matter what stays in your way or how busy you are, you can always make […]

The Most Efficient Way To Lose Weight

Today let’s talk about the age-old questions, which is better for weight loss? Long slow low intensity cardio or high intensity interval training, The simplest answer to this question is the “best” one is the one that you do. Let’s start with low intensity cardio; now there is nothing inherently wrong with it […]

Meet Lillibeth: Someone Who Shows Up and Puts in the Work

Today I want to talk about a client who represents consistency, effort, and who pushes and gets better each and every time she comes to work out. Meet Lillibeth!!!! Lillibeth: squatting with a Single Arm Racked position in her left hand. Lillibeth came to Core Principles less than 6 months ago. In that time […]

3 Foods to Avoid for a Flat Belly

There are a lot of different misconceptions when it comes to nutrition and one of them is that you can out-train your bad eating habits. The truth is that no matter how many crunches, cardio, or weight lifting you do, you will not be able to lose fat from your midsection if your nutrition is […]

3 Of The Biggest Deadlifting Mistakes And How To Fix Them

I don’t believe there is one exercise that everyone should be doing. I do believe there are certain “movements” that everyone trains in the gym, but the way people train them may be different. If you’re curious as to what those movements are you can check out my previous blog right here. Today […]

Meet Richard….. A Hardworking Professional Like You….

Meet Richard, Richard is on the left, in the dark red shirt Richard is a hard working professional that has made his health and fitness a priority. How?!!!! Well Richard for the past year and half has shown up consistently 2-3 days a week to make the changes he wants. He focuses heavily on […]

My Big Fat Greek Dinner: Culture and Eating

This week my mom is visiting me from the Midwest. One of the first things she did when she walked through the door on Saturday is open the fridge to see if we needed to go grocery shopping. My mom is old school Polish and her idea of a good meal is a BIG […]

How To Choose An Appropriate Weight

Everyone that goes to a gym goes for a reason, they want something to change. They want to get “better at something” those things can range from body composition, improve their lifestyle, sports performance, reduce or prevent aches and pains, and just feel good overall. No matter what your goal is, one thing that […]

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

Category: Uncategorized