Women’s Fitness Trends: Do They Over Influence Your Goals?

Lately I’ve been noticing a lot of shifting trends in women’s fitness and physique that influence some of our clients when it pertains to their goals. Whereas 10-15 years ago “skinny was the new black” and majority of women wanted to fit in size 2 pants, today we see a lot of ladies being more […]

Why Do You Eat?

Why do you eat? It may seem like a pretty simple and easy question right? Some of your answers may be, “Because I am hungry.” or “Because my body needs energy.” Eating becomes somewhat of second nature to us. It is a good thing because we have plenty of food available, we […]

Be Kind to Your Spine: Love it, So It Loves You Back

Ok, so let’s face it, the spine is pretty important to human life, function, and all things that come to training. I love the science behind it and get so confused by the amount of shi% that comes with understanding how and why it functions. Simply, the spine is connected to your brain and sends […]

The Empowered Woman: 4 Week Project

What does it mean to you to be empowered as a woman? It seems like in today’s day and age that word is simply thrown around. At Core Principles we believe that in order for a woman to be truly empowered she should be able to make her own choices, go for what she wants, […]

Is Your Path To Weight-loss Is Backwards?

We all have goals in life whether they are fitness goals, health goals, work related goals, family goals, recreational goals, or whatever they may be, goals are what drive us as humans. Everything we do in life has a reason; we want to achieve something so we take certain actions to try to get […]

Where Does Strength and Conditioning Play Out in Your Everyday Life?

Simple is always better. Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of understanding that my reasons for exercise, strength and conditioning, and love for movement is not the same as others. Now, I say this with tongue in cheek, because for a short while I struggled with the misunderstanding of why people don’t […]

Push it to the Limit: Lynn’s Superhero Story

In our women’s group at Core Principles we have a lot of amazing ladies who workout with us on a weekly basis. Each of them is unique in their own way, and pushes each other to do better. Lynn is one of those women, and she is definitely a success story I wanted to share […]

4 Simple Swaps To Help You Lose Weight

Do you find yourself struggling to see the results you want? You may be frustrated because you feel like you barely eat anything and you still are not losing weight. You feel like you can’t eat any less and don’t know what to do. You are eating balanced meals with lean protein, smart […]

Do You Bear Crawl? You Should!!!!!

Training and exercise these days has become a tad too complicated and has led to a large amount of misinformation. Thank you internet! Every coach, girl with that perfect figure, and meat head screaming his face off about Monday=chest day has left people wondering what the hell to do. It’s no wonder that people get […]

SuperYou Summer SuperStar – Edith

Today I want to share a story about a very special client of ours named Edith. She has only been a member of Core Principles for over a month but there is a special kind of radiance and light Edith emits that inspired me to write this blog. Edith came to Core Principles at […]

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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