Healthy Shoulders Equals Happy Shoulders

It’s hard keeping a new car running like new. After time and overuse things just start to happen. It takes a lot of time, money and effort to keep your car running like new but it is possible. Our bodies are the same way. It’s hard to keep our bodies running like they did […]

Clients Help Us Grow!!!

When we talk about coaching clients, we always talk about the buy-in it takes to get people to trust you and listen to your coaching. We as coaches constantly talk about how to increase the buy-in from our clients through different strategies, concepts, and techniques. Today, I want to talk about a client that […]

5 Hacks to Eat Healthy When Going Out

When cooking at home is not an option and you’re traveling on business, celebrating a birthday or just wanting to go out and have fun, eating at restaurants can have an impact on your dietary habits and pack on tons of calories if you let yourself overindulge. And it’s sooo easy to go overboard […]

Beyond The Coaching Cue: The Real Reason Coaches Coach

Coaching is such a rewarding career. While this statement has coaches ear constantly ringing, I think the reality of this statement sets in when you get the opportunity to work and watch amazing people grow from your first hand experience. This week, I want to talk about a client from our group class. Tracy […]

Summer Time Sunshine

With summertime here everyone is looking to get out side and catch some rays. Sometimes that means it’s harder to make it to the gym. What that doesn’t mean is that you need to stop exercising completely, take a few minutes here and there to get in your exercise. You don’t need all of […]

Women’s BEST Nutrition Plan For a Flat Belly!

I think one thing all women struggle with, especially after a certain age is weight gain in the mid-section. Now that the Summer is here and clothes are literally coming off (because it’s HOT out!) we want to be able to enjoy ourselves, feel confident wearing a tank top and not have to suck in […]

How to Slimdown this Summer and Feel Confident Rocking Those Denim Shorts

Summer is officially here! Yay!! Except for some of us it’s not a season we look forward to because we’re forced to bare it all, put on a swimsuit or shorts and feel uncomfortable because they don’t fit like they used to. I think every woman has felt that way at one point or […]

Live In The Moment

Where are you right now? What is going on right now? Who are you with? What do you see? Are you living in the moment or are you spaced out somewhere else thinking about a million different things. Today I had an awesome chat with a client about being in the moment. We […]

A Diet Plan That Avoids Restriction and Focuses on Addition

The fitness industry is swamped with diet plans that promise things that the genie from Aladdin couldn’t grant. Even worse, every single one focuses on a restriction and rules that peg you into a camp of people that are so rabid that different sects and level of following have emerged. “OH I’m paleo […]

5 Ways to Sustain Your Healthy Exercise Habits

When I worked my corporate job before becoming a fitness coach, one of my biggest struggles was exercising regularly. I would go through “spurs” of time where I’d be ON MY GAME, going to the gym 5 days a week feeling super motivated and accomplished. Then shit would hit the fan at work, or I’d […]

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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