Weekly Highlights 4.17.17

Hope you all had a great week. We hope you had a great Passover, Easter and whatever else you chose to celebrate. The week was filled with some milestone accomplishments and the welcoming of some fresh new faces. Elvis joined the Core Principles party last week and we couldn’t be happier to have him. […]

Weekly Highlights 4.9.17

April is the month of love. We had a great week here highlighted by some fresh new faces. Alison, our newest superhero, started last Monday and is rocking it. Give her a big hello and a high five when you see her. She is also a yoga instructor, so if you have a […]

Weekly Highlights 4.2.17

Hey Party Folks, We did some great stuff this week, let’s start by kicking it off with the fashion trends I saw this week: Tim could make a magazine model: Business professional gone fitness. Not sure what was in the air but these guys sure brought style to the gym this week! Now […]

Weekly Highlights 3.26.17

We launched into spring this week. In case you had a tequila and corona infused spring break week in Cancun, beach side by the day and booty shaking at the disco at night, here is what you missed at Core Principles. Commitment is not a strong enough term for this young lady. Mary, […]

A Good Coach…

Have you ever had a fitness coach? Have you ever considered working with one? A good coach can make a huge difference in shaping your path to success, enjoyment of the process and perhaps most importantly making sure the changes are sustainable. Consider the analogy of a chef, her restaurant, the staff and […]

Weekly Highlights 3.19.17

These weeks fly by and one week can seem to run into the next. Thankfully you have these highlights to look back on and be reminded of the greatness all around. We probably don’t say it enough, but we are proud of all of you. We all have tons of things going on […]

Weekly Highlights 3.12.17

Happy Week Y’all. Winter is back, its cold again. You, however, have been cranking up the heat. It is pretty impressive. Don’t take my word, have a look. One error and omission to start us off. Charlie is a winner in his age bracket for the Assault Bike Challenge. […]

Weekly Highlights 3.5.17

And that’s a wrap. We closed out the month of February, closed out the February Assault Bike Challenge and here we are, set to keep getting better in the month of March. Here is what we know. The Assault Bike Challenge was a smashing success. It was so great to see you […]

Weekly Highlights 2.26.17

March looks like it is coming in like a lamb. But, you bad mofos closed out February like a bunch of lions. There was a lot of moving and shaking this week. Including Rick M coming back from a ski vacation with his family and getting on the Assault Bike and taking […]

Weekly Highlights 2.19.17

Valentines week was filled with love here at C.P. Check out this amazing week. Mrs Stephanie celebrated her b-day. She’s so wise for 25! Happy Birthday Steph. She and the rest of the crew from KPMG are in their crazy busy season with tons of long days. They are still making time […]

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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