Weekly Highlights 2.12.17

The week started with a bang, for me anyway, with the Patriots being Superbowl winners. Again! I know there are some haters out there, but I love you all anyway. Monday a.m., was a room full of crickets. The Superbowl hangover was in full effect. In case you missed my t-shirt of the G.O.A.T […]

In Home Workout

Lovely People! Lots can stand in our way of getting activity in that makes you feel good. One idea we always talk about here is being “problem solvers” and not “problem describers”. How can we figure out a reasonable solution? We have a workout here for you today that tackles a bunch […]

Weekly Highlights 1.27.17

Here is all the greatness that happened at Core Principles this week, the last week of January. Thank you for making it so great. Rachel is flipping out the weekend is here! We made it, have some fun and do some things that make you feel good and smile. (Click here to see her […]

Who Knew Guns & Roses Was So Smart

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM GUNS & ROSES The 80’s rock band showed us what long hair, outrageous outfits and a guy named Axl could do to your rock career and getting groupies. One of their songs includes perhaps the best advice ever for each of us to make the life changes we want […]

Bang for your buck workout!

This time of year stores are competing to give you the best deals, the best “bang for buck”. As a customer, you are looking for the best value for the money. This idea can help you achieve your fitness goals! I want to give you ideas as to how you can create a […]

What the Gratitude

In the past 2 months I have been involved in an awesome community of strength coaches that are brought together to help hold coaches accountable in their own lives so that we can help ourselves as well as our clients. One of the biggest changes that I have taken away from the program was […]

Burn fat like it’s your job!

I have the best fat loss trick ever. It’s not an exercise or workout, although they can certainly help. It is not a fad diet or crazy gimmick, although they can work also. Paleo, South Beach, Atkins, Weight […]

Taco Tuesday!

Taco Tuesday, Pizza Friday… the school cafeteria staff may have been onto something back in the day. They may have been off with their choices but they had the right idea with planning. Planning at least some of your meals may be the single […]

Homegrown Habits:10 meals a day

There is some serious habit formation going on in my house right now. My son Hudson is about 4 weeks old. He seems to like his parents and is settling into a routine. He is eating about 10 […]

Improve Sleep

Sleep, oh how I miss you. This little nugget joined our family two weeks ago and I feel like I have been out at the club every night since then. I love every second of it though. […]

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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