Drinkin’ your way through the holidays

Drinking and Partying!

I despise most holiday healthy eating blog post and articles. They’re usually filled with strategies that I just don’t find helpful, or more like it, realistic. “Don’t stand next to the food table”, “Nibble on the crudité”, “Eat before you go” (admittedly this one can be used successfully). Blah blah blah. The only problem is…

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Thanksgiving Side Dish Redux

Marianne McDevitt is a super star! Over the past year, she has undergone an amazing physical and emotional transformation. She totally embodies our mission statement – “To empower people to change their lives by helping them change their bodies”. Marianne is proof of the power of body transformation. A year ago she was depressed, lacking…

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Five Reasons Your Scale Sucks

broken scale

We all know someone who gauges their fitness progress by the scale and the scale alone. Do you? If so, know this: there are far more important aspects of your health and fitness program than your weight. That little wafer of plastic and metal may even be hurting you and sabotaging your efforts to get…

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Measuring Up. Shaping Up.

I realize that I’d been slacking on my job as holder of accountability. Some clients have just skating been along – measurements hadn’t been done in months, the last food journal had been submitted in late spring. People have just been doing – whatever. Because of this realization, all of our personal training clients were…

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What I’ve Learned So Far

Today we have some “in the trenches” knowledge dropping (aka – a guest post) from from boot camper, Jackie Dunleavy. Jackie is a professional classical singer, a software trainer and mom who’s lost 45 pounds since February. Check out what she’s learned (so far) along her fitness journey. 10 Things I’ve Learned About 10 months…

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Welcome to the Performance Fitness Team, Mike K.!

I’m pleased to welcome Mike Klevence to the Performance Fitness team as one of our boot camp instructors and personal trainers. Here’s a little about Mike in his own words: “I have been a personal trainer for 13 years.  The saying goes ‘do what you love’ and I love exercise, working out and the positive…

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Michelle K. wins the 2012 Your Best Body Challenge and practices Kaizen!

First of all, what the heck is “Kaizen”? Kaizen is Japanese for improvement. It’s used to refer to constant steady improvement in business and life. Our 2012 YBBC winner embodies this principle. Earlier this season we held our annual Your Best Body Challenge, our fitness and nutrition challenge that has helped people transformed their bodies…

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Pushups For Charity 2012 – Success!

Last Saturday’s Pushups For Charity Wynnewood was a wonderful success thanks to the commitment of our awesome clients and our community! We had a small group this year but we did BIG things. We’ve received the most money that we have in the three year’s that I’ve run this event. Our total (so far) is…

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What I Push For

I don’t have patriotic schwag or swagger. I don’t put a flag out on Memorial Day or Labor Day or July 4th for that matter. I don’t own any clothes emblazoned with the American flag, and I’ve never chanted “U S A ! U S A!” So, why on earth am I doing Pushups For…

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Inflammation

Caitlin Pettit, Performance Fitness boot camp instructor and nutritionist, has written an informative article on the causes and dangers of systemic inflammation. Check it out: So we’re on this 8-week journey of “eating clean” known as the Clean Up.  The food is clean, the preparation is clean, and in turn, our bodies will be clean.…

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