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WOW! Week of 6/23/14 – Break Dancin’!

The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as needed depending on your fitness level and intensity…

Performance Fitness Client Spotlight – Meet Beth L.

Beth L. is a prime example of the magic that can happen when you tweak your fitness program. Now tweaking doesn’t mean having exercise ADD. You know hopping from modality to modality – doing the Barre method one month, doing Kickboxing the next, and pounding the pavement with your running shoes the month after that.…

WOW (Workout of the Week) week of 3/17/14

INSTRUCTIONS – Do 4 rounds of the following: 10/10 Switch Lunges (substitute jumping lunges or split squats) 30 Bear Crawl Paces 15 Medicine Ball, Dumbbell, or Naked Chops 30 Bear Crawl Paces Post questions, comments and thoughts below.

Snowmageddon Housebound Workout – 2/13/14 Edition

Bears, Mountains, and Ski Jumps. Just keeping it snow themed. Do a descending ladder of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of the following: Mt. Climbers (each leg) Mogul Jumps (each side) Bear crawls pace (each side) Post your time to comments, and pray for spring.

Ice Ice Baby – The Workout

Here we go again. 6am class is cancelled for February 5th. Fingers crossed for 9:30. Here’s a cool (har, har) workout in case you need it: Set your timer, pump up the volume and get moving to “Ice Ice Baby” (the worse thing to happen to a Queen song, ever!) by Vanilla Ice. The…

ANOTHER Snow Day Workout

More snow! Instead of 9:30 Boot Camp try this workout on for size. Post your time to comments below. Warm-up with: 10 Prying squats Workout – Do 5 Rounds of the following for time: 10 Squats 5 Squats w/ :05 hold after each 3 Jump squats

Clean Up Weekend Strategy

So, it’s your first weekend on the Clean Up. You’ve got a girls’ night, a charity ball, and a family birthday party (with cake as the main event), not to mention Saturday lox and bagels at the corner bagel shop.   What’s a virtuous Clean Up participant to do? Read this redo of a post from…

Snow Day Workout/Day 26 of the 12 Days Fitness Challenge

Housebound Workout: Push-up and Step Challenge Oh the weather outside is frightful – and the parking lot isn’t plowed, so classes are cancelled today. That’s still no excuse not to workout. Here’s a housebound workout for you to do instead. Warm-up 10 Walk outs 20/20 In-place high knee jogs Repeat two more times Workout Part…

12 Days Challenge – Day 8

Day 8 Jump and Climb After a day of recovery, it’s time to pick things up again. For today’s workout you’ll be doing Vertical Jumps and Mt. Climbers. Warm-up: Do 30 jumping jacks. Workout: 5 Rounds for time of: 10 Vertical jumps (jump as high as you can, land, do it again) 10 Mt. Climbers

12 Days Fitness Challenge – Day 1

Your mission: Complete 12 workouts (any combination of personal training sessions or classes, a DIY workout, or approved activity) between December 9th and January 5th. The top five Performance Fitness members with the most points at the end of 28 days will be eligible for one of five prizes including massage, $100 gift cards, and…