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Performance Fitness Client Spotlight: Meet The Sterns

Our latest client spotlight features one of our Performance Fitness couples, Joe and Rachel Stern. The Sterns are two of my favorite people (OK, all of our clients are my favorites), probably because they give me coffee whenever I train them, or maybe it’s because we all graduated high school the same year (not telling…

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.

Five Kickin’ Protein Recipes

One of the best things you can do to reach your health and fitness goals is to make sure you’re eating enough protein. “What’s enough protein,” you ask? Probably more than you’re getting right now. Here’s a little quiz to find out whether or not you’re getting enough protein: Do you eat protein at every…

1/22/14 Snow Day Workout

Warm-up 10 Spiders 10 Pumps Workout – 3 to 5 rounds of the following: 10 Inverted Rows with a bed sheet 10 Decline Push-ups (or other challenging variation for you) :30 Hollow Hold 10 Tricep Dips Post rounds and time to comments.

Moving Heavy Stuff – The Bodyweight Edition

In a previous post about strength training I whittled down the basic human movements to 7: Squat Lunge Push Pull Bend Twist Gait Then there were the FIVE basic compound exercises: Squat Pull-up Push-up Deadlift Carries Some of the Basic Five have weighted variations: Front or back squat Rows Bench press Conventional Deadlifts Weighted carries…

Revisiting the squat

Below is a bit of an edit (with pictures added!) of a post that I wrote two years ago. Since the original posting I’ve developed much more love for the squat. I have a love/hate relationship with squats. I struggled with squats during a good part of my fitness career. The Hate Anatomy (short torso,…

Return to the Globo Gym

Friday was all about the orange. Saturday was bathed in green…and purple. YouFit Health Clubs, is what CrossFitters call a “globo gym” – it’s basically a derogatory term for a large health club. I’ve never been to a Planet Fitness, but I think YouFit is basically modeled after them – large gym, LOTS of weight…

All about the Orange

Part 2 of my time off – The Staycation – started on Tuesday. I decided to do a class at my trainer friend, Master SFG Phil Scarito’s, studio in King of Prussia. Phil is my kettlebell guy, and I’ve trained with him on and off since 2008. He prepped me for my RKC in 2010…

Karen Vento’s Clean Up Story

Karen was our Your Best Body Challenge winner for Fitness Transformation last year. She won the honor by improving her fitness level by 72%. She also lost 10 pounds to boot. This year she distinguished herself by winning 1st Place for Lifestyle Transformation in our End of Winter Clean Up. As the result of her…

FP’s Clean Up story

FP is a dedicated weekday boot camper and dragon boater who took 2nd Place for Body Transformation in the 2011 End of Winter Clean Up. During the four week challenge she lost 4 pounds and a total of 7-1/4 inches! FP committed to the Clean Up and it shows. Just look at those abs! Here’s…