And we thought it could not get any worse…..
In an interview with USA today about 4 days ago, Katie Bayne, Coca-Cola’s 45-year-old president of sparkling beverages confirmed what most of us have been thinking all along: Coca-Cola does not give a s**t about you or your health. The interview was conducted in response to Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to limit to 16 ounces the […]
Eating right is not rocket science. So why is it so hard for so many to lose weight?
We’re in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today. Jamie Oliver FACT: In the United States in 2010, over 63% of people are overweight or obese. I have a secret. I am addicted….to the salad bar at Whole Foods. If you gave me […]
Celebrating ONE year of Strength and Conditioning at Fivex3 Training!
One year ago, June 18, 2011, we opened our doors, and what a year it has been! Amazing how time flies when you are having as much fun as we are doing what we love best: Making YOU STRONG! 🙂 Thank you for all of your support and encouragement!!! We could not be here without […]
Fivex3 Training Special Yoga Class w/Shauna Harrison
We are pleased to announce a special class in May! We are very excited that Shauna Harrison, of Equinox Fitness, as well as Be Yoga, Xplore Yoga and the The Yoga Studio, in the San Francisco Bay area, is back! Shauna is a former Baltimore resident, as well as a dynamic and creative fitness professional. […]
Review of the Personal Defense Readiness Seminar
“Real fights, happen in the space of a phone booth.” – Tony Blauer On Saturday, February 18, 2012, Steve Wakefoose of Providence Combatives took 10 individuals ages 11 to 66 and made us more dangerous than before. Enter Tony Blauer’s Personal Defense Readiness Seminar, based on the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™, which is the first genetically, and […]
Client Profile for March: Lucy
Do or do not, there is no try. – Yoda When it comes to training clients, I think kids are the best. They will DO anything you ask. You hand them a weight and they take it, no questions asked. You tell them “Today, we are going to do jumping jacks and they look at […]
What is going on inside commercial gyms?
I have a number of clients that come to me from commercial gyms. They tell me that they “work out regularly”; some of them say they “have worked with a trainer.” One of them worked with a trainer for several years before coming to me. What do they all have in common, you ask? Well, […]
Moving better=Moving more!
I teach people how to move. I help them understand why their bodies move the way they do, why moving this way makes their knees hurt but moving this way doesn’t. I give them the tools that will help them continue to move better. Then once they are moving better, I can then teach them […]
Client Profile for January: Chiachung and Jair
This is the first of our Client Profile posts. Each month, we will recognize a client’s or clients’ achievements. There are so many awesome people here at Fivex3 Training that it was difficult to choose the first client to profile. We decided to choose a couple who have made some truly outstanding gains in the […]
2012 is here….are you ready?
In years past, my New Year’s Resolutions were always the same. Cut the cheese. Lose weight. Get a boyfriend. (?????) And of course the usual, “I will not eat ________, __________ and ____________.” Booooring…..and senseless. But then again, I had no real plan and no real goal to focus so of course my resolutions were […]