Simple Meal Prep Wellness Challenge
If you are ready to start changing your lifestyle habits to become the best version of yourself there are 5 main components that contribute to your success: 1: Daily Physical Activity 2: Stress Management 3: Hydration 4: Sleep 5: Nutrition Most of these components...
More Than a Sport: What’s Next After Collegiate Athletics
By Anna Hoyman, Performance Health & Fitness 2021 Summer Intern, Personal Training + Strength & Conditioning For a lot of us, sports seem to be a common first exposure to organized exercise. Games in PE lead to competitive high school events which (for some)...
Workout of the Week #14
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment Needed: Weight Plates (light and heavy) 1-2...
Workout of the Week #13
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment Needed: BOSU® Ball 3 Rounds, Complete 12 Reps...
Kari Kempf | Success through Personal Training, Nutrition Coaching, and the InBody at Performance Health & Fitness
Kari Kempf is a client that has seen tremendous success these past few months – on the scale and with non-scale victories. Despite the pandemic, she made a commitment to herself and her wellness goals and found a way to prioritize her health and daily habits. She...
Rowing Challenge + Benefits of Utilizing a Rower for a Total Body Workout
When it comes to implementing the best fitness program for you and your goals, most people think that if I want to get strong then the only thing I need to do is to lift heavy weights, then completely disregard flexibility training or cardiovascular exercise. Then the...
Workout of the Week #12
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT 45 seconds of work + 30 seconds of rest Complete 2...
The Physical and Mental Challenge of Staying “Fit”
Have you ever tried dribbling 2 basketballs? What about 3? 4? The more basketballs you add, the harder it becomes to dribble them all at once. Multi-tasking is a very difficult concept that most (if not all) of us cannot truly do. This is the challenge of staying...
Workout of the Week #11
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment Needed: Set of Kettlebells (light) +...
Yoga: The Science Behind the Ancient Art
By Emma Hogan for Fit Planet courtesy of Les Mills. We all know that yoga is good for us… but why exactly? Always on the hunt for answers, we’ve pulled together some of our favorite facts about yoga – highlighting all the benefits that come from getting your ‘Om’ on....
Workout of the Week #10
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment Needed: Rower + Resistance Bands (light &...
Workout of the Week #09
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment Needed: 14 or 20lb Medicine Ball 2-3 Rounds...
Suns Out, Guns Out! What you need to know about Skin Care from a Licensed Esthetician
As a health and wellness professional I love to learn more information about other daily habits that we should be aware of to become our healthiest self so that we live long and prosper (tehe). As coaches our mission is to help educate, inspire, motivate and encourage...
Functional Nutrition Therapy: What is it and how can it help me achieve my health and wellness goals?
When I was in college, working towards my Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Science we had this dreaded class that taught us about evidence-based information and how to determine what is information that we should actually follow or it was written by a biased party that...
Why Working Out Together Works Wonders
By Bryce Hastings for Fit Planet Research shows that if we work out in a group, we are far more likely to stick at exercise than if we go it alone. A new study reveals why. Back in 2011 Dr Jinger Gottschall and a team at Penn State University set out to explore how...
The Burpee: It’s a Love/Hate Relationship + our 30-Day Burpee Challenge
Originally published 05/28/2019. Updated 05/27/2021. Burpees... Where the heck did this “wonderful” exercise come from? Back in 1940, a physiologist by the name of Royal Huddleston Burpee was working on his Ph.D. at Columbia University. His thesis was surrounded by...
Workout of the Week #08
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. The Workout Equipment Needed: Concept2 Rower The Workout: 1-2 Rounds...
Prepare to Change the Way You Think About Calorie Burn
By Finlay Macdonald for Fit Planet courtesy of Les Mills. New research makes it clear we should look beyond the immediate calorie burn of a workout, focusing instead on longer-term benefits for body composition and metabolism. In this era of activity tracking, when we...
Workout of the Week #07
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment Needed: None The Workout: 1-2 rounds of 15-25...
Workout of the Week #06
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment Needed: 1 pair of dice and 4 orange cones...
The Real Reason it’s Important to Exercise Regularly
Everyone should know that to live a healthy lifestyle you need to make sure that you incorporate regular exercise in your week. So that you can: lift 1,000 lbs on a deadlift squat 500 lbs run a 5-minute mile have 7% body fat be able to push a bus out of the way to...
Workout of the Week #05
Need some workout inspiration? Give our Workout of the Week a try! Feel free to modify as needed based on your ability and available time, and reach out if you have any questions about the movements. THE WORKOUT Equipment needed: 14lb or 20lb Medicine Ball :40/:20 (40...
2021 Hydration Challenge
As a coach and personal trainer, I like to take a comprehensive approach when I am working with a client or doing consultations with our members/community. What this means is that I don’t just focus on the physical part of your well-being – which is to help you...
Celebrate Salsa Month in Style
May is National Salsa Month Did you know that salsa is one of the world’s most popular condiments? Salsa is not only delicious on many things, but it is good for you too. Benefits of salsa include: Vitamin C – promotes heart-health, your immune system, and healthy...