Kristie Evers What brought you to FITT-RX five years ago? I started at FITT-RX actually before FITT-RX officially existed when there was boot camp at Immanuel Lutheran. My youngest child, Kate, was 8 weeks old, and I wanted to get back in shape. My friends, Rachel Olson and Anne Anderson, kept talking about this boot camp class...Read More

Happiness 101 To say that Laurie Santos was shocked would be an understatement. The Psychology Professor from Yale was expecting a couple hundred students to sign up for her new course titled “Psychology and the Good Life”. To her surprise, over 1,200 students (almost 25% of Yale’s undergrads) signed up for the course designed to...Read More

“One often hears that physical fitness and exercise is a mental thing.  A mindset.  Sticking with it takes a certain mental discipline.  I think that this is absolutely true.  However, people tend to think that the mental commitment is required at the end of a workout, or to finish a long run, or to complete...Read More

Meet Rob Halberg What brought you to FITT-RX? (Credit Mark Ziehr for doing some wonderful marketing/PR as he was one of the reasons I tried FITT-RX). Our daughters had gymnastics at the Wagner center on Sat mornings so I’d often sit around with Mark talking about golf (mainly how I would beat him every time we...Read More

  Don’t Ignore What Your Body Tells You By: Megan Sandilands As some of my class participants and personal training clients are aware, I am currently in school studying in a pre-physical therapy program. Coming off a career in radio with a degree in advertising and public relations, I was seemingly crazy to make such...Read More

In a bit of a panic right now as I don’t know what to blog about. Should it be the upcoming holidays and stress relief through exercise, moderation during the holidays, Antonette’s bad hair mornings????? But they say write about what you know…. and what I know most right now is that I am a...Read More

“Failure isn’t falling down, it’s remaining where you’ve fallen.” I’m in a rut.  It’s that time of the year when I start feeling bad about myself.  The hard work I put in for a “summer body” is long gone.  The dreaded holidays are coming; the over-eating, drinking, and excessive indulging. I’ve slipped and fallen into...Read More

I’ve gotten pretty skilled at being in my comfort zone. I’m good at it, comfortable in it and cozy. That said, I rarely stay in it. There’s something magical about leaning out and looking around. I’ve come to learn it’s safe out there, but also very unknown and very uncomfortable. Learning new things requires leaving...Read More

Top 5 Moments (so far) as a FITT-RX Member & Trainer • The Inov-8 235 Burpee Challenge – A few years back, we partnered up with fitness shoe company Inov-8 and Fleet Feet Sports for a fun fitness challenge at FITT-RX for the launch of a new shoe. The challenge – 235 burpees as fast...Read More

  It’s not a secret that I love seeing those little faces at the studio. Over the years, I can’t even begin to count the amount of parents who’ve made comments about their kids running “boot camps”, participating in school and local running clubs, or even spontaneously performing burpees in the kitchen. They are watching...Read More