Spring Cleaning The weather has finally turned for the better! The sun is out, the temps are climbing. Classes will soon feature more outdoors efforts like running, wallballs along the bricks, maybe some walking lunges down the alley! Bonus: Your membership now upgrades to include some vitamin D as you lap the alley/York block between...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

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

    The war against those F#*@ing bumps! According to Scientific American, 90% of women are impacted by those dreadful bumps. The bumps haunt them every morning, noon and night. Every time they catch a glimpse of themselves in the mirror, the bumps jump out at them like that damn Freddy Krueger in Nightmare on...Read More

Staying Motivated I’ve never had much of a problem motivating myself to workout. It was always part of my routine Monday through Saturday, with a rest day on Sunday. I’ve been doing it for years. Don’t get me wrong, some days were definitely harder than others, but I would take a class or go for...Read More

I can’t think of anything I hate more in my life than being injured.  (Well, I can think of one thing, but that’s for another blog.)  And specifically, being injured badly enough that there is truly no lower body exercise you can do for roughly 6-8 weeks is my own personal hell.   Whatever did...Read More

If I had a dime for every time I heard “I bet you have been doing push-ups on your toes forever,” or “pull-ups must come easy for you,” or “running is one of your strengths,” my reply for each of these statements would be NO, NO and NO! If you knew me in high school...Read More

          “Every-thing in mod-er-ation.”  This phrase rings in my head on a regular basis.  I can hear it coming from my very special great-Aunt Winnie. She was a class act until she died about 15 years ago in her nineties.  She had her hair professionally styled into a curly silver beehive...Read More

Workout Ruts Perhaps you’re going through a nasty plateau you can’t bust out of?  Or you’ve returned from your summer vacation, and can’t seem to get back on track with regular workouts?  Have you ever worn yourself out from too many workouts and didn’t allow your body rest? If you’ve experienced any of these scenarios,...Read More