We are very excited to announce our third Self Defense Seminar with Steve Wakefoose of CrossFit West Chester in Pennsylvania on Sunday, April 3, 2016. This self-defense seminar is based on Tony Blauer’s S.P.E.A.R System and Personal Defense Readiness program. Instructor Steve Wakefoose will lead the workshop. Steve is the founder of Providence Combatives and is a […]
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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”- Edith Lovejoy Pierce New beginnings. Isn’t that what the New Year is all about? A new beginning? A chance to try something new this
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You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. George Burns Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/getting_older.html#8ib2iLIg2Q9vuhK3.99 I wrote this blog post almost 5 years ago. We were trying to get more women to try barbell training and I had started hosting free Strength Training Workshops as a way to introduce women to the squat, bench, press and
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About two months ago, I received an email from a strength coach I know who was doing a presentation at his gym in Boston (okay, his name is Tony Gentilcore and it’s Cressey Performance, okay?) He had a “quick” question. Here was his question: Quick question: My presentation at the CP seminar this weekend is
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Last November, I wrote the post below about my own experiment with being photoshopped. After seeing Buzz Feeds recent video about photoshopping, I thought it might be a nice time to re-post the article as a reminder that photoshop is not REAL. YOU are real. Four women were asked by Buzz Feed if they would
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As many of my clients know, I am a HUGE fan of training the posterior chain. And thanks to Bret Contreras, also known as “The Glute Guy,” I am never without new ways of thinking about the glutes. There is a running joke at my gym that EVERYTHING is about the glutes. As I tell
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“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” J.K. Rowling And united we were. On Sunday, September 15, 2013, Fivex3 Training of Baltimore, MD and McKenna’s Gym of Red Lion, PA, hosted the 2nd Annual Charm City Strongwoman Contest in Baltimore, MD to benefit the Susan Cohan Colon Cancer
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double. ~Toni Morrison “Ha! how many times can this change??? Although, I think we have it now. I really hope that I will be running/ walking with you for that 6.5 miles so that
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Last week, I posted an article called 5 Reasons to Skip Breakfast on my Facebook page. You can read the article here. The article was written by Dr. John Berardi, founder of Precision Nutrition. As many of you may know, I am a Precision Nutrition Level One Coach. 😉 As someone who has had a
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In addition to all of our lying down and getting up, we also do a fair bit of crawling on the floor. Inchworms, bear crawls, spider crawls, monkey hustles. It doesn’t really matter what you call it. Just get down on the floor and move across the room. You may be asking yourself, “Why Crawling”?
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