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6 Steps to Build Your Workout Habit: Part 2 – The Reason
Part 2 of a 6-part series on building a workout habit to achieve your goals! If you're like many people, you've probably made a New Year's Resolution to improve your fitness. With this goal in mind, you already know that you need to work out more and improve your...
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2020 Roadmap To Be The Best Gym in Chicago
How we help our Chicago members achieve their fitness goals in 2020
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Shop Less, Shop Better
Black Friday is upon us, and I'm sure your email is flooded with special offers from every retailer you've ever interacted with. But with all this consumerism taking place, it begs the question "Do we really need more? Or do we need better?". This...
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Feeling a plateau? Maybe you need some personalized coaching
Athlete A: A client who has been here for three months on a 1RM deadlift day: He steps up to the bar, looks a bit perturbed by the ‘heavy’ weight, shrugs and then proceeds to bend down and pick the bar up with easy-to-see speed and ease. His reaction: “Holy crap, that...
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The Keto Diet: Here to Stay?
Is the Ketogenic diet here to stay, or just another soon-to-be-dead unhealthy fad of the past? If you’re confused about the ketogenic diet and whether or not it’s a good option for you, I don’t blame you. You have likely heard it’s the best way to help you lose...
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Is organic food better for our health?
I don’t know about you, but I almost feel guilty buying non-organic vegetables. As if the ethically-sound, environmentally-conscious shopper next to me is looking down on the non-organic carrots in my cart. We have been told that organic is healthier for us and for...
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Get your hemoglobin levels on point
You may know of someone who has been diagnosed with anemia at one point in time and was told to take an iron supplement to improve the situation. Anemia is a fancy way of saying your red blood cells are low in hemoglobin, whose job it is to transport oxygen to your...
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Your Fish Oil Guide to Better Heart and Brain Health
Omega-3 Fish oil: You have probably heard that you should be taking it to improve your recovery, to decrease inflammation, to improve brain function, and even to prevent and manage heart disease and blood pressure. Many of you might already be taking some...
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Persistent Forward Progress: the road to my second IRONMAN finish
With the completion of my second IRONMAN triathlon (i.e. 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run) a couple weeks ago, my racing season has officially come to a close. It was a long one and it certainly had many ups and downs, but it ended better than expected and...
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Believe it or not, you actually can do a burpee without rocking a beat!
Every group class has at least one of them… One persnickety Music “Nazi”. The Music “Nazi” is the person who freaks out mid-conditioning workout if the wrong song comes on, if the volume drops below a certain pitch, or heaven forbid, if the music temporarily stops...
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Can you pass our Fitness IQ and Etiquette Test?
If you have ever been on a team, you probably learned along the way that for the team to function at its best, a valued personality characteristic is to be a low-maintenance teammate. The same is true of being part of our group classes. This doesn’t mean you’re not...
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CBD Oil: What’s all the hype about?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been seeing many ads along the highway, and signs outside of shops and businesses which are selling CBD oil. You may be wondering what this CBD oil hype is all about. What is it used for? Is it legal? How much should you take? My aim...
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