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Weight Loss Without Guilt: Enjoy Your Vacation Without Feeling Like You Ruined Everything

Vacation and dieting usually feel like they’re fighting each other. You’re surrounded by restaurants, desserts, drinks, and food you don’t normally get at home. One big meal turns into, “Well… I already messed up today, ...
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Why Balance Training Should Be Part of Your Fitness Routine

When discussing health and physical fitness, conversations often gravitate toward muscular strength, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. An often overlooked aspect of overall fitness is balance. Balance can be defined as the ability to ...
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Why Personal Trainers Will Always Beat AI Coaching

Artificial intelligence is changing everything—from how we work, how we learn and how we train. AI coaching, smart gyms, and fitness apps promise personalized workouts, real-time feedback, and ease like we’ve never seen before. However, ...
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Why ACL Injury Prevention for Female Athletes is Important

Injury prevention is one of the most important parts of training and is often overlooked by many athletes. Staying healthy is the biggest reason you are capable of performing at such high levels consistently throughout ...
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Fueling for HYROX

If HYROX is one of your first endurance competitions, you might not know how to properly fuel leading up to your race. In this blog post, I’ll go over a general plan of how to ...
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Why Every Young Athlete Should Partake in Sports Performance Training

What separates the average athlete from the elite athletes? It isn’t always about talent or genetics or how hard you go during practice and games- it’s about how you train outside of practice. What is ...
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What Makes My Trainer C.O.O.L.

Over the past five years, there has been a significant number of new personal trainers in the fitness industry. If you do a quick Google search, you’ll find that there are a reported “41,000-94,000 health ...
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Train like a Champ With Boxing

Searching for the most effective workout can take time. Every avid gymgoer has their idea of what works and what doesn’t. The goal to find the one modality that will help with cardiorespiratory fitness, strength ...
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Join the HYROX movement at Merritt Clubs in Federal Hill!

What is HYROX?  The HYROX event itself is a thrilling challenge, testing strength, speed, agility, and endurance through a set of demanding physical tasks. It’s an excellent opportunity for those who love the spirit of ...
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Discouraged? Develop Your Grit and Talk to Yourself

People go to the gym because they have experienced some kind of painful realization that they need to work out. You caught a not so flattering glimpse of yourself in the mirror getting out of ...
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5 Compound Lifts for Total Body Strength

When it comes to building real, functional strength, not all exercises are created equal. While isolation movements have their place, compound lifts- which engage multiple muscle groups simultaneously- deliver the most bang for your buck ...
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The Ultimate Guide to Strength Training After 40: What to Prioritize, and What Not To

Strength training is for nearly every age. But once we reach certain milestones, are there certain things to prioritize? After turning 40, here are four things to focus on, and one thing to avoid. Prioritize ...
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