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Fine Tune Your New Year’s Resolutions with a Personal Training Session

Start Your New Year with Personal Training at Our Baltimore Gyms
If you made a New Year’s resolution regarding your health and fitness in 2018, you are not alone. Millions of people aim to lose weight, move their bodies more, and feel better as they look ahead to the future, but many are also missing out on a critical “secret weapon.” We’re talking about certified personal trainers. Here’s a closer look at how these professionals can help you reach your fitness goals in the year ahead. Continue reading “Fine Tune Your New Year’s Resolutions with a Personal Training Session”

Fitness Tip

Start the New Year with a New Fitness Plan

Get Your Fitness Roadmap in Gear at Brick Bodies Gyms in Baltimore

A quick glimpse at Statistic Brain’s roundup of the top New Year’s resolutions for 2017 reveals that losing weight/healthier eating topped the list of goals people had last year. Also making it into the top 10? Life/self-improvements, doing more exciting things, and working out more often. The bad news? Just 9.2 percent of people felt like they were successful in fulfilling those resolutions. Continue reading “Start the New Year with a New Fitness Plan”

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How to Make Mindfulness a Part of Your Holiday Exercise Routine

Lessen Holiday Stress with Advice from Our Baltimore Gyms

The months, weeks and, finally, days leading up to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s are a time of joy and gladness–except when they are a time of stress and feelings of being overwhelmed, that is. While the holiday hustle can be exhilarating, it can also be an exhausting distraction. Continue reading “How to Make Mindfulness a Part of Your Holiday Exercise Routine”

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Slay the Stress Dragon with Exercise!

Tame Your Stress with Exercise at our Gyms in Timonium, Reisterstown, & Baltimore!

While we may think of stress as normal because of its prevalence in contemporary society, it can have long-term and lasting consequences on health and well-being. Here’s a closer look at the problem, along with a breakdown of the vital role exercise can play in managing and overcoming stress. Continue reading “Slay the Stress Dragon with Exercise!”

Fitness Tip

Banishing the Monster of Negative Body Image

Feel Better about Your Body with Tips from the Best Gym in Reisterstown

A staggering 97 percent of women admit to having at least one negative body thought a day, according to a Glamour survey. Even worse? Many women admit to having as many as 100 hateful thoughts about their bodies every day. Continue reading “Banishing the Monster of Negative Body Image”

Fitness Tip

Fight Scary Fat with Halloween HIIT Exercises

Blast Candy Calories with HIIT at Timonium Gym!

It is easy to think of Halloween as the domain of kids. After all, they are the ones putting on costumes and parading through the streets every October 31st. However, whether you are a parent tempted by your child’s sweets stash, or just headed to a Halloween party where there will be near-endless food and drink temptations, adults are not exactly living candy-free lives every Trick or Treat season. In fact, at least half of grownups indulge in candy on Halloween, according to USA Today.  Continue reading “Fight Scary Fat with Halloween HIIT Exercises”

Fitness Tip

Want Flatter Abs? Try the Creepy Crawler!

Core Strengthening Exercise & Women’s Fitness in Baltimore

In survey after survey investigating which areas of their bodies women feel most self-conscious about, one small word makes the list again and again, namely abs. If you’re among the many people trying to crunch your way to a trimmer waistline and leaner midsection, you may be missing out on an exercise which can vastly enhance your efforts. Read on to learn more about how creepy crawlers can help you get the results you’ve been looking for, and plenty of other health and wellness benefits, too. Continue reading “Want Flatter Abs? Try the Creepy Crawler!”

Nutrition

Four Fall Foods So Good They’re Spooky!

Nutritious Fall Food? You Bet! Baltimore Gym Shares Four of Them

If you think fall’s four food groups are candy corn, M&M’s, Snickers, and Starbursts, it may be time for a mental reboot. Not only is falling face-first into a bowl of Halloween candy a bad idea for hundreds of different reasons, the reality is that plenty of fall foods are both delicious and nutritious, meaning you don’t have to feel bad about feeling good. Wondering where to begin when it comes to embracing fall’s beautiful bounty?  Read on for a roundup of four fall foods that are truly spooktacular. Continue reading “Four Fall Foods So Good They’re Spooky!”

Fitness Tip

Use Pilates to Fight “Creepy” Back Pain

Back Pain Got You Down? Try Pilates at Our Gym in Reisterstown!

While Stephen King’s It may fulfill one definition of the word “creepy,” it’s also fiction. In other words, while the book or movie might scare the daylights out of you, neither will actually do you any harm. (We still might steer clear of red balloons tethered to sewer grates.) Continue reading “Use Pilates to Fight “Creepy” Back Pain”

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Three Fitness Benefits of the Monster Walk

Find the Perfect Workout with the Best Personal Training in Baltimore

While kids may look forward to getting their hands on all the treats their hearts desire this October 31st, Halloween can be more of a trick than a treat for adults trying to keep excess pounds at bay. The good news? You can still get in on the festive fun without overindulging in candy by incorporating the “monster walk” into your exercise routine. Here is a closer look at this eerily effective workout, along with three ways this wackily named workout move can give you a fitness boost heading into sweets season. Continue reading “Three Fitness Benefits of the Monster Walk”