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Train Hard, Recover Harder: 5 Tips to Jumpstart Your Recovery in 2025
Recovery is the unsung hero of your fitness and wellness routine. It can be hard and tempting to only focus on pushing harder through workouts, doing more reps, more weight, and just simply always trying ...
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The Gym: Your Third Space
Work. Home. Work. Repeat. Algorithms, new online platforms, gaming devices, work from home, the weather? What keeps the cycle of work to home to work on repeat? The sociologist Roy Oldenburg created the term “Third ...
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The Basics of Gym Etiquette, Part 2
Welcome back to another round of the unwritten rules of the gym! Just as a refresher: Gym etiquette helps ensure the mutual respect of gym-goers. In the last post, we talked about working in, reserving ...
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The Basics of Gym Etiquette, Part 1
It’s that time of the year! New members are joining, guests are visiting, and the club is starting to get busy. Although Merritt works with you every step of the way on your fitness journey, ...
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It’s Not About Resolutions, It’s About Decisions
Here we are the start of another New Year. The clock resets and we hear the fireworks, with tons of people shouting, “This is going to be my year!” And look, I don’t want to ...
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Circuit Training: Maximizing Time and Efficiency in Your Workouts
As our lives become filled with more and more responsibilities our fitness routine sometimes takes a back seat to all the other priorities that we have. But that shouldn’t be the case! Our fitness routine ...
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Overcoming “Gym-timidation”: Tips for Feeling Confident
Coming into something new is hard. Change is hard. Our perception of ourselves we sometimes project onto other people whether we meant to or not. But the gym is a place where everyone is working ...
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Prioritizing Your Health During the Holidays
We all love the holidays! Time with friends and family, decorating our house in celebration of our traditions, and the parties…well maybe for some of us that’s not as exciting. Our health and fitness are ...
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A BODYPUMP Class is Perfect for You If…
…you’ve never weight-trained before. If you’ve never lifted weights, the Les Mills BODYPUMP is an ideal place to start a strength and conditioning routine. The moves are repetitive, so you have time to concentrate on ...
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Maximizing Your Time in the Gym: Quick Workouts That Deliver Results
We all know time is a precious commodity that we seem to never have enough of. The demands of our work, social, family, and personal life are all important priorities that we need to juggle ...
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Thanksgiving Running: How to Turn Big Meals Into Muscle
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, leading to an entire season of big holiday meals with family and friends. While we joke that the holidays are for relaxation and weight gain, you don’t have to ...
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Why Kids Benefit from Swim Lessons All Year, Not Just Summer
Swimming and summer go hand in hand. There are pool parties to attend and trips to local shorelines. This is the time of year when parents and kids think the most about swim lessons. After ...
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