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Ask Your Trainer: Training and Injuries

A post from Callie: When you’re training hard, injuries can happen. With proper instruction and training progressions we focus 100% on technique and safety but…

Everyone Starts Somewhere (how to get back to the gym)

A post from Emily: It is so hard to get started sometimes. If I had one thing to tell people it would be it will…

Move the Big Rocks

A post from Callie: Focus on the big rocks. Ignore the small ones. This isn’t turning into a TWWS joke, I promise. This concept is…

Ask Your Trainer: How Many Days Should I Train?

This week’s Ask a Trainer question is one we get often, from all levels of clients mostly because the answer will change over time. Here’s…

Big Goals and Small Steps

A post from Emily…. Big Goals? Small steps! We often think that big goals require huge actions. Example, I want to lose 50lbs, so I…

Why I Have Coaches

I’m a trainer and I have a trainer. A lot of people ask me why I do this, when I know how to program workouts…

Ask Your Trainer: Will Artificial Sweeteners Give Me Sugar Cravings?

Here’s another nutrition post from Emily with the low down on artificial sweeteners, what they are made of and what they are doing to your…

One of Our Favorite Ab Exercises: Valslide Ab Tuck & Star

Oh Valslides, how much do we at DP love you? We could count the dozens of ab, core and leg variations that you can do…

Faking It…Trainers Do it Too

Faking it… Trainers do it too! Ever hear the term “fake it until you make it”? You know pretend, false bravado, and imply that you…

Why I Love the Scale

A post from Emily: Why I love the scale…. You might be totally confused by this statement. Thinking “wait, what, trainers talk all the time…