Get Started on Your New Year Fitness Goals Now to Give Yourself the Best Chance Possible The new year is all about slowly turning yourself into the best version of you that you can possibly be. That’s why so many people focus on their health and fitness goals for their New Year’s Resolutions–your health factors…
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How Do You Maintain Your Personal Fitness Routine While Traveling for the Holidays? Everybody worries about their diet going haywire when they travel home for the holidays, but what about your fitness routine? If you neglect your fitness routine while you’re running around away from home, you could suffer the effects of detraining and end…
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Please Vote for Vertex Fitness as the Best of the Main Line & Western Suburbs! Dear Friends, every year Main Line Today Magazine gives the community a chance to choose its favorite businesses in every category imaginable. This year, we’re asking you to help us be named as the Best of the Main Line favorite…
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Set Length is 70 Seconds, That is Long Freaking Time – (My Fitness Journey – Vertex Fitness Diary 10) I just found out something rather profound. It turns out that the set length in the Vertex Fitness gym actually only lasts for about 70 seconds. Not three years, not the rest of my natural born…
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MedX Medical Exercise Equipment is Coming to Vertex Fitness We’ve got some very exciting news–Medx Medical Exercise Equipment is here at Vertex Fitness, making us one of the only personal training studios in the United States to offer this excellent full line of equipment. What is MedX? MedX is the brain child of legendary fitness visionary…
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Are You Over Thinking Exercise Earlier this week, I was training a client on the row machine. The row machine is a typical exercise performed to work on the upper back muscles. Funny enough, I noticed the client over thinking their form that they almost forgot how to do the exercise! Their body was so…
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Can I Exercise with an Injury? If you hurt yourself over the weekend, you may be asking yourself whether you need to cancel your personal training appointment or if you can still exercise with an injury. The answer, of course, depends on several different factors, but overall you may be surprised to find out how…
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November is Diabetes Awareness Month Diabetes awareness month should really be called exercise awareness month. Of all the health risks associated with an inactive lifestyle and unhealthy diet, Type II diabetes is one of the most common and debilitating. While Type I diabetes tends to affect younger people and is thought to be caused by…
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Is a Post-Workout Beer Really That Bad For You? How Many Drinks Until Recovery is Spoiled? There’s nothing like getting done a tough workout on a Saturday afternoon and cracking open a cold one. When you feel accomplished and strong after a solid workout, a drink can be a nice reward. Now, if that drink…
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What Do You Get For Your Halloween Candy Calories? As a trainer, the last thing I want to tell everyone is that if they eat any Halloween candy at all, they won’t be healthy. The road to fitness and good health just isn’t a zero-sum game like that. It requires gradual changes and shifts in…
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