For more than 10 years, Marita, Don, Marianne, Kevin and Leslie have trained at Premier Fitness & Performance in Twinsburg. Collectively these 5 have spent 50 years of their life working out at Premier to live a stronger, healthier life. So why 10 plus years at...
More than 91% of people who start an exercise program will quit early. Even before their new routine becomes a habit, 61% will give up within the very first week. The reality is that changing your lifestyle is hard. Despite all the infomercials and ads...
I think more than ever, young athletes need role models that can educate and inspire them to be their best. We have always believed that when an athlete is educated about why they are doing something and how it will help them get better, they will be more motivated...
Sometimes daily life keeps us so busy that we lose motivation to workout and eat healthy. It happens so gradually we hardly notice it. Before we know it, we can get off track and those bad habits slowly get the best of us. Here are some tips to get back on track and...
In 1998, I was invited to compete against 13 of the top collegiate high jumpers at the Sea Ray relays at the University of Tennessee. It was a rainy, blustery day to say the least. As we started to warm up, several athletes went over to the officials and asked...
When athletes train for speed, there are many analogies and coaching cues we provide to correct their running form and make their sprinting technique as efficient as possible. This week we are coaching the athletes with the analogy of their body as a car frame and how...
When you enter our facility, there is a sign on the door that says 1% Better today. The whole thought process behind this slogan is if you picked a simple small goal and stuck with it everyday, it will lead you to the bigger goal right? In theory yes,...
There have been studies done showing there could be a relationship between exercise and the stiffness of your arteries. The studies looked at middle aged people and found that better flexibility throughout the body, such as the ability to touch your toes, was...
A few years ago, I was watching the Cavs game and TV analyst Austin Carr made a statement that has always stuck with me. He said, “A guys gait is a guys gait.” when they were referencing how inefficiently one of the players was running up and down...
If your goal was to drop 20 pounds, and you hit that goal, but you lost 15 pounds of muscle and 5 pounds of body fat, is that really good? Your Body Fat percentage would not have changed, and in-fact, may have even gone up a size due to the drop-in muscle. It...
