As 2018 wraps up, I want to take the time to tell you a couple of our best success stories. These are about clients who kept coming back whenever LIFE knocked them off the track or who made small changes with large impacts. When M started with us, she couldn’t get up and down from the floor,
How I trained for my 30-mile bike ride: NOT!
By Ann-Marie Giglio, Owner and CEO CoreMatters I knew about this trip for months. I planned it myself, with my daughter and son-in-law. I knew she wanted to rent bikes and ride “around” on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland. “Thirty-miles” was never a part of the conversation…but honestly, I should have known these Pacific NW
Is it Time For You?
By Ann-Marie Giglio, Owner and CEO CoreMatters Autumn is fast approaching. It’s that time of the year when our thoughts turn away from summer fun and back to business… We make fourth quarter plans. We take stock. Did your health go off the rails a bit this summer? Worried about the approaching holiday parties? If you’re feeling a
First Step Can Be The Hardest
Everyone wants to change their health and fitness habits. So why is taking the first step so hard? What stops us? Mostly our brains. One problem is a law of physics: simple inertia. Overcoming inertia takes energy. But brains hoard energy. They need a whack from an outside force like a mean dog bearing down
What’s Next?
Lately, I’ve been noticing ads for fitness programs that promise things like bikini bodies or getting ripped or losing 15 pounds–all in only two weeks. Those sound like goals, but my first thought is: What’s next? After you get that ripped, 15-pound lighter bikini body, what’s the next target—-a smaller bikini? My second question is
Why Don’t We Take Better Care of Ourselves?
Are You Sick of Feeling Like a Failure?
The latest data says that a third of all adults in the United States are obese, and another third are overweight–and thus on the path to chronic illness. How could this happen? I assure you, it’s NOT a lack of willpower, or about laziness, or genes. Nor is it because you lack one thing: one special
Why Kettlebells?
Used correctly, kettlebell training is the most efficient and effective way to change your body. If you see people using them in the gym like dumbbells, that’s not how it’s done. A Kettlebell practice can fix backs, shoulders, knees, cardio-vascular efficiency–they are literally a hand-held gym. SFG style Kettlebell practice teaches your body…Click Title to Continue
37 Seconds, Well-used, Is a Lifetime…
That title comes from a movie I watched with my daughter last week, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. (If you have kids, rent it and watch it with them!) While waiting for a clock-store prank to unfold, his co-hort says, “Ok, now we wait–exactly 37 seconds…” To which Magorium replies incredulously, “Wait??? NOOOO!!!–We breathe. We pulse.