Results For Category: "Fitness and Exercise"

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What a Coaching Gym Actually Does That a Regular Gym Cannot

Most people think a gym is a gym. You pay your membership, you show up, you work out, you go home. Whether you join the big-box facility down the street...
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The Most Expensive Fitness Decision You Can Make (And Most People Make It Every October)

Every October it starts. The conversations shift. The excuses get louder. And somewhere between the first cool day and the first holiday gathering, a decision gets made that most people...
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What Coaching Actually Looks Like at Xtra Mile Fitness: A Walkthrough of a Group Class

What makes us different from every other gym is not our equipment or our schedule. It is our coaches. Every coach at Xtra Mile Fitness is genuinely invested in the...
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Robin’s Story: Why She Finally Tried Strength Training

Robin has been a member at Xtra Mile Fitness for two years. She had gained weight, knew she needed a change, but always found the gym boring and directionless. So...
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What Happens When You Walk In for the First Time

Most people carry the same two fears before ever stepping through the doors of a gym for the first time. The first fear is that they are going to get...
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It’s Never Too Late to Begin Strength Training, Especially in Your 40s and 50s

We hear it all the time. Someone tells us they missed their window. That strength training was something they should have started back in their twenties or thirties, and now,...
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