The Scale Doesn't Weigh Your Success

It’s 5 am, you sleepily roll out of bed and hop on the scale to see the same number pop up from the last few weigh-ins. Frustrated, you carry on with your day contemplating throwing out your scale because it’s a liar, right? Surely showing up consistently to Camp and nailing nutrition, the number should change. Maybe it’s because muscle weighs more than fat and that’s why the number hasn’t changed?

Set yourself up for success with outcome-based and process-based goals

Creating goals is a good starting place to help point you in the right direction, but your daily actions and behaviors over time will ultimately determine if you are successful or not. So we encourage establishing outcome-based goals like S.M.A.R.T. goals AND process-based goals to help you ultimately change your behavior over time.

Learn to Measure Your Heart Rate for Optimal Performance

In this day and age, most of us walk around with fitness watches, like a FitBit or an Apple watch. These awesome gadgets track our heart rate (HR) and are great tools to track your intensity during a workout. When we workout our HR spikes into different HR zones. Each of these zones are beneficial in different ways and can be lined up perfectly with the CG 4 week cycle.

The benefits and misconceptions of strength training

The benefits of strength training are numerous and provide an overall improvement to functional movements in everyday life. From a medical health standpoint, strength training helps to decrease mortality rate, reduces the risk of injuries, and reduces the risk of developing osteoporosis (condition where bones become fragile and brittle) and sarcopenia (the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass). From a physical health standpoint, strength training can increase lean body mass, slightly raise metabolic rate, improve movement control, and even cognitive abilities.

Best practices for Finding a Virtual Workout

So, you signed up for Camp Gladiator… now what!? First things first - find a Camp! (What we call our “workouts”.) Ready, set, sweat!

6 Ways to Stay Motivated With Your Fitness Routine

Setting new health goals feels amazing...at first. Then, after a few days or weeks, the excitement wears off and that motivation starts to fade. So, how do we turn changes into lasting habits? Experts say successful health changes have a lot to do with preparation and having a solid support system; we’ve collected some of the best practical tips to help you achieve your goals:

What is mobility & why should you care?

Mobility is an important component of your physical fitness but it’s not always clear what it actually means. Good mobility helps maximize strength, keeps you safe during your workouts and helps support your health in the long run.

Best practices for Finding a Workout

So you signed up for our four-week workout program… now what!? First things first - find a Camp! (What we call our “workouts”.) Ready, set, sweat!

3 Common Exercise Injuries & How to Avoid Them

So, you have a new workout routine and you’re really into it. You’re feeling stronger by the day, and are definitely pushing your limits! But then, you get injured.

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