BREAKING THROUGH PLATEAUS WITH NUTRITION GOALS
If you’ve ever felt stuck — like you’re eating “pretty well” and training hard but not seeing results — you’re not alone. Nutrition plateaus happen to everyone, whether you’re chasing fat loss, muscle gain, or performance. The key isn’t to give up, it’s to step back, assess, and make smart adjustments. Here’s how to break through a nutrition plateau.
HOW PERSONAL TRAINING HELPS OVERCOME PLATEAUS
Overcoming plateaus is one of the biggest value-adds personal training can offer. When someone’s stuck—whether in strength, fat loss, or motivation—it usually means their body has adapted or they’re missing a key variable. Here's how personal training can help you break through that plateau!
FLEXIBILITY VS. MOBILITY: THEY AREN’T THE SAME
Why the heck should I care about flexibility and mobility with my workouts, and aren’t they the same thing anyway?
Well, not quite.
BUILDING STRENGTH WITH OLYMPIC WEIGHTLIFTING
Building strength is one of the top reasons anyone goes to the gym. Building strength makes your mind and body feel better, builds your confidence, and makes actions in our daily life easier. One of the ways this is commonly done is through forms of resistance training, or as many understand it, lifting weights. Today we are going to talk about how one style, Olympic Weightlifting, can help you build up your strength and some tips for how to train for it.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT PERSONAL TRAINER FOR YOU
Choosing the right personal trainer for you is an important step in finding success in your fitness journey. It’s important to feel comfortable with a coach so the two of you can communicate effectively about your goals. On most gyms’ websites, you’ll see a list of all of the coaches, and hopefully a bio containing some information about them. This isn’t just for fun - it should contain very helpful information! Some important things to look for when choosing a personal trainer include: What type of client the coach specializes in, their coaching style, and I think most importantly, their schedule.
WHY IS SPRING A GOOD TIME TO START WEIGHTLIFTING
Your new fitness journey has come to a point where you want a new focus. The New Year's fitness goal was to get strong, be more active, and feel better, but you want a little bit more of a challenge. Weightlifting can be a great addition for you. Weightlifting is a barbell sport that comprises the two lifts, the snatch and the clean and jerk. While learning these lifts you will also train the squat, deadlift, presses, rows, and other strength exercises. What makes weightlifting so challenging but so fun?
THE POWER OF COMMUNITY & ACCOUNTABILITY IN GROUP COACHING
Group fitness isn’t just about breaking a sweat; it’s about building a supportive community where individuals grow stronger together. When you join a PFP Method class, you're not just committing to your own fitness journey, you're becoming part of an experience that motivates, encourages, and holds you accountable.
BUILDING CONFIDENCE THROUGH PERSONAL TRAINING
How can personal training help you build confidence? It seems really simple and obvious, right? You’ll look better, of course! Wrong - not where I’m going with this. At all. Building confidence can be done in many ways and can mean many things. I’m going to explain how personal training can help you build confidence on a much deeper level. Confidence comes from within and how YOU perceive yourself. Some ways personal training helps build confidence include but is not limited to having learning opportunities when you train, feeling better in your body, and creating consistent routines and discipline. I’ll dive deeper into these topics below.
TIPS TO GET STARTED WITH WEIGHTLIFTING
Here are some of Isaac’s best tips when it comes to getting into weightlifting. If you’ve tried before, but something was off, now may be the right time to try again!
OVERCOMING NEW YEAR RESOLUTION PITFALLS
At the start of the new year, many of us set intentions to improve our fitness and wellbeing. As time goes on, it can become quite easy to fall into some common pitfalls. In fact, most resolutions get dropped by the second week of the year! As you get back on track, the key is to focus on goals that are realistic, sustainable, and designed for long-term success. Let’s talk about some common pitfalls and tips for staying on track with your fitness journey in 2025.
JASON’S KEY TO NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Now that the celebration is over and we most likely put on a couple more pounds from a loved one's pies and/or cookies. It might be time to start doing the New Year’s resolution. For Jason, the key to this has been doing something he already loves or figuring out how to love something new.
NEW YEAR, NEW YOU…
It’s that time of the year again when we all collectively agree to pretend that we’re suddenly going to transform into perfect, glowing versions of ourselves in 24 hours. Resolutions are set, gym memberships are activated, and Pinterest boards are filled with dreamy salads and motivational quotes. But by February, it’s usually just us, a bag of cheesy Doritos, and a firm belief that we were "probably too ambitious" in our goals.
Well, this year, let’s ditch the "I’m going to work out every day and eat only kale" approach. Instead, let’s go for bite-sized resolutions—tiny, achievable, totally doable goals that don’t make you want to cry by the end of January. Let’s talk fitness, nutrition, and self-care in ways that won’t make you feel like a failure before the first snow melts.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU DON’T ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL
Goal setting is essential for many areas of life and will help stay disciplined and feel rewarded if accomplished. Whether it's a fitness milestone, career advancement, personal growth, or even a creative pursuit, the anticipation of achieving something meaningful drives us forward. But what happens when things don’t go as planned? When you don’t achieve your goal, it’s easy to feel disheartened or even question your abilities. The key, however, is to use the experience as feedback, rather than see it as failure. With the power of reflection and intention you can move forward and reestablish your goal.
REASSESSING YOUR ANNUAL GOALS
It’s coming up on the middle of the year, and you have either already accomplished your yearly goals, or you are still working towards them. Both of these circumstances are perfectly normal, but the question is, how do you plan your next move? Exercise and training goals vary in difficulty, time, and measurement.
CELEBRATE YOUR GOAL LIKE A SOCCER PLAYER WOULD!
A goal is something that you should treat no differently than a soccer player treats their goals. When the goal is made or accomplished, you should celebrate with pure passion: run around like a little kid, do your favorite dance, and thank everyone who doubted you. Before you celebrate, though, you must make sure you decide upon a goal that will make you want to run around and scream at the top of your lungs.
GOAL SETTING AT PFP
This month at PFP, we introduced a more formalized goal-setting process and instituted weekly check-ins. We have done this to help better frame out workouts, add an additional layer of accountability, and help our coaches communicate better with all of the members at Pittsburgh Fitness Project.
TURNING ACCESSORIES INTO SUCCESSORIES
Accessory work is additional exercises or modalities that are added to your program to help you build strength, improve position, improve technical abilities, or even reduce pain caused by inefficiencies. Whatever accessory work you decide to do it should have a clear purpose for being your program, especially if you have limited time to train.
SETTING NEW TRAINING GOALS AFTER A COMPETITION
Competing in your first competition or even just another one years down the road? Well, then, it's time to analyze and reevaluate your goals and what you’ve done. Whether it is hitting a new maximum weight, a new placing, or a new best time in an event, the time has come to restructure training and set forth new goals for yourself. The purpose at this point is to see what was done well and what might need improvement. This can come in the form of changing training frequency, entire movement patterns, training times, or trying an entirely new training style. Whatever you decide, the first step is the evaluation of yourself and previous training.
SMART GOALS: HOW TO BUILD YOUR GOALS FOR YOUR FITNESS JOURNEY
In order to make a plan for a fitness journey, we must know where we are going, for without a result to build towards, we are just wandering. With a final goal in mind, we can logically work backward from the end and establish our beginning. What steps do we take to get there, and how do we outline our path to our goal?
WAYS TO WIN YOUR WORKOUT WHEN PROGRESS SLOWS DOWN
In order to continue to improve each season, let's focus on other qualities of our workouts in order to find daily “wins” & stay motivated.