Fitness Together Wilmington

At 54 years old, I had gained weight and I didn’t feel strong. I decided to do something about it and get back in shape! I Googled “fitness” and discovered Fitness Together. Their private, one-on-one training sessions looked like just what I needed to get me motivated and keep my accountable.
When I first met my [...]

This morning, I was up at 4:3o in the morning to travel with my Mom for the birth of my new niece in Buffalo, NY.  I will have very little control over my food for the next week, so I heeded the advice of my expert personal trainer and tried to be prepared.  In my [...]

Accomplishments of Some of Our Clients in 2010
•Adam went from 3 pushups to 15!
•Geoff decreased his mile time by 3:00 minutes, and surpassed his goal of losing 10 pounds—he’d lost 13 pounds as of his last fitness assessment!
•Dixie could only walk a mile if she took rest breaks; now she can run a mile in 14:50 [...]

The Ugly Truth About Resolutions:
•Are you having trouble sticking to the resolutions you set out for yourself?
•Are you feeling stuck with the same health issues, the same bad habits?
•Do you waste time beating yourself up for not eating better, not exercising?
•Is losing weight and getting fit on your New Year’s resolution again this year?
•Did you [...]

Four months ago,  a group of FT clients and friends gathered at Landfall for the annual 5K/10K race. For many of our clients this was the first race that they had ever completed. Just last week our clients, their friends, and some of the trainers reunited on a Sunday morning at the NC Battleship to [...]

“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”–Woody Allen
“It’s not that I’m afraid to exercise. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”–40 Carrot Girl, paraphrasing Woody Allen
I have come to realize that I am the Woody Allen of exercise.  I am an anxious.  I think [...]

Meet Cortney Robinson, one of the newest additions to the Fitness Together “family”. She started training with Paul about 3 weeks ago. Why? Well, as Cortney (who has a great sense of humor) puts it: “I noticed that whenever I was driving or waving at someone, I had that grandma flop on my arms. “Granny [...]

Have the FT trainers gone wild?  Why are we featuring a photo of a cupcake on our blog?  Cupcakes are allowed on special occasions, and this one is an occasion worth celebrating!  Read the letter we recently received from a former FT client:
 This week marks the one-year anniversary of when I first walked into your gym fat [...]

You’d think that an exercise with the word ’sit’ in it, wouldn’t be so bad.  You’d also think that an exercise that allows you to lean against a wall might be easier than others.  On both accounts, you’d think wrong.  Get a load of these descriptive excerpts from wikipedia.org:
“A wall-sit is an exercise done to strengthen the [...]

I’ve never understood people who complain of boredom:  kids who can’t figure out how to fill a long summer day; retirees who complain that they miss their jobs; husbands who turn to the television because there is nothing else to do. 
I’m an idea person.  There are so many ideas I want to execute and so [...]