Brush Park | January 10, 2022 | Tips and Advice | healthy, new year, sustainable habits
3 Healthy & Sustainable Habits Looking for 3 healthy & sustainable habits for the New Year? Here at Brush Park Gymnasium we believe that being healthy or taking care of your body is an ongoing journey. It’s great to have a time of year that you stop and...
Brush Park | May 14, 2019 | Building Progress | build out, building search, family gym, location
“What if there was a place where you are welcomed and feel connected. Where family, health, and wellness are valued. A place that combines great fitness options for adults. And an active & safe space for kids.” This is the script from our promotional...
Brush Park | March 20, 2019 | Healthy Eating, Tips and Advice | diets, healthy eating, portion sizes
Are you ready for this? The key to healthy eating is changing your behavior slowly in a simple, incremental way so that new behavior becomes second nature. It just becomes part of your everyday life and it absolutely does not look like a short-term diet. Think about...
Brush Park | March 14, 2019 | Tips and Advice, Workouts
Do you remember those 8 Minute Ab videos in the 90s? Now fast forward to 2019 and Instagram is full of videos with trainers showing ab exercise (corework) focused workouts. It’s the same message. You will get these abs if you do these exercises. They are not...
Brush Park | March 1, 2019 | Healthy Eating, Tips and Advice | healthy eating
Let’s be honest, getting our kids to eat fruit and vegetables is a constant battle. We are always trying new strategies but at times it feels like we are set up to fail. Our kids are picky eaters. One day they’ll eat a certain vegetable or fruit and the...
Brush Park | February 25, 2019 | Tips and Advice | hip, mobility, pain, range of motion
The body is an amazing thing. It can heal itself, it’s adaptable and it sends you signals when something is wrong like with pain. But in this case, the body has some room for improvement because its pain signals are actually a response to damage that has already...
Brush Park | February 17, 2019 | Tips and Advice
As fitness trainers, we love to display on social media the strength and fitness that we have worked so hard to obtain. It might be the latest yoga pose or the intense kettlebell workout that we crushed. My own Instagram and Facebook feed is a rolling reel of amazing...
Brush Park | December 12, 2018 | Tips and Advice | health and wellness, human, journey, self acceptance
As a health and wellness professional my social media feed is filled with pictures and videos of other fitness professionals showing off their bodies and their workouts. I have struggled with accepting that this is really helping anyone. I know for sure that seeing...
Brush Park | November 8, 2018 | Building Progress | active family, active play, family gym, health and wellness
Remember your favorite moment playing with your kids? Maybe you were outside at the park or in your front yard. Either way, do you remember that carefree feeling of just playing with them? Active Play is Exercise Let’s start there and build a gym around the idea...
Brush Park | November 1, 2018 | Tips and Advice | weight loss, yoga
I started going to yoga a couple of months ago because my shoulders were incredibly tight from weight lifting and it was leading to neck pain. I had no idea that the longer I went to yoga that I would fully embrace why I needed it in my life. Yes, the relief from the...