Recovery WHAT WE KNOW…
March 18, 2020 R3 Coaching Team

R3 Fitness & R Thoughts 4 You REAL PEOPLE, REAL COACHING, REAL RESULTS and REAL THOUGHTS With countless unknowns in our world right now,  we know it feels like the right time to get back to the R3 Blog.  We can stay connected even with our social distancing. Many people feel alone and out of control for a variety of reasons – no school, no work, no routine, no access to the gym…no toilet paper in any stores!  Let’s think about what we do have control over to lessen the stress and find a silver lining during this trying time….

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Corrective Exercise The Surprising Truth About Deadlifts… Part 2
July 30, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

We are back with the follow up blog on the very popular exercise, the deadlift! If you didn’t get a chance to read part 1 I will link it here, and it wouldn’t be a bad idea to read that post before this one! Today I am going to go over a few different variations of the deadlift and why we use them with certain clients that we train at our gym. Now, after going over and understanding what a hip hinge is and how that is the movement pattern of a deadlift, this doesn’t mean everybody has the same…

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Muscles Chest Press Variations for the Bored
July 19, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

Bench pressing can get boring so here are some new variations of chest pressing to spice up your workout! Chest pressing can get very boring with the typical bench press, whether it be a flat, incline and decline and all sorts of inclines in between. The weekly grind for chest gains can get dull and routine, and if you hit that plateau it can get very frustrating as well. Here at R3 Fitness, there are several exercises we like to use to blast those pectorals in different ways to keep exercise fresh and challenge yourself in your path towards sculpting…

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Diet and Nutrition Oh the dreaded plateau… :(
July 12, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

You’ve been working hard on your fitness game and it paid off. The pounds started to drop! And then one day your results stopped. You keep putting in the same effort without any sign of improvement. You’ve hit a frustrating plateau. Or have you? Before you blame a fitness plateau for your lack of results let’s critically consider the following: 1. Your Diet: It’s human nature to begin to slip on your nutrition after a few weeks of stringent diligence. A small treat here, and a bite of something there, and before you know it you’ve fallen back into old…

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Diet and Nutrition Top 5 BBQ Alternatives
July 2, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

Hot dogs and cheeseburgers are just some of the distractions you may find at a BBQ. Plan ahead, do not count on their being healthy choices at the event, BRING YOUR OWN. Something easy would be putting some of your favorite vegetables, in a folded piece of tinfoil, along side some of the steak or chicken at the event.(EX: Green beans, bell peppers, onion, zucchini and squash. Prepare them as you please, drizzle with olive oil and pack it up.) No one would mind placing your bag of veggies on the grill. 5. Sweet Shredded Carrots (Pulled Pork) – “Matchstick”…

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Diet and Nutrition Low Carb Cauliflower Breadsticks
July 2, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

Ingredients: * 1 head cauliflower * 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese shredded * 1/2 cup parmesan cheese shaved * 1 large egg * 1/2 tablespoon minced garlic * 1/2 tablespoon fresh basil chopped * 1/2 tablespoon fresh italian flat-leaf parsley chopped * 1 teaspoon salt * 1/2 teaspoon black pepper * 3/4 cup mozzarella cheese shredded Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to *425 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 2. Rice the cauliflower by coring it and breaking it into florets. Then place it in the bowl of a food processor and pulse it until it is the texture of…

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Fat Loss Keeping Things Fresh – Why you need to switch up your workout routine
May 28, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

Hey Everyone! Coach Tyler here letting you all know why it is important not to follow the same workout routine for long periods of time. A lot of people get stuck in the habit of finding a workout routine that works for them and then sticking with that plan for months at a time without switching up the way that they train. Although I am a huge fan of consistency and solidifying form on movements, there are many downfalls to staying in the same routine, and many upsides to switching it up. The main reason behind why switching up the…

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Diet and Nutrition 17 Awesome Reasons to Exercise That Have Nothing to do With Weight Loss
May 13, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

Hi everyone, coach Patrick here with the top 17 reasons to exercise that do not have anything to do with weight loss. I know summer is right around the corner and most of you have exciting places to go and things to do. But wait! Don’t forget about your workout. Again! Lots of people fall off the exercise wagon during summer months due to vacations, taking care of kids home for the summer months, and other warm weather distractions. I get it, I really do, but what about all the amazing perks that you’re missing out on? Just in case…

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Muscles Exercises for the busy professional who never seems to have enough time
May 5, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

Figuring out a workout doesn’t have to be tough when you’re short on equipment and time or running around on the fly. Being on the run for work or vacation doesn’t mean you have to stop your commitment to working out and staying in shape. You may not have the cable machines or dumbbells to have a savage workout that you’re used too, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t produce a top notch workout that actually works! Here are some exercises you can perform with little to no equipment at all. Walking Lunges (or stationary for the knee pain…

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Corrective Exercise The Surprising Truth About Deadlifts.. Part 1
April 17, 2019 R3 Coaching Team

Alright so today I am going to dive into an exercise that gets a lot of mixed reviews depending on who you are talking to, and that is the deadlift! The deadlift is a very common exercise that you may or may not have heard of before, and I am going to start this 2 part series explaining the truth about what a deadlift is and why we use it. The deadlift is an exercise that uses one of the most fundamental movement patterns which is the hip hinge. What I mean by fundamental movement pattern is that it is…

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