With everything going on around the world, we all find ourselves spending more time inside and at home than we may like. But it is important that we stay at home as much as possible. While you may be able to work from home or find yourself busy with other projects, it can be hard to stay motivated i…Read More
Many people are being sent to work at home and told to practice social distancing as much as possible to help flatten the curve for the coronavirus, or COVID-19. While this affects many different areas of our daily lives, there is one thing it doesn’t have to affect — your fitness. At Cypress Fi…Read More
When it comes to reaching your fitness goals, it can be difficult to know what lifestyle changes to make and how to stick with them. It is a challenge to know which workouts to do to help you reach your ultimate goal. It can be difficult to know what to cut from your diet. Reaching your fitness goal…Read More
Stretching and proper warm-ups are two of the most underrated and underused parts of working out, and yet, they are perhaps the most important. Far too often we want to just dive right into our workout while we’re feeling motivated, but the cost of skipping stretching and warm-ups can be immensely…Read More
If you’re just starting out with trying to get into shape, it can be incredibly intimidating to go to a gym — let alone talk to a personal trainer. What if they judge me? What if they make me feel bad? are some common questions that people have before starting their fitness journey. Trying to ge…Read More
Hi Friends! At Cypress Fitness, our personal trainers get a lot of questions about cheat meals/Free Food and we would like to give some of the reasoning behind why we have people use them. The allure of the cheat meal is obvious: you get to eat stuff that’s otherwise off-limits and extremely delic…Read More
In our last piece regarding the cheat meal and questions regarding the cheat, we talked about the psychological de-load. In part II we would like to review how a structured cheat meal helps your metabolism. At our McLean gym, our personal trainers are well-versed and highly trained in the effects t…Read More
