Balance Blog

Today’s post comes from Balance Gym personal trainer Jim Bathurst, CSCS, who always finds time for  a workout on the road. Even if it means doing Tabata rounds of burpees in his hotel room. So you’re getting ready to take a nice three-day weekend out of town, or perhaps even a week-long vacation to the [...]

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Come train with Jonathan at both the Balance Gym Kalorama and SomaFit locations! DC Trainer Jonathan Reff has been involved in fitness and wellness for over a decade. During that time he has trained a wide variety of clientele from high school and elite athletes, professional fighters, members of the general population just trying to [...]

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Written by Guest Blogger (and Balance Gym Member) Andrew Douglas. It was a pretty chilly Saturday morning as fellow Balance Gym member Reggie Wallace and myself made the short trip from our hotel to Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md. for the ADFPF’s Northern Maryland Bench Press and Deadlift Championship.  This would be our first [...]

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Ever wonder what it’s like to run a marathon? In today’s post, Washington, DC yoga instructor Michael Hall tells us how CrossFit Balance gave him that extra push to finish The National Marathon last weekend. Just like the old guys who sat at the gas stations on the back roads of my youth, my conversation [...]

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You may have been hearing a lot of about the pros of interval training lately. For example, this Associated Press story: “Interval Training Can Exercise Hours Sharply,” which says “intense exercise sessions could help people squeeze an entire week’s workout into less than an hour.” So what exactly is interval training? Who does it? Can [...]

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Has Snowpocalpyse got you down? Sigh… Can’t run without slipping on the ice. Car has been blocked by a snowplow. Gym is closed. Excuses! Excuses! This doesn’t mean you can’t get your workout in! Balance trainer and Kalorama manager Ori Gorfine says bad weather should never be an excuse for not keeping up your fitness [...]

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Martha Stewart and Sexy. We bet those are two words you never expected to put together! Well, yesterday on The Martha Stewart Show, she took a break from decorating impossible to make cakes and dedicated her show to all the newest (and fun!) ways of getting in shape. Some of the show’s highlights include Punk [...]

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Looks like DC’s fitness community is trying to follow Balance Gym‘s lead by starting to focus more on functional training and less on isolating muscles via weight machines. This week, Washington Post fitness columnists Vicky Hallett and Lenny Bernstein wrote about the “latest trend” in personal training: functional training. “That liberation is happening more, according [...]

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