BETTER FUEL FOR A BETTER LIFE! That’s the mission for an amazing company out of the Utica, NY area called Balanced Chef. Elevate Fitness excited to partner with The Balanced Chef after searching long and hard for the ideal nutritional solution to offer our members and guests. We believe that in order to be your best and achieve your fitness goals, you MUST have a nutritional plan in place to support the work you do in the gym. You can’t out-train a bad diet. We also know that

We all have habits. And some habits are healthy (going to the gym regularly!) and some are less healthy (overeating after a workout because we over-estimate our burn). We’re going to talk today about 5 of the most common bad workout habits and how to break them for good! Bad Habit: Working out in the gym and not knowing the proper rep range for your goals or having bad/sloppy form. Chances are if you’ve been working out for a while now, you’ve noticed that you can do more rep

The inaugural Elevate Fitness Weight Loss Challenge has ended, and the results were spectacular! Our Liverpool winner, Nicholas, lost 32 pounds during the six-week challenge, and our Dewitt winner, Tim, lost 20 pounds! While the winner’s results are obviously not typical, all the participants happily reported seeing results. The most common feedback, though, wasn’t about pounds lost. It was about the friendships built during the challenge. The bonds that formed are lasting be

As the expression goes, hindsight is 20/20. Think back to most major accomplishments in your life and ask yourself, if you knew at the beginning what you knew when you reached your goal – how would that have changed your journey? For most of us, it would have meant a less bumpy road, right? So here you are, and you've started your weight loss journey in the kitchen. You're getting your nutrition under control (if you're still working on that step, check out Balanced Chef meal

By Mia Blanchard Year on year, the demand for weight loss surgery is on the rise in the UK and the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts that by 2015 approximately 2.3 billion adults worldwide will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese. According to nhs.uk, the prevalence of obesity in England is one of the highest in the European Union with just over a quarter of adults (26% of both men and women aged 16 or over) classified as obese in 2010. The

You can’t have a conversation about diet and nutrition without somebody mentioning intermittent fasting. But what exactly is it and does it work? Intermittent fasting is the act of alternating between a fasted and fed state. The length of the fasted and fed states can vary but are usually a repeating pattern of some sort. The purposes of intermittent fasting range from weight loss to disease management to lifestyle. A pioneer in the world of intermittent fasting, Dr. Jason Fu

Everyone who’s looking to lose weight has the same question: what are the best exercises to lose weight fast? There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to losing weight. However, there are some general rules of thumb that will help you ensure you’re weight loss program is both effective AND efficient. In order to be effective, your weight loss plan needs to cause you to actually LOSE WEIGHT, right? And it needs to do so in a safe and practical way. It’s neither safe nor practical

It’s easy to find countless suggestions for the best ways to lose weight, or the top weight loss tips or the latest sure-fire, guaranteed system – but what happens when you keep trying one after another and you still struggle to lose weight? Believe it or not, the problem might not be what you’re doing, it might be what you’re not getting: enough sleep. Research has shown that lack of sleep that can prevent weight loss, or worse, cause weight gain. Aside from the obvious (mor

We know that losing weight is something that brings benefits to anyone who is overweight. We know that losing weight can mean reduced risk of disease. We know it’s the HEALTHY thing to do, but often times, that’s just not enough motivation to make the lifestyle changes necessary to actually lose weight and to lose it for good. While researching this blog post, I was struck by the repeated use of the word “better” when reading lists of hidden and unexpected benefits of weight

Everyone who’s looking to lose weight has the same question: what are the best exercises to lose weight fast? There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to losing weight. However, there are some general rules of thumb that will help you ensure you’re weight loss program is both effective AND efficient. In order to be effective, your weight loss plan needs to cause you to actually LOSE WEIGHT, right? And it needs to do so in a safe and practical way. It’s neither safe nor practical

In this post, we’ll focus on workout modes for people looking for time saving workouts. In an ideal world, we’d all have all the time we need to meet all of our goals: we’d be able to spend hours a day in the gym sculpting our dream bodies, hours in the kitchen preparing the most delicious, fresh, healthy meals and, we’d have endless hours to spend relaxing, resting and recharging. But where time is concerned, for most of us, we’re living in anything but an ideal world. So ho

There’s a reason why celebrities and other highly successful people use coaches and trainers: IT WORKS. And that is why so many people are turning to personal trainers to help them move from mediocre to excellence in their pursuit of health, fitness and weight loss. The Reality More than 91% of people who start an exercise program quit early—even before their new routine becomes a habit, and 61% will give up within the very first week! Why? Because changing your lifestyle is

My friend Jenny, who heads up a running club, had mentioned something about an ultramarathon on Facebook. As someone who’d only recently completed his first half-marathon, and was in the very beginning stages of training for his first marathon – it sounded insane. I marvelled that there are human bodies out there capable of such a feat and mentally moved on to my next distraction. At some point weeks later, she mentioned it to me in passing. Within the context of it being an

The best health insurance is probably the one you’re not using. If you ask most people, they understand the importance of fitness, diet and exercise as preventative healthcare. If you ask those same people if they believe they’re doing enough to stay healthy – they’ll probably tell you no. Why? If we know that exercising more and eating better will not only make us healthier now, but keep us healthier in the future by reducing our risk for heart disease, stroke and cancer (ch

When it comes to weight loss, we’ve been conditioned to believe that hard work equals success, and we believe this to be true in all of life, including the gym. The harder you work therefore the greater the reward. But the truth might actually surprise you: working harder does not necessarily mean more weight lost. High intensity exercise is great for cardiac and athletic conditioning and building endurance, but in order to lose weight – you’ll want to exercise in your fat-b

If you ask ten different people who’ve lost weight what the secret to their weight loss success is, you’ll get ten different answers. It’s not just because weight loss is an intensely personal experience, but because everyone’s perception of what actually did the trick can vary significantly from person to person. When you add in the unending parade of misleading articles and resources online, countless self-appointed experts and an increasing demand on your time and energy

Jump start your New Years Resolutions with the Elevate Fitness Weight Loss Challenge. WHAT IS IT? The Weight Loss Challenge is a six-week program that consists of three weekly group workouts (great social motivation and accountability to stick to your goals), customized individual workouts (customized by a certified trainer designed based on your body and your unique objectives), nutritional guidance and the support of a coach dedicated to helping you become the best you yet.

If you're anything like the majority of people, you've probably been thinking about changes you'd like to make in your life for 2019. Maybe you're traditional and you actually set New Year's Resolutions for yourself, or maybe you're less formal and you just consider the things you'd like to see happen in the new year. When we start thinking about the changes we'd like to make, how many of us start thinking about our physical health and fitness and maybe even some weight loss?

By Jason Jaquays-Tarbox Technology is everywhere. And technology can help you lose weight faster. We use it to communicate, we use it to entertain ourselves, we use it to shop, we use it to share memories, we use it to educate ourselves. When you stop and really think about it, there are very few aspects of our lives that haven’t been transformed by technology. We have faster access to more information than any generations before us. Gone is Blockbuster Video, replaced by Net