Janelle Pica

Rehabbing an Injury and How to Avoid Injury Altogether: Volume 3

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Happy Friday everyone! If you have been following along with this three part series on relieving pain, welcome to the final installment. In case you missed that last two posts, please read them here and here to find out how you can work through a lot of pain that can build up from kettlebell and […]

Rehabbing An Injury and How To Avoid Injury Altogether: Volume 2

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Welcome back to the blog! If you tuned in on Monday, you probably read a tale of how yours truly strained her pectoral and lat muscles to the point of serious pain and restriction. If you missed it, feel free to read about that injury here. All agony aside though, we also talked about how […]

Rehabbing An Injury and How To Avoid Injury Altogether: Volume 1

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On Christmas Eve I decided to do a particularly demanding double kettlebell routine. That shouldn’t sound too shocking as I have been doing my part here, studying up on advanced lifting techniques and following some truly sinister work recommended to me by my colleagues. After nearly the first three weeks of my training cycle, I […]

Pittsburgh, Get Ready for Primal Move!

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Well folks, the New Year is already off to a great start! Primal Fitness Pittsburgh is in full throttle and I am super excited to announce that  Primal Move will now be taught under yours truly at a few select locations. Please be advised, Primal Fitness Pittsburgh has a solidified training space on the North […]

Be More of Yourself This Year!

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Happy New Year from Primal Fitness Pittsburgh! As promised, the blog is back up and running after the holidays. I must say, I am thrilled to kick off 2014 with a bang! There have been a TON of developments on the home front of Primal Fitness Pittsburgh. I am happy to announce that new kettlebell […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See Yinz in 2014!

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For those of you who follow Primal Fitness Pittsburgh on Twitter and Facebook, you probably saw some exciting news that was recently released in the name of functional fitness training right here in the city of Pittsburgh. Countless hours and what seemed like a ton of elbow grease had gone into the works to get […]

Give the Gift of Health!

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This time of year is all about gift giving and making new years resolutions. With that in mind, why not combine the gift and the resolution into one this year? If you’re ready to kick start your health and unleash your inner strength, look no further than kettlebells this season! I receive a lot of […]

Quit Running

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I hate running. In fact, the reason why I took up kettlebell training was mostly due to a) my body, after years of playing competitive basketball, realized that running long distance was not best suited for my joints and b) that ultra long endurance sports were just not well suited for my nervous system (running […]