Janelle Pica

IT’S BACK! The 21-Day Sugar Detox at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh

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Kick Your Sugar Cravings and Transform Your Health for New Year! PERMANENTLY END Your Battle of the Bulge With A Nutritional Strategy  Paired with Functional Training that Will Dramatically Change Your Life in just  3 Weeks!  Let’s face it! You can’t out train a bad diet. 80% of how you look and feel is determined […]

OttomanStrong: How to Train for a 48KG Turkish Getup- Dan Byrnes

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The Turkish Get Up (TGU). Let us start at the beginning with a history lesson: What is the origin of the Turkish Get Up? I have no idea. The Internet, in its unverified fashion, mumbled something about a heavy TGU as a prerequisite in order to join the Turkish wrestling teams. Also, some Old-Timey Strong […]

The Turkish Get Up from the Ground Up

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This month at the studio we are focusing on the Turkish get up for our lift of the month. We plan on getting our clients up to a heavy one rep max, so most of our programming is designed to increase the level of our turkish get up strength. Today, I wanted to cover the […]

The Spooky Booty Halloween Routine!

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Happy Halloween from all of us here at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh! Today, I wanted to shoot off a killer squat routine as we here at the studio are wrapping up Squatober here at the studio. We’re calling this the “Spooky Booty” routine as it is guaranteed to increase your strength in your general rump region […]

Pistol Squat Mastery: Your Grip Strength and Core Stabilization Matters

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There’s something to be said about the pistol squat for the level of strength the lift  yields in the entire body. True, the one legged squat demands some serious strength in the legs themselves, but there is more to it than just moving your leg down and out of the bottom of your squat. In […]

All About the Squat- Daniel Byrnes

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I love squatting. Goblet squats open up your hips, single & double (kettlebell or barbell) front squats build posture and abbies, and overhead squats, well, they’re miserable. And the squat snatch? That’s miserable and scary. I’m more of a squat clean guy when it comes to the Oly lifts. You can’t drop the bar on […]

Grip Variations for Pull Ups- Ryan Williams, PCC

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Since September is pull up month here at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh, I’m going to take a look at grip position and the differences between the variations. First the basics-Overhand grip(Palms away from you) is a pull up. Underhand grip (Palms toward you) is a chin up. A neutral grip is with your palms facing each […]

Humbled by the Basics: Keeping Your Workouts Simple, Safe, and Effective

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Over the past few weeks,  I had the privilege of having a number of folks travel from afar just to work with me here at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh. It’s been great meeting fitness aficionados from around the globe and its been an ever greater thrill to workout with these people one-on-one. When I have someone […]