Janelle Pica

Squat, Push, Swing, Snatch!- Weekend Warrior Challenge!

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IT’S FRIDAY! Welcome to the weekend yinz! Today I want to share with you a particularly CHALLENGING and SUPER FUN training session that you can do in just 20 minutes. Grab two kettlebells and get ready to unleash your weekend strength warrior! Weekend Warrior Challenge  Directions: You will need two kettlebells for this session. 1 […]

Back in the Swing of Things!

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Welcome to a whole lot of kettlebell swings! It’s February, and if you fee like you were off your game with your January resolutions, FEAR NOT! You, dear reader, are NOT ALONE! Starting up new fitness habits can be challenging, especially when you feel overwhelmed by one-too-many-changes-all-at-once. Lately, I have been all about keeping things […]

Level Up- The 2017 Kettlebell Swing Challenge

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How are those New Years resolutions working out for you? No really? I asked this question on my previous post, and today, I am excited to announce how YOU can get involved with a fun, riveting, and challenging kettlebell swing program guaranteed to swing you out of a winter slump! It’s time to level up! […]

Enough! Preparing for a Strong call to Action

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Enough: adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire.  Lately, it seems that everyone. . .EVERYONE. . .has had enough of one thing or another. Turn on the news ( or better yet Facebook) and you’ll see nothing but people waiving their hands in the air over one issue or another. […]

What is Your Why?

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“Even if you sleep late, eventually every day begins, and in the first minute of each day you have to face yourself. Day after day until you die you will wake up and remember what you’ve done.  Memories of what you did the night before will bubble to the surface. Those memories will come with […]

Back to Basics: The Kettlebell Swing

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Make no mistake, I am all about the kettlebell military press, but having spent a lot of time teaching newbies the ins and outs of kettlebell training, there is no better lift to work your strength and conditioning quite like the kettlebell swing. The kettlebell swing is considered one of the six fundamental lifts of […]

From the Beginning (Again)

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It’s a brand new year, and with the start of the new year comes the start of a lot of new habits, new goals, and your new year resolutions. I am all for starting new journeys, focussing on  new goals to achieve, and working towards positive changes for my health and the health of those […]

Intro to Muscular Endurance Training (well. . .sort of).

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WELCOME TO 2017! Let’s get this party started, shall we? The name of the game today is muscular endurance, well. . .sort of. Generally speaking, muscular endurance is “the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time.” This particular skill is as important to […]

The Strength of Steel Coaching Program- January 9th, 2017

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Steel- noun  commercial iron that contains carbon in any amount up to about 1.7 percent as an essential alloying constituent, is malleable when under suitable conditions, and is distinguished from cast iron by its malleability and lower carbon content. a quality (as hardness of mind or spirit) that suggests steel <nerves of steel> I come from […]