Janelle Pica

The Snatch: Single, Double, and How To Maximize This Lift

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This month at the studio, the clients of Primal Fitness Pittsburgh are in a little competition with each other. At the end of the month, the person who has completed the most snatches during all of their workouts will receive a nice little health and wellness basket for their hard efforts. We like spreading the […]

12 Weeks to Strength

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Read on to Find out How You Can  ELIMINATE Pain and Get Back to the Lean and Strong You! We recently launched the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) in order to aid our own clients to test their current movement patterns and set them up with a foundational exercise program to make sure they decrease pain […]

Announcing the Winner of our January Kettlebell Giveaway

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Happy Friday everyone! We have so many announcements happening here this week for the facility I almost can’t contain all the awesome! We are wrapping up this week of awesome (forgive the redundancy) with one last HOLLA to one of our clients here at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh. If you’re on our mailing list, you may […]

The Functional Movement Screen at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh

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I am excited to announce that Primal Fitness Pittsburgh will be arranging times to schedule our very own Functional Movement Screen (FMS) at the facility. Today, I wanted to take some time to discuss what the FMS screen is, and how it can benefit you as a member of Primal Fitness Pittsburgh.   First, a […]

Beast of the Month: Charlene Swan

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At Primal Fitness Pittsburgh, we always give back to our clients for their hard work in teh studio. Each month, we feature a new success story here on our website to highlight the great achievements of our members. Today, I want to give a big HOLLA to our client, Charlene Swann, for being the month […]

Pittsburgh’s Newest Kettlebell Instructor: Daniel Byrnes

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I am happy to announce that our team here at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh is growing even more this year! It’s been an honor and great joy for me to not only have trained some truly incredible athletes over the pat two years, but it’s an even greater honor and joy to have those incredible clients […]

2015: The Year of the Strongs!

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Over the weekend I was challenged to do my Level II military press on camera with precision. In order to pass a level II kettlebell certification as a woman, you must execute a 1/3 body weight strict military press. My testing weight for my certification was a 20kg bell, which is 44 pounds (side note: […]

3 Steps to an Effing Awesome Military Press!

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I love nothing more than heavy military presses. As a 5’3” female, I have successfully worked my way up to a 28kg kilogram , single arm military press (which is roughly a 62 pound lift with one arm, which is nearly half my body weight). I have this whole heavy pressing thing down to a […]

Fall Back into Fitness!

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Did You Party a Little Too Hard over your Summer Vacation? Ready to Transform You Health in Record Time? Fall into a brand new Body for this Fall Season! Our Fall Back Into Fitness Program will easily result in DRAMATIC health transformations over the course of 4 weeks. If this sounds like it’s something you’d […]