Janelle Pica

The Supplement Stack: Short-Cutting Your Goals Can Be Dangerous to Your Health

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In a recent conversation  I had with some lifters I knew,  I had mentioned that I don’t touch pre-workout supplements. My heaviest lifting days are normally Saturdays. By heavy day, we’re talking 32kg swings set up as intervals, lots. .. LOTS of deadlifting and my weighted pull up practice. I dig it, but never did […]

Healthy Eating Made Simple – Ryan Williams, PCC

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I’m amazed by the number of people who don’t know how to eat. Seriously. I used to think that people just didn’t care what they ate, but I realize many just don’t know HOW to eat. For being the smartest living organism on the planet that doesn’t say much for the human species, but I’ll […]

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 […]

The Snatch Test 2.0

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I was recently given the opportunity to teach the Ground Force Method (formerly known as Primal Move) at a fitness event this July. The event will consist of mobility training, kettlebell and barbell technique training and some fun little competitions in between. It was brought to my attention that some of the male participants have […]

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: […]