Janelle Pica

Rethinking Success: Tools for the Long Run

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Over the course of the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of working with hundreds of people with one mission in mind: getting into the kitchen to get healthy. Of course, it’s not as clear-cut as just that. My goal is to coach individuals through 30 days of eating real food while technologically holding their hands every […]

The New Health Conversation

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This Saturday, August 22nd at 11:00 am, we here at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh are hosting our first ever nutritional seminar in partnership with Cleanse Pittsburgh. We’re calling it “The New Health Conversation”. Our subjects of interest will include. . .   1.  Everything you need to know about whole food nutrition. 2. Discussions on intermittent […]

The Incredible Edible Coconut

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With the myths and stigma around saturated fat slowly being lifted from society, the coconut business is booming. If you take a gander around the grocery store aisles, you’ll notice new coconut-based products popping up on the shelves far beyond the baking aisle. To give you an idea of the general nutrition of a coconut, […]

Bonnie and Clyde: A Sinister Kettlebell Duo

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Happy Thursday to yinz 😉 Hey folks! It’s been a while since we got a truly kick ass routine on the blog. Our clients in our power training course specifically have been increasing their personal level of badassery at an exponential rate and the routine they all did last week deserves some serious attention 😀 […]

A Powerful Press with 1 Simple Stretch

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A few weeks ago at our Kettlebell Course in Pittsburgh, my instructor friends and I had spent a lot of time discussing the role of “linkage” when it comes a heavy 1 arm military press. This “linkage” topic was really related to how well your body is moving under the load of a seriously sizable […]

Kettlebells for Your Barbell Deadlift: The “WHAT THE HELL?!” Effect

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Confession: I am beginning to dive into the world of barbell training. I was exposed to the barbell deadlift by a number of lifting coaches through Industrial Athletics, and since then, I have started to fall in love with picking a huge hunk of weight up and putting it back down. Don’t get me wrong, […]

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 […]