The One on One Fitness Blog
Drink Fewer Calories
Liquid calories add up fast. This week, rethink your drink and make smarter choices that support weight loss.
The 7-Ingredient Challenge: Meal Prep Made Simple
Discover how just seven nutrient-dense foods can become five simple, satisfying meals. With a little planning and creativity, healthy meal prep can be easier, faster, and far less overwhelming.
Returning to Routine: Let’s Workout Together
As summer comes to an end, it's the perfect time to reestablish the habits that support your long-term health. Learn practical strategies to build a consistent exercise routine, stay focused on your long term vision, and align daily choices that carry you through the fall.
Mindful Eating Strategies For Weight Loss
Our Director of Nutrition Services helps you make progress in your weight loss journey using these mindful eating strategies.
Focus Point of the Week: The Rower Machine
Think you’re using the rower machine correctly? This week’s Focus Point takes a closer look at proper form and essential settings to help you maximize your time spent on the rower. With the right technique, each stroke becomes smoother, safer, and more effective.
Metabolic Resistance Training
Maximize your time exercising! Metabolic resistance training boosts strength, accelerates fat loss, and increases calorie burn, making it one of the most efficient training methods available. Check it out!
Focus Point of the Week: Resistance Band Training
Resistance bands are effective tools for improving strength, stability, and muscular endurance. Lightweight, portable, and highly adaptable, they make it easy to train anywhere while still getting a quality workout. Check out the full article to learn how to get the most out of resistance band training.
We Always Have Choices
Struggling to follow through on your goals? Learn how taking ownership of your daily choices can reshape your mindset towards your health and fitness goals.
Focus Point of the Week: Bench Pressing
Bench pressing is one of the best ways to build upper-body strength, but only when it’s done right. Learn how to press safely, protect your shoulders, and make every rep count.
Focus Point of the Week: Shoulder Packing
“Shoulder packing” is the simple technique that keeps your shoulders stable and strong during pressing, pulling, and stabilizing movements. In this post, we break down why it matters, and how to apply it so you can protect your shoulders and get the most out of each exercise.
A Reminder to Take It One Day at a Time
Whether you're working toward better nutrition, greater fitness, or simply trying to stay consistent, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the road ahead. This article explains why focusing on today's choices is one of the most effective ways to stay motivated and continue making meaningful progress.
Focus Point of the Week: Stances
Good movement starts with good stance. Learn how five simple positions can help you move with better balance, stability, and strength.
Move Better, Feel Better: The Four-Step ILAI Method
Feeling stiff, tight, or limited in your movement? In this article, we explore the ILAI Method—a proven framework that goes beyond stretching to address the root causes of mobility restrictions. Learn how reducing muscle tension, improving flexibility, building strength, and retraining movement patterns can help you move more comfortably and stay active for years to come.
Focus Point of the Week: Pulldowns
Think pulldowns are just another back exercise? Think again. Done right, they correct posture, protect your spine, and supercharge every lift you do. Here’s how to make every rep count.
Use Pace to Train Smarter
The amount of rest you take between exercises is one of the most powerful tools for managing workout intensity. Learn how pace influences recovery, cardiovascular demand, and overall training effect, and how to use it intentionally to get more out of every workout.
Tissue Pliability
Tissue pliability is an important yet often overlooked factor in healthy, active aging. Check out our tips for how to improve your pliability!
Focus Point of the Week: Single Leg Deadlift and Kickstand Deadlift
Single leg deadlifts and kickstand deadlifts are high-value exercises for building posterior chain strength, improving balance, and supporting better movement. In this article, we review how to get the most out of each repetition by keeping the work in the front leg and moving through your full range of motion.
Safe & Effective Rotation
Everyday movement requires rotation, but not all rotation is safe. Learn how to protect your back, strengthen your core, and improve your performance with smarter movement strategies.
Stay Focused For Summer
Summer often brings changes in routine with vacations, outdoor activities, and more time spent with family and friends. This article shares simple strategies to help you stay consistent with exercise and continue progressing toward your long-term health and fitness goals.
Focus Point of the Week: Lunging
Lunging is one of the most important movement patterns we train for active aging adults because it directly challenges balance, mobility, and lower-body strength. In this article, we break down how we build and progress the lunge pattern, common form breakdowns to avoid, and how applying our Three Keys for Proper Exercise Form can help you get more out of every repetition.
Focus Point of the Week: Vipr Training Series, Part Two
Core strength is the focus in this next set of non-traditional exercises. This article breaks down three movements designed to challenge core activation while training functional movement patterns through a full range of motion. Use it as a guide to train for ADLs, golf, pickleball, and more.
Focus Point of the Week: Vipr Training Series
This article introduces three of our go-to non-traditional exercises designed to improve mobility and strength. You’ll learn how to safely explore your full range of motion while building core stability, balance, and coordination. Whether you’re new to functional training or simply looking to refresh your form, this guide lays the foundation for more purposeful training.
How to Align Daily Choices with Long-Term Goals for Lasting Success
Setting meaningful goals is important, but success is ultimately determined by our daily decisions. This articles focuses on how aligning those decisions with long-term objectives leads to lasting results and provides tips to get started.
Focus on the Long Term: How To Set More Meaningful Goals
Goals often lose momentum when they are built around short-term outcomes alone. A clear long-term vision provides direction and makes each step more meaningful. This article breaks down how to define your vision and provides practical tools to set more meaningful goals.
Spring Spine Health Part 2: How to Prevent Back Pain During Outdoor Activities
As activity levels increase this spring, many people notice stiffness or discomfort after spending time outdoors. While preparing your body is important, how you move during activity and how you recover afterward can make just as much of a difference. Learn simple strategies to reduce strain and stay comfortable during and after your favorite seasonal activities.