Healthy Holiday Eating Tips

For many people, holidays and family get togethers are a time for celebration. These celebrations often involve foods that are high in fat, sugar and calories and short on nutrition. With a few minor changes, however, special occasion foods can be both delicious and nutritious.  Here are a few tips from Mountainside Fitness that will [...]

Winter Running and Workout Tips

Its getting cooler outside which makes a nice job much more bearable that it is in the dead heat of the AZ summer heat.  Running provides great health, great friends, incredible physical and mental strength, and a zest for life. However, during cold, dark winter mornings it sometimes is a bit harder to get the “spring” in your [...]

Change the Way you Train with the TRX Suspension Training System

The TTC Mission Statement The TRX Training Center is not your average gym.  We train you like athletes, pushing your limits and challenging you to “the core.”  We are committed to helping our members achieve peak physical condition.  We do this by giving you an exceptional training environmeent, a team of best in class coaches [...]

Why Strength Train?

Members often ask “Why should I strength train”? or they say something like “I don’t want to get bulky!” or “I feel like I gain weight when I strength train.” The TRUTH is that strength training is the FASTEST way to boost your metabolism and create an efficient system of burning fat. Recent studies suggest that [...]

Getting the Legs you’ve always wanted!

A good leg workout should be the cornerstone of any exercise routine. Having strong, healthy legs offer more benefits than just looking great in a skirt or bike shorts, they can also help improve posture, increased muscle mass, speed the metabolism, and it can reduce the chances of sustaining leg and knee injuries. No matter [...]