Health and Fitness

5 Unique Reasons Why You are not Losing Bodyfat

Conventional wisdom says that all you need to do to lose weight or lose fat is to exercise more and eat less. While there is some merit to this advice, it doesn’t tell the whole story. At Formal Fitness Training, we have worked with every type of person during the last eighteen years in business. […]

Weight Loss and Body Transformation Are Not the Same Thing

There is an overarching belief among athletes that we should maintain and build as much muscle as much as we can while minimizing fat storage to increase athletic performance. There is generally a widespread belief among “normal people” that we need to lose weight (no matter what), even at the expense of muscle tissue and […]

Formal Fitness Training and Steph Grace Fitness Showdown Part 2: Shoulders and Arms

When two trainers find the time to workout together, the result is magical. Professional trainer Stephanie Grace and Michael Hartman recently met up for a sleeve-tearing shoulder and arm routine. It was full of laughs, pain, and nuggets of wisdom. We hope you enjoy it! Finding a professional trainer, workout partner, or good friend to […]

Build Bombshell Arms

There is a myth out there that women will get bulky easily by lifting weights. That is simply incorrect. Building muscle is extremely hard and requires immense amounts of effort and food. Today we will show you how to build and earn bombshell arms as a woman. Keep in mind that if you have more […]

Influencers Vs. Fitness Professionals

When a person decides they want help getting in shape or improving their fitness in 2024, they are inundated with countless options. You have online trainers, Instagram and TikTok fitness influencers, inexperienced personal trainers, medium-level personal trainers, and elite fitness professionals. The cost of these options varies from free to $5,000 per month. Which option […]

Summer Bodies are Built in the Winter

The month is June, you have a big vacation planned for the second week of July, and you look in your bathroom mirror wearing your bathing suit, and you simply don’t like what you see. Why didn’t I start sooner, you think? Sound familiar? Every year, we have clients who come out of the woodwork […]