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TRX Suspension Trainer Exercises
Reading Time: 10 minutes An in-depth review of the TRX Suspension Trainer + access to our full database on TRX Suspension Trainer exercises and techniques (over 30 videos). Full comparison against the Jungle Gym and CrossCore 180. Exercise videos demonstrating Conditioning, Balance, Core, Strength, and Corrective Exercises for the TRX Suspension Trainer.
Custom Programming
Reading Time: 4 minutes Custom Programming Defined by Paul Roberts If you have had …
Deadlifts vs Rows
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can Deadlifts be Replaced with Rows? No, but there are many kinds of rows and deadlifts. Many are more similar than you might think.
Starter Pack Pro Checkout
Personal Trainer Starter Pack
The Starter Pack is the best package to buy when you starting out at Sand & Steel. In the Starter Pack, we’ll design and implement a training plan based on your specific goals. The Starter Pack includes a consult, assessment, nutrition, personal training, yoga, and more. The Starter Pack is appropriate for all athletes: beginners, varsity athletes, active military, seniors, and older adults. 30 or 40 something and completely out of shape? Perfect … this is the package you need.
The Get Healthy Stay Healthy Guide
Reading Time: 7 minutes A Curated List of Effective Workouts, Weight Loss Tips, and Lifehacks to help you Get Healthy and Stay Healthy. The Get Healthy Stay Healthy Guide covers every personal training, yoga, nutrition, lifestyle, and health topic for all people. It contains every secret, life-hack, and shortcut. After two hours of Googling, you finally found it. The Roadmap, Landmark Guide to Get Healthy Stay Healthy.
Assault Bike
Assault Air Bike. A heavy-duty exercise bike designed directly from the feedback of athletes and coaches. The Assault AirBike reinvents and retools nearly every component of the traditional fan bike, from the frame construction to the crank, pedals, monitor and more. Using air resistance, the Assault AirBike scales automatically to how hard you want to work. The harder you pedal, the greater the resistance. It’s simple physics with big benefits.
Job Application Practical
Reading Time: 1 minute Interested in applying to work as a personal trainer or yoga teacher at Sand & Steel? Here are instructions on how to prepare your demo workouts and yoga flows.
Ample
Ample Meal Replacement
Convenience meal replacement for nutrition on the go. See below for a Coupon Code. 400 Calorie, Original Formula in store.
12 Workouts of Christmas
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our 12 Workouts of Christmas is back featuring 12 amazing exercises. This year, we have included 3 unique workouts. A beginner level, intermediate level, and advanced level. Let’s Get Fit and Healthy this Christmas
Gift Card
Give the Gift of Health! Our gift cards can be used to purchase any service. Sand & Steel offers programs for people of all levels. Improve your health, look and feel better today! Just select the amount of money you want to use for the gift card. Include the recipient’s information in the checkout process.
Top TEN List of Essential Exercise Techniques
Reading Time: 12 minutes The Sand & Steel TEN. A complete Top 10 List of Essential Exercise Techniques that every personal trainer and yoga teacher should know.
Sandbell Sandbag Workout Program
Sandbell | Sandbag Workout
The Fast and the Fit. Advanced Level. High-Intensity Interval Training for Weight Loss. 10 unique, sweat drenching workouts that you can do anywhere. Excellent for travel and hotels.
Ketogenic Diet vs the Zone Diet – 2 Authors Clash Opinions
Reading Time: 12 minutes The authors of this post (David and Paul Roberts) discuss varying viewpoints on whether the ketogenic diet should be implemented. Here’s what you need to know about going Keto.
Yoga Classes
Yoga Vinyasa Flow Classes
Our Yoga classes utilize vinyasa-style yoga (flow-based). In our Alexandria VA studio, we have classes featuring specific skill work: e.g. Standing Balance, Backbend, Forward Fold, Arm Balance, Hip Opener, Core Strength, Twists, or Inversions. Other classes utilize the Bikram style sequencing, Asthanga sequencing, Iyengar sequencing, or Rocket style sequencing. Modifications are provided for newer yogis.
Yoga Private Lessons in Alexandria
One-on-one sessions allow us to craft the yoga flows and asanas to your unique goals and improve your weaknesses. Build range of motion, balances, and dramatically improve recovery with our private yoga sessions. We offer customized sessions based on Ashtanga, Bikram, Hatha, Rocket, Iyengar, Yin, and Animal Flow.
Stretching for Olympic Weightlifting – Mobility is power!
Reading Time: 6 minutes Mobility = POWER! If your body isn’t capable of getting in the right angles and positions, it will obstruct the natural trajectory of the barbell, which is STRAIGHT UP! In this article we will go through a set of stretching exercises that will improve your weightlifting. This set of stretching excercises is a “Swiss Army Knife” that every lifter should always have with them.
Yoga Poses, Yoga Flows, and Asanas for Strength & Power Athletes
Reading Time: 5 minutes Paul on Yoga. Through my practice of Yoga, I have mastered techniques like the handstand and forearms balances. Yoga has brought me strength that I could never develop from weight lifting alone. When I teach private yoga, I customize the lesson to the individual. Unlike other teachers who force you to conform to their program, we write a program designed for you.
RockTape Products
Rocktape Tape, Floss, Fire, and Freeze. We sells all styles of Rocktape and certified by Rocktape in kinetic taping applications.
Shaker Bottle
Sand & Steel Blender Bottle are made by the Blender Bottle company. They represent some of the most durable shaker bottles on the market. Each blender bottles comes with a steel shaker for breaking up protein.
T-Shirts
Sand & Steel T-Shirts
Our T-Shirts are the stretchy kind with sweat-wicking technology. Technically, they are triple blend combed cotton. Pre-washed and Preshrunk. They are awesome.
Personal Trainer & Yoga Teacher Manual
Reading Time: 44 minutes Sand & Steel specializes in forging elite personal trainers. The Personal Trainer Manual is your guide for how to train clients, how to scale workouts, how to mobilize muscles and help clients recover from injuries.
Mentorship Program
Personal Training, Movement and Yoga Mentorship
Our Personal Trainer training program and certification. From Kettlebells to Asanas, the mentorship personal training and yoga program will provide you with the one-on-one training experience you need to coach at Sand & Steel. Plus, once you have coached 500 hours for us, you’ll receive a bonus equal to your mentorship cost.
CrossFit Scaling Course Certification Review by Paul Roberts
Reading Time: 8 minutes Want to learn how to scale CrossFit Workouts properly? Here’s our review on the CrossFit Scaling Course + tips on how to scale workouts.
Protein Powder Whey Isolate Steeltech
Our 100% Whey Isolate Protein helps prevent soreness and build muscle up 20% faster than not using protein. Zero fat and zero sugar. Engineered to taste amazing, we offer a 100% guarantee that you will like the taste of it or your money back! Sand & Steel Whey proteins do not contain any added sugar, corn syrup, or transfats.
MWOD Certification Review Movement & Mobility 101
Reading Time: 9 minutes Paul’s Review of the MWOD Certification Review – Movement & Mobility 101. Kelly Starrett’s Movement and Mobility certification is my fifth certification in mobility. Here’s my review of the certification, plus a list of new things I learned from the man himself, Kelly Starrett.
Personalized Workout Program
Reading Time: 10 minutes 25 Strategies for developing a personalized workout program. You asked, we answered… everything you want to know about our personalized workout plans.
Personalized Workout Plan
Personalized Workout Plan
Designed for you, built by Sand & Steel. We build workout plans of all types for all level athletes. Strength, Weight Loss, Mobility, Flexibility, Yoga, etc. We build programs for people of all fitness levels, with injuries, for competitions, etc. No Monthly fees. One 30 Minute Phone Programming Consult is included with your purchase.
Personal Trainer Resources
Reading Time: 3 minutes Overview. The following article and linked resources are useful for a personal trainer or someone looking to hire a personal trainer. I’ve been a coach and personal trainer for over 10 years. I’ve seen amazing personal trainers, and I’ve seen coaches that have no business training anyone.
Declaring yourself a personal trainer and having knowledge and experience to be successful are two different things. Here’s the formula I have used, and some of the best articles on personal training I have written. I hope they are helpful for you:
Before and After Weight Loss Transformation Photos
Reading Time: 9 minutes Welcome to our post about body transformation! I am going to outline the 7 most important aspects to efficiently complete a weight loss transformation. You’ll find training tips, programming tips, nutrition tips, and a complete list of all the supplements and foods I recommend. – Paul Roberts | Strength, Weight Loss and Mobility Coach
Tips For Succeeding as a Personal Trainer or Yoga Teacher
Reading Time: 7 minutes How to Be Financially Successful as a Personal Trainer or Yoga Teacher
Paul discusses the 10 key traits that the successful personal trainers & Yoga Teachers have in common, plus common pitfalls that can sink your career before it starts.
Hotel Workouts
Reading Time: 3 minutes 3 Amazing Hotel Workouts that you can do in any hotel gym. Great for strength and conditioning programs.
Starting a Nutrition Program
Reading Time: 3 minutes Is Nutrition Coaching Right for Me? Paul discusses how he provides coaching to clients and provides some tips on how to travel on a diet.
Finding the Best Personal Trainer
Reading Time: 4 minutes Looking to Hire the Best Trainer in your area? Download Sand & Steel’s free eBook on what questions to ask your next personal trainer.
Transitioning From Exercising to Training
Reading Time: 8 minutes Are you conflating getting sweaty with getting results (e.g. an exercise routine vs training program)? Here are some tips to help you transition from simply working out, to building yourself a real workout program.
Open Gym
Open Gym
Pricing: $49 Down and $49/month until cancelled (30 days notice.)
Since we are a personal training studio, we are open when we have clients on the schedule. The Open Gym schedule is subject to change based on our clients’ schedules. Open Gym times vary accordingly. It is highly recommended that you call ahead (same day) or email paul@sandandsteelfitness.com to confirm that we will be open.
Private Personal Training Sessions
Your Private Personal Training Program in Alexandria will be designed according to your goals and fitness level. We will customize your program to help you move better, lose weight, build strength, etc. We build our programs to improve your health first. Looking better is a byproduct a healthy, good-moving body. We work with a wide variety of clients from Women in the 70s, Active Military, and people that need to lose 100+ pounds. Weight loss programs, powerlifting, strength training for runners, we do it all.
Starter Pack Pro
The Starter Pack is the best package to buy when you starting out at Sand & Steel. In the Starter Pack, we’ll design and implement a training plan based on your specific goals. The Starter Pack includes a consult, assessment, nutrition, personal training, yoga, and more. The Starter Pack is appropriate for all athletes: beginners, varsity athletes, active military, seniors, and older adults.
30 or 40 something and completely out of shape?
Perfect … this is the package you need.
Partner Training
Sessions are 60 minutes long. Programming includes weight-loss, strength, conditioning, and bodybuilding. In-Person Personal Partner Training with 2 clients per session.
Personal Trainer: Tax Deduction, Insurance Coverage, and The Letter of Medical Necessity
Reading Time: 11 minutes Wondering if you can deduct personal training sessions a taxable deduction? What if you could actually have your insurance cover it? Step one is to use our Online Letter of Medical Necessity Generator. You’ll also find a sample PDF of Letter Medical Necessity to hand to your doctor.
How to be Flexible for Beginners
Reading Time: 6 minutes Zero2Fit: Foundational Fitness. Want to get in shape safely? We break down the proper mechanics for the squat, deadlift, pushup. Also featured is a video on how write conditioning workouts and the 4 keys areas for mobility training.
Fitness Assessment
Our comprehensive system that finds faults in movement patterns that weaken performance and create risk of injury. The Sand & Steel Fitness Assessment analyzes: Biomechanics & Muscle Function, Cellular Energy Generation, Fitness Capacity, Mobility and Flexibility, and Proper Execution of Functional Exercise Patterns.
Get the information you need to prevent injury, get stronger, and maximize your potential.
Get Steel Strong
The Client-Trainer Relationship is the Hallmark of Get Steel Strong. If you are willing to say, “Paul & Dawn, I’m in this. I’m Ready. I’m committed. I want to succeed,” then we will crank up our training and service level to the highest level. From prioritizing scheduling to custom workout programs, you are our highest priority VIP client. We will make sure you succeed.
Movement, Mobility, Corrective Exercise & Flexibility
Our Mobility Sessions are designed to help you move better. We test your movement, and determine what is not moving well. We analyze how you compensate when you lift, turn, or step. We figure out what causes your pain, decreases your performance, or limits your range of motion. And we fix it with tools and techniques like corrective exercise Mobility WOD, Scraping (Graston), Kinetic Taping, FMS, and More.
Mobility Training is about learning to move better. Why do you need Mobility Training? It’s because improvement begins and ends with good, quality movement.
Nutrition, Diet & Weight Loss Plan
BluePrint: customizable diet and weight loss programs for looking good, feeling good, and losing weight. Improve performance through our sustainable diet program. We include a complimentary InBody Scan with your nutrition session to track body fat loss and muscle mass gains. We use the results from the InBody Body Composition Scan to adjust your diet and dial in the weight loss programming.
InBody Scan
Percent Body Fat, Muscle Mass, Chronic Inflammation, Segmental Muscle Analysis, Segmental Fat Analysis, Visceral Fat Level, and Basal Metabolic Rate
Donations
Donations and Custom Orders
Sand & Steel is a small business owned by two people. So donations are always welcome. We use the money to pay for reviews we write, maintain the website, update gear, etc. Plus, if you are asking us to do something (e.g. review your new workout software), we prioritize your request based on your review amount. Thanks in advance for supporting Sand & Steel.
Nutrition eBook
Origin Nutrition Meal Plan and Diet
Fully revised second edition
Designed both for the beginner who may have experimented with other diets, and especially for people who are looking to take their existing diet to the next level. Boiling down over 5000 hours of coaching nutrition to clients, Paul breaks down his 24 most important rules to follow. In the newly released second edition, Paul includes a FAQ on some hot topic questions on GMO foods, juicing, and coconut oil.
Go Way Beyond Paleo with Sand & Steel’s Battle Tested Meal Plan and Diet.
Unlike other books you have read, the Origin Nutrition Meal Plan and Diet has been carefully edited and distilled into 15 fact-packed pages to tell you what you need without repetition or useless anecdotes. This item is free on our website, but please enter a donation if you find the information useful.
