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Calm App for Meditation

Healthy Lifestyle, Metal MusingsBy HeavyMetalFitness April 2, 2020

During this pandemic, our mental health is more important than ever. We’re firm believers in meditation and one of our favorite programs is Calm.

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Working From Home

Healthy LifestyleBy HeavyMetalFitness March 31, 2020

It is tougher than it seems to successfully maintain responsibility, work-life balance, and your health when working from home. Here are a few of my favorite tips that have kept me sane and healthy over the years.

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Quarantine Playlist

Music & PlaylistsBy HeavyMetalFitness March 27, 2020

Here’s a very short list of some of our favorite rock and metal songs from the past few years or so!

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Quarantine Thoughts

Metal MusingsBy HeavyMetalFitness March 26, 2020

I wanted to share a few personal thoughts regarding the quarantine. So many of us are going through such a range of emotions right now.

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At-Home Bodyweight Workout

WorkoutsBy HeavyMetalFitness March 26, 2020

This is a bodyweight workout than can be done anywhere with no equipment.

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Temporary Closure due to Covid-19

HMF NewsBy HeavyMetalFitness March 25, 2020

Unfortunately Heavy Metal Fitness has temporarily closed our physical location due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ll reopen the studio as soon as it is safe (and legal) to do so.

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‘In Due Time’ by Killswitch Engage

Metal MusingsBy HeavyMetalFitness March 23, 2020

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Bob’s Tenth Anniversary

Metal MusingsBy HeavyMetalFitness November 18, 2018

After ten years as a trainer, I’d like to share an extremely personal post about my life, mental health, and the state of the world.

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Presenting My New Tattoo!

Metal MusingsBy HeavyMetalFitness June 26, 2017

I got this tattoo for the many times I’ll naturally get complacent. This image is the heavy metal boot kick to my face that wakes me up, reminds me to take a deep breath, and pay more attention.

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Stay On Track This Holiday Season

Healthy LifestyleBy HeavyMetalFitness December 16, 2015

We know the holidays can be stressful, busy, and tempting, but follow these tips to get through them with better, healthier food choices.

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Smaller Smoothies
Using smaller, stackable 12oz containers completely upped my smoothie game. What's a nutrition hack that works for YOU?
January 19, 2024
Intensity or Consistency?
Which will yield better results over time: intensity or consistency?
January 19, 2024
OOPS Days
There will always be oops days in your diet or fitness plan. How will you deal with them?
January 17, 2024
Addition, Not Subtraction
What if you focused on everything you can ADD to your new diet or fitness plan, instead of fixating on the negative of subtraction?
January 16, 2024
Bob’s 15th Anniversary Tattoo
Bob is celebrating his 15 year anniversary of becoming a personal trainer! A few of his new tattoos shown here are parts of that journey.
December 6, 2023
Bono’s Rock Quote
November 19, 2023

“I will never have enough nice things to say about Tracy and Heavy Metal Fitness. I’m in the last stretch of this surrogacy journey and being 34 weeks pregnant is just not much fun in general. Plenty of days I feel tired, weak, and overall crummy… but then I get to see Tracy and she constantly reminds me how strong I still am. 3rd trimester deadlifts, even with the reduced weight of course, make me feel like a complete and total badass. Tracy genuinely cares about me as a person and a client.”

Allison K.

“Thank you for everything you have done to support us on this journey to parenthood! We are so thankful for the opportunity to work with you. Our lives have completely changed for the better since we started! Your guidance, support, and encouragement has been so appreciated – not to mention we have so enjoyed being around the great, fun people that you are! Everything was so practical and well-thought out as we prepare for the big day.”

Joanna G.

– PREGNANCY –

“I absolutely love training with all of the trainers at Heavy Metal Fitness, but I want to shout out Trainer Tracy, who I have been working with from 6 weeks postpartum until 39 weeks pregnant! She is certified to train pregnant clients and I have had the best experience working with her.”

“I would have never been able to stick with working out throughout my entire pregnancy without Trainer Tracy. Not only was she so knowledgeable about what is okay and not okay to do, she diligently watched and corrected to make sure I was working out safely for me and my baby. Tracy constantly would check in with me and helped me listen to what my body needed each workout. She was extremely patient when I wasn’t feeling my best, but was ready to go on the days I was ready to work!”

“Through the nausea, fatigue, and every ache and pain, Trainer Tracy gave me the best possible experience to keep up my fitness routine when my body was already going through a lot. The genuineness and care really showed through each workout. Labor and delivery even went fast! I can’t wait to get back to Heavy Metal Fitness once I’m recovered and cleared to workout!”

Jessica R.

– HEART ISSUES –

“I reached my maximum weight of 285lbs in the late 90’s and decided to start dieting and exercising. I did it the wrong way and starved myself – only eating salads and skipping both breakfast and dinner. I joined a gym and worked out with a co-worker several times a week. Though I did lose over 100 pounds over a year’s time, it didn’t last. I slowly went back to my old ways and gained most of the weight back. In 2006 I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and put on medication. In 2010 I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I didn’t want to take more pills, but eventually needed additional medication, even with some dieting and exercise. Things stalled until I moved to Indiana in 2016 and started at the best studio in the world, Heavy Metal Fitness! Unhealthy habits of the past caught up with me though, and I had a heart attack this past March due to 100% blockage of the LAD artery and 99% blockage of the RCA artery requiring 3 stents. (All that time I thought I had bad heartburn.) Now thanks to my doctors and training with Bob & Larry, I’m on the mend and have reached a weight below 200lbs that I haven’t done in decades!”

Gary K.

“Thank you Tracy & Bob so very much for the years of knowledge and help that you both have given me. I am feeling prepared to continue my fitness journey, and I am so grateful to have had time with you, my awesome trainers, who I will miss so much at college!”

Lola C.

“Friendly, clean and such fun place to work out! Bob and Tracy are experienced and highly knowledgeable. Have been working out worth them for years and each session rocks! Highly recommend!”

Anna K.