Private Training Facility with ONE-ON-ONE Training Only
Come join me weekly to strengthen your body to increase your ability to move effortlessly, while feeling and looking your best.
It will be challenging, but I will be with you every step of the way. I will teach you how to perform the exercises with optimum accuracy, so you know where you need to focus, what proper technique feels like so you can perform the exercises in correct form with each rep, in each set. That way your maximizing your time spent in the gym while giving your body what it needs to give you your results your working hard for.
What you can expect…
Re connect with muscles to feel them working
Build, strengthen and increase endurance while toning and shaping the muscles
Increase mental strength and fortitude
Detailed, personalized nutrition education and meal planning. Also assits with cooking and meal prep upon request
Develop postural alignment and flexibility, increasing mobility of joints
40 Min. Workouts Available
You can and will achieve your goals, as long as you are committed and dedicated to put your heart into it. We will be a tight team, I will be committed to helping you be successful in achieving your goals, even achieve what could be your dream. “The secret of making progress to become sucessful is to get started.”
Get to Know Me
I’m Andrea Tagalog, a certified personal trainer with 20 years of experience. My get-it-done attitude is balanced by my love for life and personal commitment to the clients I am so honored to work with.
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I’ve worked with every kind of client, from women who are totally new to the gym to experienced powerlifters. I can help you overcome any fitness challenge, including pregnancy, obesity, and depression.
My Gym
My gym in Carlsbad provides privacy, social support, and all the equipment you need to get a strong core and booty (and everything else). Membership included with personal training.
Why Your Glutes Aren’t Activating
Modern life is built around sitting. Desk jobs, long commutes, couch time — all of it keeps the hips flexed and the glutes lengthened and inactive for hours each day.
Over time, your nervous system adapts.
When the glutes stop being regularly recruited, other muscles step in:
Quadriceps
Hip flexors
Lower back
This creates altered movement patterns where your strongest muscle group — the glutes — is no longer leading lower-body movements.
So when you squat, your quads dominate.
When you lunge, your knees take the load.
When you lift, your lower back compensates.
Your body isn’t broken. It’s simply efficient at repeating what it practices most.
Signs Your Glutes Are Disengaged
You may have underactive glutes if:
You feel leg workouts mostly in your thighs
Lunges bother your knees
Your lower back gets tight after training
You rarely feel glute soreness
You struggle to “feel” your glutes at all
If this sounds familiar, the solution is not heavier weights.
It’s better activation strategy.
The Missing Link: Isometric Contraction (The Hold)
Here’s where most training programs fall short.