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Stop guessing, Start Progressing at www.TFNtraining.com TFN addresses the body as a cohesive unit, incorporating fitness, nutrition, and human psychology.

Founded by Elliott White, TFN Training brings integrity to the science of helping people look, feel, and move better. Training staff includes top-notch area professionals Elliott White, Jenn Stofferahn, Max Berkheimer, Justine Chang, Kevin Nguyen, Erik McLeod, Valerie Rider, Mike Pacheco, and Reggie Mouton. Stop guessing, Start progressing.

08/11/2025

You train your body in the gym but do you train your mind? You can’t just watch an exercise video, and training the mind is the same. It takes practice! In our latest blog talks about what most people get wrong about mindfulness and meditation and how some simple practices can change your life.

https://www.tfntraining.com/blog/practice-changing-your-mind

07/21/2025

Fantastic, well-researched article by outlining Movement Optimism, a new way to look at how technique might not be such a straight line to pain. Can being “perfect” have a dark side?

https://www.tfntraining.com/blog/does-bad-technique-exist

03/18/2025

Time to submit your brackets for the annual TFN March Madness Challenge! Deadline is Thursday at noon, just join our group TFN Training 2025 through an ESPN app or follow the link. Prizes for the best, and worst bracket this year!

02/06/2025

We are very excited to announce that Darren Ayar will be joining the TFN team! Darren has interned with us for over a year (no easy feat), accumulating knowledge and putting his experience into practice. Darren is kind, thoughtful, and goes above and beyond in his mission to help you build strength, move better and train with purpose. Make sure to wish him congratulations when you see him, and welcome Darren to the TFN fam :-)

11/27/2024

Is your goal really your goal? Maybe you should quit, maybe it’s not worth the effort. How do you know?

This exercise from Dan John is one of the best things you can do in the gym. Decide if it’s really worth it. Draw up four quadrants with Success and Failure towards your goal on one axis and Good and Bad consequences on the other.

We all know the good stuff of success, you’ll feel better and everyone will think you’re awesome! We know the pain of failure too, letting ourselves and others down.

But what is Good about Failing? What will you like about not succeeding? What is Bad about Succeeding? What will suck about winning? We miss this side of the coin and it’s important to see the situation clearly. It’s not all good to win, you’ll have to give up some stuff. Is it worth it?

And you’ll enjoy parts of failing too, are you sure you’re willing to give up these things? I joke with clients often that there are two ways to hit a goal- hit it or quit and decide you didn’t really want it anyway and now you can stop beating yourself up about it.

Draw yourself some quadrants!

11/26/2024

The most important thing in strength training? Working really hard for a really long time! It’s hard and uncomfortable and life gets in the way. To be Unstoppable you have to find a way to get it done anyway. It’s not that obstacles don’t arise, it’s figuring out how to overcome them, and the next one, and the next one. No one will do it for you and the lights will never be all green, but you have to start the journey anyway, and keep going.

Big congratulations to Irv celebrating his 5 year training anniversary! From Olympic lifting to a powerlifting meet to split squats with a broken ankle, Irv has found a way forward. The secret is there is no secret. Cheers to a lifetime of strength! Way to go Irv!

11/21/2024

Petunia taught everyone in TFN 2 today that adaptation occurs during recovery

11/08/2024

Make sure to pre-order your 2025 Dogs of TFN Calendar by 11/30! Sign-up sheets are available at both TFN studios, or, you can ask your trainer to add you.

Want to see your own dog in the calendar? Be sure to send your dog photos to Ashley@tfntraining.com no later than Friday, 11/15 for a chance to have your dog included! 🎁 🐾

10/31/2024

What if you forgot everything you know about strength training?

You wake up with your mind erased, and you decide you want to be healthy and stronger. Where would you begin? What things would you do with your body? How would you know you’re making progress?

This is a useful thought because it sifts through the information overload that constantly bombards us. It used to be true that people didn’t have enough good training information, but now it’s more common for people to have too much. Erasing your brain and simplifying the process can remind you what you’re trying to accomplish. Doing more over time.

The information overload paralyzes us, as we look for the perfect method, or newest exercise, and there’s always something else that we are not doing. We then end up floundering about, and stopping and starting and not trusting our own intuition. You probably do know the answer to your problem. Are you doing what you already know to be good for you? The reason you’re not making progress probably isn’t because there is some fact out there that you have yet to acquire.

So forget everything you know, and simplify the process as much as possible. Can you do more than you did yesterday? How do you continue to make progress? Just don’t stop training!

08/08/2024

Spot the Next Fitness Trend

Have you ever noticed that fitness trends always follow the same cycle? There is a new innovation/discovery (or rediscovery) that gets people excited. This one thing will fix everything! All failures are because we haven’t been doing this new thing! Goodbye difficulty, hello success and ease for everyone; always!

As I’m sure you can guess, the initial excitement wears off. Limitations to the method are found, and it becomes trendy to write and talk about how the new thing is actually BAD. It hurts your fitness and doing it is the epitome of stupidity!

Then comes the last phase when sensible minds prevail, and it’s realized that the new thing is good in some situations, but not others, and it provides some benefits, but isn’t a panacea. Then here comes a BRAND NEW THING!

This cycle is funny to watch because it happens over and over again. From the Zone diet to CrossFit to Kinesiotape to Cold Tubs. They all rise and fall, from hero to villain to something in between. There’s even a name for this cycle, the Gartner Hype Cycle, and it spans industries. It looks like this ⬆️

So the next time you hear a news story, or talk at the water cooler about the NEXT NEW THING THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING, remember this line from famous investor John Templeton-

“The four most dangerous words in the English language are, ‘This time, it’s different.’”

08/01/2024

Congratulations for 10 years with TFN! 😮 😮 😮 Max is solid as bedrock. Always a hard worker, always present and helpful no matter the situation, and always a positive attitude that rubs off on everyone. Max we are so lucky to have you on the team, TFN never happens if not for you. Cheers to a great trainer and a great friend 🤗 🙌 🎉

06/26/2024

The author you didn’t know you needed to be a better fitness professional- Deborah Tannen!

She is a professor at Georgetown and has written extensively about conversational style. We all talk fast or slow, directly or indirectly, with interruptions or without, often without even noticing. We notice when someone has a different style however and then often attribute it to a personality trait (usually negative)

You interrupt me because you’re a jerk!

She’s always talking over me

He speaks slowly because he’s dumb

But these differences in style are just that, a difference of style. We can struggle to connect with someone of a different style and most of our friends probably share a style. When connecting with clients it’s not about changing or copying someone’s style, but you should realize how it colors so many human interactions and this awareness can be a game changer. Trainers know you need soft skills, but how can you learn or improve them? Read Deborah Tannen!

Everything she has written is great so you can really start anywhere.

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McLean, VA

Opening Hours

Monday	6am - 8:30pm
Tuesday	6am - 8:30pm
Wednesday	6am - 8:30pm
Thursday	6am - 8:30pm
Friday	6am - 8:30pm
Saturday	6am - 8:30pm
Sunday	8am - 5pm

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+17035062925

Website

http://www.TFNtraining.com/

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