Breakthrough Fitness

06/10/2026

Push your pace and challenge your endurance with this AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) workout. Focus on steady effort, good form, and consistency.

06/10/2026

Strength training builds far more than the physical attributes.
It changes how you see yourself.

Confidence shifts when you do hard things on purpose.

Showing up on days you don’t feel like it builds resilience.
You learn discomfort isn’t something to avoid, but something you can actually move through.

Strength training changes your relationship with effort.
You pick up a weight you haven’t used before and it’s heavy. Not just physically, but mentally. There’s often doubt there. Am I doing this right? Is this too much? Should I stop?

But you stay with it long enough and you adapt, get stronger and more confident in your ability to handle challenges.

And don’t think for one second that those changes don’t show up in other areas of your life.

Strength training builds trust in yourself because you learn to handle hard things without quitting.

So if your progress ever feels slow physically, or if you’re not seeing changes as quickly as you’d like, don’t overlook what’s happening internally.

You’re not just building muscle. You’re building identity.
And that’s a big deal.

Keep moving,
Coach Dom

P.S. - When you are ready, here are 2 ways we can help you get happier and healthier:

1.First 3 on me - come in for 3 personal training sessions for free. Experience the programs, meet the coaches and see if our environment and community is the right fit for you. Reply “3” to get started.

2. Grab a copy of our Info Packet - Take a deep dive into our facility, programs and culture to see if it’s something you would like to pursue. Reply “IP” and we’ll send it over.

06/09/2026

The first week doesn't define your month

The first week of a new month has a funny way of setting the emotional tone for everything that follows.

If it goes well, people feel motivated, proud, and “on track.”
If it doesn’t, people often start mentally rewriting the entire month as a failure before it even really begins.

But here’s something I want you to consider as we move deeper into June:
Your first week is not a verdict. It’s just information.

A lot of people quietly quit on themselves after a rough start without even realizing it. They miss a workout or two, fall off their nutrition plan, and then start thinking, “I’ll just restart next Monday.”

But that restart mentality is one of the biggest barriers to progress. Because every restart resets momentum, and momentum is really what drives consistency.

Instead of restarting, what if you simply adjusted?

What if you looked at the first week and said, “Okay, what do I need to make this easier, more realistic, or more repeatable?”

Sometimes the answer is obvious. You tried to work out at a time of day that never actually fit your schedule. Or you planned meals like you had unlimited time and energy. Or you set expectations based on your “best self” instead of your “real self.”

There’s nothing wrong with aiming high. But consistency is built in reality, not aspiration.

So as you move into this week, I want you to let go of the idea that you need a clean slate.

You don’t need a new start. You need a small correction.

And those small corrections are what create long-term change.
Keep going from where you are—not from where you think you “should” be.

Keep moving,
Coach Dom

P.S. - When you are ready, here are 2 ways we can help you get happier and healthier:
1.First 3 on me - come in for 3 personal training sessions for free. Experience the programs, meet the coaches and see if our environment and community is the right fit for you. DM “3” to get started.

2. Grab a copy of our Info Packet - Take a deep dive into our facility, programs and culture to see if it’s something you would like to pursue. DM “IP” and we’ll send it over.



06/05/2026

Sugar goes by many names

The average daily intake of added sugars in America is 19 teaspoons for men and 15 teaspoons for women.

The current recommendations are no more than 9 teaspoons for men and 6 teaspoons for women.

Even with my 3rd grade math skills, I can see that people are generally eating 2 TIMES the recommended amount of added sugars each day.

Sugar is sugar to your body. According to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines here are just some of the names that added sugars can go by on food labels:

Agave syrup, anhydrous dextrose, brown sugar, coconut sugar, confectioners powdered sugar, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, dextrose, fructose, high-fructose corn syrup(HFCS), honey, invert sugar, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, maple syrup, molasses, nectars(peach,pear…), pancake syrup, raw sugar, sucrose, sugar, turbinado sugar, white granulated sugar.

Here are the three things you can do to reduce added sugars from your diet.

#1 Reduce ultra-processed foods - These are foods that have added salt, sugars, oils, fats and other substances to them to enhance flavor, shelf life, cost and addictive qualities that keep you reaching into the bag.

#2 Become a food label detective - You need to take control of what you eat and not let a company determine what is "healthy". Food is big business. Companies will be happy to sell you food disguised as healthy, so they can sell more.

#3 Eat some fruit - Fruit is nature's fast food. You get fiber, vitamins, antioxidants and it's sweet!

Reducing added sugars is one of the best things you can do for your health and wellness. Get to work!

Keep moving,
Coach Dom

P.S. - When you are ready, here are 2 ways we can help you get happier and healthier:
1.First 3 on me - come in for 3 personal training sessions for free. Experience the programs, meet the coaches and see if our environment and community is the right fit for you. DM “3” to get started.
2. Grab a copy of our Info Packet - Take a deep dive into our facility, programs and culture to see if it’s something you would like to pursue. DM “IP” and we’ll send it over.



06/03/2026

Today is the 16th anniversary of Breakthrough Fitness.

I can still remember my wife (fiancé at the time) telling me to go check out this commercial property. I also remember looking through the window, getting butterflies in my stomach and saying to myself, “this is it.”

I was going all in. No more driving around central Florida training people in their homes and in parks.

I was going to create a place that made fitness enjoyable. A community. A place you wanted to keep coming back too.

I remember a quote my coaches Alwyn and Racel Cosgrove would say - “Jump and the new will appear.”

So, I jumped with my belief in my abilities and Plan A in my hand.
There was no plan B.

There was debt, doubt, stress and long days mixed with wins and mistakes.

The mistakes became learning lessons and the long days started to pay off.

Slow and steady wins eventually led to an expansion and a team that allowed us to help more clients.

There have been challenges, changes and everything in between, but here we are sixteen years later.

I don’t celebrate often, but I’m proud of Breakthrough Fitness.

More importantly, I’m grateful for all the people it took to make it a success. My parents, wife, friends, mentors, coaches, team members, past clients, alumni clients, current clients, colleagues and local business professionals…THANK YOU!

I look forward to serving the community for another 16 years!

Keep moving,
Coach Dom

06/01/2026

Build lower body strength, balance, and control with the Squat Hold + Step Back. This exercise challenges your legs and core while improving stability and coordination. Stay low in the squat position as you step one foot back at a time, keeping tension through the legs the entire movement. Great for building endurance in the quads, glutes, and core while reinforcing strong squat mechanics.

✅ Strengthens legs and glutes
✅ Improves balance and stability
✅ Challenges core control
✅ Great for lower body endurance

Focus on staying low, keeping your chest up, and moving with control throughout each rep.

06/01/2026

05/29/2026

The biggest sticking point for starting a workout routine is the first workout.

Most people never start.

After the first workout, it’s the first 30-60 days.

The majority of our clients train with us 2-3 times a week.
8-12 workouts in 30 days.
16-24 workouts in 60 days.
2-3 hours a week.

Starting wherever we need to start...
Squats to a bench using just their body weight and holding on to something if they have to…

Maybe 9 exercises in a workout. Each exercise done once for 6-12 repetitions.

Progressed slowly and safely.

When they reach that 30-60 day timeframe, they usually are with us for a year+.

You don’t need 6 days a week or to live in the gym.
2-3 hours a week to get stronger, better balance, coordination and improve quality of life.
There are 169 hours in a week/3 = 1.79%
1.79% - that’s the price. Pay it.

Summer Strong Start
* An 8-week deadline-driven program.
* 2-3 Appointment-based sessions a week that are flexible around your schedule.
* A coach with you every step of the way.
* An intentional community that provides support, makes fitness more enjoyable and helps you cross the finish line with your arms raised in victory.
* Sense of accomplishment that naturally creates motivation to keep improving.
Reply “Strong” and we can discuss the details.

Keep moving,
Coach Dom

05/27/2026

After 40, body recomposition (gaining muscle, losing fat) is different from our younger years. It’s happening, but you have to know what to look for.
Here are changes that I’ve seen occur over the years that are good signs.
1. Your clothes fit better
Pants looser in the waist, maybe a bit tighter in the glutes and thighs.
I’ve also seen shirts fit differently across the shoulders on men and women. This does not mean your shoulders got bigger. Most of the time it’s from improving posture.
2. Appetite increases
Our gym sessions are hard. Your body is responding to the hard work. Muscle is constantly burning fuel, even at rest (unlike fat).
Don’t fight it, feed it.
Single-ingredient foods most of the time!
3. You are lifting heavier.
The weights lifted going up is one of the clearest signs your muscle mass - aka muscle “tone” is increasing.
4. Faster recovery.
When you are consistent, soreness between workouts is less and joints feel better.
Your body is adapting and getting more resilient.
5. You look different but weigh the same.
Muscle is lean and it takes up less space than fat. So, if you lose 5lbs of fat and gain 5 pounds of muscle, the scale will not have changed, but your clothes will fit differently and you’ll look different as well.
Keep moving,
Coach Dom

Deadlines. They create a sense of urgency and a finish line to cross.
The finish line forces us to reverse engineer and come up with a plan to accomplish a specific task.

It’s easy to see why a client will get fantastic results when their daughter's wedding comes up in a couple of months.

But, we don’t always have big events like weddings to spark motivation. Most of the time exercise and prioritizing our health ebbs and flows with the tides of life.

That’s why I really like to do a deadline-driven programs 1-2 times a year.
When you combine a starting line and a finish line to cross with an exact plan to follow, you have a winning combination.

That’s exactly why we created The Summer Strong Start.
* An 8-week deadline-driven program.
* Appointment-based sessions that are flexible around your schedule.
* A coach with you every step of the way.
* An intentional community that provides support, makes fitness more enjoyable and helps you cross the finish line with your arms raised in victory.
* Sense of accomplishment that naturally creates motivation to keep improving.

If you’ve been concerned about your lack of strength, balance, stamina and physical abilities, this is a great program for you.

We’ll meet you at your current abilities and in 8-weeks I guarantee you’ll feel better than you have in years.

We have three start dates you can choose from:
June 1st
June 8th
June 15th

Step one is a conversation. Let’s talk through your questions and concerns.

DM “Strong” and we can set up a call.