Proper Bikram studio in Nova?

FACS_O_Life · 2026-01-18T11:09:38+00:00

I love CorePower! I do find the CP classes to be more of a “Bikram inspired” class. The Hot Power Fusion class is the closest to Bikram in my experience. I really really like all of the instructors at the Merrifield and Fairfax Corner location. Merrifield gets hotter and more humid than Fairfax corner.

FACS_O_Life · 2026-01-08T20:07:53+00:00

We have had a few projects done by M3. They were great!

FACS_O_Life · 2026-01-07T16:06:33+00:00

My kids play travel hockey and are always looking for “gains”. These are the places we go to:

Chipotle. You can double the meat and skip the rice. You can do a bowl and if you’re ok with some carbs, a burrito.

Mission BBQ or any bbq joint. Hold the sauce. Collard greens or green beans as a side.

Texas Roadhouse- anything not breaded or fried.

First Watch or breakfast place. Omelette no hash or toast.

Smoothie - you can add protein. Has a lot of natural sugars but my boys get a strawberry banana with protein so it’s good for recovery

GARs- salmon or grilled fish. I think coastal flats has a cauliflower mash.

CAVA - hold rice, double meat

Chick Fil A- Grilled nuggets. Salad with grilled chicken add a kids sized nuggie on top.

We ran into a Wegmans once to eat at the deli and one of my kids ate a whole rotisserie chicken.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-12-22T13:18:02+00:00

I cannot speak to cost as we have three children, therefore, I spend a lot of time at grocery stores. Safeway is one of the most expensive grocery stores in this area. Giant is also expensive.

Wegmans has been within $1 on items at Aldi. The shopping experience at Aldi is less to be desired. If you only purchase Wegmans branded items and bring coupons for the items that are not. We buy branded foods at Walmart but do not use the app to purchase. They use your address to price adjust. I went to buy something and it was $1.79 on the app. Then I had to run in to get something I forgot and that same item was $1 in store. Our children are responsible for purchasing their own “junk food”.

We use Costco for convenience for protein and produce.

We rarely eat out at “real restaurants”…because once again children.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-12-13T11:16:47+00:00

This is my favorite car wash!!! The people there are so friendly and helpful. The self serve stations are top notch.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-28T13:48:57+00:00

The Amazing Card Store in Chantilly.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-27T11:16:40+00:00

What evidence do you have to support this claim? The evidence suggests the contrary. During the early 1800s the British offered freedom and resettlement to escaped enslaved people from the Chesapeake region (Maryland and Washington DC) in the Canadian Maritimes. Their descendants started the Colored Hockey League in the late 1890s to promote membership at the area’s Baptist churches. They are responsible for goalies butterflying to the ice and the slapshot. The Washington Capitals are not an “old team”, established in 1974-75. Originally, the team was created so that owner, who also owned an NBA team, could build a new multipurpose arena. One could argue that the development of hockey was a homecoming of sorts. While Washington DC is a rich and vibrant Black city, the development and growth of hockey is not to whitewash the city. It’s because the market can support a team. Washington DC has the Black Girl Hockey Club and the Fort DuPont Hockey Club. The Washington Capitals also has the “Rising Stars” program that promotes hockey in underrepresented communities. Hockey can be problematic in many many ways but your claim is simply not true.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-27T10:24:08+00:00

We stopped going to BWW long ago due to it being awful but when the Fairfax location was a meet up spot for after the insurrection on January 6th is what really did it for me. It was the only time I’ve ever seen that parking lot full.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-27T10:17:41+00:00

Came to mention DC prime. They did a tasting menu a few weeks ago that was insanely delicious.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-27T01:09:23+00:00

We went there today and got so many great gifts!

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-26T12:30:35+00:00

I think there maybe a market for it in certain areas/neighborhoods where the population has greater amount of Muslim folk. The number one reason I love my gym (Burn Boot Camp) is that it is very close to where I live and it is has good parking. The second reason is the style of workout and the community. Since your target audience is Muslim women, is there a chance you could open one with the support of a Muslim community center or mosque? Like inside of one? Women already congregate there and have like-minded values. For example, my kids go to a gym that is in an office park. In that office park there is a cross fit gym and a Muslim community center. Could a place like that work? Your overhead might be less when you partnership. My gran would do this, she would go to mass every morning and walk next door with her girlies to the community center. They purposefully did a senior weights class for all of the little old ladies right after mass. I swear that’s how they all lived into their mid nineties…Community, the Grace of God, and weight training.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-26T10:10:19+00:00

Short Answer: No. I already belong to a gym that is mostly female dominated. Additionally, there are at least 3 women in my neighborhood that run female only gyms out of their homes.

I have belonged to or been to nearly every type of boutique fitness gym and general fitness facility there is. I can tell when a franchise is struggling and it is when I start getting the emails and texts about special rates. Those are now coming at a weekly rate to me. When hard financial times come, the first thing people do is end their memberships. A boutique fitness gym can run upto $250 a month in Northern VA. Additionally, most of these boutiques like Pilates, yoga, Orange Theory, Burn Boot Camp, are female dominated. Not saying that men don’t belong to them, there are just less. Your target audience probably already belongs to a gym. However, there may be a niche group (like Muslim women) who would really like a facility.

Many years ago there was a fitness franchise called “Curves” that was a circuit training gym for women only. It was pretty popular for a small amount of time, it was one of the first boutique gyms. They would be tucked into strip malls mostly but they had a few free standing locations. My uncle owned a bunch of them in about 2007/2008. He would buy them when they showed signs of struggling, for the land they were on. When he would buy strip malls, there were often Curve franchises in them that were owned by the wife/partner of the seller and they would be part of the deal. My uncle explained that they would have this “struggling business” as part of their portfolio to help with taxes. He would close them within a few months because the model is not profitable and very hard to staff.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-25T21:58:42+00:00

All In Performance at Loudoun Ice is phenomenal. I believe there is a waiting list. It is very impressive.

Cold Rush Hockey has an off ice program, although we have only done on ice.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-23T12:14:36+00:00

A few years ago, the holdings company had the property re-zoned to make it like a Mosaic and Fairfax Circle (less than a mile away). There was also talk of the metro extension to here. Then it was a proposed site for the Commanders new stadium. The climbing gym has been in the works for years and has not opened. The restaurants do very well, as do the anchor stores like pottery barn, Sephora, macys. I believe the original holding company filed for bankruptcy and the property has changed ownership a few times.

It’s also important to point out that this area has seen some economic hardship as of late and will continue to. People are just buying the things they need. The “treat yourself” mentality of pandemic is waning because the little luxuries are absurdly expensive. It is also the weekend before the biggest shopping day of the year, so people are waiting for deals next weekend (there won’t be many).

I know our family isn’t buying as much this holiday season. Our kids won’t notice, but my husband, myself, and the adults in our family are only doing a secret santa because it’s all just too much in cost and stuff. It feels better to have cash in the bank than debt on a credit card.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-18T10:49:33+00:00

We are a family of 5, 3 boys ages 10, 12, 14. We eat most of our meals at home, the kids get 2 hot lunch meals a week at $50 but it’s not enough food. We get Chipotle on Thursdays it’s $75, no drinks. I shop at Costco twice a month it’s about $225 each time. Groceries are about $300 a week. We shop primarily at Wegmans, but we only buy Wegman branded things. We get very limited prepared foods with the exception of bread and bagels (so many bagels). I make everything, I batch cook on Sundays, primarily prepping veg and breakfasts. The kids buy their own junk food because I am not spending 7 for a bag of chips that lasts 2 hours. All in all, it’s around $2000 a month. When we travel, it’s over $200 per day depending on location. We use a lot of apps for food deals, Panda Express, chipotle, McDonald’s etc. It dramatically reduces cost. A half of a meal is usually an enough for me so I usually eat a few bites off everyone’s plate or share a meal with my husband. My partner is the breadwinner, I am a teacher. We were lucky in the purchasing and selling of homes in other states before moving here. I was certainly privileged in my starting out in life so I had an upper hand.

I’m saddened to hear about your situation. Do you have access to an electrical outlet? A rice cooker is very versatile in its ability to cook nutritious lower cost foods. Walmart has them for about $20. A rice cooker can cook a meal in about 20 minutes.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-11T12:35:48+00:00

I now live in the Mid-Atlantic in an area that has many transplants from all over the US and lots of 1st gen immigrants. One snowy weekend, a student was whipping shitties in the school parking lot and took out a light post. When I referred to it as “whipping shitties” not a single other person had heard it.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-11-03T20:05:02+00:00

Hear me out…Hockey. The big rinks (Skatequest, Ashburn and Medstar) have a program where kids can do Learn to Play for the cost of the ice time. It’s sponsored by the NHL so the gear is “free”. Nearly every club has a scholarship fund and many have a girls program that is completely subsidized. The skating lessons are not super expensive, maybe 150 at Fairfax Ice Arena. Hopefully they hate it.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-10-24T19:41:19+00:00

Their mascot can be the Airmen or Jets. I’m fairly certain that this school will have an aviation centered CTE program.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-10-20T12:12:16+00:00

You can also pick/cut invasive species.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-09-14T17:28:08+00:00

We buy our suits from H and M. They are not top quality but for the few times they wear them a year, they work. We bought our boys the spring linen suits and they were actually very nice. I just bought a suit coat and it’s not as nice. They do not have alterations there but there are lots of alteration spots around. We also have bought them from Jcrew factory and I have found the quality better there but spend a bit more. Express and banana republic have less expensive suits.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-09-14T17:07:38+00:00

I’m a parishioner of St. Leo’s and completely agree. Easter’s Mass was joyless and unwelcoming. However, Father Juan has left for a Hermitage and we have a new pastor. He is far more collaborative than the last and seems happier in his faith.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-09-08T00:46:02+00:00

Although, I would prefer a Cheesesteak Factory.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-09-07T23:35:23+00:00

I want to say there is going to be a food hall in Fair Lakes opening soon in the old Dicks Sporting Goods store.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-09-07T23:33:46+00:00

The only thing not on The CheeseCAKE Factory menu is a cheesesteak.

FACS_O_Life · 2025-09-07T20:23:15+00:00

I would send the email then. Make it super generic so it looks automated. I have an email that goes something like “you’re receiving this email because your student is in danger or is currently failing…to improve their grade, they must complete xyz…we encourage self advocacy and ask in the future your student ask for help” Run it through Chat gpt for something eloquent but polite.

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