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New Team Members at Kalev Fitness Solution!
Kalev Fitness Solution would like to officially welcome and introduce our new team members. The new faces you’ll see around the gym are: Josh Hodges (left) Originally from Sydney Australia, Josh arrived in Canada in 2006 bringing with him years … Continue reading
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7 Easy Stretches to Do at Work
7 Easy Stretches to Do at Work Tightness in the shoulder, neck, and back often leads to fatigue, injury, soreness, and lack of mobility. It’s a casualty of the modern desk job. Good flexibility allows a muscle to lengthen and … Continue reading
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Tagged fatigue, injury, lack of mobilitof mobility, soreness, Tightness
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CARDIO VS. STRENGTH-TRAINING WORKOUTS
CARDIO VS. STRENGTH-TRAINING WORKOUTS In one corner: Dumbbells. In the other: A jump rope – dicing the research to determine whether strength or cardio rules. To KO fat — and keep it off… Cardio’s edge Calorie for calorie, cardio has … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardio, fat burn, Fitness, Strength Training, WORKOUTS
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Hemp Hearts Health and Nutrition Benefits
Hemp Hearts Health and Nutrition Benefits Hemp Hearts (shelled hemp seed) is the only natural food that is concentrated with all of the required proteins and essential fats. It contains many vitamins and enzymes, and only small insignificant quantities of saturated fats … Continue reading
Burn Baby Burn – Vancouver Personal Trainer Tip
Fat loss – the most common fitness goal amongst everyday people. You can’t blame them when you look at the food sources that are available to us, but that’s another blog post. One common misconception is this: sit-ups will trim … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardio, fat, fat loss, Fitness, goals, Lose Weight
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Nobody Likes Acid For Blood – Vancouver Nutrition
Blood pH and Alkaline/Acid Balance All foods leave an ash behind after they are digested by stomach acids. This ash can be measured in terms of pH and is classified as either an acid or a base/alkaline on a scale of 0-14. … Continue reading
Simple Vancouver Nutrition tip of the Week
Simple Nutrition – Vancouver Nutrition tip of the Week Many people don’t quite realize how important a well balanced diet is in achieving any fitness goal, but the rules are pretty simple, right? If you want to loose weight you … Continue reading
Free Week of Classes
http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=5262&stype=-7&sTG=22&sDate=10/26/2009 You MUST Register online now to participate Come down to Kalev Personal Training the week of Oct 26th and try out one or all of our amazing new classes. Classes: Yoga, Pilates, Abs, Boot Camp, Spin, and … Continue reading
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Does your body fall apart in the Summer? Personal Trainer Tip
Does your body fall apart in the Summer? When the summer hits Vancouver each year, the we tend to get caught up in all the exciting activities that our city has to offer, while we neglect to maintain our health and … Continue reading
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Tagged boot camp, Fitness, health, summer fitness, Trainers, Training, Vancouver Personal Trainer
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Free Corporate or Group Exercise and Fitness Seminar
Free Corporate or Group Exercise and Fitness Seminar If you work for a company or are the leader of a group or club and would like to have Kalev Personal Training come to you to do a presentation with question … Continue reading
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When is sugar good for you? When does it make you fat? Kalev Personal Trainer Tip
Control your blood sugar…using the Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load I’m often asked, “What can I eat for energy before my run? What is the best food for post-workout recovery?” or, “What should I eat to lose some body-fat?” To … Continue reading
Personal Training tips to Why aren't you loosing weight
Personal Training tips to Why aren’t you loosing weight? So you have started working out, eating better and yet you are still not losing weight. This happens because your not making the right/enough changes to you lifestyle. Here are few … Continue reading
Vancouver Cardio Kickboxing Boot Camp in Yaletown
. Vancouver Cardio Kickboxing Boot Camp in Yaletown Pricing / Class Enrolment click here Classes currently underway, Click here for our next course… or email to get details on future courses Kalev@KalevTraining.com or get 6 friends together and contact me and the … Continue reading
Personal Trainer exercise of the Week Triceps
Personal Trainer exercise of the Week Triceps – The other major muscle group which make the arms look big and fill out your shirt are the triceps. Since the triceps function is to extend the arm we are isolating here … Continue reading
Visual Labels Nutritionist Tip
If the government really wanted to deter people from putting unhealthy, processed food in their bodies, they would use visual labels. Wouldn’t it be great if labels were made this way, so you could actually see exactly what you’re putting … Continue reading
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Gym Etiquette – Kalev Personal Trainer Tips
Gym Etiquette Some times the gym can be a uncomfortable place to workout. Usually, when people are don’t use common sense on what is acceptable and unacceptable in public areas. Here are few unwritten rules that will make you feel … Continue reading
Infomercials…..could it really be that easy? – Vancouver Personal Trainer Tip
It seems these days there are so many new fitness gimics out there it’s hard to stomach as a personal trainer. From infomercials promising a six-pack in 6 weeks by just dancing, to phoney doctors selling weight loss in a … Continue reading
Working hard at the gym, but hair on top not keeping up? – by MASC
Recently, a customer told us how his life has changed as a result of using Revita High Performance Hair Growth Stimulating Shampoo from DS.Laboratories. He spoke of feeling way more happy & confident as a result of significant hair growth, … Continue reading
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Cardio Kickboxing Bootcamp Starting Soon
. . Pricing / Class Enrolment click here Classes currently underway, Click here for our next course… or email to get details on future courses Kalev@KalevTraining.com or get 6 friends together and contact me and the organizer gets the class for free! … Continue reading
Kalev Personal Trainer – Alex Jack – running and stretching
Hi! My name is Alex and I am the newest member of the Kalev Personal Training Team. I just moved to Vancouver from Toronto and am pleasantly surprised to see how many people here are physically active. In Toronto I … Continue reading
Nutritionist Food of the Week: Coconut oil
Nutritionist Food of the Week: Coconut oil. I was recently asked about the benefits of coconut oil, or if there were any. A few years back, coconut oil was all the rage in the fitness industry. So what’s the deal? … Continue reading
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Tagged Coconut oil, Food, Nutrition Information
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Top 5 popular fitness myths – Beginner training tips
Top 5 popular fitness myths – Beginner training tips #5 – Lifting weights will make you bulky. When you see the big guys walking around the gym what exercises are they doing? Bench press, squats, shoulder press, pull downs and … Continue reading
Personal Trainer Exercise of the week – Triceps
Personal Trainer Exercise of the week – Triceps The other major muscle group which make the arms look big and fill out your shirt are the triceps. Since the triceps function is to extend the arm we are isolating here … Continue reading
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Tagged Fitness, Home workout, Personal Trainer Vancouver, Personal Training Yaletown, triceps, Workout
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Let’s Get Functional – Personal Training in the 21st century
Do you need to carry a heavy bag of dog food off the ground and onto a wheelbarrow? How are you going to put that heavy bag of groceries on the top shelf of the cabinet? When it comes to … Continue reading
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Tagged Exercise, fitness exercises, functional, Personal Training, Trainer
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Food of the Week "Broccoli" – Nutritionist Health Tip
Welcome to Nutritionist Health Tip ”Food of the Week” – week one! Each week I’m going to feature one of nature’s fabulous edible creations (or the odd man-made one), and attempt to convince you why should eat it, or maybe why … Continue reading
Cardio Confusion – Personal Trainers Advice
Cardio Confusion – Personal Trainers Advice – One question that I am frequently asked is what’s the best way to do cardio. The answer to this is not as straight forward as it might seem, the answer depends on what … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardio, fat burning, intervals, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Trainer
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