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How Do Muscles Work?
Muscles move our bodies. They help us get from one place to another. It’s difficult to think of many times during the day where muscles within us aren’t working. Even while we’re sleeping there are muscles that keep us breathing … Continue reading
How Rules Equal Rewards
Sticking to a consistent workout regime often seems hard enough, but throwing good nutrition into the equation can throw many people hoping to change their lifestyle over the edge of what they consider to be attainable. Most of us, having … Continue reading
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Turkey Hangover
If you went a little … well overboard this season don’t worry, you’re not alone… most people gain about 2 pounds on average during the Christmas season. Continue reading
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Tagged Fitness, health, New Years Resolutions, Personal Training, Pilates, Yoga
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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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Preventing Muscle Soreness
Don’t be afraid to push yourself hard during a workout because of that dreaded muscle soreness that follows. This pain and stiffness that everyone feels 24 – 72 hours after a heavy workout is referred to as delayed onset muscle … Continue reading
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Tagged active recovery, delayed onset muscle soreness, DOMS, low intesity, Muscle soreness
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Tight Hamstrings? – Try PNF Stretching
Is regular static stretching not cutting it with you? Then ask your trainer to perform PNF stretching with you. PNF stands for proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation and it is a combination of passive stretching and muscle contractions to induce muscle relaxation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Flexibility, PNF, stretching, Tight Muscles
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6 Tips to Losing Weight
1) Don’t slow down or change the effort of exercise. Keep your pace consistent and exercise as hard as you comfortably can to optimize calories used. 2) If the exercise is too hard and you can’t optimize the calories burned, … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobic, anaerobic, bootcamp, burning fat, Exercise, losing weight, Personal Trainer, Training
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Get Consistent – Try a Personal Trainer!
Get Consistent – Try a Personal Trainer! Have you have been doing the same routine for months yet you don’t see results? You’re not meeting the goals you have or you can’t stay consistent? There is a big chance that … Continue reading
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Signs of Overtraining – Vancouver Personal Trainer Tip
Overtraining is a physical, behavioral and emotional condition that occurs when the volume and intensity of an individual’s exercise exceeds their recovery capacity. They cease making progress, and can even begin to lose strength and fitness. Overtraining is a common … Continue reading
Common Injuries – Tennis Elbow – Vancouver Fitness Tip
Tennis Elbow (officially known as lateral epicondylitis) is simply an inflamation of the lower outer edge of the humorus (lateral epicondyle) that results in discomfort. Tennis elbow is a repetative strain injury which means that overuse over the course of … Continue reading
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Common Injuries – The Rotator Cuff – Vancouver Fitness Tip
The rotator cuff is comprised of four muscles: supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres major and subscapularis. This group of small muscles is responsible for the internal/external rotation of the arm and one of the major abductor muscles. Basically, if you moving your … Continue reading
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Golf Much? – Vancouver Sports & Fitness Tip
Do you play GOLF???? What are the key components of golf??? What are the key things you can do to take your game to the next level???? Golf requires… 1) SPEED 2) MUSCLE CONTROL (PROPRIOCEPTION) 3) BODY BALANCE – POSTURE … Continue reading
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Tagged conditioning, Fitness, golf, sports, sports specific, Training
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The Gun Show! Bigger Biceps Now! – Vancouver Fitness Tips
First of all, I’m writing this post for you people out there who just LOVE to work your guns. Personally, I never isolate my arms. I prefer to let them get worked as secondary muscle groups when I do compound … Continue reading
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LIFT Your Calories Away! – Vancouver Personal Training Tip
All this time I’ve been telling any of my clients who want to burn fat, “you GOTTA do your cardio!” Explaining the importance of a well balanced diet and running a calorie deficit is always something I mention as well, … Continue reading
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Tagged calories, fat, Weight loss, Weight Training
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Macro, Meso, and Micro – Vancouver Personal Training Tip
Two weeks ago I went through a period of low energy and lack of motivation in the gym. I would try my hardest to psych myself up before a workout…before a set…and nothing would come of it. I don’t know … Continue reading
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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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Muscle Recovery – Vancouver Fitness Tips
Do you find that your muscles are still sore by the time you have to return to the gym? If so, you may still need a greater recovery time incorporated into your program. Recovery time is one of the most … Continue reading
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Tagged Exercise, Fitness, Muscle, muscle growth, recovery time
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Diet vs. Dumbell
We’ve all heard this before, “80% of any fitness goal is eating right”. But, is this really true? To answer this question one must consider the level of fitness they stand in, their fitness goals, and their current eating habits. Take, for example … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, fitness goals, fitness training, Nutrition Information
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All The Colours of Your Abs – Vancouver Fitness Tips
ALL THE COLOURS OF YOUR ABS Your abdominal region is a fairly complex muscle group. As of such, your training routines for them should be just as complex. There are 4 different groups that make up the entire abdominal region, and … Continue reading
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Kickstart 2010 With Full Body Workouts! – Vancouver Personal Training Tips
Welcome to 2010! Its a new year ladies and gentlemen! Many of you have reassessed your fitness goals and fine tuned your workout programs to accommodate the positive physical and mental changes you wish to see in the great year ahead. Its time … Continue reading
Confused??? Great!!! – Vancouver Personal Trainer Tip
Every training program should involve muscle confusion techniques. Muscle confusion is vital for progress in any routine. If you don’t attack and challenge your muscles from different angles consistently, they will become accustomed to the movements, used to the resistance, and … Continue reading
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Tagged muscle confusion, plateaus, resistance training, workout program
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This Is Why We Do It!!!
Training without a purpose? Do you lack definitive goals,and do you get down on yourself for it? Well…at least you’re still training! Remember, there’s so many benefits of working out. You may not even be aware of some of them. Here are a some great reasons … Continue reading
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Training Splits – Vancouver Personal Training Tips
Training Splits A training split is an outline of specific body parts, or movement patterns to be focused on, or divided into different days. For example, on Monday, you may train your legs. Chest is trained on Tuesday, and back on Wednesday, etc. … Continue reading
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Tagged Personal Training Tips, program design, Split Program, Strength Training, Vancouver Personal Trainer
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Maximize Your Muscles!
3 Keys To Maximize Your Muscle Mass 1. Proper Nutrition Yes, eating more is obviously necessary, but don’t overlook the quality of your food. Without optimal amounts of vitamins, minerals, essential fats, amino acids, and all the goodies that our cells require, … Continue reading
Energy Systems 101
Energy Systems & Energy Production In The Body ATP – Adenosine Triphospate – the unit of energy used to power all cells in the muscles. ATP can be provided to these cells either by our anaerobic system (without the use … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobic, anaerobic, atp, cellular energy, lactic acid
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Man vs. Machine – What Equipment Should You Use?
Gyms today are well equiped with machines, dumbells, medicine balls, stability balls, elastic cords, balance boards, and more. But with so many options, how do you decide on what equipment to use in your program? What works best? Choosing equipment for physical … Continue reading
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