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30 Day Bootcamp Challenge Rules!
Attention Kalev Fitness Bootcamp Challengers! Firstly, we want to say how happy we are that so many of you are challenging yourselves to upgrade to YOU, Version 2! This is an opportunity to take your fitness and motivation to the … Continue reading
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
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
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
Bicep Curls Advanced Workout – Personal Trainer Exercise of the week
Bicep Curls Advanced Workout – Personal Trainer Exercise of the week… One of the areas which defines the perceived strength of a man the most is his biceps. This workout uses resistance tubing which can be advanced into a challenging … Continue reading
Personal Training in Vancouver – DJ Jesse James – Blog entry of the week
Personal Training in Vancouver – DJ Jesse James – Blog entry of the week After almost a 2 week hiatus from being sick I have returned. That sounds like it should be followed by some serious gusto but my … Continue reading
Fitness Training – Personal Trainers Core Workout of the Week
Fitness Training – Personal Trainers Core Workout of the Week. You use your core muscles including your Obliques in almost every sport and in daily life so try this exercise out to tighten those abs and also prevent back pain … Continue reading
Advanced Push Ups – Fitness Trainer in Vancouver exercise of the week
Advanced Push Ups – Fitness Trainer in Vancouver exercise of the week An interesting technique to increase the difficulty of your push ups workout. This one is a great exercise to add definition to your chests and pump up your … Continue reading
Kalev Fitness Training Vancouver DJ Jesse James – Blog entry of the week
Kalev Fitness Training Vancouver DJ Jesse James – Blog entry of the week. Getting up early and working out is both foreign and intensely unexciting to me. But I must admit it is growing on me a little. This Friday … Continue reading
Ab Fitness – Personal Training exercise of the week – Crunches
Ab Fitness – Personal Training exercise of the week – Crunches… Are you ready to take it to the next level and increase the intensity of your ab crunches? I have a great one for you and all you need … Continue reading
Vancouver Personal Trainer Kalev Training DJ Jesse James – Blog entry of the week
Vancouver Personal Trainer Kalev Training DJ Jesse James – Blog entry of the week… Drinking the night before a workout has probably got to be the most unrewarding thing a person can do for their body. All be it I … Continue reading
Vancouver Personal Trainer exercise of the week – The Lunge
Continuing with our Vancouver Personal Trainer exercises of the week – The Lunge is another power inducing muscle defining leg exercise, it is important do to the lunge right so you don’t put out your back or strain your knee. … Continue reading
Personal Training in Vancouver Exercise of the Week – the Squat
Building strong legs is extremely important for any sport and is a great way to boost your body’s production of the most powerful hormone known to man – testosterone. The Squats exercise will give you explosive power through your hamstrings … Continue reading
Vancouver Personal Trainers Nutritionist Tip – What to eat before a workout
Vancouver Personal Trainers Nutritionist Tip – What to eat before a workout As a Nutritionist in the gym I often get asked “What should I eat before a workout? How soon should I eat before and after I workout? What … Continue reading
Personal Trainer – home exercise of the week, the pull up
This week’s Personal Trainer exercise is the pull up. A great way to work a group of the major muscle in your body at the same time… biceps, rhomboids, lats, forearms, and core to stabilize. Thought you couldn’t do pull-ups … Continue reading
DJ Jesse James fitness challenge @ Kalev Personal Training
Hi Everyone, the famous DJ Jesse James has come to me and wants to do a fitness challenge. It’s going to consist of 90 days of at least 5 days a week training. He is going to combine this with the … Continue reading
Personal Trainer nutrition tip – Carbohydrate addiction
Carbohydrate addiction: fact or fiction? According to new evidence, more and more researchers are saying “fact”! Carbohydrates are emerging as a serious addiction, both mentally and physiologically, and as a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.But not all carbohydrates are … Continue reading
Personal Trainer home exercise of the day – Pull Ups
Thought you couldn’t do pull-ups without a bar? Think again, here is a unique and innovative way to do pull-ups to work out your back muscles at home or in any hotel room. Vancouver Personal Trainer – Kalev Training in … Continue reading
Personal Training – exercise speed cont..
As you advance you will learn how to control your core, and balance the rest of your body’s muscles so the correct ones are firing for the right exercises. Then you can start to slowly speed up your movements, under … Continue reading
Personal Trainer nutrition tip – Vitamin D
Vitamin D is an important fat-soluble vitamin which helps your body absorb Calcium. It is produced naturally by the body when the skin is exposed to sunlight, however most people living in Canada and other northern parts of the world … Continue reading
Personal Trainer home exercise of the day – Dips
Today’s home personal trainer exercise brought to you by Kalev personal training is the dip, a great way to keep your upper body tone and in shape. Start following through on your new year’s resolutions Vancouver Personal Trainer – Kalev … Continue reading
Personal Trainer – Exercise of the day
The Personal Trainer exercise of the day is the “side bridge”. It’s is a great way to activate core muscles in a stationary position. If you practise, it gets easy however, so here is a great way to make it a … Continue reading
Vancouver personal trainer in the snow
Well, it’s snowing outside, but this Vancouver personal trainer is still at the gym. This is a great opportunity for you to try out some home work out options… So if you’re in Vancouver… you don’t have a personal trainer … Continue reading
What intensity or speed do you workout at?
Have you ever wondered how fast and Intense to lift your weights at the gym, or how long to wait between sets? Maybe you keep working harder and faster but you aren’t getting the results that you want and you … Continue reading
Posture in the gym
Posture is one of the biggest influences on your training. If you don’t line up your body properly, you will not use the correct muscles and risk injury and long term problems with muscles joints tendons and ligaments. Kalev … Continue reading
continued… “Christmas Turkey”… Keeping It OFF Your Belly
Weights! Weights! Weights! 1) Get a Trainer! …or at least a training partner to keep you honest and accountable for those 6am workouts 2) Change up your program. If you’re bored, then you’re not working hard, so switch it up … Continue reading


