Tag Archives: Flexibility

First Impressions: How flexibility affects your posture

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Come join us for the first of our monthly free personal trainer fitness presentations.   Presenter: Christian Kubas   Date: Oct 15th @ 2:30pm   Location: Kalev Fitness Solution   Sign up HERE     First impressions are initially limited … Continue reading

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Tight Hamstrings? – Try PNF Stretching

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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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Pilates – Look and Feel Great!

Pilates – Look and Feel Great! Pilates is the exercise of choice for dancers, gymnasts, and a host of famous Hollywood celebrities, and now it finds itself firmly entrenched in the mainstream. So why is pilates so hot? If you … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Ab Core Workout Video

Here is a great core exercise that allows you to strengthen your midsection in a static position (motionless). This helps train your core to be stronger and support your back as well as your body when moving, lifting or standing … Continue reading

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Personal Training Christmas Specials

Merry Christmas everyone! I wish you all the best this wonderful season J Want to get a head start keeping the Christmas turkey OFF your tummy? Kalev Personal Training would also like to offer these three promotional Christmas stocking stuffers. … Continue reading

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Posture, don't walk or work like your grandparents!

As you probably know posture is very important for a healthy body! It lines up your bones, joints, and muscle structure so stress is put in the correct places, injury is avoided, and proper muscles can be used to move … Continue reading

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Stuck in a rut? Try Periodization

Have you been stuck in a rut, can’t lose weight, are bored with your workouts, or hit a plateau in strength and size @ the Gym? Well you may be missing some Periodization in your workout program! Periodization is an … Continue reading

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Save $14 per session on partiner training

New clients… this month bring in a friend to train with, and you pay only $38ea per session. Give us a call and come in for a complimentalry consultation. w: www.KalevTraining.com t: 604-518-4691 e: Kalev@KalevTraining.com

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Get one Free Personal Training Session

May 08 New Client Special: purchase one session and get the second FREE! w: www.KalevTraining.com t: 604-518-4691 e: Kalev@KalevTraining.com

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Stretching at the wrong time decreases strength and power!

Most people think that is best to stretch before you exercise or do any physical activities. Studies have recently shown that this is not the case and it actually puts you at more risk for injury! This is because static … Continue reading

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Welcome to The Kalev Personal Training Blog

It seems everyone has a Trainer nowadays. If you don’t, then a friend does. Kalev Personal Training uses a system we developed to help clients achieve their goals faster. We call it 3-Dimensional Training. Basically, the system benefits you because … Continue reading

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