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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

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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

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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 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

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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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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

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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 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 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

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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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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

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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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“Christmas Turkey”… Keeping It OFF Your Belly

Let’s start off with those of you who have worked hard all summer to stay fit, maybe even kept up the training in anticipation of some fall get-away holidays. Regardless, it’s still getting close to the time of year that … 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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Running Maps Website

I found a great new website on the internet the other day for outdoor runners that want some statistics on their run… http://www.mapmyrun.com/  It’s great! You can track your distance with a Google Map style feature right down to the … 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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Coffee: Friend or Foe?

Caffeine is an alkaloid found naturally in such foods as beans, leaves. It is more commonly consumed in coffee, teas, sodas, energy drinks, guarana, chocolate, as well as some over the counter and prescription medications! It can also be called … 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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Super Sets

Super Sets are a great way to get more out of your weights workout at the gym. Have a look around the gym; most of our time is spent resting between sets talking with your training partner. Yet we all … Continue reading

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Boosting your immune system

Recently many around us are getting sick with a cold or the flu, so what steps can we take to make sure we don’t get sick? Let’s start with 8 hours sleep. Lack of a good deep sleep is one … Continue reading

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Creatine

It’s one of the more natural supplements because we usually get creatine from meats and the benefits have been documented in many scientific and medical journals. It basically allows our body to generate more energy by carrying phospate molecules and … Continue reading

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