Tag Archives: Lose Weight

Avoiding Halloween Horror: The Nutrition Edition

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  Halloween is fast approaching, and with that comes plenty of chocolate,candy, and sugar filled treats to indulge in!  It may not be a Halloween horror,  but don’t be fooled, those tiny treats can pack a ton of sugar and calories!  … 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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Weight Loss Plateaus, your vancouver personal training tip

Vancouver Personal Training tip, Weight Loss Plateaus. The plateau is a dieter’s bane and even the best of us can end up at a stage in our weight loss where it seems like nothing works anymore. Even if you have … 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 Trainers Nutritionist Tip – Sodium

Vancouver Personal Trainers Nutritionist Tip this week is Sodium. It’s something most of us don’t think twice about until we’re older and facing high blood pressure. But salt is a lot more than the flavour that makes your popcorn so delicious. … 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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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 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

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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 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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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

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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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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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