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6 Tips to Losing Weight

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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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Keep on Running! – Vancouver Personal Trainer Tip

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Shin splints is an umbrella term used to describe a common overuse injury among runners. This term suggests pain in the front portion of the lower limb located between the ankle and knee. There could be many different problems arising … Continue reading

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Back Care Tips To Stay Healthy – Vancouver Personal Trainer Advice

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Back Care Tips To Stay Healthy – Vancouver Personal Trainer Advice 80% of the population will experience  back pain at some point during their lifetime. Strategies for promoting a healthy back can be categorized into physical, behavioral, and postural. Physical: … Continue reading

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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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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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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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Personal Trainer exercise of the Week Triceps

Personal Trainer exercise of the Week Triceps – The other major muscle group which make the arms look big and fill out your shirt are the triceps. Since the triceps function is to extend the arm we are isolating here … Continue reading

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Finding long term motivation – Personal Trainers advise

There is a about 10% of the population who will exercise consistently throughout there lives without any external motivation. For the rest of us, we have to find an external source of motivation that drives us to achieve our goals … Continue reading

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Personal Trainer Nutrition Tip: Red Meat

This weeks Personal Trainer Nutrition Tip: Red MeatNeed another reason to cut back on the red meat? A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine looked at over 545, 000 people (!) between the ages of 50 and … Continue reading

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Personal Trainer Tip – High Fructose Corn Syrup – The Ugly Truth

Personal Trainer Tip – High Fructose Corn Syrup – The Ugly Truth High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS’s) are found in many processed foods and beverages including soft drinks, salad dressing, yogurt, and even cereals (like raisin bran!). The ugly truth … Continue reading

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Personal Trainer home exercise of the week – Shoulders

The build of your shoulders affects how your shirt hangs on your body so it’s quite important to build a little mass and definition to really get those shirts to fill out nicely. In this video we show you a … 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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Is splenda dangerous? – Your Vancouver Personal Trainer Nutritionist tip of the week

Is splenda dangerous? – Your Vancouver Personal Trainer Nutritionist tip of the week.  A new study recently published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health has the chairman of Citizens for health in the U.S. up in arms over … 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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Spices and Metabolism – Your Vancouver Personal Trainer Nutritionist tip of the week

Spices and Metabolism – Your Vancouver Personal Trainer Nutritionist tip of the week – Have you heard that eating spicy foods can help you burn fat? Although the extent to which spices can actually help you burn off a meal … 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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Vancouver Personal Trainer Nutritionist Tip – Slow Food

Vancouver Personal Trainer Nutritionist Tip – Slow Food Check it out “Slow Food”, an international non-profit organization “founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food … 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 Training DJ Jesse James – blog entry of the week

 Rule number one about training don’t show up late.  There is nothing more embarrassing then having protein shake smeared on your face and sweat already on your brow when you hustle into worlds gym to see Kalev. So what did … 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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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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