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Personal Trainer home exercise of the week – Shoulders

Kalev — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:54:07 +0000

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 variety of shoulder exercises using resistance bands that you can easily make more difficult by lessening the length of the bands.

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Is splenda dangerous? – Your Vancouver Personal Trainer Nutritionist tip of the week

Kalev — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:24:35 +0000

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 a recent study and the FDA’s failure to revoke its approval of the artificial sweetener sucralose, marketed under the name “Splenda”.

Splenda’s slogan is “Splenda tastes like sugar, because it’s made from sugar”. The company faced scrutiny for this slogan, as the product is actually mainly chemically derived. Sucralose is a high-potency sweetener, combined with maltodextrin and glucose (that’s the sugar part) as fillers to make Splenda. Splenda is approved for use in Canada and the U.S. and was originally thought to have no real side effects in the body, as the majority of it is not metabolized or absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. This is the premise of most sweeteners.

Well, if you’re taking Splenda to lose weight, this most recent evidence suggests it may be working against you. Secondly, good gut bacteria (microflora) carry out a number of important roles, including fighting off bad bacteria and producing vitamins, and maintaining normal immune system function. A reduction in these helpful microbes may have an affect on medical conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, cardiovascular disease, obesity and cancer.

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by Kalev Personal Training Nutritionist – Janine Bolton (http://www.factorfictionnutritionblog.com)

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Fitness Training – Personal Trainers Core Workout of the Week

Kalev — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:07:23 +0000

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 problems.

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Advanced Push Ups – Fitness Trainer in Vancouver exercise of the week

Kalev — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:10:19 +0000

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 triceps.

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Kalev Fitness Training Vancouver DJ Jesse James – Blog entry of the week

Kalev — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:06:51 +0000

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 I aimed to get to the gym 30 minutes early and really warm up before my work out. Ambitious yes and it turned out to be very rewarding. When Mr Jaaguste (you may not know this but his last name is even harder to say then his first) showed up with his words of encouragement I was excited. So we hit it hard first a combination of arms, chest and back in a cycle for several reps more then I could pump out the previous week. The warm up was really helping me push out several more push-up on the bench then I had ever imaged I could do. Some more reps with weights in front of the mirror and some side hold that’s really worked my abs. And as usual to finish off the work out a unique exercise on the ball that is not only emasculating but difficult. It involves getting the ball tightly up under your torso then crunching with full arms out down then pulling the body straight up and squeezing the back muscles. After the classic 5 more from Kalev I was toast and felt a horrible goodness all over my body.

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Ab Fitness – Personal Training exercise of the week – Crunches

Kalev — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:02:43 +0000

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 is a resistance band which you can get from most department stores for less than $15. Remember your hip movement again too.

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Vancouver Personal Trainers Nutritionist Tip – Sodium

Kalev — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:58:34 +0000

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. Salt is literally almost everywhere and can have more of an impact on how you look and feel than you may realize.

Salt is an essential mineral that works in the body to regulate water content and blood volume. It is added to foods for flavour, and acts as a preservative. Salt is available in three main forms: unrefined (sea salt), refined (table salt), and iodized salt.

(Just so we’re on the same page, for simplification I generally refer to the stuff on the table as “salt” and the stuff in processed foods as “sodium”.)

The average North American gets around 3500-6000mg per day. The recommended amount of sodium is less than 2300mg (1 teaspoon) per day! But considering that sodium is in most foods in the grocery store, not to mention the massive amounts in restaurant food, this number is near impossible to achieve with Western eating habits.

When you’re young, you can probably get away with the massive amounts of salt that are in most foods without having to think twice about it. But as you get older, salt can turn into a sneaky culprit leading to high blood pressure, increased risk for cardiovascular disease and kidney problems. Not to mention, a high salt intake has been linked to certain types of cancer and bone loss. Needless to say, it’s better to get used to a low-salt lifestyle sooner rather than later.

A lot of my clients ask me if salty foods will make them fat. Calories come from carbohydrates, protein, fat and alcohol. Salt is Calorie free, so a food that is higher in sodium won’t make you gain any more weight than a low-sodium food, per se. The catch is that many high sodium foods are also high in sugar and/or fat, which very well could result in more of you to love, especially if you indulge in those foods often.

If you follow a healthy diet that happens to be high in sodium, any weight gain (or lack of weight loss) is likely due to water retention. High sodium foods will cause you to carry around a bit more water, leaving you with that feeling that is often described simply as “puffy”. No one wants to be puffy, but at least it’s temporary and easily reversible by drinking a lot of water, limiting salt, and good old exercise.

Due to the overabundance of sodium in the diet, sodium deficiency (“hyponatremia”) is very rare. Hyponatremia can occur with endurance athletes (such as marathoners) or bodybuilders, with consumption of large amounts of water without electrolytes, and excessive sweat losses.

Don’t know what to look for or can’t stomach the thought of bland food? Here are some tips for lowering sodium and keeping the flavour in your food:

Avoid processed or packaged foods, unless they are labeled “low sodium,” and read the nutrition facts panel to find out the exact amount of sodium they contain.
Generally, a food is considered “low sodium” if it has less than 140 mg of sodium per serving.
Ask for your meals to be prepared without salt when you eat out.
Use sodium-free spices and herbs instead of salt such as Mrs. Dash, garlic, pepper and basil.
Take the salt shaker off the tableWatch out for notoriously high sodium foods such as: cheese, pretzels, nuts, canned meats/fish, deli food, sauces and soups.

http://www.factorfictionnutritionblog.com by Kalev Personal Training Nutritionist – Janine Bolton

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Vancouver Personal Trainer exercise of the week – The Lunge

Kalev — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:18:59 +0000

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. An added bonus is that you get great gluteus maximum (butt) muscles which will make your jeans look that much better!

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Personal Training in Vancouver Exercise of the Week – the Squat

Kalev — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:32:44 +0000

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 and quadriceps muscles anytime you need to outlast your competition.

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Vancouver Personal Trainers Nutritionist Tip – What to eat before a workout

Kalev — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:56:55 +0000

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 should I eat?”.

Nutrition and what you eat and when plays a huge role in endurance, strength, fatigue and more. Serious athletes need to have a regimented nutrition plan to help them improve their sport performance and prevent fatigue, but even recreational exercisers (that’s most of us) will see a huge benefit by getting proper nutrition before, during and after exercise.

The major players in nutrition for exercise are carbohydrate, protein and fluids.

Carbohydrate is the body’s main source of energy during moderate to high intensity activity, so you want to give your body carbs that it can breakdown easily beforehand. This is one time when simple carbs that are low fiber (white bread, Rice Crispies, etc) are better. Carbohydrates are also stored in the body as glycogen, to be used for energy later.

As you workout longer…

Kalev Personal Training Nutritionist – Janine Bolton

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