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Fitness Exercise Speed – Personal Trainer
Your movement speed during fitness training can drastically determine your muscles activated in a workout. If you go to slowly with a light weight you may get little or no development at all in strength. Conversely if you go too … 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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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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Tagged Cardio, Core, Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Gym, Lose Weight, Muscle, Nutrition Information, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Colds, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Lose Weight, Muscle, Nutrition Information, Personal Trainer, Personal Training, Shape, Sickness, Tone, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Eat more to Lose Weight
You may be starving yourself and getting fatter because of it. Some people think that by skipping their breakfast and sometimes their lunch they are saving calories or loosing fat because they aren’t eating. The opposite is usually what happens, … 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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Interval Training
Intervals? What are intervals? Some of you may already be doing them, but for those who aren’t… Intervals are an alternation in your intensity, while doing any form of cardio, to increase your anaerobic threshold (your efficiency to use fats … Continue reading
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Do Cardio after weights to burn more fat!*
Respiratory Exchange Ratio (RER) is the difference between the O ² we breath in and the CO ² we breath out. The RER basically tell us what % fat and % carbs we are burning sitting around or running on … Continue reading
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Fiber
Fiber has many health benefits such as reducing your risk for Type II Diabetes, Heart disease, and colon cancer, and can help lower cholesterol. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t getting enough. Fiber can also aid in weight-loss or maintaining a … Continue reading
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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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Calcium
It amazes me how many people I meet who aren’t getting enough Calcium in their diet. Calcium is a very important part of a healthy diet for maintenance of healthy bones and teeth, and prevention of osteoporosis. Our bodies need … Continue reading
Benefits of Eccentric Contractions
An Eccentric contraction is when you are lowering a weight during a regular set of an exercise. What that means is: the weight is exerting greater force than your muscles are and is forcing you back to the starting position. … Continue reading
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Carb Drinks:
Diet has a huge effect on exercise. Your energy levels and your body’s response to the training that it performs are all affected by the things you eat and drink. For instance, drinking a carb drink while doing cardio exercise … 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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