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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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Common Injuries – The Rotator Cuff – Vancouver Fitness Tip
The rotator cuff is comprised of four muscles: supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres major and subscapularis. This group of small muscles is responsible for the internal/external rotation of the arm and one of the major abductor muscles. Basically, if you moving your … Continue reading
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The Gun Show! Bigger Biceps Now! – Vancouver Fitness Tips
First of all, I’m writing this post for you people out there who just LOVE to work your guns. Personally, I never isolate my arms. I prefer to let them get worked as secondary muscle groups when I do compound … Continue reading
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LIFT Your Calories Away! – Vancouver Personal Training Tip
All this time I’ve been telling any of my clients who want to burn fat, “you GOTTA do your cardio!” Explaining the importance of a well balanced diet and running a calorie deficit is always something I mention as well, … Continue reading
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Tagged calories, fat, Weight loss, Weight Training
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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
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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Tagged Core, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Home workout, Lose Weight, Muscle, Periodization, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Core, Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Gym, Home workout, Lose Weight, Muscle, Nutrition Information, Periodization, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Cardio, Core, Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Gym, Lose Weight, Muscle, Nutrition Information, Periodization, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Cardio, Core, DJ Jesse James, Exercise, Gym, Lose Weight, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Gym, Home workout, legs, Lose Weight, Muscle, Periodization, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, squat, Tone, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Cardio, Core, DJ Jesse James, Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Gym, Home workout, Lose Weight, Muscle, Nutrition Information, p90x, Periodization, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Core, Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Gym, Home workout, Lose Weight, Muscle, Periodization, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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Personal Trainer – Exercise of the day
The Personal Trainer exercise of the day is the “side bridge”. It’s is a great way to activate core muscles in a stationary position. If you practise, it gets easy however, so here is a great way to make it a … Continue reading
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Tagged Core, Exercise, Fitness, Muscle, Periodization, Personal, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Trainer, Trainers, Training, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Gym, Muscle, Periodization, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Posture, Shape, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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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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Tagged Cardio, Exercise, Fitness, Gym, Lose Weight, Muscle, Periodization, Personal Trainer, Personal Trainers, Personal Training, Shape, Tone, Vancouver, Weight Training, Workout, Yaletown
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