Scaling results without the scale
How do you know you are on your way to achieving your fitness goals? Did you take pictures of yourself buy cheap to see if you are getting more toned? Did your personal trainer run you through a battery of tests to see if you...
Balance
As stated last time, we let you know how important it was to incorporate balance into your workout. As promised, here are some ideas using balance as a part of your warm up and how to apply it to an exercise you are currently doing. BOSU’s are...
Are You Forgetting Something?
I always laugh at myself when I walk into a gym because being a Personal Trainer means I over analyze what people are doing. I could go on forever about what I see but rather today, I would like to share something that I do...
Struggling for Motivation?
All professional athletes have a coach. Many, like Michael Jordan, credit a coach (Phil Jackson) with taking an already good game to a higher level. It never hurts to get an outside perspective of what or how you are doing something, at the...
Exercise of the week: Dynamic Flexibility
Recently we talked about the importance of a warm-up in you fitness routine. When doing so we used the term "Dynamic Flexibility". Now the term Flexibility you may know but adding the word Dynamic before it may be something new. This is a form of movement...
I don’t need to warm-up before I workout….Do I?
To properly prepare your body for your workouts takes more than walking to the gym from your car. It’s amazing how one of the most important parts of a fitness program can be “forgotten” or simply, LEFT OUT! Do most people not have the time...
Motivation in keeping those Fitness Goals
Every New Year brings a common theme for most...
Weight Loss Super Hero
Dr. Ali Zentner is local Cardiologist working out of West Vancouver to help fight Obesity not only through her amazing resources of knowledge, impressive credentials and calorie-fighting strategies but with her own personal story of success!! Check out this link to her interview on CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/01/live-chat-busting-health-myths.html Dr. Ali has...
Cookies for the Holidays
It's that time of year again when baked goods run rampant and we try to show our appreciation for others with candy and sweets in the good name of Christmas . . . And let's be honest we all like to indulge. Here...
STEP 1: Make the TIME!
How many times have you set a New Years resolution to get back to the gym and by the time February roles around you aren't even keeping your gym bag in the car anymore? How many diets have you signed up for only to find...