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Equipment You Don’t Need in Your Home Gym
A lot of people are currently assessing whether they want to keep their home gyms, or start up again with a fitness chain. There are definitely pros and cons to either option. If you would like to keep your home gym, but just clean it up a bit, here are a few pieces...
Here’s How to Get the Best Results From Exercise
People ask me all the time, "What is the most important factor is to get results from exercise?" Is it the actual fitness move you do?Does the intensity you put into the workout matter most?Is duration of each session the key consideration? The answer is, yes all of...
3 Ways to Get Moving More ALL Day Long
Moving all day long is the most important thing you can do for yourself. Humans are born to move…all throughout the day! Our ancestors used to walk, climb, run, crawl, swim, haul, dig, squat, throw, and carry things all day long, in order to survive. This is quite the...
Are High Reps or Low Reps More Effective?
I get asked a lot, about how many exercise repetitions a person should perform, for an exercise to be effective. The short answer is…it depends. It depends on: Your fitness goals. Are you looking to build muscle or lose fat?How much you exercise in a week. The more...
Oh No, I’m Injured, Should I Stop Exercising?
So many people come to me looking for exercise assistance after they've been challenged with a injured body part. The most common injuries my clients have are shoulder, knee and low back injuries. They are caused by numerous reasons including falling, bad exercise...
4 Exercises to Strengthen Your Deep Core Muscles
Like any muscle group, it's critical to exercise the pelvic floor to strengthen it. I've found that people have the most challenging time building up strength in their deep core muscles. The pelvic floor and transverse abdominal (TVA, the really deep abdominals)...
My Favourite Yoga Poses
Yoga is a great form of exercise that strengthens and stretches you all at once. There are so many yoga poses that get some muscles firing while simultaneously opening up the opposite muscles groups. I especially love yoga poses that help those of us who spend too...
Have a Positive Return to the Gym After COVID-19
Many of us, myself included, have avoided the gyms for over one and half years now. I didn't notice much of a change in my fitness routine because I'm lucky, I have my own studio set-up. I know how to continue building muscle with tools including the TRX, Swiss and...
Pandemic Posture is Concerning
For over 1 year now, many of us have spent numerous hours sitting at an ergonomically incorrect desk set-up, while working from home. This bad work set-up has led to a lot of people starting to have a hunched over appearance. Kyphosis, which I term "pandemic posture",...
3 Back Exercises the Can Damage Your Back
Those of you who know me, know I'm a firm believer in the critical importance of regular exercise. When you workout with me, you'll quickly learn I'm a stickler for performing an exercise with proper form and posture. Correct exercise form is critical to avoiding...