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Building Balance in Your Body
Everyone has fallen over at least once in their life. Slippery floors, uneven surfaces, in the game, bad footwear, alcohol, injuries, not paying attention, poor balance and a lack coordination can all contribute to an increased risk of taking a fall. These all trigger the importance of building balance. This is…
Functional Movement in Your Gym Routine
Humans are designed to move around. Picking things up, pulling things around, pushing, reaching, running and jumping (to name a few). But as we all know, in todays world a lot of us spend most of our time sitting in front of a computer, in a car, huddled over…
Look and Feel Great for Summer 2017
Want to look and feel great for summer? Want to train smarter? Here are seven great movements to incorporate into your workouts to ensure that you are getting the maximum benefits out of each session to help you achieve a greater quality of life and put you on the path…
Eccentric Training To Gain Lean Muscle Mass
People come to the gym for lots of different reasons; to increase our cardiovascular fitness, our flexibility and range of motion, for rehabilitation, sports training, and specific strength training. A lot of us just want to be stronger, have more muscle definition, and look good as well (I’m looking at…
Achieve Your Gym Goals This Summer
We all have goals. Whether they are health related (such as gym goals), career related, personal or otherwise, we all want something more out of life. I am constantly trying to better myself and I am in no way perfect! Here are 8 simple steps that I like to follow…
Interval Training for Highly Effective Weight Loss
I thought some of you might be asking “why is my trainer putting me on the treadmill and making me go faster and slower in all these different ways” so i decided to give you all a little information on the topic of interval training. What is interval training?…
Muscle Tension Relief After Training
So you all have probably noticed the weird multi coloured cylinder rods propping up the wall next to the cross trainers in the gym. No, they are not for the structural support of the building, they are actually very useful in relieving muscle tension using a technique known as myofascial…
Efficient Exercise Methods with Mind Over Matter
We all get stressed out. Life can get very hectic sometimes, and we as humans have evolved many different ways of dealing with it. I, like many people I know, use exercise not only to enhance my fitness, well being and performance, but also to manage my excess energy and…