Exercise Inside or Outside?!?
Exercising outside offers so many unique benefits. A positive boost to your mood being particularly salient these days. But how can we weigh the mental, emotional, and physical health...
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Strength, Mobility, AND Balance
The safest, most effective strength training incorporates mobility and balance training. If not every time, much of the time. Committing to exclusively training balance or mobility is wonderful.
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Endurance Training: The Good, The Bad, and The Fabulous
When we train for endurance, we improve our ability to take oxygen from the air, deliver it throughout the body, and use it effectively. Our heart, lungs, and circulatory system adapt. Our muscles...
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VO2 Max - Pinpointing the Weakest Link in Your Training
As life gets busier and more complex, time becomes our most precious commodity. That’s why optimizing your workouts based on your unique physiology and goals is key to getting results -...
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Why you need to seriously consider creatine supplementation
Creatine supplements have long been used by body builders and power athletes to boost performance. We are only recently beginning to fully understand the numerous benefits creatine can provide for...
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Want to "Spot Train"? Keep Exercising.
How’s that for a provocative headline? The notion of “spot training” has been around for an extremely long time. For almost as long, health and fitness professionals, such...
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The not-so-hidden benefits of Our Fitness Clubs
More Canadians than ever have home gyms. We cite convenience, lower cost, and privacy as huge benefits. Which makes sense. For decades we have complained that we can’t exercise because we...
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What IS Functional Training anyhow?
While I don’t add the word functional to describe the type of training I do with my clients, you wouldn’t be wrong if you labelled it as such. The human body needs a number of things...
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