How to Stay Fit in Vancouver’s Rainy Season: A Personal Trainer’s Guide
Vancouver’s rainy season can derail your fitness routine. Learn how a local personal trainer helps clients stay motivated, active, and on track all year long.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Fitness: How Social Media ‘Experts’ Mislead You & Why Hiring a Good Coach Matters
Have you ever seen a beginner confidently explaining the perfect way to train—despite having little actual experience? Or maybe you’ve caught yourself doing the same thing early in your fitness journey. If so, you’ve witnessed the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action. This cognitive bias causes people with low knowledge in a subject to overestimate their …
Fix Your Posture: 5 Essential Exercises for Sedentary Individuals in Vancouver, BC
Why Posture Matters in a Sedentary Lifestyle If you live in Vancouver, BC, chances are you spend a lot of time sitting—whether it’s at a desk, in traffic, or at home on the couch. Long hours of sitting can lead to poor posture, back pain, and muscle imbalances that affect your overall movement and well-being. …
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Move Better, Lift Stronger: The Essential Role of Mobility Training in Vancouver
When it comes to strength training, most people focus on lifting heavier weights and pushing their limits. However, an often overlooked yet essential component of a successful strength training regimen is mobility. Good mobility not only enhances performance but also plays a critical role in injury prevention, muscle activation, and overall efficiency of movement. In …
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Cardio or Curls: The Battle for Muscle Growth in Vancouver
Want to turbocharge your gains at the gym? It might be time to give your cardio endurance a serious boost Are you struggling to see gains at the gym despite your efforts? Your lack of cardiovascular endurance might be holding you back more than you think A lack of cardiovascular endurance can affect muscle building …
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Protein Starvation: The Silent Saboteur of Your Fitness Gains
Low protein intake may have be sabotaging your progress for years! This is a missing piece of the puzzle for so many fitness enthusiasts looking for progress. Try the strategies outlined below and watch your progress skyrocket. Picture your muscles as a construction site after a rigorous workout — bustling with activity, repairs, and …
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A Strong Foundation: Why Stability Training Matters More Than You Think
Whether you’re a newbie or advanced gym goer stability training is a key part of a solid fitness plan and should never be overlooked. Unfortunately in todays modern world of social media and unrealistic standards; its easy to lose sight of the small things that matter and dive right into the deep end of lifting …
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Energize Your Fat Loss: Unveiling the Power of Energy Systems
You walk into the gym and immediately you’re confronted with red faced Roger on the treadmill sprinting like his life depends on it, sweaty Sally doing a wild superset of burpees and battle ropes until she’s about to pass out and mild Malcolm chilling with a gentle pace on the stationary bike. Your carefully considered …
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Cracking the Region-Beta Paradox: Its Influence on your Progress
I’ll bet the fancy title of ‘Region-Beta Paradox’ is likely something you haven’t come across before. Neither had I until a week ago. I was listening to one of my favourite podcast’s (Modern Wisdom) while at the gym. The presenter began discussing some psychological affects that cause people to be paralyzed with inaction; one of which …
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Age vs Metabolism: Strategies to Keep Your Fire Burning
I was with 3 of my closest friends last weekend having some dinner and a couple of drinks when, as usual, we got onto the subject of health and fitness. A normal topic each weekend considering the boys have desk jobs and I am the fitness man of the group. We broached the topic of …
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