Training & Nutrition
A Quick and Basic Guide to Setting Up Calories and Macros
A Quick and Basic Guide to Setting Up Calories and Macros Creating a plan for daily caloric intake and macro breakdown involves determining your calorie needs and setting specific macronutrient targets. Here’s a concise guide to help you develop your plan: Calculate your calorie needs: To maintain your current weight, determine your Total Daily Energy…
Read MoreHow to Work Out at Home (on your own) [Podcast Blog: Episode 5]
Podcast Episode 5 – How to Work Out at Home This episode starting off with the best intentions to dive into how someone at home can structure a workout, what movements to do, how it’s supposed to feel etc. And we did touch on all that stuff, but we also hit a LOT of other…
Read MorePros and Cons of Virtual Personal Training
Pros and Cons of Virtual Personal Training No lie, everyone has been thrust into an entirely virtual world. If you’re lucky, your work is probably entirely virtual, your friend hangouts are virtual, hell you probably even grocery shop virtually! For many, their personal training has gone virtual as well. And with regards to fitness, every…
Read MoreThe 5 Best Pieces of At Home Workout Equipment: Get In Shape At Home
The 5 Best Pieces of At Home Workout Equipment: Get In Shape At Home Whether we like it or not, working out at home has quickly become a necessity. Not only is it pretty much our only option for traditional training (other than walking, running, biking etc.), but it is just as important now as…
Read More6 Simple Ways to Make Progress With At Home Workouts
If you really want to make progress towards your goal and you don’t have access to seemingly unlimited weight or resistance, then you have to turn your attention to other methods of progression while working out at home. Adding load (going up in weight) is obviously the easiest and most commonly used, and for…
Read MoreHow to Know if You Should Try the Ketogenic Diet
Unless you’ve been under a rock recently, you’ve heard the buzz about the ketogenic diet (or keto). Everybody is confirming miraculous weight loss results and increased brain power. But what’s the deal with it and is it really all that we think it is? What is the Ketogenic Diet? The keto diet is a diet…
Read MoreYour Weight Scale is a Liar!
Oh how you love the weight scale. Every-time you hop on it’s like Christmas, maybe you were naughty maybe you were nice. You wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom, strip down completely and hop on the scale. Only to realize it’s not going where you wanted it to go. Maybe it has…
Read MoreWhat Can’t I Lose Weight? It Just Stopped All Of A Sudden
I received an e-mail from a client last week saying that she was disappointed with her weight loss since she had cut out drinking and started exercising again. It had been two weeks so far and she had lost two pounds. Now in the eyes of the trainer that’s great weight loss that’s probably more permanent…
Read MoreTwo Great Exercises for Burning Fat
Two Ultimate Exercises for Burning Fat If your goal is to be burn fat, be strong, and get fit, which it needs be, then the following two movements should be staples in your routine! The Burpee: The relationship between a person and their burpee workout can be somewhat of a love/hate thing. They’re hard enough to make you…
Read MorePrivate Personal Training
Why should you consider private personal training? Do you have issues with: Staying motivated Being consistent Pushing yourself Bad eating habits Not knowing what to do The truth is that working out isn’t easy. Staying consistent is even harder. Hiring someone to provide private personal training may be the most effective way to get the…
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