Do you find that your muscles are still sore by the time you have to return to the gym? If so, you may still need a greater recovery time incorporated into your program. Recovery time is one of the most important factors in muscle growth. However, what’s interesting is that research shows that low intensity [...]

We’ve all heard this before, “80% of any fitness goal is eating right”. But, is this really true? To answer this question one must consider the level of fitness they stand in, their fitness goals, and their current eating habits. Take, for example somebody who is obese with poor eating habits and little exercise experience. Considering they’ve never [...]

Welcome to 2010! Its a new year ladies and gentlemen! Many of you have reassessed your fitness goals and fine tuned your workout programs to accommodate the positive physical and mental changes you wish to see in the great year ahead. Its time to get busy! Right!?!? Its time to get fit! Right!?!?! Absolutely! But…be smart about it.
Before [...]

Training without a purpose? Do you lack definitive goals,and do you get down on yourself for it? Well…at least you’re still training! Remember, there’s so many benefits of working out. You may not even be aware of some of them. Here are a some great reasons as to why we do what we do in the gym.
-To reduce the risk of [...]

Secondary Components of Fitness
Fitness comes in all different shapes, sizes, abilities, and elements. Certain athletes are developed in some elements of movement better than other athletes. A power lifter, for example, will be able to lift a considerable amount of weight more than a tri-athlete will, but will not nearly be able to run, swim, [...]

Primary Components of Fitness
When we say “fitness” we generally refer to the physical sense, meaning the capacity of our bodies to do physical work. Our level of “fitness” is divided into four primary components:

Cardiovascular Capacity – Also referred to as our “aerobic capacity”. Our cardio capacity is the ability of our respiratory system to take [...]

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Our Cardio Kickboxing Boot Camp is no ordinary boot camp however. We integrate the fun and intensity [...]

Personal Training Vancouver tips – Muscle imbalance: Part 2 overpowering calf muscles . The previous article in the series spoke to the imbalance of the trapezius muscle over the midback. Today we are going to look at how the rear calf muscles (gastrocnemius/soleus) can overpower the anterior tibialis and other muscles of the anterior lower [...]

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My name is Alex and I am the newest member of the Kalev Personal Training Team. I just moved to Vancouver from Toronto and am pleasantly surprised to see how many people here are physically active. In Toronto I was a full-time personal trainer at a club called Goodlife Fitness. Once I decided it was [...]

Have you ever wondered how fast and Intense to lift your weights at the gym, or how long to wait between sets? Maybe you keep working harder and faster but you aren’t getting the results that you want and you don’t know why. Well, movement speed, rep range, and break time are an integral part [...]