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Sustainable Workouts and Training

When you want to make fitness a part of your lifestyle, you have to consider that whatever you choose, it needs to be exercise and physical activity that is effective, safe and sustainable. This involves choosing exercise and activities you enjoy, incorporating a variety of workouts, and allowing time for rest and recovery. It’s also …

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Making Exercise and Movement a Habit

Making Exercise and Movement a Habit:  The Secret Sauce to a Healthy Life Exercise is essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It helps improve cardiovascular health, maintains a healthy weight, and boosts energy levels. Yet, despite its many benefits, many people struggle to make exercise a regular part of their daily routine. Start Small One …

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The Best Time to Exercise

The Best Time to Exercise Exercise is essential to a healthy lifestyle, and its timing can impact its effectiveness.  While everyone’s schedule and lifestyle are different, some general guidelines can be followed to determine the best time to exercise. In the simplest terms, the answer is – whenever you can fit it in with consistent …

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Death to Bootcamps

It is 2021, we are 10,000 months into a pandemic, and there is no better time to rethink the “bootcamp” fitness model and the bootcamp mentality.  Let’s have a fitness industry reset, shall we?  When you know better, you do better! The implications contained in the name “bootcamp” immediately put participants on notice that they …

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Why Hire a Personal Trainer in 2023?

You might be asking yourself…. Why hire a personal trainer? It’s simple – a real, in-person, experienced certified personal trainer and/or coach will do more for you than any online fitness influencer, fitness trend or fad diet. Are you in the same place as you were last year? Have you struggled to achieve your fitness …

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Gym Anxiety to Gym Confidence

Move from Gym Anxiety to Gym Confidence by understanding what exercise can do for you.  One of the biggest obstacles to exercise and fitness for beginners is gym anxiety. We get it, starting up a new fitness routine and walking into a gym can be terrifying. You feel like everyone is looking at you. You …

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The Best Personal Trainers and Private Gym in Edmonton

As SVPT fitness + athletics enters our 15th year of providing private personal training to Edmonton, we are confident saying we are the best because of the success we have had over the span of 14 years, including surviving an oversaturated fitness industry, a recession, a pandemic, and now into recovery.  We have persevered because …

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“I Will Start When…….”

Getting into new routines is arguably one of the hardest things to do as an adult. It never seems like the “right” time to start or to get back on track. Let’s be honest, it’s also freaking hard in the beginning. Understand that there is NO perfect time to start. Life will always be there, …

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Spinach and Feta Chicken Burger

Spinach and Feta Chicken Burger Take a look at our recipe for the Spinach and Feta Chicken Burger. Serves 4 (1 burger per serving) Ingredients: 1 lb. ground chicken 4 cups spinach 1 tsp. olive oil 1 egg ½ cup breadcrumbs 1 garlic clove, minced 1 cup onion, diced 2 tsp. oregano ½ cup feta …

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Breakfast Quesadilla

Take a look below at our recipe for a delicious Breakfast Quesadilla. Breakfast Quesadilla Serves 1 Ingredients: 1 tsp. vegetable oil 1 cup spinach 2 eggs 1 oz. cheddar cheese, grated ½ tsp. garlic powder ½ tsp. onion powder ½ tsp. black pepper 1 8” whole wheat tortilla Preparation: Heat oil in a pan on …

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