If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is how important our mental health is. Many people discovered just how much exercise positively impacted their mental health during those trying years. Exercise has been widely recognized as an effective tool for improving mental health, from releasing endorphins to reducing stress hormones and improving brain function. …
Partner Personal Training
Partner Personal Training: Fitness for Two! Who wouldn’t love having someone support you in your training sessions? Partner personal training is a great fitness option for benefiting from the expertise of a certified personal trainer while saving some money and having fitness fun with another person. You and a family member, spouse, friend, or co-worker …
The Role of Cardiovascular Training in Your Fitness Routine
Cardiovascular training, or cardio, is essential to any fitness routine. It involves exercise that increases your heart and breathing rates, such as running, cycling, swimming, brisk walking, or circuit training. Cardiovascular training provides numerous benefits for your health and fitness, including improving heart health, reducing stress, and boosting energy levels. In this blog post, I’ll …
Benefits of Small Group Training
Small group personal training or semi-private personal training has become increasingly popular in recent years as an alternative to traditional one-on-one private personal training. Small group training, also known as small group classes, typically involves a group of 8-10 clients working with one personal trainer. Semi-private personal training consists of 3-4 clients with one personal …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Yearly Pursuit of the Bikini Body
As summer rolls around, the term ‘bikini body’ inevitably pops up in various media outlets, creating an almost vigorous pursuit of an idealized physical form. “Fitfluencers” are trying to sell you extreme training programs or the newest, latest and greatest ‘secret to fat loss’ products to reel you in and make you feel that your …
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 …
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 …
