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Trainer Tip: When To Apply Heat Or Cold To Sore Muscles And Joints.
Sore and not sure if you should apply a cold or heat pack to that boo boo? Typically, if the injury is fresh (you sprained or pulled something) the muscle is inflamed. You want to reduce the...
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How I Train And Approach Rest Days As Fitness Model And Trainer
So I asked you guys what you wanted me to blog about and many of you asked about my personal training program and how to incorporate light training days/ active recovery days. So here it is. My overall...
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Free weights vs. machines. What and when should you use which?
So there's long been a battle between which is better -- machines or free weights? There's passionate opinions on both sides of the fence, much differing approaches and even more confusion. Trainers of...
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My #transformationtuesday Story. From Meek To Firm.
Across social media people love transformation Tuesday, before and afters and progress pics. And rightly so. It's the modern narrative of constant progress, of things continually getting better, in...
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The Price Of Almond Butter Has Reached New Heights. And This Is Why.
I recently walked into my local health food store to grab a jar of my much beloved almond butter. As I reached for the jar I almost fell off my chair, though I was standing. $20 was the asking price....
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Be A Pro Fitness Model: How To Come Prepared To A Fitness Shoot
At first glance photo shoots seem rather glamorous and, well, easy -- like a chimp with lipstick on could do it. But let me tell you, as someone who's been modelling for almost 15 years and very...
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Trainer Tip: Do your Lunges in Reverse
Lunges are a fantastic lower body exercise (and the one I'm most likely to skip!). There are several ways to do them but it seems the most popular way is to is step forward into a lunge. However,...
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Cardio: I Don’t Do Any
We’ve come along way since Jane Fonda aerobics. But still, many women are far too attached to their cardio and over-sold to its benefits. I see the same robot women on the same robot machines, spinning...
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You Need to Warm Up Better: Mobilizations and Activations
In my last blog I wrote about the importance of good warm ups that should come before good workouts -- which I hardly ever see anyone doing. It's a big mistake to jump into a hardcore workout without...
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You Need to Warm-Up Better: Foam Rolling
If there's one fitness mistake I see more than anything else it's people not adequately preparing their bodies for workouts. I'm sorry, but doing 5 minutes on the elliptical while reading a gossip rag...
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Crunchless Tabata Core and Abs Workout [video]
I love doing abs in the tabata format. If you didn't know, tabata is a 4-minute interval training format in which there is a 20 second work interval followed by a 10 second rest, and so on for 4...
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Trainer Tip: How To Use The Assisted Pull-up Machine
Many women and new gym goers are intimidated by this machine: the assisted pull-up. And rightly so. I know I was when I first started going to the gym and I didn't go near it for years. This machine is...
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What I Look For In Training Shoes
There used to be a time when my basis for choosing a pair of workout shoes was solely how fly they looked, and maybe price. I remember once trying to run in basketball shoes. Silliness. These days I'm...
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So, You Wanna be a Personal Trainer? Some Words of Wisdom.
Five years ago I was stuck in a dead-end office job hating the daily grind. Chained to the computer for 6 hours a day just wasn't for me. I thought to myself, "what's the opposite of this shit? Ah ha!...
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How Long Should You Workout?
One question I get asked a lot is how long my workouts are and people are often shocked by the answer. Folks think I must spend all day in the gym. Well, I actually do; as a personal trainer the gym is...
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Food Politics: What’s Safe and Ethical to Eat?
From the onset I want to make clear that this post is going to raise more questions than it is answers. Because I myself am confused. As someone who is not only very health-conscious but also...
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Trainer Tip: Play with Tempo; Lift Slower And Hold
Don't forget to play with tempo, static holds and muscle time under tension when you're lifting. It's boring and shortchanging to just lift up for 1 second and down for 1, mindlessly. But it's...
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Trainer Tip: Forget the Hip Abduction Machine
Far too often I see girls pounding away on the hip adduction machine in high hopes, I presume, of either "toning" or slimming down their inner thighs. This awkward machine does work and strengthen the...
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The Benefits of Bulking
I'm currently training someone who is already extremely fit and very lean but is wanting to gain a bit of muscle in some places -- mainly on her legs and butt. Said girl is a real cardio bunny and...
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Sustainable Protein Source for the Future: Insects. Will you?
With the world's ever growing population and limited resources it's clear we all can't continue to eat as most North Americans currently do: eating meat several times a week -- or, in some cases,...
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