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When running a Bootcamp, Boxing Workouts are one of my favourite types of workouts to use! They’re fun, different, a great workout, and allow your…

The step-up exercise is personally one of my favorite exercises to prescribe for any runner looking to increase their force production through the ground with…

As with any field of study there are overstatements, assumptions, misinterpretations of evidence and science, and general “flabby facts”. Fitness myths related to nutrition, exercise,…

If you’ve been in the world of fitness more than 10 minutes, you’ve most likely heard the terms mobility, stability and flexibility thrown around a…

Social Support is a major factor for adapting fitness habits successfully.  It can make or break long-term commitment. Positive social support means you have people in your…

Hang out in a gym, especially in a weight room, and you’ll likely hear some grunting. The guttural sound echoes from the gym walls. Is…

The Arnold Classic, one of if not the most prestigious titles in professional bodybuilding, will celebrate its 25th Anniversary this weekend. Held in Columbus, Ohio,…

Inversions are a way to see the exercise world from a different angle, quite literally. Instead of being upright standing or sitting, or even supine…

Picture yourself on a white sandy beach. A slight sea breeze sprays a mist of salt water across your face and over the crowded beach. You’re at the mecca for the area’s best bikini contest, Coconuts on the Beach, Cocoa Beach, Florida. It’s 10 a.m. and like a Thanksgiving turkey, you’ve planned to baste your day away in the heat of the sun.

Sometimes you need to modify a lunge and other times a progression is what the client ordered. Using a resistance band to do a lunge…

As fitness professionals, we often hear complaints from clients about various muscle aches following tough workouts. Typically we can dispel their fears by explaining the…

Last week I talked about how valuable and necessary it is to listen as a form of marketing. On the opposite spectrum of that, it…