Category: General Health
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CrossFit: The Best Exercise for Hearth Health
We could all benefit from maintaining a healthy heart through exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle choices. While many workouts can benefit cardiovascular health, CrossFit stands out as one of the best exercises for heart health. This high-intensity, functional fitness regimen combines strength training, aerobic conditioning, and functional movements, all of which work together to boost heart…
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The Benefits of Sauna and Cold Plunge: CrossFit’s Best-Kept Secret Revealed
Sauna and cold plunge therapy are more than just wellness trends – they’re powerful tools that can elevate recovery and performance for athletes. This powerful combination of heat and cold can help reduce inflammation, relieve sore muscles, and improve circulation, making it a fantastic addition to any CrossFitter’s routine. It’s a simple yet effective way…
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7 CrossFit Exercises Without Equipment: Stay Fit on the Go
As CrossFit athletes, we know that our training goes beyond the walls of our regular box. Whether you’re traveling for work, vacationing, or simply away from your usual routine, maintaining your fitness can be a challenge. Thankfully, there are numerous effective CrossFit exercises you can do without any equipment. In this article, we’ll explore some…
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7 Benefits of Mobility Training in CrossFit
CrossFit is a high-intensity sport that tests your strength, endurance, and mental abilities. As with any fitness program, there are risks of injury. However, you can lower the chances of injury and improve performance by adding proper mobility training to your CrossFit routine. If you’re familiar with CrossFit athletes or are one yourself, then you…
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Is It Worth Getting a Personal Trainer?
7 Benefits That Make PT an Invaluable Investment! Are you tired of spinning your wheels at the gym, unsure if you’re on the right track to achieving your fitness goals? Perhaps you’ve considered hiring a personal trainer, but have said to yourself, ‘is it worth getting a personal trainer?’ Well, let us put those doubts…
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Is CrossFit Good for Seniors?
CrossFit has taken the world of fitness by storm in recent years, offering an intense and varied workout that can be tailored to fit any individual’s needs, even those of senior citizens. But is CrossFit really good for seniors? It sure is! CrossFit offers a wide range of benefits that help older adults stay active…
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Is CrossFit for Beginners?
For many people, when they think of CrossFit, they think of the CrossFit Games, the world championships of CrossFit. This is where the fittest people on Earth compete in multiple workouts a day for multiple days, covering the gamut of fitness tests from how heavy you can lift, to how fast you can run long…
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The Importance of Vitamin D
As Canadians, we’ve all heard of vitamin D and how we don’t get enough of it in the winter. Considering it’s produced from exposure to the sun, it’s easy to see how we become deficient in it during months where we’re mostly inside and when we do go out, we’re fully covered. How much does…
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The Goal of CrossFit
By now, most people have heard of CrossFit. Some have gone on to search “CrossFit” and seen all kinds of videos of people doing crazy workouts, flying around the gym in what seems to be an uncontrolled mess of a workout (by the way, these videos are not a good representation of what happens during…
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We Are Made to Move
I’ve worked out my whole life. My mother recalls days when her friends marvelled at the hilarious child who faithfully tuned into Citytv’s 20 Minute Workout and tried to keep up with three ladies in spandex performing aerobics on a rotating platform. From there, I graduated to treadmills, stepmills, step, spinning, cardio and bodypump classes. …
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Eating to Improve Energy
How many times throughout the day do you find that you have low energy? Do you need that cup of coffee in the morning to function properly? Are you useless in your workout if you don’t have your pre-workout? Many people find themselves in these situations and it seems that low energy is something that…
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Battle Cold Season with this Three Step Protocol
This is a tip that I’ve used with myself, family and clients to battle oncoming colds for several years now and when used properly, it has never failed. It was taught to me by world renowned strength coach, Charles Poliquin, who used it on his hockey players during the 1996 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.…
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My CrossFit Yoga Journey
Yoga has been my solace in my daily “go go go’ world. It found me almost a decade ago when I questioned every aspect of myself. I found a great appreciation for understanding the concept of breath with movement, which is perhaps the most important aspect of Yoga. Breath must follow each pose and by…