Tuesday Trainer and my spring teaching schedule

March 20, 2012 by 2 Comments

This week, the Tuesday Trainers are taking a break from exercise and instead, are sitting down to answer some questions about themselves. After you finish up here, head on over to Lindsay’s List and get to know the other Tuesday Trainers!

In tomorrow’s post, I’ll be re-capping my recent family vacation to sunny, southern California. Today, I’d like to fill you in on some upcoming fitness programs that I’ll be offering to local peeps this spring.

  • Bosu Blast; a 1-hour, small group, non-choreographed class, combining strength, balance, core, speed and agility training, all on the Bosu (a half stability ball). It’s running out of the Port Moody Rec Center for 5 weeks, at 10:30 Sundays, beginning April 15. You can register on-line or by calling 604-469-4556.
  • Effective Stretching and Core Strength; a 1-hour, registered program, designed to teach you how to effectively engage your core and improve your flexibility. Also at the Port Moody Rec Center, Sundays at 11:45 from May 6 until May 27th.
  • Yes We Can; a 6-week, small group training program with a focus on weight loss. We meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 7 pm at the Port Moody Rec Center. In addition to the 12 group training sessions, participants will meet with a nutritionist to discuss healthy, weight-loss promoting diets. Sessions run from April 3rd to May 10th. If evenings aren’t your thing, there’s also a group running Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9 to 10, April 4th to May 11th (I’m teaching this one too).
  • Younique Spring Fitness Workshops; a 3-part series of workshops, each combining a workout and a lecture/discussion component. Topics include ‘Fitness for fat loss’, ‘Perfecting your posture’ and ‘Concentrate on core’. For details, please visit Younique Fitness Studio’s website.

If you don’t live in the Tri-Cities (you should; it’s beautiful here!) and are interested in training with me, I also offer online personal training via email and Skype. For details, please check out my training page.

Have you ever participated in a small group personal training program before?

If so, tell me about your experience!

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Things you might have missed while I’ve been away

March 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment

I know. It’s been quiet around here for the past week or so. I’ve been on holiday with my family and chose to honor that time with a vacation from my computer. No e-mails or texts or phone calls. No Twitter or Facebook or blogging. (It was harder than I’m making it sound!)

I did, however, prepare a few posts in advance, just so you wouldn’t miss me while I was gone! Did you see them, even without my social media prompts?

If not, here’s what you missed;

Progressing your plank and packing for a plane ride

Exercising to look good

Hotel room workouts via Tuesday Trainer

Understanding your real reason for exercising

Making fitness a family affair via Coquitlam Center

I’ll be back to my regular blogging schedule tomorrow; Monday Motivation with a guest post from Talia Tugman of Bite Size Wellness fame!

Did you do anything exciting on your spring break?

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Exercise moves for your holiday hotel room: Tuesday Trainer does it again!

March 13, 2012 by 2 Comments

I’m still on holidays, so this will be short and sweet.

Today, Lindsay, over at Tuesday Trainer, is featuring some low-to-no equipment exercise moves you can do in the limited space of your hotel room. Just because you’re on vacation doesn’t mean you need to abandon exercise completely ;)

I submitted a couple of my favorite combination moves; adding band rows to squats and lunges. Have a try and let me know what you think!

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Tank top Tuesday: tricks for adding shape to your arms

March 6, 2012 by 13 Comments

So it’s possible, just possible, that I went shopping at Lululemon last week.

A class participant of mine just happened to be shopping there too. While I was in the change room trying on a pair of Wunder Unders (which somehow, came home with me… can you ever have enough black tights?), she was scouring the sale rack for items that she thought would look good on me. My own personal shopper! How great is that?

She came back with a bright, pink tank top and told me that I should try it on because (1) I wear too much black, (2) it was on sale ($29 less my R&D discount), (3) it was the last one and (4) it was my size. How could I refuse? Thanks so much June!

Great call, don’t you think?

I know, you want arms that you’d be proud to show off in a tank top too, right? Well you’re in luck. Today, Tuesday Trainer is featuring exercises guaranteed to strengthen your upper half.

I submitted my favorite upper body exercise; the pushup. In my opinion, pushups are the perfect exercise. They not only target your arms, chest and back, they’re also great for tightening up your midsection and butt. Check out my demo video and add some variety to your pushups.

Now head on over to Lindsay’s List to get your complete, upper body workout! Practice these moves three times a week, with weights/variations heavy enough to fatigue your muscles within 10-12 repetitions. You’ll be ready to rock those tank tops in no time!

What’s your favorite upper body move?

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Tuesday Trainer stretches into Wednesday

February 29, 2012 by 8 Comments

Every Tuesday, Lindsay’s List hosts a series called ‘Tuesday Trainer‘ in which she showcases the favorite exercises and fitness moves of blogging fitness enthusiasts and personal trainers. Each week has a different theme, and if you visit regularly, you can use the videos to create your own workouts. How cool is that?

Yesterday’s theme was ‘your go-to stretch’ and I submitted this video;

Ever since I injured my lower back (an ‘overuse’ injury), I’ve been extra motivated to improve my hamstring flexibility. Tight hamstrings can pull on the hips, leading to postural deviations and lower back pain.

For lots more great stretching ideas from Lindsay and several of our FitFluential friends, head on over to ‘Tuesday Trainer‘!

P.S. If you’re interested in joining FitFluential, please click on through to their website. You don’t have to be a blogger to join. FitFluential is a community of like-minded fitness enthusiasts sharing their ideas about what it means to be fit and healthy!

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