Building Resilience: How to Improve Your Body’s Physical Resilience to Stress
Resilience is the ability to tolerate stress, no matter in what way, shape, or form this stress chooses to manifest. As a trainer, my mentality is focused on the human body and how we can build physical resilience in our training. Every workout that I put my...
Two Major Workout Oversights that could Improve your Posture
Do you think your workout plan is effective? Are you still prone to nagging daily aches and pains? Mobility and flexibility are commonly overlooked exercise components. These are the last aspects people think of in their workout routine, when really they should be the...
9 Tips for a Healthy New Year
Happy New Year Trainsmart Wellness Family! We hope this year brings you all nothing but good health and happiness. We know that the new year can be overwhelming with making goals and trying to stick with them throughout the year. However, fear no more we wanted to get...
What is Diabetes? Am I at risk?
What is Diabetes? Am I at Risk? More than one in four Canadians are living with diabetes or prediabetes. What’s more alarming is that this number will rise to more than 1/3 by the year 2020. I am not a fan of stats but when you put it in that sense it will be...
Building your Workout: Reps and Sets
Building your Workout: Reps and Sets What is the reason behind your workout? This is a question that you should ask yourself before starting up at the gym. We can talk about program design and training different energy systems but realistically, a majority of us just...
What’s in a name? Defining Kinesiology…
What's in a name? Defining Kinesiology As a kinesiologist I get asked countless times a day about kinesiology. What is it? What can you do? Where can you work? Although these seem like simple questions they can be difficult to answer when the profession is as broad as...
The Story behind Trainsmart Wellness
The Story Behind Trainsmart Wellness Kinesiology is the driving passion that influences all that I do. I believe that everyone should have the ability to live healthier lives through the skill set of kinesiology. But I have realized that my expertise in understanding...