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...
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...
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? 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 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 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...
