PREVAIL OVER FITNESS | 5 STEPS TO WEIGHT MANAGEMENT HABITS

Come January and we are setting up New Year Resolutions. We are so determined. We are so driven. We are so inspired and motivated.Lets grab on to the feeling and lets prevail. Here’s the best advice Prevail Fitness can give you to help you win your new healthy lifestyle habits.Step 1. Assess Your Situation It’s simple. Grab a paper and a pen (or open up word processor and type)... Read More

Missing Your Exercise? Why?

I have a question – is it really the lack of time that make us skip the workout?! I hear it on a daily basis. I work with young professionals, business people, moms and dads and they all say – I don’t have time. Well, we all know when there is an issue  health and fitness community is working hard to seduce  us – they came up with high intensity interval training (it... Read More

Get Out & Play (Exercise) with Your Kids

For the past four Sundays I was working out with my friend and his two boys in the local park / track field. We are having a blast attempting “Fireteam Push ups” (video), running relays and playing mini-soccer. While we are jogging around the track all together catching up on the weekly events, and boys telling us what they learned and liked at their summer camps, I... Read More

5 Ways to Reduce Stress

We all know Christmas is an extremely stressful time of the year. We love it, but it’s stressful. So here’s a few tips from Zen to Fitness Blog on how to reduce stress: 1) More fresh air – go for a walk, jog or just sit outside and enjoy Vancouver’s rain. And we certainly recommend getting up the mountain for a bit of snowboarding, skiing, tubing or snowshoeing! 2)... Read More

Treadmill vs. Elliptical

It’s interesting, but we all tend to have our favorite cardio equipment at the gym. You would think we are looking for the variety, and something to distract us from exercising. However when it comes to people who do workouts by themselves, I find 80% of people tend to stick with the routine. When it comes to the cardio workouts it’s the same. Just to go through the... Read More

Heavy weights vs. Light weights for weight loss

So here’s that burning question that we raise ourselves when we step through the gym doors – should I lift heavy or should I stick with the light weights. For the sake of simplicity lets choose weight loss to be our goal and we will disregard the importance of healthy eating at this point. To lose weight you need to burn more calories, meaning you need to do extra work.... Read More

Weight Management Best Approach | Personal Contact

Just a quick share of a recent article on the weight management: The television show The Biggest Loser encourages viewers to lose copious amounts of weight in order to live longer (and compete for the top prize). But fitness professionals know all too well that even when clients achieve their weight loss goals, the trick is keeping the pounds off. To determine which, if any,... Read More

American Council of Exercise talks about CrossFit Training

  I still believe that crossfit style is one of the best training programs either it is for a man or a woman, beginner or athlete, fat loss or muscle building. We all can highly benefit from it. But keep in mind you have to be SMART about it – leave your ego behind the gym doors and always prepare and take care of your joints, tendons and muscles for the upcoming... Read More

Wine & Weight Loss

If I get a penny for every time our personal training clients say – I’ll do anything you ask me to lose weight, but I’m not going to give up my wine – I’d be rich, rich, rich. Okay, so you say wine is not that bad. Beer, shots, cocktails are way worse. Well that’s what I tend to think  but, hey, alcohol is alcohol and calories are calories. Here’s... Read More

Will I Get Better Results with Personal Trainer?!

I’m feeling a little bit bias answering questions about personal trainers and results they deliver (note: we are talking about the trainers who care what you do and how you do). On the other hand I had a trainer and gotta be honest it makes a huge difference. The motivation, the commitment, the intensity you get out of the session is worth every single penny that I paid.... Read More