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

How to Encourage Change

  STUBBORN IMMIGRANTS I grew up in a country where cows are fed in meadows; we eat apples from a grandma’s garden tree; we drink freshly squeezed carrot juice; and we dig our own potatoes. We commute by foot and basketball is our second religion. The day we entered Canada was the day me and my family ballooned. We did not understand the impact that big variety of not so natural... Read More

Events Bucket List for 2012

The fall is fantastic. Certainly my favorite season of the year. It seems that entire world matured and calmed down. It feels like a good time to finish up all the tasks we set to do in the beginning of 2011 and start looking ahead to 2012. As usual we have the following events happening in Vancouver (and please if you know about the events I missed out let me know): RUNNING EVENTS Link: http://aimsworldrunning.org/Calendar.htm First... Read More

Take Care of Important Things First!

Someone said - People respond to stories not facts. And I thought that today I’ll share the story that stuck with me since I first hear it. A professor stood in front of the class with a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. Then he picked up a box of pebbles and poured them... Read More

Challenges and Competitions

Oh, summer, please don’t leave us just yet. My brother is in town, and while my diet is not at the top of the game, we get to play some tennis, do some swimming, and insane amount of urban hiking. Last Sunday I got him up to the nature hike. We climbed the Chief. Holly molly what an adventurous hike it is.  It took us about 1.5 hours to get up to a magnificent view. Our... 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

The only addiction worth pursuing…

I took off work this week. To give myself a bit of the freedom to enjoy not having to be somewhere. And the week was incredible. I don’t remember when was the last time that I exercised that much… maybe in 10th grade when I still had a dream to become an Olympic athlete. Even then I did not wake up for 6am or even 8am workout! I truly hope I can continue, because it... Read More

Resolutions, Goals, Promises…

New Year – new you, new goals, new aims, new resolutions. What’s yours this year? I’m not entirely sure everyone of us need the goal or a new resolution , but some of us certainly need a focus, a number, a plan. What’s yours this year? My hope is that all of you will live healthy and be happy not only for the 2011 but for the rest of your lives! And if... 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

75 Ways To Become Happy!

Just ran into the blog post from Marc & Angel Hack Life. They listed 75 reasons to stay unhappy. So all I suggest is to reverse, and that’s as little as it takes. Here’s a few ideas: #1. Dwell on things that happened in the past. Live in a present. #15. Let small issues snowball into big problems. Learn to let it go. #31. Focus on what you don’t want to happen. Focus... Read More