How To Squat Without Hurting Your Knees

Fix My Knee Pain This is my good friend and fellow Canuck, Rick Kaselj explaining how to squat properly. Whether you’re doing body weight squats, or squats with additional weight, you need to take care of your knees. Rick’s Fix My Knee Pain plan will help you alleviate any current knee pain you may have … Continued

How To Squat Without Hurting Your Knees

Fix My Knee Pain My good friend and injury expert, Rick Kaselj gives you tips on how to squat properly without injuring the knees. You can find out more about his Fix My Knee Pain program to help you with any knee pain you may have.

Why Push, Pull, Legs?

Recently, Client Wayne asked me what the merits of doing a split routine are. He wanted to know the benefits and why I happen to choose a ‘push/pull/legs’ split I talked about in this post. So settle in, you’ll find the rationale and several workout samples below. I’ve been a gym rat for years. In … Continued

Wrist Pain Solutions

Do you have wrist pain when exercising? Lea recently commented on the Female Fat Loss Over 40 Facebook fan page saying how much she enjoyed Shawna’s workout videos for Female Fat Loss over 40 but shared how frustrated she felt with exercises like burpees and mountain climbers because her wrists were not strong enough to … Continued

Ugly Workout You’ll Love

It got ugly. Yesterday I went to the gym and decided it was a pulling workout. I noticed the pull up bar free so I set up camp there. Side note: It’s unfathomable to me that a big box gym has only ONE pull up bar in the entire place. Well, that’s a lie, there’s … Continued

Crunches or Sit-ups?

Crunches or Sit-ups? Guest Post by Sylvia Favela Author: Bodyweight Pilates There are three things that are nearly on every woman’s wish list: A Fat Bank Account, A Hunky Man and Sexy Lean Abs, Right?! You won’t get that enviable sexy midsection by doing crunches or skipping out on your workouts. With dozens of options … Continued

Best Ab Move – Arm Positions

Front Planks are a very common exercise that’s incorporated into health, fitness, performance and rehabilitation exercise programs. I recommend planks all the time. They can be done on the wall, the floor or on top of a piece of fitness equipment (like a stability ball). The front plank is an exercise for upper body stability, scapular stability, core stability, … Continued

Bodyweight RIST & FUW Challenge Part 2

Want another body weight workout? You’ll find a similar style workout to this one here. I call this ‘part 2’  because if you’re super fit, you could string the workout below with this workout together. These workouts are  ‘RIST & FUW’ type workouts. RIST – reps in specific time FUW – finish up with I … Continued

Bodyweight RIST & FUW Challenge Part 1

PLEASE SHARE this with anyone you know that still thinks that the answer to flat abs and a sexy physique is endless ‘cardio’. I’m so saddened when I go into any gym and see the sea of treadmills with people plodding away working towards the body of their dreams. (The body they want will only … Continued

Sore Back? Best Ab Move Ever

I often hear this from clients: I have a lot of back pain. I’m nervous to exercise and if I do, I’m not making much progress. What should I do? I have a ‘go to’ answer and even a ‘go to’ expert. Here we are in Miami this January. We were out for dinner with … Continued