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3 Exercises to Do Instead of Burpees
May 26, 2016|Fitness
Oh the burpee! What an amazing exercise that hits all the muscles of the body, gets the heart rate way up, and hurts like a mother! It's a great exercise for those looking to get a lot of work done in a relatively short period of time. The burpee is everywhere these days. It's being incorporated into high intensity exercise circuits such as CrossFit or boot camps. But how many...
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De-Klutz-ify Yourself: 10 Simple Drills and Games for Coordination
May 26, 2016|Fitness
Are you a klutz? If you said yes I'm here to tell you that you don't have to be. If you took the time to really work on your coordination you would be amazed at how much you could improve it. Coordination is one of the many components of fitness: muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, speed, power, reaction time, agility and balance. But it's also one of the...
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Why You Should Brachiate
May 26, 2016|Fitness
Are you aware that humans have the same shoulder anatomy as the great apes: gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos? This is because humans share a common ancestor with each of these apes. The ball-in-socket shoulder anatomy that apes have allows their arms to rotate freely around the shoulders making them very good at something called brachiation. Brachiation? What the heck is that? Brachiation is a form of locomotion using the...
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Why Employers Should Choose to Install Nap Rooms Over Coffee Makers
May 26, 2016|Fitness, Lifestyle
The workplace is changing, and for the better. Employers are starting to realize that it is their responsibility to support a healthy lifestyle for their staff, especially seeing as how most of people's waking hours are often spent at the workplace. This includes providing things like adjustable desks so employees can spend some time standing up instead of endless hours of sitting which has all sorts of negative health consequences, or...
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4 Tests You Should Be Able to Pass Before You Start CrossFit
May 26, 2016|Fitness
The CrossFit style of training is now very much mainstream. Lots of people are either doing it as we speak, or they have attempted it in the past, or they're thinking about doing it sometime in the future. But unfortunately many of these people lack the foundational strength, balance, coordination, flexibility and mobility to perform the workouts safely. CrossFit sometimes gets the reputation of injuring people, but it's not CrossFit...
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Client Success Story – Julien Stuart-Smith
May 26, 2016|Fitness
Julien has been a personal training client with Function Health Club for a little over 6 months. About a year ago Julien suffered an ACL injury from skiing which required reconstructive surgery. Julien is an athlete through and through, she was even a member of the Canadian National Downhill Ski Team, and so you can imagine how tough this must have been on her psychologically to go from being able...
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