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Move of the Week: Skater
Move of the Week: Skater This is a great warm up, cardio interval option or can be done as a power move/plyometric. For description and more information click here [...]
Move of the Week: Lying Dumbbell Pullover
Move of the Week Lying Dumbell Pullover is a multi muscle exercise but ensuring you are doing it properly will deliver better results and prevent injury. Click or full description [...]
Did you Know: Mental Health
Mental Health It’s okay to not be okay. With 1 in 3 Canadians experiencing a form of mental health illness at least once in their lifetime (including feelings of overwhelming [...]
Natural Mood Booster
It’s not unusual to occasionally experience a decline in happiness or mood. Life gets busy, multiple responsibilities compete for our attention and stress levels increase. Before we know it, [...]
Mind Muscle Connection
If you have attended any sessions with Greg over the past decade you have probably heard him rant about "Tuning into the workout", "don't just go through the motions" [...]
Top 10 Benefits of Stretching
Flexibility is one of the five components of fitness, so stretching should be an integral part of every workout program. Here are ACE’s Top 10 Reasons for why you [...]
Get SMART- Get RESULTS
We believe Education leads to Motivation. Understanding why you need to do an exercise a certain way or in a certain order or realizing how your choice of food [...]
Move of the Week- Deadbug
An Underutilized Exercise Dead bug exercise variations are one of my absolute FAVORITE exercises and if done properly with advanced progressions, they can be a core killer!! Learning to [...]
Did You Know: Prevent Cancer
Being physically active and following a balanced diet can help decrease your risk of developing many types of cancer. In fact, about half of all cancers can be prevented [...]
Move of the Week: The Get Up
The Turkish get-up is a total-body exercise that increases torso stabilization and overall strength. The movement is very complex and requires upper body strength to maintain a weight overhead, shoulder stability, [...]
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