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Surviving the Holidays
Strategies to Surviving the Holidays At this time of the year, the number one question we get asked as fitness professionals is “How do I make it through the Holidays?” Some of our clients are worried about gaining weight while they enjoy the good food and others falling off their workout routine while they are…
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Small Changes to a Healthier You
Small Changes That Can Get You on the Path to a Healthier You How do you get started on a path toward a healthier, fitter you? There is such a thing as over-complicating the process or doing so much research that you are suffering from information overload—then you end up spinning your wheels, dreading…
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Short on Time? Three Ways to Make the Most of Your Workout
Short on Time? Three Ways to Make the Most of Your Workout A common issue Pursuit Training clients have is a lack of time to spend at the gym. We’d all love to have the ability to have a leisurely workout, nice long stretch afterward, and then a soak in a hot tub. The…
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Top 5 Fitness & Nutrition FAQs
Top 5 Questions Our Clients Ask about Fitness and Nutrition Pursuit Training clients come from all walks of life, but there are top questions that seem to get asked no matter where folks are coming from or what their goals are. So we have asked our coaches and trainers to submit their top Q&A…
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Top 10 Meal Prep Hacks That Will Change Your Life
Top 10 Meal Prep Hacks That Will Change Your Life When you start fuelling your body with nutritious food, you will start seeing incredible differences in your overall health and appearance. 1. Start Small If you’re new to preparing meals in advance, don’t go out and buy fancy containers and coolers or make…
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Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent Fasting What It Is & Why Some Folks Are Using It Before you read this blog post, we hope you’ll recognize that Pursuit Training is not necessarily recommending Intermittent Fasting—we are hoping to provide you with a bit of information so that you and your healthcare practitioners can decide what is right for you.…
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How Sleep Affects Fitness
How Sleep Affects Fitness 3 Ways to Instantly Boost the Quality of Your Shut Eye Sleep is an essential ingredient to your overall health and fitness. Getting sufficient sleep reduces stress, allows the body and mind to heal, and acts as a regulator for a number of hormonal and other systems and daily functions. We…
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Get the Kids Moving
Get the Kids Moving We all have heard about the increasing rates of Childhood Obesity, we see it in the schools, community centres and on our neighbourhood streets. In January of 2016 the World Health Organization presented the findings surrounding world wide childhood obesity rates for it’s Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity ( http://www.who.int/end-childhood-obesity/news/launch-final-report/en/…
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Rest Days – Don’t Dread the Day Off
Rest Days – Don’t Dread the Day Off Definition of rest day (from Merriam-Webster Dictionary) : a day which is set aside for rest or on which one departs from a normal or usual routine Rest Days are hard. Especially if you are dedicated to your training or a creature of habit. But, rest days…
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Protein Demystified
Protein Demystified One of the most heard lines at the end of a work out is “Stretch and don’t forget your protein.” Pursuit Training coaches will remind you that it’s super important for your recovery to get protein into your system within 45 minutes post workout. The trouble is, there are so many different forms…
