Have you tried using the Woodway Curve self propelled treadmill at both BeachWalk Family Fitness locations? It’s an amazing cardiovascular workout that burns more calories than the traditional motor powered treadmill. It’s IDEAL for doing intervals because you don’t have to wait for the motor to slow down or speed up. It’s just like doing run/walk intervals outdoors.

The Woodway Curve addresses the common concern treadmill runners have about the treadmill doing half the work. Essentially, with the band being moved for you, instead of moving yourself forward on pavement, you are losing out on some of the benefits of running on the road. The curve is not powered by electricity, but instead by the user itself, allowing for the runner to accelerate and decelerate at his or her own pace. Avoiding a treadmill because it is doing half the work is then also no longer necessary.

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There was a great turnout at our first Body Sculpting Secrets Seminar last night. Thank you to everyone who took the time out of their busy evening to take part in the presentation.

The Body Sculpting Secrets Seminar covered the key motivation, nutrition, and workout strategies that I applied during my recent transformation…

Here’s Some Highlights From The Seminar…

Mindset: Change the way that you view training and nutrition. Transform yourself from a fitness enthusiast to a physique artist. View your body as a work of art.

Ditch the scale. Focus on visual progress. Take daily or weekly photos of yourself as a measure of your progress. Schedule a photo shoot for accountability and to reward yourself in the end.

Use a training journal and nutrition log book to track your progress and to become inspired every time that you improve from workout to workout or week to week with your nutrition.

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Rennee and Mario recently invested in a new piece of equipment that has me giddy with excitement. It’s called a Hex Bar or Trap Bar. It’s great for performing Deadlifts, Rows, Shrugs, and many other exercises. What I like about performing Deadlifts with the Hex Bar is that I don’t scrape up my shins and it’s easier on my lower back.

Here’s a video demonstration of a killer superset routine that you can add to the end of your back workout using the Hex Bar…

The superset begins with

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Lately I have been hearing many of my friends complain about lower back tightness, tension, and soreness. They’ve been asking if there is anything that I can recommend they do in order to relieve the tension and get on with their workouts.

Now before I continue, I must make it absolutely clear that I am not a doctor or specialized therapist of any kind. If you are experiencing lower back pain I recommend that you first consult with your physician to ensure that the problem is not any more severe than you may believe.

The tips that I am about to share are based on my personal experiences with lower back tightness or soreness and how I relieved the tension.

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This killer quad developing exercise is for BeachWalk Fitness members who have what it takes to dig deep and give every workout absolutely everything that they’ve got. This is not for the faint of heart.

This exercise is to be performed toward or at the end of a leg workout. It’s a finisher. By the time that you get to it, your legs should already be pretty close to toast.

The exercise is… 3/4 Hack Squats, where you go down deep and only come up 3/4’s of the way. This will keep constant tension on your quads. Here’s the video demo…

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Jen Moore is a Certified Personal Trainer and Kettlebell Instructor at BeachWalk Family Fitness. “Best Thing About Life, is Loving Who You Are.”

Nutrition Tip: Don’t skip meals, just beacuse you are eating less food doesn’t mean you are losing weight. You are putting your body into starvation mode and lowering your metabolism. You should eat 5-8 small meals a day to maintain energy levels and to prevent temptations to binge.

Eliminating complex carbs will allow you to sustain your energy levels throughout the day, while making improvements and staying super lean.

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If you have recently began running on the treadmill and experienced pain or tightness in your shins or plan to begin running as a way to promote cardiovascular health, but would like to avoid getting shin splints in the process, you’re going to benefit greatly from watching the video below.

There are many great exercises and stretches that will help you avoid shin splints as well as recover from them, but today I am going to focus on a few that have helped me the most.

The first exercise to strengthen the muscles in your shins requires only a

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Joyce is a Naturopathic Doctor, busy wife and mom of 2 little girls! She has been active in health and fitness for years and has taught group classes for nearly twenty years! She played competitive soccer and basketball for most of her life at the provincial and university level. If she is not traveling across the country lecturing about natural health products and weight loss, she is driving her girls to skating, gymnastics, and soccer practice or spending quality time with her family or in the gym! “I LOVE MY CRAZY LIFE!” – Joyce Johnson

CLASS TAUGHT: ZuMBA Wednesdays at 9a and Thursdays at 6p at the Belle River location

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At the moment I am wrapping up the final workout program of the Metabolic Masterpiece Renaissance Phase where the inspiration for each program came from some of the classic physique artists that have impacted me over the years. The current 4-week program from the Renaissance Phase was inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was my very first role model when I began training in my parents basement at the age of 14. I had posters of him everywhere.

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Are there exercises that you avoid because they are challenging and take a lot out of you? Exercises such as front squats, deadlifts, or pull-ups?

If you are a female who has avoided pull-ups because you do not have the strength to do a single pull-up under your own power, you are really missing out on one of the most effective exercises to burn calories and shape your body.

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