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Resilience is defined as: 1. the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. Fitness [...]

At Vital Active Living, we customize workouts. We design your workouts according to your goals and abilities and preferences. And we also progress your workouts so that you continue to see [...]

People are thinking about getting back into shape now that the stay-at-home order has been lifted. Some people took advantage of the lockdown to get more active. However, I suspect many, if not [...]

There are three main mechanisms for building muscle size (otherwise known as hypertrophy): Intensity Time under Tension Metabolic Stress Intensity refers muscle growth due to the recruitment of [...]

Eccentric training is strengthening a muscle in the direction of lowering the weight. In our last blog If You’re Not Seeing Muscle Gains, Do This 1 Thing we discussed the importance of lower [...]

Most people strength train to see gains in strength and muscle mass. There are many reasons to add muscle mass. Muscle gives us the ability to carry out activities of daily living with ease. [...]

In Metabolic Training – Part 1 we looked at traditional views of weight loss, namely, dieting and doing a lot of steady state cardio. Cardio exercise is good, but it requires time and it can take [...]

Metabolic training, as its name implies, is training that improves your metabolism. A higher metabolism means that your body burns more calories. It means that you can eat more and your body will [...]

After working with many different clients, I have noticed a number of differences between successful clients who reach their goals, and clients who do not. Here are five things you can do to [...]

People often do the same exercises for every workout: We are creatures of habit and we do what is familiar to us.  However, the body adapts to doing the same exercise. In order to see [...]