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Aging Functional Strength Injury Prevention
Strong hips after 60 is key to maintaining independence, confidence, and overall quality of life. Your hips are the literal and functional center of your body. They connect your upper and lower halves, stabilize your movements, and play a key role in everything from walking and climbing stairs to getting up from a chair or maintaining balance. That said, hip […]
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Core Strength Functional Strength Healthy Living
As a team of experienced in-home and virtual personal trainers, we’ve worked with hundreds of clients, from desk workers to competitive athletes, and one thing remains constant: spinal stability is the foundation of everything. Whether your goal is fat loss, muscle gain, improved posture, or simply living without back pain, your spine is at the centre of it all. Unfortunately, […]
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With new studios and styles popping up every day, the search to find the right workout can feel overwhelming. While there is no universal answer, our team of in-home and virtual personal trainers does favour one category: functional training that works the body as a unit. When it comes to structured exercise, this style is the best way to optimize […]
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Functional Strength Healthy Living Stretching
Most people are familiar with a few key muscles, like the abdominals, glutes, and biceps, but one less talked about muscle that plays a highly important role in movement in the psoas. At Nielsen Fitness, our in-home and virtual personal trainers believe that the more you understand your body, the better you can take care of it. Read on to […]
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Balance Fitness Tips Functional Strength
When it comes to adding challenge to workouts, there are many different variables for in-home and virtual personal trainers to adjust: load, speed, structure, and balance, to name a few. However, one of our personal favourites is the less popular (yet still highly beneficial) variable of direction. At Nielsen Fitness, we use dynamic, directional adjustments to ensure our clients are […]
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Exercise Fitness Tips Functional Strength
You may have read our recent blog post on the necessity of the squat. It’s a “foundational movement pattern humans learn at a very young age. The muscles you use in a squat help you power through your daily tasks. Adding squats to your workout can help decrease your risk of injury and keep you moving easily throughout the day” […]
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Exercise Functional Strength Healthy Living
One of the most frustrating misconceptions within the fitness industry is the belief that a workout should feel extremely challenging, verging on painful. While (correctly programmed and implemented) high intensity training has its benefits, exercise should never hurt or feel unsafe. So how do you know if you’re pushing too hard, or simply afraid of feeling the burn? Read on […]
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Fitness Tips Functional Strength Injury Prevention
At Nielsen Fitness, we prioritize functional fitness that will make a tangible difference in our clients’ quality of life. Whether we’re reviewing a staple skill or coaching a trainee through a new, challenging movement, our team members always explain the practical benefits of each exercise. One perfect example of a move that translates directly into everyday life is the squat […]
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Core Strength Fitness Tips Functional Strength
Push-ups are feared far and wide among our in-home and virtual personal training clients. Though a staple movement, standard push-ups require a high amount of strength and control in multiple major muscle-groups. “The push-up hammers your chest, shoulders, triceps, and (if you do it right) the core and glutes, too, making it a powerful, total-body exercise. And it’s an excellent indicator of muscular endurance and […]
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Functional Strength Injury Prevention Stretching
Any personal trainer worth their salt will tell you that strength training is highly beneficial, but one sneaky roadblock often derails progress for new lifters: sore forearms. We see it all the time! An in-home or virtual personal training client is excited to be attempting a heavier lift, then pauses mid-way through their set — but not because the targeted […]
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