Get the most out of your vacation Leaving on a jet plane One of my absolute favourite things to do is to travel. To see other countries and cultures; taste new foods; explore; hike; climb; shop; and play. I am super excited to say that in 8 days my wife and I will be boarding
Menopause Seminar: Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 Are hot flashes ruling your life? Nutrient density and exercise can help tame the flames. Join Matt Mombourquette of OneUp Fitness and Jill Haverstock, Nutrition Consultant at Santé for this informative workshop on how to redirect the fire of menopause into the most resilient time of your life. Find out how. We’ll
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2017 ‘Kickstart’ Promotion Lean and strong. Who doesn’t aspire to look and feel lean and strong? What about sustained energy throughout the day, everyday? Better quality sleep, improved mood, improved blood sugar regulation, decrease or eliminate blood pressure or cholesterol medications…these are all achievable with the right approach to food and exercise. The biggest challenge
Menopause The link below is to an article titled “Strength training during menopause offers multiple benefits”. This is an excerpt from a guide by Barbara Bushman, PhD, Janice Clark Young, EdD and the America College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) entitled “Action Plan for Menopause” – 2005. Here are (some) of the key points from the article
Partner Highlight: Afishionado Fishmongers At Afishionado Fishmongers we are passionate about sustainable fish and seafood and the incomparable health benefits it provides. Our soon-to-be launched FiT FiSH subscription program (available for pick up from either one of the OneUp Fitness locations Wednesdays) rounds out your nutritional needs with clean, lean, sustainable protein. OneUp Fitness and Afishionado
Strength training for young athletes Physical performance is hinged on strength. The stronger our muscles are, the more we can do and the longer we can do it, plain and simple. The best way to get strong in a short period of time is to train hard, pushing our muscles to exhaustion. This has to
Partner Highlight: Parks Health Shop At Parks Health Shop we are passionate about health and wellness. We believe true wellness requires a multi-faceted approach and that prevention is key to living well and aging well. As clients ourselves, we are confident recommending One Up Fitness to our customers. We recognize the multitude of benefits that
How to Build a Healthy Brain – Part 4: Stress Management How to build a healthy brain Part 4: Stress Management No matter how great your nutritional habits and exercise regime may be, if you aren’t practice good stress management techniques you will not achieve the health and fitness you are striving for. Un-managed stress
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Why strength training is essential for overall health There are a number of reasons why I recommend strength training for anyone who wants to achieve optimal long-term health. As a chiropractor, I have a triad of things that I believe are essential to optimize our physical well-being. These three things are alignment, flexibility/mobility, and strength/stability. Our
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How to Build a Healthy Brain – Part 3: Nutrition In Part 1 we discussed how exercise can affect brain health and in part 2 we looked at the importance of sleep. Continuing our series on brain health we will be looking at a very important factor…nutrition. We decided to reach out to one of our colleagues in the
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Free Exercise Workshop Strength training at home or on the road This hour long session will take you through some essential exercises that you can easily perform from the comfort of your home, office or a remote office (for the travelling professionals out there). Date: Thursday, June 16th, 2016 @ 7pm Location: OneUp Fitness – Halifax
Partner Highlight – Summit Spa As the owner of The Summit-Skin Care & Hair Removal I know that great skin health is not created by external factors alone. A healthy and fit lifestyle plays a huge part. Owning your own business or any other very busy work/home life means time for fitness can be hard
ARX OMNI? What does that mean? In short ARX stands for Adaptive Resistance Exercise. OMNI is a Latin prefix meaning “all”. Put it together and you have an exercise machine that ‘does-all’ & adapts to your personal strength…in real time. In other words, you’ve never had a workout like this before. But is it safe for everyone
How to Build a Healthy Brain – Part 2: Sleep In my last post I discussed some very interesting and promising evidence supporting the significant ‘brain boosts’ that come from regular exercise and activity. This evidence supports the idea that brain health markers improve when performing semi-regular (one or two sessions per week), intense workouts; and that resistance training is emerging as
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Don’t Beat Yourself Up – Tips on Consistency Don’t Beat Yourself Up – Tips on Consistency I’d like to share with you all one of my more recent workouts. I performed an impromptu, 15 minute, full body session with Quinn in our Halifax location. I wasn’t feeling particularly energetic or enthusiastic about the workout going into it, and
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How to Build a Healthy Brain – Part 1: Exercise I believe that there are 4 pillars to building a healthy brain; they are sleep, nutrition, stress management and exercise. Each is equally important and dependent on the success of the other categories to achieve optimal brain function. If one pillar is lagging, it will negatively impact the others. For
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Keep it Up A regular sex life is an important part of a healthy and fulfilling intimate relationship. Aside from sheer pleasure, there are plenty of health benefits from regular sex. Of course ‘regular’ is relative to the individual and it’s normal to sometimes not feel ‘in the mood’. If bedroom activities are becoming fewer
What are you training for? In my experience the most common responses to this question are often ‘to lose weight’, ‘to gain muscle mass’, ‘to improve my race time’, ‘to look better in a bathing suit’, etc. There is nothing wrong with these goals and sometimes they serve as a powerful intrinsic motivator to remain
Just Lift Weights Weight Lifting our way to a healthier Nova Scotia Although personal trainers are relatively new on the health care scene, our focus on wellness and prevention is extremely important for the future of health care. Our society has grown accustomed to counting on the health care system as a safety net and, as such,
Exercise, Body Fat & Sugar Exercise, body fat, and sugar: how these three work together to fuel our busy lives: As a species we took an evolutionary gamble in the early days of our existence. We developed an organ more complex than any other species, our brain. The gamble came from the fact that this
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What does ‘Health’ mean? This past year we’ve been discussing and writing about health and fitness in our province and what we can do to help our current situation. (1, 2, 3) What I’d like to do here is take a step back and ask ‘what is health? What does it mean to be healthy?’ Merriam Webster defines
Family Turned Fit A healthier Nova Scotia…and a Family Turned Fit. I\’m often asked why I became a fitness professional and why I choose to work with the general population instead of athletes. So I\’d love to share with you why I am so eager for a new model for fitness and, like Matt, continue
Our first HITuni certified trainer! We’d like to say congratulations to Quinn for completing the HITuni Continuing Professional Development course for personal trainers. A brief course description is below: “The CPD Course will enable you to become a High Intensity Resistance Exercise Specialist enhancing your current skill-set as a Personal Trainer or Gym Instructor. This
A Healthier Nova Scotia I love Nova Scotia. It has so much to offer from it’s landscapes to it’s cityscapes; wonderful people, awesome adventures, great wines and better food. It is no wonder that so many people choose to live and eventually retire in our wonderful little province. That said, we Nova Scotians have a
OneUp Fitness personal trainer, Matt, explains how high intensity exercise can reverse the signs of aging. Read on to see how much exercise is enough.
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Golden Years This week there was an article written about our clinic in The Chronicle Herald. It is nice to have our business recognized for the value we aim to create. That value lies entirely in our ability to positively impact the lives of our clients. The goal we really want is for people to be able
Find out the benefits of high intensity training. OneUp Fitness personal trainer Matt Mumbourquette gives you the inside scoop.
Safety is top of mind for every strength training program we design. Check out these safe strength training tips for your next workout!
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Going on a trip? Strength training can put a whole new spin on travel. Get started on your fitness journey today!
Strength training gives you the confidence to try and experience new things. OneUp Fitness can design a strength training program suited to your lifestyle.
Strength Through The Ages It is well understood that strength training is important for maintaining healthy muscle, but how does one keep score? This post, was written by Skyler Tanner, who holds a Masters in Exercise Science, and has been a fitness and nutrition coach for 15 years. I’ll try and sum up the main
Hiking Part 1 Hiking to the ‘roof of Africa’ Prior to this trip I had never hiked a mountain. I hadn’t even considered doing something like this as I thought the altitude would be unsurmountable for someone who has lived at sea level his entire life. I was also concerned about what kind
Up Your Game: Hiking Part 2 *For part 1 click the link here –> Up Your Game Hiking: Part 1 Hiking to the ‘roof of Africa’ Our Experience You feel the mountain, no question. There really is no way to describe altitude until you’ve experienced it. Light headedness, shortness of breath, dizzy, disoriented, and the occasional
Quick Tips On Snow Shovelling I posted the video below a couple of weeks ago on our Facebook page, it seems kinda funny now as our snowbanks are so high here in Nova Scotia that there is no way you can just flex your wrists and dump snow in a pile at your feet…the piles are 4
Resistance Training Reverses Aging Damage in Muscles This is old news. We’ve known this for years; and in fact the study that this article is discussing dates back to 2007. I’ve said this before but it’s worth stating again: Muscle health is the key defining factor to how we age. If we take care of it, we
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And we’re live… Well, officially. And we’re hoping most of the chaos of moving and building out new space is behind us for at least a few months. Last night marked the official launch of the new brand as we had the opportunity to celebrate with clients new and old! One of the most consistent
Why OneUp? It’s been an interesting journey so far. A vision long held is finally coming to life. People have been asking since we opened 10 years ago when we would be expanding to new locations. The launch of OneUp represents a big step up in the next phase of our company’s growth. The thing
Matt’s vision is to employ a paradigm shift in how we approach health and fitness. He offers a science-based approach to resistance training.
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Quinn developed a passion for training and its relation to sport at a young age.
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Strength Training & Biomarkers of Aging Skyler Tanner, one of our colleagues at Efficient Exercise in Austin, Texas, has written a terrific summaryon the impact of strength training on the biomarkers of aging. The following 10 biomarkers were outlined over 20 years ago by leading researchers at Tufts University: Muscle Mass Strength Basal Metabolic Rate Body Fat Percentage
Creating Headroom Is your exercise program “ or lack thereof “ building up or tearing down physiological headroom? How about what you eat? http://www.sebringclinic.com/article.asp?a=31 What do I mean by physiological headroom? I mean the ability to restore organ capacity. I mean stimulating anabolic growth in your body rather than enduring catabolic destruction. I mean cleaning
Strength of Mind and Body After years of promoting strength training as the “core” of any exercise and activity program, it is gratifying to see the mainstream media is increasingly aware of its importance. The scientific literature has been quite clear on this for a fairly long time. Almost all of the conditions we associate with […]
Pain & the Brain Lorimer Moseley is one of the leading researchers in pain science in the world today. Check out this great video lecture from a brilliant researcher and clinician. Knowledge does indeed work!
Maintain Your Muscle Check out this recent article in the New Your Times called Doctors Seek Way to Treat Muscle Loss. It is a great overview of the problem we have been trying to make people aware of for a long time. Doctors, however, seem to remain largely unaware of the solution. The article concludes: ‘Maintaining
Know Pain, Know Gain Patrick Wall, one of the world’s most respected researchers in the physiology of pain, once asked, “what are the appropriate motor responses to the arrival of injury signals [and pain]?” In other words, what movement is required to help someone avoid or relieve pain. To me, this ought to be the
