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Welcome to the AK Gym Dayz Blog, your go-to resource for all things fitness, wellness, and community. Here, we delve into the latest trends, expert tips, and inspirational stories to fuel your journey towards a healthier, more active lifestyle. Whether you're looking for workout routines, nutrition advice, or motivation to stay on track, our blog is your trusted companion every step of the way. Join us as we explore the intersection of fitness and culture, sharing insights and knowledge to help you reach your goals and unleash your full potential. Stay tuned for regular updates and valuable content designed to empower and inspire you on your path to greatness.
Developing Routines that Support your Health and Fitness Goals
- Advice
- Motivation
With the summer months over and fall just around the corner we’re back into what tends to be the more structured months of the year.
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Balancing Act: The Life of a Student Athlete
- Athletics
- Advice
Being a student athlete is like juggling multiple balls in the air; you have to find the perfect rhythm to keep them from falling
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What you need to know about Circuit Training
- Excercises
Circuit training is a type of high-intensity workout that incorporates both strength and aerobic exercises into one session.
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Progress Over Perfection
- Gym Thoughts
- Motivation
Progress means to move forward, to develop, and as humans, we seek progression daily in all aspects of our lives. Progression
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What Type of Cardio is the BEST for Fat Loss?
- Advice
- Weight Loss
This is a super common question, that I have gotten asked many times over the years from clients.
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Maximizing Athletic Performance: Tips for Balancing Lifting & a Demanding Athletic Schedule
- Athletics
- Advice
For dedicated athletes and sports enthusiasts, maintaining a rigorous practice schedule is essential to improve skills and achieve peak performance.
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Balancing Food & Fitness While Traveling: Embrace the 80/20 Rule & Enjoy Guilt-Free Experiences.
- Advice
I recently travelled from Ontario to British Columbia for 10 days for a mix of business and pleasure.
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Building an Effective Routine that Works for You & Your Goals
- Advice
- Motivation
This can be one of the most important ways to keep yourself on track
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Mastering Reverse Dieting: Safely Increase Caloric Intake & Maintain Metabolic Health.
- Advice
- Motivation
- Weight Loss
Reverse dieting is a gradual process of increasing your daily caloric intake after a period of calorie restriction or dieting.
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Embrace Your New Gym Journey: Overcoming Intimidation and Comparison
- Advice
- Gym Thoughts
- Motivation
If you are a regular gym rat your gym becomes like a “home away from home”.
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Balancing Fitness and Fun: Embrace Vacation Guilt-Free.
- Advice
- Gym Thoughts
- Weight Loss
When you’re seeing progress, getting stronger, losing fat, putting on size or whatever your goal may be, it may become difficult
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Maximize Your Gym Gains: How Often Should You Change Workout Programs?
- Advice
- Motivation
- Weight Loss
As a coach, I often have clients/athletes ask for a new workout program quite frequently.
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The Importance of Following a Training Program
- Advice
- Motivation
Especially when you feel like you aren’t seeing the results from your hard work in the gym.
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Women’s Mental Health: The Dangers of the “Get Thin Quick” Diet
- Advice
- Motivation
- Weight Loss
It is important to understand the difference between undereating to be ‘skinny’ and fueling our bodies to be ‘strong’ or ‘healthy’.
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Weightloss Journey: 80 Pounds Down
- Advice
- Motivation
- Weight Loss
What do you do when you are 50 and need to lose 100 pounds? You join a gym
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How The Gym Changed My Mindset About My Weight
- Athletics
- Gym Thoughts
As someone always tall, and with a bigger frame, I always thought I was overweight.
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Men’s Mental Health: Lifting More than Weights
- Advice
- Motivation
At our gym, we understand the critical role mental health plays in a comprehensive fitness routine.
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How to Survive Your Partner’s First Bodybuilding Competition Prep
- Athletics
- Advice
Your partner has decided to compete in their very first bodybuilding competition.
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Food Pushers: Saying No & Setting Healthy Boundaries to Support Your Goals
- Advice
- Weight Loss
For the majority of my life, I can honestly say that I was a huge people pleaser.
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A Season Change as an Athlete: The Post-Show
- Athletics
- Advice
As soon as the competition season comes around it starts to wrap up for some competitors.
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Balancing Summer & Goals
- Advice
- Motivation
- Weight Loss
As summer approaches so do social events. It’s easy to get extremely distracted from your goals, or be too critical of yourself and miss out.
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All About: Metabolism
- Advice
- Weight Loss
Take a look at most fitness ads, meal plan posts, and workout tips and you’ll see the word ‘Metabolism’ mentioned in all of them.
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The Importance of Rest Days as an Athlete
- Athletics
- Advice
As an athlete that was new to lifting, I was addicted to the gym.
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Returning to Competition
- Athletics
- Advice
In the fitness world or the competitive sports field, there will always be coaches, trainers nutritionists, and/or specialists
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Prioritizing Yourself, Your Health, & Wellness As A Parent
- Advice
- Motivation
- Parents
I’m sure that almost everyone who has children can agree that once you have them, you prioritize them.
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My Bulk
- Athletics
- Advice
As a woman, the thought of eating to intentionally gain weight or size had always been a demonized concept to me.
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A Season Change as an Athlete: The Transition into a Competition Prep
- Athletics
- Advice
As the weather warms up, and we transition through seasons, bodybuilders are gearing up to transition from an improvement season into a competition prep,
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Knowing Your Why
- Advice
- Motivation
Everyone has a reason they go to the gym, some reasons may be more simple, whereas some may be more complex.
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I Made it to the Gym… Now What?
- Advice
- Motivation
- Weight Loss
Ok, you’ve finally decided you’re ready to get make a change! You decided which gym you liked (given the options can be overwhelming)
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Injuries as an Athlete
- Advice
As a high-performance athlete in one of the most physical and rough sports in the world, I have been injured a lot.
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The Importance of Tracking While Working Towards a Goal
- Advice
- Motivation
Goals are great to have in many different aspects of our life. Whether it’s goals for your education or career, health and wellness, bucket list or anythin
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No One is Perfect; Including You
- Motivation
- Weight Loss
It’s Friday night and you are out with friends. You decide to go off plan for the night and enjoy a beer and some wings.
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Athletic Kulture Support System for All
- Motivation
I know many people think of Athletic Kulture as just a gym people go to get big
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Could you be drinking too much water?
- Advice
Health advocates are always saying “make sure you hit your water intake for the day!” and you nod and go “I should really drink more water”
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3 Tips for Weight Loss
- Weight Loss
Happy Monday AKer’s! I hope you had a nice and relaxing weekend.
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Intro To AK Blog
- Gym Thoughts
Hi there! Welcome to the very first Athletic Kulture blog post.
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