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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
November 10th, 2023

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
November 3rd, 2023

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
October 27th, 2023

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
October 20th, 2023

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?
October 13th, 2023

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
October 4th, 2023

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.
September 27th, 2023

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
September 20th, 2023

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.
September 13th, 2023

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
September 6th, 2023

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.
August 30th, 2023

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?
August 23rd, 2023

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
August 16th, 2023

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
August 9th, 2023

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
August 2nd, 2023

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
July 26th, 2023

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
July 19th, 2023

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
July 12th, 2023

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
July 5th, 2023

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
June 28th, 2023

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
June 21st, 2023

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
June 14th, 2023

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
May 12th, 2023

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
May 5th, 2023

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
April 28th, 2023

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
April 21st, 2023

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
April 14th, 2023

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
July 26th, 2022

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?
July 26th, 2022

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
July 26th, 2022

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
July 26th, 2022

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
July 26th, 2022

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
July 26th, 2022

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?
February 1st, 2022

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
January 31st, 2022

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
January 27th, 2022

Intro To AK Blog

  • Gym Thoughts

Hi there! Welcome to the very first Athletic Kulture blog post.

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