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Welcome to the North and West Vancouver Personal Training Blog!

The intent of this blog is to have guest trainers from North and West Vancouver write posts with general information on themselves and on health and fitness. This will hopefully give North Shore residents a place to come to get some information if they are looking for personal training or at the very least get a variety of free information from an assortment of qualified personal trainers.

So let me begin.
My name is Dan Webster and I am a personal trainer in North Vancouver. I have been involved in the health and fitness industry for 15 years.

My general training philosophy is if you want to get great results you have to put in great effort. I'm not here to tell you that getting in shape is easy. Getting in shape is perhaps simple, but not easy.

I feel (and most recent research agrees) that to lose fat and get in great shape you need to do 3 main things.

1. You need to watch what you eat. Losing weight(fat) is 80%-90% diet.

2. You need to strength train. Use a combination of heavy compound exercises and body weight training. Avoid or limit isolation exercises (i.e. biceps curls, chest flyes, lateral raises, etc) and don't overuse gym toys like the Swiss ball, BOSU or wobble board.

3. Do intense interval training for cardio. Avoid long slow cardio unless you are injured, severely detrained or a glutton for boring exercise.

Well there you have it...simple but not easy. If someone tells you to "Train Smart, Not Hard" you tell them that training hard is part of training smart.

Thanks for reading,

Dan Webster
Titanium Fitness

www.titaniumfitness.blogspot.com