Archive for the 'Fads & Gimmicks' Category

Is the Bodybugg all it’s cracked up to be?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

With the kind of publicity that the Bodybugg is receiving on TV shows like the Biggest Loser, it’s no wonder why there is so much buzz about this product, BUT is the Bodybugg all its cracked up to be? The Bodybugg is used for activity measurement.  It measures galvanic skin response, temperature of the skin [...]

DAY 1 – WII FIT by NINTENDO “adding to the daily training with my Children Karis, Cedric & my wife Karen”

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

I AM OVERWEIGHT.  According to the WII FIT EVALUATION, I am overweight by a lot.  According to BFI standards, I have always been overweight since I was 20.  I’ve always trained with weights. I used to train to put on muscle mass and I achieved that when I was in my twenties.  Back then I would [...]

Georgia Straight, Best of Vancouver 2008: Fitness Town voted “Best Fitness Equipment Store”

Friday, September 19th, 2008

  We’d like to thank everyone for their tremendous support of Fitness Town in this year’s 2008 Best of Vancouver, Georgia Straight reader’s awards.  We were picked by you as the “Best Fitness Equipment Stores” in the Vancouver, Lower Mainland.   We at Fitness Town appreciate your continued support and look forward to helping all of you make [...]

Best workout?

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

So listening to the workout god’s not working for you?  Looking for some advice on what workout is the best of the best? It seems lately that the key money making words of “P90x and Cross-fit” are reigning supreme in the “I’m unmotivated” community.  The general population lack motivation to get off their butt at the end [...]

Give it a try!

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Simple sounding…. very fatiguing!    1. BARBELL ROW 2. FRONT SPLIT SQUAT 3. PUSH PRESS 4. BARBELL ROLL-OUT joshm@fitnesstown.ca 604.468.4440

Understanding Labels part II

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Per Dai’s Response I thought I would throw this up and get wacky with nutritional info-mation! Thanks Dai, and very good question. let’s dig a little deeper! Fructose is a simple sugar, which the body can use for energy. Because it does not cause blood sugar rise dramatically, because it has a low glycemic index. [...]

Understanding food labels?!?!

Monday, August 25th, 2008

On food labels, they base the percentages on a 2,000-calorie adult diet. So looking at the label above for two crackers, a grownup would see that they provide less than 1 gram of fiber, only 3% of the person’s daily needs. So that means he or she would have to eat other foods to get [...]

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE DREAM TAN: Natural bodybuilding belongs in the Olympics.

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

    Originaly I was going to blog about the “active rest” phase in periodization training. However, something has been haunting me lately. Here we all are paying attention to the Beijing Olympics, unaware that the greatest injustice in the elite sports realm is going on right under our noses.     The subject matter here will be a [...]