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Ask Whole9 Canada: Can You Be Too Stressed To Work Out?

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Welcome to Ask Whole9 Canada, where Summer Innanen and Sarah Ramsden answer all of your health and nutrition questions. In this week’s episode, Summer and Sarah talk about how to know whether you are too stressed to work out.  In the case of exercise, more is not always better. As outlined in the Whole9 Health Equation, it's imperative to take care of your health balance and look at the big picture to make sure you have more deposits going into your health bank than withdrawals. In the face … [Read more...]

Weight Gain 201

In our last article, we talked about dietary factors related to building muscle. Now let’s talk about the myriad of factors that influence muscle growth other than what you eat. While food is undoubtedly a significant influence on one’s ability to build muscle mass, we see at least as many people with non-food roadblocks to muscle growth as those that are simply not eating, digesting and absorbing enough nutritious food. In most cases, these non-food issues all orbit around the concept of … [Read more...]

Weight Gain 101

or, Why You’re Still Skinny Skinny. Scrawny. Underweight. Lanky. Hard-gainer. Ectomorph. These are all different (and not typically complimentary) terms for people who are naturally predisposed to a leaner body type with less muscle mass compared to people who gain (and maintain) both  muscle and fat more easily. I’m sure you know someone who fits each of these types: the friend who can eat anything she wants (pizza! brownies! ice cream!) and still keep her stomach just as ripped as ever, and … [Read more...]

Gym Best Practices

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Group Fitness Classes: Best Practices from the Experts As a new gym owner or head trainer, you assume the responsibility of helping your clients meet their health and fitness goals. The hard work is up to them, of course, but unless you are making smart decisions about the way you run your gym, create your workouts, and manage your group classes, your clients’ hard work isn’t going to get them the results it should. Managing group classes is no easy feat, however. You’ve got multiple … [Read more...]

Are You Recovering or Just Resting?

Today, I’d like to talk about recovery. No, not economic recovery—though that would be lovely—but physiological recovery from the stressors placed upon us by our modern physical world. Rest vs. Recovery These two words, "rest" and "recovery," have distinctly different meanings when applied to health, fitness or athletic contexts. Recovery can encompass many different behaviors and strategies, but it is fundamentally different than just resting. Rest is simply the absence of effort or … [Read more...]

The Real Food Champion

A Whole9 South Pacific feature.  Performance does not equal health. Many of you will be well familiar with this adage, or (if you've attended one of our seminars) the health versus performance curve. This curve shows two paths (performance and health), rising gradually together and very closely following each other for a good amount of time—until at some point, the paths diverge. Performance continues to increase, while health decrease. In simple words, as you strive for peak performance in … [Read more...]

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