Fitness trackers and bands are all the rage these days. It seems like everyone is trying to achieve their 10,000 step goal per day. It keeps us moving and accountable to ourselves to push a little harder! Here are the top 6 benefits of Fitness Trackers and Bands

The best way to describe Water Rowing is high intensity, without the impact. Water Rowing is an excellent full body workout that can help you burn calories faster than other cardio workouts without putting excess strain on your joints.

Fitness Town Fitness Expert Cartoon One of the most common questions I get is “if you were to pick one piece of equipment to stay fit, what would it be?” That’s a bit like saying “if you had to pick between the engine, steering wheel, and seats of your car, which would you keep?” You can’t really drive a functional car without all of these components, just like you’re not really fit if you don’t have a healthy metabolism, and are strong and flexible. Picture the following scenarios:I speak to a number of clients every week who tell me that they want to buy a piece of cardio equipment –treadmills, bikes, ellipticals or rowers – because they want to “keep fit.”

Customer's come in every week asking about the Max Trainer. People want to know if we carry it, whether or not it’s a good product and if it actually does burn more calories than other machines. Parent company, Nautilus Inc., to Octane Fitness, has done a great job marketing this product but if you pay attention to the infomercial, the focus is really on the idea of the “quick workout”. Fourteen minutes is all you need to melt the pounds off, they say and they are correct.

Whether you are using therapy bands to recover from injury or adding a new degree of difficulty to your lifting, bands provide a great deal of benefits to help you reach your fitness goals. Resistance bands can be used for a comprehensive, full-body workout that challenges virtually every major muscle group in your body. Resistance bands work to strengthen and elongate the muscle fibres increasing your flexibility tremendously.

This is a short blog on why it’s a good idea to do cardiovascular exercise first thing in the morning. I like to keep my mind focused on simple fundamentals (in fitness and in life), and doing cardio first thing in the morning is a nice little principle that can really make a big difference. It’s a success first thing in the morning! Wake up, make a trip to the washroom and then get on your exercise bike, elliptical or put on your shoes and get outside for a brisk walk/jog.

Fitness Town is committed to exceeding your fitness equipment needs year round. We strive to be the best we can be and that’s why we'd like to say THANK YOU to all those who voted for us as the best store for buying exercise/fitness equipment in the Georgia Straight Best of Vancouver Awards for 2017! Our mission at Fitness Town is to inspire healthy lifestyles and provide expert advice to help people to utilize the ideal fitness equipment for their needs and goals.

In the same spirit of discussing fitness fundamentals, I thought that I would write about a couple of universal keys to everyone’s success – from the deconditioned beginner to the world class athlete. What I’m about to say is not new and is really nothing more than common sense. Even so, I feel that it needs to be said yet again in the hopes of giving some of you a little nudge towards action if you are not currently employing the following action steps.

I recently had a woman come into my store looking for advice to help her husband lose weight. He was, in her estimation, 70lbs overweight and approaching middle age. She was concerned about his health and looking to help him make some changes. Her first question was, “Would it help if we changed the milk in his morning shake from regular to almond?”

When it comes to strength and resistance training, functional trainers are the most effective and versatile piece of fitness equipment on the market. Not only do these machines allow you to work the most muscle groups in the widest variety of ways, they are also safe to use for all age groups capable of resistance training.