PJ
PJ has been a certified personal trainer, Third Age instructor and fitness instructor since 1995. Besides teaching fitness, she has written for several publications, has produced and starred in her own fitness show, been awarded as Best in Fitness, and has worked in cardiac rehab in one of Canada’s leading cardiac hospitals. She has also owned and operated various training studios in the Vancouver area, and now you can find her online helping people from all walks of life and from all around the globe get fit.
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Bodyweight Leg Workout for Strength
Strengthen the legs, hips & glutes - using only your body weight! Using 5 of the best lower body exercises you'll circuit through a strength workout training each leg independently, while only using your body weight.
Single-leg training is so effective for both strength and prevention of injury...
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The Best Shoulder & Tricep Workout with Dumbbells
Sculpt your shoulders and tone those triceps with this shoulder workout using only a couple pairs of dumbbells. Follow along for the whole workout, and make sure you stay till the end for a smoking shoulder & tricep finisher.
Tools: a pair of light & moderate dumbbells, light tubing for the war...
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15-Minute Low Impact Booty Band Fat Burning Cardio
If you only have 15 minutes, this workout delivers! Sculpt the booty while torching some fat with this low-impact booty band (fit loop) cardio workout. With two circuits and no rest, you will scorch your glutes, and hips and burn some serious calories.
Tools: latex booty band
4 x 30sec
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BOSU (optional) Strength Workout with Dumbbells
Grab your BOSU ball (or not!) for this super setting, same muscle group strength workout. While your BOSU ball is optional, your dumbbells aren't!
Using a couple of pairs of dumbbells we will tri-set the SAME muscle group for two sets, working all the major muscles in your body.
This will tor...
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All Standing Warm-Up Exercises Before a Workout
Need some warm-up exercises before your workout? Or, maybe you're looking for an easier type of workout to get you moving. Using all standing exercises, we'll warm up all the muscles and the joints, leaving you feeling refreshed and ready to go!
Tools: nothing
Arm circles
Good mornings
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Shoulder Warm-up Exercises with Bands
Need to get your shoulders warmed up? Or maybe you have a rotator cuff issue or a frozen shoulder. These shoulder warm-up exercises are great for either reason.
Using an exercise band (thera-band) and bodyweight exercises you'll hit the rotator cuff and deltoids and work on your shoulder range ...
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10-Minute Good Morning Exercises
Looking for something to get the body moving? Perhaps as a good morning to your muscles or joints, or a mid-day pick-me-up workout. This no-equipment, low-impact exercise series will warm up and wake up your entire body.
Do daily for a happier, healthier you!
Tools: nothing
Cat cow
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Complete Core
Day 7 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
A short and sweet functional, core workout. In this workout we'll target all of the muscles in your core; front, back and sides. Grab a light dumbbell to add a little spice to your ab work!
Tools: One light dumbbell
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Total Body Strength & Cardio with Dumbbells
Using only one pair of dumbbells, with minimum rest, you will torch some calories while building tone in those muscles of yours. This total body strength and cardio will soon be a favourite!
Day 1 of the Unstoppable Challenge.
Tools: 1 pair of moderate dumbbells
3 x 30sec
Reverse lunge (alt:... -
All Standing Low Impact Cardio + Mat Abs
This quick low impact cardio workout is a ton of fun. You'll perform 6 different exercises for two circuits. All of the moves are low impact, and I show you where you can add some impact for those who want their workout a bit spicy.
After our cardio, we'll head down to the mat for a core Tabata...
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Upper Body Supersetting
Superset your chest and back muscles, followed by biceps and triceps, in this super-setting upper body strength circuit. As usual, I give a little extra love to our triceps, so your arms look smoking 🔥.
Day 3 of the Unstoppable Challenge.
Tools: a couple of pairs of moderate dumbbells
2 x 40...
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Lower Body Thigh Torching Workout
Torch your thighs with this lower body strength workout. And the best part is - no equipment required. Using a lot of single-leg drills, you'll work the strength of each leg independently while also improving your stability and balance.
And stick around until the end! You'll do a special thigh ...
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Easy Stretches for After a Workout or Before Bed
This easy stretch routine is great to do before bed or after a workout. Your side body, hips and low back will feel strengthened and lengthened and your central nervous system will be relaxed and primed for a good night's sleep.
No equipment is required; however, I do recommend a pillow for the...
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Metabolic Conditioning Workout with BOSU [Optional] & Dumbbells
This metabolic workout will get your heart rate up while training all the muscles! A BOSU is optional, with both a BOSU and a non-BOSU exercise shown for every exercise.
In this circuit, you'll cycle through a series of bodyweight and dumbbell exercises, and before you know it - you're done!
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Low or High Impact HIIT Workout - All Standing!
Using all standing exercises, you'll get your heart rate up with this HIIT cardio workout. Some of the moves are higher in impact, with low-impact options shown throughout. This workout goes by quickly, and you'll feel amazing afterwards! Trainer's promise.
This is the perfect I-hate cardio wor...
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No Repeat Booty Builder Strength Workout
Build your glutes with this no-repeat booty builder workout. Doing only 1 round, we'll start with standing dumbbell exercises and then make our way down to the mat to isolate the glutes, hips and hamstrings with the booty band (glute loop). Because of the nature of the exercises chosen, you'll al...
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Chest & Tricep Scorching Strength Workout
Using tri-sets, you will focus on the same exercise, playing with unilateral and tempo training principles. This workout will get those pecs, shoulders and triceps sizzling!
My chest and arms were so sore the next day. You are going to love this one!
We also finished off with a tricep and ab ...
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Mobility & Dynamic Stretch For All Levels
This quick mobility series will get all the joints moving while also creating more movement in the ankles, hips, thoracic spine and shoulders.
This is the perfect little workout to do as a stand-alone or tack it on before a workout to really warm up your joints and muscles. It's also a great wa...
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Back and Bicep Strength Workout
Strengthen your back and bicep muscles! Using an advanced training technique called drop set training, we focus on completing a set until failure, and then we lighten the load by 10–30% and repeat, with little to no rest in between sets. This type of training will maximize muscle strength.
Day ...
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Quick Kickboxing for All Levels
You will love this quick cardio kickboxing workout! Using 9 rounds of moves, you'll get some basic punches and kicks that will increase your heart rate and have you loving cardio!
This workout is low impact, and all standing as well. There is also an ab finisher at the end - that's all standing...
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MetCon with TRX [Optional] & Dumbbells
Work your cardio and your strength with this Metcon (metabolic conditioning) workout. Your muscles, heart & lungs will be challenged with this 6-exercise circuit.
Using only 1 pair of dumbbells (and an optional TRX), you will be shocked at how quickly this workout goes by!
And stick around fo...
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Ab HIIT Cardio Workout
I don't want to toot my own horn, but I think you will love this ab HIIT cardio workout. Starting with a series of all-standing low (with high impact options shown), you'll get a good little sweat going and then follow that with a series of ab exercises on the mat.
Osteo-friendly options are sh...
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No Repeat Arms & Shoulders
Strengthen your arms and shoulders with only 1 round of all the exercises. In this no-repeat workout, you will also engage your core while we work single-arm training for many exercises while also learning how (and why) you can hit the abs without doing a single crunch.
Day 16 of the Unstoppabl...
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The Best Back Exercises & Stretches
Strengthen your back extensors and core muscles in this back strengthener and stretch workout. This is the perfect active recovery workout from training or tack-on after a workout on an off day.
We begin with four of my favourite back strengthener exercises and then proceed to some yummy stretc...