How can I measure my results? Am I getting stronger? How did I do compared to my last workout?

Working with hundreds of clients over many years specializing in our specific training has allowed me to understand these aspects of our training experience with a substantial degree of confidence.

New Element Training is working with the Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society to help support women and children arriving in Canada who have fled Ukraine.

If your goal is to lose fat and preserve lean tissue, there are some principles that are important to understand.

Diet can be confusing. There are so many different dietary approaches, and all of them have pros and cons. Here are the most important principles to follow for lean tissue development and maintenance, as well as healthy body composition.

How can we eat in a way that targets fat loss and not muscle loss? Here are three important things to consider.

Monitor your blood sugar, ketones, and sleep with these helpful gadgets.

Research suggests that strength training can help prevent falls and stave off cognitive decline. Whether you’re focused on preserving a healthy body or a healthy mind, building and maintaining muscle is a powerful pathway to lifelong health.

Studies have shown that the lower the strength and mass of your muscles, the higher your risk of dying from cancer.

To improve our cardiovascular health, the common assumption is that we have to do lots of aerobic exercise. But strength training turns out to be a powerful way to protect our hearts.

As a 2019 Annual Review of Physiology paper states, "type 2 diabetes may represent a reversible chronic disease and . . . exercise as medicine may be as efficient as a glucose-lowering medication."

Traditionally, there are four indicators a doctor looks at to assess a patient’s well-being: blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, and temperature. But in 2018, a team of researchers suggested that muscle mass should be included as one of the vital signs of health.

Longevity science has been a popular topic in the past couple of years, largely due to a classic book called Lifespan by Harvard professor and longevity researcher David Sinclair, PhD.

In his book, Sinclair clearly outlines what science knows today about why we age, and what we can do about it. Yes, there are things we can do to delay aging on the level of our DNA.

Let's look at how exercise and in particular strength training affect your longevity epigenome (a system in your genome that regulates which DNA segments get expressed and which stay silent), in three important areas.