by Brush Park | January 10, 2022 | Tips and Advice
3 Healthy & Sustainable Habits Looking for 3 healthy & sustainable habits for the New Year? Here at Brush Park Gymnasium we believe that being healthy or taking care of your body is an ongoing journey. It’s great to have a time of year that you stop and... 
by Brush Park | March 20, 2019 | Healthy Eating, Tips and Advice
Are you ready for this? The key to healthy eating is changing your behavior slowly in a simple, incremental way so that new behavior becomes second nature. It just becomes part of your everyday life and it absolutely does not look like a short-term diet. Think about... 
by Brush Park | March 14, 2019 | Tips and Advice, Workouts
Do you remember those 8 Minute Ab videos in the 90s? Now fast forward to 2019 and Instagram is full of videos with trainers showing ab exercise (corework) focused workouts. It’s the same message. You will get these abs if you do these exercises. They are not... 
by Brush Park | March 1, 2019 | Healthy Eating, Tips and Advice
Let’s be honest, getting our kids to eat fruit and vegetables is a constant battle. We are always trying new strategies but at times it feels like we are set up to fail. Our kids are picky eaters. One day they’ll eat a certain vegetable or fruit and the... 
by Brush Park | February 25, 2019 | Tips and Advice
The body is an amazing thing. It can heal itself, it’s adaptable and it sends you signals when something is wrong like with pain. But in this case, the body has some room for improvement because its pain signals are actually a response to damage that has already... 
by Brush Park | February 17, 2019 | Tips and Advice
As fitness trainers, we love to display on social media the strength and fitness that we have worked so hard to obtain. It might be the latest yoga pose or the intense kettlebell workout that we crushed. My own Instagram and Facebook feed is a rolling reel of amazing... 
by Brush Park | December 12, 2018 | Tips and Advice
As a health and wellness professional my social media feed is filled with pictures and videos of other fitness professionals showing off their bodies and their workouts. I have struggled with accepting that this is really helping anyone. I know for sure that seeing... 
by Brush Park | November 1, 2018 | Tips and Advice
I started going to yoga a couple of months ago because my shoulders were incredibly tight from weight lifting and it was leading to neck pain. I had no idea that the longer I went to yoga that I would fully embrace why I needed it in my life. Yes, the relief from the... 
by Brush Park | October 9, 2018 | Tips and Advice, Workouts
The fitness industry would like you to believe that you need that exercise product, nutrition bar or protein powder to change your body. But I am here to tell you that you don’t need those things. Those things are just distractions, just smoke veiled over the... 
by Brush Park | September 25, 2018 | Tips and Advice
The 3 things every runner should do include: 1) drinking water, 2) incorporating a warm up and cool down, and 3) utilizing mobility techniques. Why are these things important? These strategies decrease your chances of injury. So let’s give you some strategies so...