The Markham Gym wants to tap in and talk about   “Overcoming Binge Eating” Strategies for Dinner Success Introduction: Binge eating can be a significant hurdle on the path to achieving your fitness goals, particularly during dinner time when cravings can be strong and willpower may wane. This is a common practice in the world today.  However, with the right strategies and mindset, you can overcome binge eating and stay on track with your fitness journey. We’ve asked the trainers here at the Markham Gym and this is what they’ve come up with, “Try these strategies”: Plan Ahead ..read more

The Markham Gym wants to know, Markham! Have you heard about Hybrid Training? Metcon? Or even CrossFit? Well what is hybrid training? Some of our coaches here at The Markham Gym training facility would agree that hybrid training (just a new trending term) is the combination of strength training with Olympic weight lifting, endurance/cardio & “cross training” running, swimming, etc. and altogether.  And after all that, what do we get?  Is it Doing too much?  Is it Not enough of one or the other?  Thinking about this too deep now?  You can say that it’s asking yo ..read more

Here it is, When you love what you do, you will go further for it.  The Markham Gym wants you to find that in fitness. While you think about that, we also want you to find a way to love things that you can see yourself getting better at.   Do you see how we just both advanced to a new sentence break together as well? That’s because we’re making progress in reading this blog, together. And learning how to love something about fitness and progress, together. You see? Progress is fun!  Therefore, (not brain washing you) Fitness is fun! Because watching you progress is fun ..read more

This one’s about motivation!  Finding your why! Have you ever felt a lack of motivation to complete a task or reach a goal? (Yes ~ Everyone) Maybe you found yourself wondering what your purpose in life is..why you do the things you do every day.  It’s a common struggle that everyone faced and some face today..  & the good news is that there’s a solution.  By finding your “why” – your reason for doing what you do – you can unlock a powerful source of motivation that can help you achieve anything you set your mind to  Find your why > Have a clear sense of dire ..read more

Today, The Markham Gym wants to discuss flexibility, mobility, performance and stretching! We will cover some topics about fitness and stretching.  Like what type of Stretching should You do Before and after exercising. Which type of stretch is best? And why?  Let’s lessen these two types of stretching you should be doing before and after exercising.  Dynamic & Static stretching  When to do ’em & why   DYNAMIC STRETCHING  are active movements that are not held but still cause muscles to stretch. These are often done to prepare your m ..read more

Being fit doesn’t just mean lift weights for 1 hour & sit on the couch all day  What does it mean to be fit? Well, from the opinions of professional personal trainers and therapists from The Markham Gym, being fit is being able to move & not be out of breath. Your routine tasks should not fatigue you & you shouldn’t fear the stairs, or crash midday  If you are getting TOO FOCUSED on one component of fitness like powerlifting only, you might be diminishing overall fitness  Some things that usually come about from that is feeling achy, unathletic, out of breath ..read more

Making strength and muscle gains naturally over the last several years in the gym. If you want to be big and strong and hovering around 200lbs, we’ll there’s a catch. Here’s the thing, you cannot get to a lean 180 or 200lbs if you NEVER weigh more than 200+ lbs  Early on in your fitness journey I might avoid gaining weight & for the first few years of training, you might be fixated on getting a pound leaner every week.. of course you can lose opportunities to make strength and muscle gains & and this can hold you back FOR SURE. Don’t make mistakes that so many of us ..read more

To those who’ve been in a diet (calorie deficit) for weeks, & haven’t lost any more weight, you are, by definition, not in a calorie deficit anymore.  That Google BMR calculator may say that you burn 2500 calories per day but you’re eating less than 2000 per day & the weight has not budged. That’s because BMR calculators tend to be AVERAGES over a large population, and from experience here at The Markham Gym (coaching over 500+ people since 2018) there is a large amount of variability in terms of activity levels and metabolic rate EVEN at the same height and weight.  So what ..read more

There are many different forms and styles of training when it comes to weightlifting programs or fitness in general. Every person is different from each other from how they move, their physical balance or even which hand they use on a daily basis. The general population as you know primarily uses one hand over the other, which is called your dominant hand which you use to pick up things, write, clean, etc. In the gym you may have noticed while working out that one arm or leg may be stronger than the other. Over time you come accustomed to your either left or right side dominance due to the hig ..read more

Very often, whether it be from family members, peers, teachers and social media, we hear how drinking alcohol is bad for health. Yet people still engage in drinking alcohol for pleasure and many other personal reasons even though they know it will negatively affect their health. Why is that? Maybe they aren’t aware of the repercussions of drinking or they simply don’t care. So today I will be explaining to those who care about their health and want to understand why drinking is bad for their health and how it can affect their fitness progress.  The side effects of drinking alcohol  F ..read more