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Cardio or strength for weight loss

May 30, 2023

Exercise, Health, Personal Training

I will just come out of the gate and say that as a health professional, I don’t support pitching Cardio or Strength for weight loss against each other. You need both for health and both cardio and strength contributes with important benefits for weight loss. ​ Pitching cardio vs strength for weight loss is old […]

Exercise, Health, Injuries, Personal Training, Uncategorized

Ellen Dyverfeldt, Personal trainer and Health coach.

How important is strength work?

May 2, 2023

How important is strength work when you are starting out? It depends of course but the main thing when starting out is to increase your activity level. Strength work is highly important for your long term health. But what’s more important is to find a physical activity / movement that you like the experience of […]

Improving your health.

April 12, 2023

Health, Motivation, Personal Training, Uncategorized

With your best  intentions and your motivation is on top you embark on improving your health.  You make an effort to be physically active and exercise more in order to improve your health. The expectation is that it will be somewhat hard and you will work up a sweat. You’ve had a proper workout.  You […]

Health, Motivation, Personal Training

Are you exercising too much?

November 23, 2022

What is a sign your are exercising too much? There are many signs but this one in particular is an obvious one.  So what is it? Well if you are dreading the thought of exercising, working out being physically active, that is a sign you are exercising too much. The same goes if you are […]

You will get results.

August 25, 2022

Health, Motivation, Personal Training

You will get results, every person knows what to do to improve their health however your brain tells you that you don’t know what to do. Your brain will get you to think, I mustn’t know what to do since I haven’t been able to make a change so far. That’s why it’s so confusing […]

Motivation, Personal Training

Do you want accountability?

August 11, 2022

​Quite often new clients expect that I will hold them accountable for things that we discuss and agree on they will do outside of our time together. Do you want accountability? Do you have that feeling that you wont move, exercise etc on you own unless you have someone who will hold you accountable?​ Accountability […]

What happens when you don’t have time for your health?

June 27, 2022

Health, Motivation, Personal Training

I will be breaking down what happens when you don’t have time for your health in this post. In my experience, we often only think we don’t have enough time. I can imagine you thinking what does she mean? I work 50 + hours a week, I have kids, I have other family commitments and […]

Health, Motivation, Personal Training

Can being healthy be effortless?

June 13, 2022

Can being healthy be effortless? I like to ask new clients, can being healthy be effortless? The first thought many have is that you need to go to a gym to get fit and healthy.  Without even realising you are jumping to this conclusion. ​ ​ The gym is great though. But if it’s not […]

Is HIIT training effective?

June 3, 2022

Health, Injuries, Personal Training, Uncategorized

What is the deal with HIIT training? Is it as good for you as we might think? Is HIIT training effective?  I’ll go into all this in this article and hopefully I can make sense of some questions you might have.  There is a higher risk of injury with HIIT training than with something slower […]

Health, Personal Training, Uncategorized

Exercise for stress management.

April 4, 2022

How to use exercise for stress management. Are you wondering if you are doing enough or too much? When is movement and exercise causing more stress then it helps to manage it? This is definitely a balancing act when it comes to our health. And it’s one where I see most people constantly swing from […]