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Ditch the old “no pain, no gain” method of running yourself ragged

– if you want to build the stability, mobility, and strength necessary for all the activities you love, we can help!

What To Expect

Focus on Function

Learn to lift safely, and get stronger without the aches and pains.

Experienced Professionals

Knowledgeable and enthusiastic staff, who are committed to helping you reach your goals.

Supportive Community

A welcoming environment of like-minded individuals, ready to celebrate your success!

Balanced Approach

Let go of the all-or-nothing approach. Balance is key – especially when it comes to exercise, to nutrition, and to general wellbeing.

Strength Training for Every Body

Everyone can benefit from strength training – but it doesn’t look the same for everyone. We can put you in the best position possible to succeed.

Spend your day behind a desk? We’ve put together a free resource to help you improve your mobility and decrease pain!

Access the free PDF

Private Personal Training

Personal Training Personalized programs to address any postural concerns, learn proper movement patterns, and get you to your goals! All with 1-on-1 attention from a Certified Personal Trainer.

Semi-Private Training

Combine an individualized training program with a sense of community – share a training time with up to 3 others for a more cost-effective training option!

Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy Our team of Registered Massage Therapists are ready to get you moving and feeling better. Book your appointment online from our massage page!

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What are Ramp Up sets and how do we do them? Some

What are Ramp Up sets and how do we do them?

Some additional notes.
✅ The more weight we lift, the more ramp up sets we will need. A 135lb Deadlift will probably only need 1-2 ramp up sets, while a 400lb one will probably need 3-5.

✅Ramp up sets are a great opportunity for us to practice things we need to remember to do once we go heavier. So take your time, focus and move with intention.

No better time to start strength training then rig

No better time to start strength training then right now!

Book a consult on our website and join the BioMechanics Fam!

When can stress be a good thing? A stressor is an

When can stress be a good thing?

A stressor is anything that disrupts our homeostasis (aka our "normal baseline"). We tend to think of these disruptions as always being negative, but that's not the case!

Let's reframe it this way: every stressor opens up an opportunity to rise to a challenge, and whether that stressor turns out to be positive or negative depends entirely on our ability to respond to that stress.

In other words,

🤔 do you feel at least somewhat able to meet the demands of the task?
🤔 how long does that stress last?
🤔 how intense is that stress?
🤔 how do you perceive the stress?
🤔 how well can you recover from the stress?

When we're not able to respond effectively, stress can break us down, and, if we can't recover enough between stressors (ie stress happens too often, too intensely, or recovery is compromised), then repeated stressors leave us feeling even worse.

Good stress inspires us to action, can be a part of a positive life experience, and helps build us up to be better than we were before.

Bad stress is demoralizing, can be paralyzing when we don't know how to overcome the challenge presented, and breaks us down to feel worse off than we were before.

Interested in learning more about managing your stress and improving your recovery? Watch for some free resources releasing next Friday, and the official launch of Sleep, Stress Management, and Recovery Coaching on March 30th!

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Staples are staples for a reason. #yxefitness #str

Staples are staples for a reason.
#yxefitness #strengthtraining #strongwomen

What is Sleep, Stress Management, and Recovery Coa

What is Sleep, Stress Management, and Recovery Coaching?

You may have heard us describe SSR Coaching as the "missing piece" to what we currently offer at the gym. To some, it may seem like a deviation from our current services, branching into new territory - we see it as a new way that we can dive deeper into important lifestyle factors that we've touched on with clients for years.

Simply put: the activities in your daily life cause you stress. Some of these stressors are physical (workouts, physical labor, poor nutrition, sleep quality, dehydration), while others may be mental (decision making, problem solving, endless to-do list), social (conflict with coworkers, friends, or family, or a feeling of isolation), emotional (responding to sadness, guilt, anger), existential (are you working towards a goal or feel purposeful), or environmental (are your surroundings comfortable, safe, and health promoting).

Some of those stressors will be easily managed with your current skill set and recovery practices - while others may overwhelm you and wear you down more over time.

SSR Coaching helps us to identify what you're managing well and which areas you may need help to optimize your recovery - then provides action steps to start making strides forward.

For years, we've emphasized the importance of recovering from workouts, whether through proper nutrition and hydration, mobility and breath work, or booking in for a massage... all of which have centered around the physical aspect of recovery. Now, we have more tools at our disposal to help you crush your goals, both in and out of the gym!

Get stronger, move better, and improve your quality of life with BioMechanics!

#yxe #yxefitfam #yxefitness #biomechanicsyxe #yxemassage #yxelocal #yxesmallbusiness #sleepbetter #stressless

How did the triceratops feel after their workout?

How did the triceratops feel after their workout?

Dino-Sore.

Let’s schedule those workouts and massages, and

Let’s schedule those workouts and massages, and crush this week!

Since we have had a few new faces join our ranks i

Since we have had a few new faces join our ranks in recent weeks, we figured it would be a great time to answer a big question.

“So what are you guys all about?”

While we know what our training values are, some of our followers might not.

So we wanted to make it more clear what our values are in terms of our training.

🔹Building strength
🔹Moving well
🔹Improving quality of life

Our training and programming for every single one of our clients comes down to those three things.

✅We want to build some strong, resilient people.
✅We want them to move efficiently and without pain.
✅And we want our training to improve their quality of life.

Whether that is making their every day activities easier, decreasing aches and pains, or making them more resilient for what life throws at them.

If your training values line up with ours, and you’re looking for an awesome training environment, come give us a shout.

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Sleep truly is a recovery rock star - so many proc

Sleep truly is a recovery rock star - so many processes in our body rely on quality sleep to replenish or function optimally!

Are you struggling to get enough sleep? We'll be sharing more free resources over the coming weeks as we approach our official launch of Sleep, Stress Management, and Recovery Coaching on March 30th... so keep your eyes peeled for some tips on catching more 💤.

#yxe #yxelocal #yxefitfam #yxefitness #biomechanicsyxe #yxemassage #bettersleep

Happy International Women's Day! We're so lucky t

Happy International Women's Day!

We're so lucky to work with these strong women every day - cheers to all the women crushing their goals, both in and out of the gym!

#yxe #biomechanicsyxe #yxefitfam #yxelocal #yxesmallbusiness #strengthtraining #strongwomen #internationalwomensday

That feeling when you come out of your massage tre

That feeling when you come out of your massage treatment

#yxe #massageyxe #biomechanicsyxe #yxelocal #massagetherapy

Why did the sea food chef stop working out? He pu

Why did the sea food chef stop working out?

He pulled a mussel.

Little weekend funny… and thought provoker. Do

Little weekend funny… and thought provoker.

Do you put in just as much effort outside of the gym as inside it?

There are a myriad of reasons why we want to train

There are a myriad of reasons why we want to train our glute muscles, besides just having a nice butt.

Strong glutes are huge for injury prevention. Our knees and lower backs depend on strong, stable hips to take some of the pressure off of them.

They are also major movers of the body. Whether you’re walking, running, lifting or jumping, your glutes are going to be involved heavily.

Make sure you train them through a variety of exercises and rep ranges. Squats, deadlifts, lunges, bridges and hip presses are some of our favourites.

This is @knewbigging crushing her Single Leg Hip Press!

No matter who you are, do your butt stuff.

#strengthtraining #strong #hipthrust #butt #yxefitness

Motivation is fleeting. The people who still show

Motivation is fleeting. The people who still show up and do their workouts even when they’re not motivated are the ones who will see results.

There’s going to be times that you’re not motivated. That you don’t want to get out of bed. That you don’t want to make the drive to the gym. But if you actually want the results that you’re looking for then you still have to show up. Over and over again. Even when you don’t want to. That’s discipline.

#motivation #strengthtraining #discipline #workoutmotivation #workout #fitnessmotivation #fitnessjourney

New services coming soon! After 9 long months, la

New services coming soon!

After 9 long months, last week, Heidi finished up her Sleep, Stress Management, and Recovery Coaching certification through Precision Nutrition. This course was in-depth, well researched, and most importantly, extremely applicable to the struggles experienced by our clients.

We've always aimed to be able to support our clients using a holistic approach - looking at lifestyle and wellness outside of just the sets and reps in the gym. This feels like the missing piece of the puzzle that will help us coach clients through some of those barriers that have been holding them back from reaching their goals, improving their performance, and just plain enjoying life to the fullest!

Keep your eyes peeled 👀 for some FREE resources and an official launch of Sleep, Stress Management, and Recovery Coaching coming soon!

In the meantime, let us know in the comments: what do you most need help with right now - more sleep, less stress, or better recovery?

#yxe #yxefitness #yxemassage #yxecoaching #biomechanicsyxe #personaltraining #strengthtraining #recovery #sleep #stress

Don’t be the idiot who puts a water bottle in th

Don’t be the idiot who puts a water bottle in the Pringles holder on the treadmill.

Shit happens! We get it. Life gets in the way some

Shit happens! We get it. Life gets in the way sometimes. There is zero shame in that.

But don’t let one or two missed workouts snowball into a few weeks.

That’s why we offer flexible scheduling for our Semi Private Training. 25 different times throughout the week. If you can’t make your normal one, get into another one!

#biomechanicsyxe #strengthtraining #fitness #yxefitness #yxe

Here is @prezdad6 booming some floor presses. Why

Here is @prezdad6 booming some floor presses.

Why might we program DB Floor Press?

✅ Improve bench press lockout strength
✅ Decrease range of motion so we can overload the movement
✅ Work around cranky shoulders

Maybe you should add some floor presses into your routine!

#strengthtraining #yxefitness #benchpress #strong

If your goal is to actually get stronger and move

If your goal is to actually get stronger and move better, then taking adequate rest between sets is mandatory.

In order to get better, we want each set to be performed with 100% energy and intention. That means we need to rest enough to ensure that our first and last sets performance is pretty damn similar.

If our…
🚩performance drops drastically…
🚩our technique gets worse…
🚩our focus goes down from one set to another…

that is a pretty good sign that we are not taking long enough rest breaks between sets.

And if you are doing sets of burpees between your sets just because you can, that typically means you’re not taking your sets seriously enough.

Or you’re just doing a cardio class (Which is fine).

But it’s sure as hell not strength training.

#strengthtraining #biomechanicsyxe #fitness #stronger #yxefitness #yxe

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