Darren Stehle
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Personal Training, Thai Yoga Massage and Nutrition Expert

Darren Stehle Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Personal Training, Thai Yoga Massage, Nutrition, Writing
- Career Focus
- Author
- Affiliation
- Adelaide Club Toronto, USANA, King Sports International
No theories or trends; just a hands-on, Integrated Fitness approach that works.
Darren has a diverse background in education and work experience. He’s traveled extensively, loves reading, and is constantly learning and developing new skills.
Darren started personal training in 2001. He was privately mentored by internationally renown, Olympic and Commonwealth Physical Preparation Coach, Ian King (King Sports International, 2003-2007).
With his chef-training background, Darren also advises on meal planning, teaches meal preparation and cooking, and utilizes the Precision Nutrition Coaching Program to guide clients through the process of optimal nutrition.
In 2010, Darren began studying Thai Yoga Massage. Thai massage has been described as passive yoga. The healing techniques of Thai massage embrace the four states of mind: loving kindness, compassion, joy and balance.
These extensive professional development programs have taught Darren an holistic approach to training and life, and how to respond to the client’s needs, lifestyle, goals, conce s and feelings.
Darren’s approach is truly unique in fitness coaching. His work involves a higher level of awareness resulting from both experience and understanding that the ego has no place in the process. Your goals and your successes are your own; Darren’s role is to coach you to that place, and to bring out of you what you already possess and to coach you to excellence.
Darren is the author of “Flex Your Mind” and “7 Top Nutrition Tips” and has published numerous articles on mindset, fitness and nutrition.
Education of note
- King Sports International Level 3 Coach (2003 to 2007)
- CPTN Certification (Mar 2001)
- Chef school George Brown College 1987
- University and Graduate School 1987-1994
Services Offered
- Strength & Flexibility Training
- Assisted Stretching Techniques
- Injury Rehabilitation Programming
- Sports & Athletic Performance
- Weight Loss, Body Sculpting, Nutrition & Meal Planning
- Accountability
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Top Nutrition Tip #6 – Meals: What, When and How
I strongly recommend cooking your own meals versus take-out and pre-packaged meals. This may not always be possible given various lifestyle issues. However, when you cook your own food you know what is in your food. If you can’t cook, check out your local bookstore and browse the cookbooks for something with pictures that are geared to the ‘new’ cook and offer simple, easy-to-follow recipes. You can also enrol in a cooking class at your local college. When to Eat
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Live Life According to Your Values
What are your values for life? Just to get things started, here are my current top values and passions: 1. In a Loving Partnershipn2. Joyful and at peace 3. Financially free and secure 4. Deep and meaningful friendships 5. World travel 6. A published write 7. In excellent fitness and health 8. ...
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Top Nutrition Tip #2 Drink Water – All Day Long
Most people do not drink enough water. Since 60% of healthy bodyweight is water, we need to consume a lot of it every day for optimal health. In fact, water is the second most import element to remaining alive. The first is air and the third is food. We can only live for a couple of minutes at most without air, a few days without water, and a few weeks without food.
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Proud Body Program. Introduction: Getting In Shape For Summer
With spring around the corner, the anticipation of summer is close at hand. I know my thoughts keep wandering to walking barefoot on the sand and sun tanning at Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island. Summer is a great time for vacations, going to the cottage, enjoying a meal on a patio and hitting the beach on the weekend. But for many people this is not a happy time if they are conce ed about the shape of their body or the extra body fat they want to lose. I know some people who wouldn't be caught dead taking their shirt off in public.
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Top Nutrition Tip #3 Fibre – A Daily Dose Keeps You Regular
Fibre is useful in controlling insulin — your fat storage hormone. Since fibre slows digestion it also slows glucose absorption (the rate at which the metabolized sugars from food are absorbed into the blood). An absence of fibre can result in less control of insulin response, referred to as insulin spiking, and failure to benefit from the thermogenic cost of digesting food (digestion burns calories!). Fibre is classified as both insoluble and soluble and both have important health benefits for your body.
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Proud Body Program, Part 2: Posture
In my last article I introduced you to the "Proud Body Program". I discussed some general concepts and suggested some homework to help you get started. In this next installment I’m going to discuss another aspect of physical health, your Body Mechanics or how well your body moves. Your body is a kinetic chain. An injury of the foot could result in neck pain. Tightness in one muscle could be the result of shortness in another. Your body needs to be in healthy working order for the sum of all the parts to work together with ease and in harmony.
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Top Nutrition Tip #4 – Good fats – Bad fats
You need fats! But more importantly you need the good fats that are essential to your health and longevity. How much you need is dependant on your lifestyle and health, but the ‘low-fat’ craze has potentially caused more people to become obese and unwell than any other diet craze I am aware of!
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To crunch or not to crunch
When you hit the gym, what’s your routine? Do you have one? Is it written down and do you track what you do so you can measure your progress? And here’s the big one: when do you do you abs; before or after your ‘workout’? And what do you do for your abs? If you watch TV, ...
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The Big Fitness Picture
What are your fitness goals? If your goal is to loose body fat, tone up or gain lean muscle, have you ever found yourself looking in the mirror and wondering, “Why haven’t I got the body I want?” You swear you’ve been doing everything your trainer told you to do. ...
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The Art of Losing
There are at least two ways of understanding ‘losing’: 1. From a competitive viewpoint 2. From a creative viewpoint When losing is viewed in the world of competition, only the winner benefits; the winner gets the scholarship, the cash, the medals, the corporate sponsorship, and the ...
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Procrastination
The root of procrastination is ultimately based upon fear. Procrastination may manifest in many types of fear, for example: a need for perfection, which is the fear of not being good enough or not being worthy. We may seek perfection in the sense of always getting ready to get ready, the need to ...
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Balancing 'Act' on a Board
You’ve seen them in the gym, you’ve seen them at stores that sell fitness equipment. I’m referring to balance boards, Bosu balls, wobble boards, stability balls, rotating discs, and the multitude of variations on the theme of ‘balance’. Are these gadgets simply gimmicks; a trend offering great ...
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Email: darren.stehle@gmail.com
Twitter: @darrenstehle
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