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Wellness is a driving force and a basic human need and our goal at Muscle and Heart is to make your wellness sustainable.  We want you to love getting fit and to love staying fit so you can continue to reap the rewards that a fit ness delivers.

•  Cardiovascular fitness

•  Weight loss programs

•  Muscular strength
•  Flexibility development

•  Fitness and nutritional     counselling

•  Pre- and post-natal     programs and

•  Rehabilitation programs     following injury or     surgery

Muscle & Heart
Personal Fitness Training

11500 170 St NW,

Edmonton, AB T5S 1J7

E: mikeljevaja@gmail.com

T: 780-445-9269

Private lessons can be arranged for your convenience.

Monday-Saturday:

Sunday:

8 AM to 8 PM

10 AM to 6 PM

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Mike (Michael) Ljevaja

I love the feeling of working out and I’d like to share my passion for fitness with others.  

My mission is to provide a challenging and results-oriented workout that will have my clients feeling better than when they first came to the gym.  

My basic philosophy is to strengthen hearts and muscles through weight-bearing exercises and calisthenics. Both these techniques are a great way to elevate your heart rate without putting clients on “torture” devices such as the treadmill.  I have nothing against cardio workouts or cross-training but my strength lays in making clients stronger and leaner through, primarily, resistance training (using free weights, weight machines and gravity).  

It is my experience that clients enjoy resistance training and that it is the most productive workout of all and the bonus is, it yields the quickest results.

I am also dedicated to the power of prevention and helping you be your best you at any age.  

I believe the laid back atmosphere of one-on-one training or small group workouts at Legends gym will ensure that clients have fun - while building functional strength, staying safe and achieving their goals!

“My passion in life is fitness
and I believe in practicing
what I preach”

I don’t subscribe to the “Results come first - Nothing else matters- but results” mantra.  

I am guided by the principle to achieve the best results for you!  I try to make people look and feel great not just by building bigger muscles and heart strength but also by providing the residual benefits of physical fitness -those intangible feelings of well-being, belonging and happiness.  I believe in health of the mind and spirit as well.

I subscribe to a holistic approach to fitness and I begin with the body  by progressively overloaded resistance training programs, following the SAID principle and an intelligent approach to nutrition but also to addressing  the human component of working out.  Working out should be enjoyable and in an emotionally safe place.

I try my utmost to do this with empathy, caring, professionalism and the passing on of knowledge.

My Mantra: There’s More to Fitness Than Just Body Work….it’s Holistic

The first step is to find out what you, the client, wants. This is not a top-down discussion but a conversation where we find out what challenges you have encountered in the past, what your problems are and how we can fix them.

Personal training is a mutual contract. I deliver my utmost by creating the best workouts and diets for the individual client and lead by example. Then we strive together to meet our mutual goal.

My Approach

Our Common Goal

I believe teamwork is always the best approach to challenges. It combines our united desire to empower every client to exercise their strength and fortitude in working towards and achieving our common goal - a health transformation:

We want you to be:

HEALTHIER, HAPPIER,
TO EXERCISE POWER OVER AGING
and EMPOWERED TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE !

“Your success is
My success!”

My Vision for My Clients

I see my clients as staying healthy and fit for the long term.

Each client is their “own gym”, they decide to take on the challenge and do the work to achieve their fitness goals and I am happy to guide them in the most effective way possible.

Young or old, if they keep their eye on the goal and their efforts will not fail them.