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Personal Trainer. BSc.Kin, CSEP-CEP. Strength workouts for home + gym. Mindset focused! We believe in leading a healthy life that is fun and rewarding.

My name is Lana Osborne-Paradis and my passion is to help others find peace and happiness with food and exercise. I want to know your goals, help you achieve them, but most of all, I want to get you there with a smile on your face and a heart full of gratitude! My company, Blast Fitness, is an online fitness community offering insight and inspiration to tackle everyday challenges with living a bal

anced lifestyle. We exercise efficiently, learn to have a stress-free relationship with food and find inner peace. Join the fun by following our page for the latest recipes, workouts and motivational tips! Visit me online to read my blog and stay connected. www.blastfitness.ca

25/05/2025

My 8th trip to Italy is my first trip to Tuscany! And boy oh boy, it won’t be the last.

Morning runs in the misty countryside, jaunts in old cities full of history, the food, and the wine have made for a glorious trip. It’s all been made even more special to be here celebrating my 40th year with girlfriends I’ve known since preschool!

📍Duomo, Siena, Italy

10/04/2025

One thing most consistent exercisers have in common? They are great at re-starting their workout routines after a hiatus.

They use this principle: I won't wait until it's convenient to get re-started again, I'll get started again at my earliest convenience.

Injuries, vacations, life stress, visiting relatives...they can all put a kink into our carefully crafted exercise routines. Next thing we know it's been 4 days or a week or two and we haven't gotten back to our weights.

The biggest roadblock to our consistency is not these normal (yet challenging) ups and downs of life, it is us waiting to get re-started again.

The first day back after vacation - time to get re-started.

As soon as our energy comes back after an illness - time to get re-started.

Of course there is nuance in how we go about re-starting. We don't need to go all-out with intensity when it's our first workout back, but I would argue we do need to get re-started quickly with a session that meets us where we're at. We can adjust the intensity over time.

Want to try out our online women's strength training program, the Blast Fitness Coaching Club? Join our 2 week trial from April 16-30th! All the details and sign-up here: https://blastfitness.co/step/club-trial/

09/01/2025

I have had the unique pleasure of leading an online women’s strength training club for the past 11 years! It began many years before when I ran in person group strength training programs in Calgary, AB.

As life evolved, we moved the club online in 2014, and this allowed me to bring all the elements my clients and I needed into one spot. The strength workouts, stress reduction tools, corrective exercises, goal setting sessions and yearly workout calendars are all mainstays in the club because they help achieve our top goals —> to get and stay consistent with strength training, and to prioritize our well-being inside of our full, busy lives.

Come and join our 125+ members in 2025. The club just might change your life! It has certainly changed mine 💗

All details and sign up here: https://blastfitness.co/step/cc/

08/01/2025

I’m not being dramatic when I say, this adult sticker chart changed my life! About 5 years ago, one of our Coaching Club members, Megan, posted a yearly calendar she had made to track her workouts. I loved the idea, and began to track my own workouts on a big yearly wall calendar.

For YEARS I had been reminding our strength training club members to take a long term, zoomed out view of their exercise habits, and results from exercise aren’t created in days and weeks, but in months and years.

And the yearly calendar was the perfect tool to quantify what it means to be consistent with exercise.

It’s how we measure consistency in the club.

It’s how we identify trends, breakdowns and breakthroughs.

Plus, adding that sticker to my calendar after each workout feels so good.

When you join us as a member in the club, (registration closes Thursday January 9th!) I’ll send you your own copy of our 2025 Club Calendar and a pack of stickers to get started.

Details and sign up here: https://blastfitness.co/step/cc

And our 2025 Exercise Goal Planning Party is Thursday January 9th at 7:15pm MST!

27/12/2024

Happiest of holidays from the O-Ps to you! 🎄💓

28/11/2024

We take family pictures every year. And while I always hope there will be one great photo where we’re all smiling and looking at the camera, that’s never the photo I end up loving the most.

It’s the candid shot of a hug and frown. The big belly laugh or the face smooshed kiss. The silly shot that might not make it on a Christmas card, but it captures the essence of our family perfectly (see photo #2 🤣). The fact that from a gallery of 50 shots, only a couple are close to ‘perfect’ because that’s the reality of life.

This past year has been one of the most challenging on my parenting journey, and simultaneously the most impactful. I have learned more about myself, my kids and my husband than I thought possible. We are resilient, loving, funny, spicy, persistent and emotional. It’s never perfect, but we’re always trying.

For a lot of this year I was trying so hard (against multiple forces outside my control) to create a calm environment in our home. I have learned that creating calm within me is the only thing I have (some) control over. I’ve learned that leading with curiosity and humor is the best strategy for us.

I’m sure I’ll look back on this post on a hard day in the future with tears in my eyes, but today I’m grateful for this moment in time, this family with all its feelings, the people who were positive forces in our lives this year, and this life and its lessons.

💗❤️💓

Thank you to for capturing us and bringing the fun!

08/11/2024

On September 29th I took the kids on a glorious fall hike with a gaggle of friends. It was truly a wonderful day, the larches were showing off, the kids were moving on their own volition 🥳, and we made it to the top and had a big marshmallow roast.

And then Sloane didn’t want to carry her backpack so I put it on my front and marched straight into a hole. I heard the outside of my left ankle SNAP and I hit the ground and burst into tears and moans… 😬.

After an adventurous journey back down the mountain (thank god for friends, duct tape and hiking poles), a week in a walking boot and a couple x rays later, we determined I had a sprain not a break!

For the past month I’ve been leaning hard into a mindset that has served me time and time again over the last decade. It’s the ‘there’s still SOMETHING I can do’ mindset.

Rather than thinking about all the things I couldn’t do this past month - run, jump, hike…I focused on what I could do - upper body strength, core work, indoor cycling, mobility.

This mindset anchors us in possibility and keeps us engaged in the habit of showing up for exercise (even when that exercise is heavily modified). Then when it’s time to turn up the intensity again, we don’t have to start from scratch.

The take home notes for today:

- we don’t wear backpacks on our fronts.
- always hike with friends.
- bring duct tape, hiking poles and LOTS of snacks.
- look on the bright side and master the art of the ‘there’s always something you can do’ mindset.

Thank you to all my helpers that day, you know who you are 🙏🏼💓🥹

03/11/2024

Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting three sessions at the ! It was truly the BEST day because I got to hang with ‘my people’ and talk about some of the topics that are the bread and butter of what I do.

Spending the day with hundreds of exercise professionals filled my cup in a way I didn’t know I needed 💗. The questions, the conversations, the a-ha moments when their faces lit up as they connected the dots about hip function, pelvic floor function and more. Days like this are what it’s all about.

My sessions were:

➡️ Returning to Impact: Practical steps to return to exercise after birth and injury.

➡️ Mini Bands: Better Hip Function From Warm-up to Workout

➡️ Intermittent Fasting: What’s best for an active population?

A huge thank you to the conference team (they were top notch!) and the wonderful participants, you all made my day.

Some days I still can’t believe this is my job 💗☺️

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