Up early and dressed. Plan A: Head to nearby hockey arena for a run on the indoor track. A look outside quickly prompted a change to Plan B: Change into warmer gear and head right outside the door. I donned my new wireless Jaybirds and...
Saturday morning (the day before the race) I was heading out the door for my 'flush-it-out' run. Seeing how I was dressed drew a look of surprise from my husband. 'Don't you always rehearse how you are going to dress for the race?' Well, of...
IF your sole purpose for exercising is to lose weight or to look photoshopped, well, good luck with that. Personally I like to refer to this thinking (hmmm, maybe 'not thinking') trap as a big, deep, dark, bottomless pit--a rabbit hole. It's a 'NO-WIN-ALL-CAPS' scenario....
The word spin no longer conjures up the image of a woman sitting at her spinning wheel industriously creating threads for family clothes. Picture this instead: stationary bikes organized around an energetic instructor, up-tempo music filling the room, participants eagerly doing their best to keep up, and...
Over the years I have found great joy running outside through all seasons of the year. You can often hear me saying there is no such thing as bad weather only the wrong clothing. I still subscribe to that theory with one exception—ice. This winter...
Imagine two people set out to walk across country from coast to coast. (A long trek for sure.) One sets a limit of 20-miles a day. Whether feeling energetic or tired, it was 20 miles a day, no more and no less. The other walker started out at the...
Martin Gibala refers to his Eight Basic Workouts as ‘fun and fast’. They are only suggestions and intended to be adapted by you, to suit you. Perfect for aerobic workouts and resistance training too. Pointing out once again that the benefits of these workouts have been...
An exercise pill? Sit on the couch and just take a pill? Apparently ‘the concept of taking an Exercise Pill to obtain the benefits of exercise without actually expending any energy has mass appeal for a large majority of people’. (John Hawley and John Holloszy,...
Movement, activity, and exercise have long been linked with improved health and wellness. The benefits are innumerable and widely publicized. There's more...
In his book The Ripple Effect, Greg Wells makes it clear. Speed training improves our performance and our overall health. 'Speed training will be a powerful way to improve both your overall fitness and specific fitness in your type 2 muscle fibres and the anaerobic system inside...