Should you Exercise While you’re Injured?
I'm Hurt - Now What? Over the course of a year, many of us unfortunately experience some type of body injury that pulls us away from being as active as we may like. It can be confusing to figure out when to come back to exercising, and at what capacity. There are...
4 Tips for Healthy Vacation Eating
How to Stay in a Healthy Eating Routine While on Vacation We just got home from a wonderful 10 day vacation in Belize. We had plenty of meals out, and enjoyed a few more beverages than usual, that's for sure! Here are 4 tips I followed, to ensure I maintained my...
‘Fall’ out of This Season Gracefully
The Facts About Falling None of us wants to experience a fall - it hurts, it's embarrassing and it can cause real damage to your body, especially as we age. Approximately 33% of people who are 65 and older will have a serious fall at some point, and 5-10% of these...
4 Tips to Healthier Vacation Eating
Healthy Vacation Nutrition is Important With our trip to Belize less than 2 weeks away now, I thought it would be fitting to discuss healthy eating habits for vacationers. I'm not going to lie and say that it's super easy to always stay on track with your healthy...
5 Strategies to Stay Healthy at 90+!
We all want to live healthy, long lives where we're able to live independently in our own homes. To help prevent many health risks and maximize the activity you're able to do, being a healthy weight is helpful. A measure our Canadian doctors frequently use is the BMI...
I don’t have Time to Exercise – now what?
Life keeps getting busier and busier doesn't it? We're all busy with a ton of responsibilities pulling us in different directions - work, family, friends, fitness, chores, and the list goes on. Making time for anything involves prioritization – we choose to spend time...
My Weight Hasn’t Changed – Help! PART 2
Help, the Scale STILL isn't moving! Let's review last week's scenario...your goal is to lose weight. You have been working hard in the gym and with eating healthier over the past two months. Things have been good, you have been losing a pound weekly, then all of a...
My Weight Hasn’t Changed – Help! PART 1
Help, the Scale isn't moving! Here is the scenario...your goal is to lose weight. You have been working hard in the gym and eating healthier over the past two months. Things have been good, you have been loosing a pound weekly, then all of a sudden…nothing. You have...
There’s a Time and a Place for Intense Exercise
Is it Always Healthy to go to the Gym? We all have those days when we just do not feel like being in the gym. Those hours when it feels like it would be more fun writing a calculus exam than performing a lat pull-down. That's OK, if you feel like this occasionally,...
5 Tricks to help you Eat more Vegetables
Eat veggies like it's your job! Many of us know vegetables are really healthy and that we should all be eating more of them. Some of the main benefits of eating vegetables include: Weight loss assistance. First of all, veggies have fewer calories per cup versus many...
Try These 5 Stress Busting Tips!
What's the Best Way to Manage Stress? Stress management - it's all the rage right now, and there's a very good reason, stress impacts our lives in so many ways! Too many of us are stepping on the gas all time, which is putting us into in a constant fight or flight...
6 Effective Exercises you can do Anywhere!
Body Weight Training Resistance training is a critical training format required to build muscle. A strong body with toned muscles helps: reduce body fat & stimulate the metabolism aid in exercise recovery and maximize performance and balance decrease cortisol...