Hey you – with the cup of coffee, BlackBerry and protein bar in your hands. Step away from the laptop and get some lunch! After you read this blog, I mean.
As some of you know, I'm a fan of the Biggest Loser. It is one of the only reality TV shows I watch, and I generally watch it while I'm doing admin work on my laptop. The crying and fighting bores me to tears, but I am a sucker for any fitness-related show.
Ah, January... slush is in the streets and everybody in the whole, freakin' world is in the gym. At least for a few more weeks. As New Year's Resolutions get a little fuzzier and the temperatures get a little warmer, many gym goers struggle to stay committed. And sometimes, you just have to party.
Phew... this week is a bit crazy. We just got back from a New Year's trip to Ottawa and are headed out of town on a mommy-and-daddy-only vacation on Friday. In between, I'm trying to process new clients who want to kick off 2011 with one-on-one personal training or by joining one of our fitness classes for modern mommies. I'm also preparing to leave Sweaty Baby and Sweaty Kid for 8 days, which adds a whole other dimension of stress to this week. My head is spinning.
In case you've never known a personal trainer personally, I feel it's best I be honest and confess: we like to drink. Sure, there are personal trainers who live on nothing but green tea and raw almonds. The rest of us live on green tea, raw almonds, the odd pizza and usually some alcohol. Generally, we consume our alcohol in large quantities, infrequently. A few beers every night is not so good for the wa
Ouch! My legs hurt today! It's not every day that my own Belly Bootcamp classes hit me so hard I'm actually sore for a day or two... but it happens sometimes when I've crafted a particularly effective combination of exercises to target a specific part of the body.
In this case: quadriceps (the muscles of the front of your thigh) and adductors (the muscles of your inner thigh).
This weekend, because apparently we have nothing better to do with our time, Sweaty Hubby and I decided to re-paint our living room. It's been a cozy, warm shade of red for about 5 years. We decided to brighten it up and modernize it with a smoky blue. Okay, maybe you might "brighten" your home up with something cheery like yellow or white. I like intense colours in my home. To me, blue = bright.
Last week I had the pleasure of co-hosting a fantastic launch party with Erica for 12 of our lucky readers. We all had the chance to play the brand spankin' new Kinect for Xbox 360 and the ultra-cool Your Shape: Fitness Evolved by Ubisoft.
I completely embarrassed myself at the very end of the evening, when Erica so kindly suggested I challenge our co-host, one of the designers of Your Shape. He doubled my score and then laughed in my face.
A couple of months ago, a longtime client – let’s call her “S” - asked my opinion on the Reetone series of shoes.
S has a daughter-in-law who works for Reebok, as a matter of fact, and she gets some pretty amazing discounts on Reebok shoes and athletic wear... enough to make me very jealous as she’s usually looking cute and coordinated while we’re training... I, on the other hand, am generally dishevelled and underslept.But smiling.Always smiling.
