Your emotional wellbeing through the holiday season
As the year draws to a close and the holiday season approaches, focusing on nurturing your emotional well-being can make this time more meaningful and fulfilling.
Optimizing Strength & Muscle Growth
Almost everyone I encounter these days is interested in strength training. The main motivation cited in my circles is aging well with a focus on being able to continue to do all the things we...
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Your smart watch isn't always so smart
I love smart watches. From my first Garmin to my current Apple Watch, I often find the tracking and data push me – inspire me? – to do just a little bit more. Run one extra kilometer,...
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Interval Training Impacts Health Span
There’s lots of interesting advice these days on how to live longer. I’m far more interested in how to live better. A recent paper cites that while life expectancy has increased...
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Grey Days Don't Need to Make You Blue!
Less sunlight – less daylight also – is thought to be linked to chemical alterations in our brains that can create or exacerbate challenging feelings including anxiety, fatigue, social...
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Change: One Step at a Time
Sometimes, at this particular time of year, we spend a little more time thinking about what we’d like to change or improve. About ourselves. About our lives. This can be an extremely...
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Make a Difference: Connect
Toronto's 19th Annual Vital Signs Report recently published some tough numbers: Over 50% of adults feel depressed at least one day a week; Torontonians are among the loneliest in Canada - 37%...
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Exercise for Results
Earlier this month, we explored how deciding that everything counts can be a powerful mindset shift in supporting a lifelong commitment to movement and exercise. Exercise adherence is tough. We...
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