Get Cooking Healthy This Autumn With Your Slow Cooker!
Now that Thanksgiving and Halloween are over in Canada, you’re probably thinking of how to get all your other holiday tasks done while staying healthy and keeping active. How do you keep up with all your obligations and meet your goals without succumbing to the lure of fast food? Enter the slow cooker. With a […]
Guest Post from Promenade Dietitian Carly Hochman: Snacking For Success!
Whether you like to shake it in Zumba (like I do), build muscle in muscle mix, sweat it out in cycle, or hit the machines, a hearty snack is very important after working out to help repair muscle tissues and replenish glycogen stores. A sensible snack should include a source of complex carbohydrates as well […]
Menu Planning for Healthier Habits
Menu planning. It’s one of those things you know you should do, but it seems like the kind of thing that only Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, or some other super-organized ice queen is truly capable of. But trust us: mere mortals can and do plan menus, and they’re saving time, money, and calories doing so. […]
Taking Care of your Pregnant and Post-Natal Body
Plenty of women decide to take their physical fitness and health more seriously after having a child. It makes sense: new moms have a different set of responsibilities than they used to, and they also have an even deeper need for personal time away from kids, spouses, and well-meaning (but occasionally annoying) in-laws and hangers-on. […]
Thinking of a Post-Thanksgiving Detox? Read This.
What is de-toxing? And is it actually good for you? After a weekend of turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and more than a little wine, you may feel like you’re in need of a commercially-available “cleanse” or “detoxification regime,” or something similar. Before your start mixing apple cider vinegar with honey and cayenne and calling […]
Eating Healthy In The Fall
Between Thanksgiving, Halloween, and the seemingly endless chain of holidays between now and February, eating healthy can be difficult. It’s fall! All you want to do is a roast another chicken and mash more potatoes. But eating healthy doesn’t mean leaving behind all your fall favourites. It just means tweaking some of those favourites to […]
Eat Meat? Eat It Better. Here’s How.
Do you eat meat? Have you considered eating less? More and more people are going “flexitarian,” which is to say that they are avoiding meat and other animal products in their diets, but not entirely. In a recent New York Times column author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman explains the charms of flexitarianism: […]
Get A Leg Up on Cold and Flu Season!
Autumn has well and truly arrived, which means a few things: kids are back in school, skimpy Halloween costumes are back, you will have to contend with Thanksgiving dinner, and it’s the start of cold and flu season. With all those elements in play, how do you stay healthy? First, cold and flu season is […]
Move of the Week with Heather and Michelle: Straight Leg Lower!
This week, our Diva of Demonstration Heather Chapman got a little help from her friend… Michelle, our new receptionist at WFCC Promenade! Michelle is currently in school for kinesiology. The Move: Michelle is doing a Straight Leg Lower on an incline bench; it’s is a great way to target your lower abdominal muscles and build […]
Be Your Own Best Fitness Friend, Not Your Own Worst Enemy!
Author Steve Young once said: “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” This attitude is helpful in all aspects of life (which might be why it’s Day 7 in the “30 Days of GOOD” challenge), and it’s especially helpful at the gym. It’s why […]
