How fit is your brain? I have been listening to a series about food and brain health this week and two of the speakers, neurologists, researchers and partners, Drs Ayeshi and Dean Sherzai, had some great news about brain health. Their research shows that your habits can have an effect on your brain health. In their book, The Alzheimer’s …
3 Good Reasons to Exercise
No time? “I have no time” is the number one excuse that people give for not exercising. What exactly does this mean? No time for improved general health? Fitness? Stress relief? Weight management? Maintaining your brain health? Increasing muscle mass? Improved bone density? Improved academic performance? Reduced blood pressure? Improved aerobic efficiency? Increased energy? Improved mood? Reduced risk of chronic …
Exercise in a pill
If you could replace exercise with a pill, would you? Think about it, because even if you don’t love to exercise you may be improving your health without realizing it. The current recommendations for exercise are 150 minutes per week. More is better. Up to 7 hours of exercise a week will improve your health. After 7 hours the benefits …
Can you outrun stress?
You know the saying you can’t run away from your problems? Maybe you can. Or at least reduce the impact. Exercise, and particularly running, may erase the long-term effects of stress on your brain health. Exercise can prevent your brain from suffering the negative side-effects of chronic stress. We can’t always control our stress, but we can control how much we exercise. A …
Little by little, then all at once.
Has this ever happened to you? You have a small window to exercise and it keeps shrinking. Do you go? Even for a short workout? Or skip it? That was my choice. I had to be out the door for my run by 10:00 and it was 10:20, realistically I wouldn’t be ready for another 20 minutes. My window of …
12 Days of Fitness
Tis the season It is the month of eating and entertaining. Winter is almost here with dark days, cold weather and all the holiday season has to offer. Often this means less exercise and more calories, but it doesn’t have to be this way. You can stay active, maintain your fitness, your weight and your sanity with a plan to …
Strength training or cardio?
Cardio or weights? If you ask me a question about your fitness routine you might have heard my standard answer, “it depends.” That is the best I can do without more information. Do you exercise for your health or are you training for a specific event? Do you do only what you like and the results are irrelevant? Are …
Five Fitness Benefits of a Vegan Diet
It is World Vegan Month For World Vegan month here are 5 ways eating a vegan diet improves your fitness. 1. Faster recovery from intense exercise. Exercise is good for us mostly because of the recovery process. Exercise improves our anti-oxidant defence system, a little muscle damage increases our resistance and makes us stronger. We can enhance this process with …
Exercise causes heart disease.
Did you know that physically active, middle aged, white, men are more likely to have plaque in their arteries? That doesn’t really seem to make any sense. According to researchers at the University of Illinois studying the physical activity levels of a group of men for 25 years it is. They found that the white males were more likely to …
Fitspiration
Fitspiration happens. I have been promoting the benefits of strength training for a long time and this weekend a miracle happened. My sister is going to start using her weight room! And she is not the only one. Women are interested in being stronger, not lighter. Getting fit has become a lot more than a weight management system. Being stronger …
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