It’s been a lovely year.
Archive of entries posted on October 2010
Hanging Crunches, Waterball Throws and a Raw Food Update
Check out my previous HITT at Aspire Fitness blog posts: Week One: HITT and the City Week Two: Tracking food and exercise online with Aspire Fitness Week Three: Looking for the Ultimate Workout Week Four: The HITT Diet Plan Week Five: Seeking Motivation Week Six: Resting Between Workouts Week Seven: Be Flexible Brand-new Exercises You’d [...]
How to throw a party and a maid of honour’s duties
My best friend from high school got engaged last winter. Awww! She is getting married in March 2011. Awww! She asked me to be her maid of honour. Awww! Discounting being a flower girl at my cousin’s wedding about 15 years ago, I have never been in a bridal party. …uh oh… March 2011 is [...]
How to Walk the Plank
…well, maybe not “walk”. We’re not pirates around here, after all. The plank I’m talking about is related to fitness (what else?). The plank is a fantastic exercise for core strength. It engages the entire body. It is a great indicator of total body strength and endurance. Imagine a static push up: that is similar [...]
Be Flexible
Check out all of my previous HITT at Aspire Fitness blog posts: Week One: HITT and the City Week Two: Tracking Food and Exercise Online with Aspire Fitness Week Three: Looking for the Ultimate Workout Week Four: The HITT Diet Plan Week Five: Seeking Motivation Week Six: Resting Between Workouts Flexibility Physical flexibility of the [...]
Organic Urban Community Garden
Sharing a Garden in Downtown Winnipeg Yesterday I spent a wonderful hour and a half across the street from my condo in the virtually-empty fourth floor of a warehouse in the Exchange District of Winnipeg. I was there with Nicole and three others, including Jeff, who rents the space. It was Jeff’s idea to start [...]
Reduce, Rework, Recover
On Wednesday night, I had the opportunity to attend an event at the Park Theatre: the premiere of the documentary “Fresh, the Movie”, followed by a panel discussion of four local farmers. Nicole and I both attended as representatives of The Food Label Movement. It was great to see that the event was sold out, with [...]
Resting Between Workouts
Check out all of my HITT at Aspire Fitness blog posts here: Week One: HITT and the City Week Two: Tracking food and exercise online with Aspire Fitness Week Three: Looking for the Ultimate Workout Week Four: The HITT Diet Plan Week Five: Seeking Motivation Learning to Rest Last week I came down with a [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
I thought about writing a blog post for today. Then I decided I’d rather go for a walk and take a day off instead. And get away from the computer for a little while. And eat turkey and pumpkin pie. So I did.
Poll: How much do you care about food labels?
Last month’s poll Last month we talked about how important the ingredients in household products are to you. We had just 16 voters: 37.5% say that the ingredients are very important, 56.25% say that the ingredients are somewhat important, and 6.25% say that the ingredients are not very important. This month’s poll Because we focused on [...]
