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Your Best August Ever
Make this your Best August Ever! Whether its more relaxation, more fitness, more healthy eating – or doing away with bad habits and attitudes – we’d love to hear about your plans to add lasting transformation to the list of things to savour about the end of summer.
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Don’t just lie there: Active recovery for top performance
There’s a middle ground between overtraining and lying around on the couch. Active recovery keeps elite athletes at the top of their game, but it’s an important protocol for those who train hard in any sport.
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Life, Interrupted
Health and fitness are all about staying proactive…and, let’s face it, being lucky. Sometimes, life events interrupt our best efforts. Experiences out of our control, disruptions as petty as a common cold, keep us out of the game. But there are occurrences that have the potential to de-rail us for more than just a few days.
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The Surprising Effects of Candida
By Cara StatzCandida, or yeast, is commonly associated with skin irritation and itchiness, particularly in the nether-regions. But candida affects 60 per cent of ‘healthy’ people. Symptoms of candida vary in severity, but there are some surprising symptoms that can have an impact on our everyday lives.
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Iron Deficiency: More Common Than We Realize
By Cara StatzIron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency and a leading cause of anemia in North America. Let’s take a closer look at the symptoms of anemia, as well as ways to increase your iron levels, and important key facts about iron absorption.
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Healthy Glowing Summer Skin
By Cara StatzHealthy glowing summer skin: we all want it, but do expensive creams and magic pills really work? Here are some simple easy steps that have proven to be effective, efficient and won’t leave your wallet crying.
The natural alternatives listed below are great natural alternatives to help give skin that beautiful natural glow that will get you noticed this summer!
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Introducing…
AHAA Living is thrilled to introduce personal trainer, holistic practitioner, competitive athlete and kinesiologist, Cara Statz, as our newest weekly AHAA Living contributor. Expect expert insights into all things active and healthy with Cara’s holistic mind-body approach to fitness and wellbeing. From enhancing athletic performance, to maximizing recovery, to healthy skin from the inside out, stay tuned for Cara’s weekly insights, right here in the AHAA Living community.
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High Performance Living
What does an Olympian eat before a workout? Well, the AHAA Living team got the chance to sit down with men’s Olympic beach volleyball player Martin Reader and former professional hockey player Ryan Caicco to find out how they fuel their high-performance bodies before and after training. We also had a chat about the athletic and high performance training community that is StriveLife. Along with talking about their shared passion for healthy, active living, we got the opportunity to join-in on a StriveLife workout and experience first-hand their unique and dynamic approach to athletic conditioning.
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How To Get Things Done: Gil Penalosa Style
In his TEDxCarlton talk, Gil Penalosa, the Executive Director of the Canadian non-profit organization 8-80 Cities: Walk & Bike, Parks & Streets for All, walks us through the reverse engineering needed to create public places for people 8-80, meaning as young as 8 and as seasoned as 80.
Gil is a non-preachy straight shooter who gets to the root of the problem by stating, ”We’re thinking and talking, but not doing enough. How can we move from talking to doing?”
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Pride in Your Body
As the city ramps up to host an estimated 1.2 million Pride Week enthusiasts, we chatted with Montreal-born Gabriel Campo, a certified personal trainer and first-time World Pride attendee about some quick-tips for getting active and taking pride in a healthy body.
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Supernatural-ish Bike Thing
Some things need little to no introduction; the video we posted in this blog entry (and really think you should watch) is one of those phenomena.
For the sake of good old-fashioned chivalry, we’ll do a super speedy intro: Tom van Steenbergen is a mountain biker extraordinaire and the course at Whistler Mountain Bike Park just opened on May 16th.
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Fed Up: Documentary Review
People constantly say they are fed up about things: the traffic they drive through to commute to their jobs; their strained relationships with people, money and their health; the government who seems to operate in a completely different vortex than the average person… etc. On average, we hear people complain day in, day out, but rarely do we see action.
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The Clean Bin Project
The Clean Bin Project is a documentary film about Jen and Grant, a fun-loving, unapologetically competitive couple, who embark on a yearlong contest to reduce their garbage output. Their rules are simple…
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Morning Energizer Blueberry Smoothie
By Joy McCarthyThis is a meal in a cup! I always feel balanced and energized for the day when I start my morning off with this smoothie. When blueberries are not in season, I just swap for a different berry or use frozen berries.
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Superhero Skincare to the Rescue!
We’re definitely cup half full types. Though, when we hear a company make claims, like you will not find any chemical preservatives, artificial fragrance or color, phthalates, betaines, sodium lauryl/laureth sulfates, phosphates, silicones, EDTA, glycols/PEG’s, parabens, gluten or petroleum based ingredients, our curiosity piques. Let’s face it: hundreds of companies spend more time greenwashing than they do sourcing natural products.
So when we saw the Ella’s Botanicals tweet asking for product reviewers, we jumped at the chance. A couple of days later, we received a care package that we could skin-test.
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