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Footloose!
Most of us are almost doing all the right things, life-maintenance of every sort, except fine tuning our feet. Yes, that’s right, the two pivotal things at the bottom of our legs. Those two silent and obedient beauties that don’t complain when they spend entire days on end trapped in ski boots, or pounded on mile after mile for entire ultra-marathons. Let’s be honest, most of us take them very much for granted – until we need to do something about an ingrown toenail that has started to create performance issues.
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Secrets of a Cycling Champ
Are you absolutely, 100%, determined to become a champion of cycling?
Well then, here’s your chance.
You can either make a lasting donation, sponsor a seat, or purchase a virtual plank that will assist in the completion of the Mattamy National Cycling Centre (Milton Velodrome).
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Protein Bars, Shmotein Bars
McCarthy’s descriptions of each ingredient get to the core of what their functions are, why our bodies don’t actually need these functions, why they’re unhealthy, and how marketers get away with promoting these bars as ‘healthy’ when in fact there are no health-promoting properties in most of their ingredients.
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Hope
In October of 2012, Jenny Mulligan was diagnosed with brain cancer and told she would likely live 18 months to two years. Family and friends feverishly looked for treatments for brain cancer and found lots of research showing great promise, however very few of these experimental treatments seemed to make it to human clinical trials because there just wasn’t enough funding. The space between academic research and human clinical trials is rightly called “the valley of death”.
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Why Didn’t We Think of That???!!!
WARNING: After you watch this video you will be in a ‘why didn’t we think of that’ haze, and you may develop a temporary obsession with watching this promo clip over and over…
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Off to the Races!
By Steve FleckThe guy who put Ironman triathlons on the map in North America and really helped popularize endurance sports for the masses, was Graham Fraser. As race and event director of some of the biggest triathlons in North America, Fraser has seen it all. However, what gave him the greatest feeling of pride and happiness was seeing a local person, usually at first non-athlete, who had progressed from volunteering, to being a Volunteer Captain, to doing her first triathlon, to one day, finishing an Ironman.
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Chocolate Is The New Caviar
How does one prove sustainability? Well, the easiest way to recognize it seems to be via certification methods. These methods provide information about how a product is grown and/or produced. One of the most controversial products is none other than chocolate. Chocolate has become the status symbol of our day and it’s fascinating.
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Your Passport to Keeping Fit While on the Road
We are rain or shine, snow or sleet, heat wave and blizzard-proof. Our no excuses ethos is a no-brainer when we’re living our lives in the comforts of our homes; but on the road, it hasn’t always been easy. Getting our mileage done has often taken some pre-planning and fancy footwork. Here’s some outside-the-box ideas for you to consider when you have to head out of town for business or pleasure.
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Music Can Help You Achieve Anything!
Outside of the box office, many of us spend countless hours pairing music with our activities. If we’re stressed out, trying to make a deadline, we might listen to instrumental jazz or classical. If we’re training indoors on our bike trainers, we’ll definitely be loading up the playlist with explosive raps and rock to help energize us from start to stop. If we’re at the starting line of a competitive race, we’ll often hear the race producers pumping upbeat tunes.
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This Coffee is a Saint!
“DRINK KLINK. CHANGE LIVES.” That’s what it says on KLINK™’s coffee bean packaging and on their travel mugs. Sounds like what all the other ethical coffee bean producers are selling, so we thought we’d dig deep and ask the KLINK team some questions.
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WasSUP with this Stand Up Paddling craze?
One cold spring day 6 years ago, while walking the dog along the boardwalk in the Beach, I saw the strangest sight. Some guy was in a wet suit standing on a large surf board – PADDLING! I was intrigued and within months I was the proud owner of a Starboard SUP and ready to try my hand at what is becoming one of the fastest growing sports in North America.
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Success 101
For those of us struggling to juggle it all, the good news is that the achievers have a secret, and it’s a secret most of them don’t hide. Ready for it? They have mentors; they have support teams; they read inspirational books; they take leadership courses; in a nutshell, their success is a team effort.
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Food Matters
The opening quote of the 2008 documentary FOODMATTERS reads: “Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food” (Hippocrates said that). In the 2010 documentary FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD, a gentleman weighing 429.6 pounds confesses to the camera that he thinks when people look at him that they probably see an angry man, but he says ,“I’m not really angry, I’m just in pain”. He’s in pain because of his food choices.
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Get a Grip! Testing Out Traction Aids
Let’s be honest: every single day, packaging makes or breaks a sale. Although we are taught not to judge a book by its cover, point is, we’re human, and we like nice things! Which brings us to the traction aids we brought home, in spite of their packaging.
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Namaste
Some of us here at the AHAA studio have been practicing yoga upwards of 20 years. When we started out, we dabbled: a little bit of Hatha here, some Ashtanga there, a meditation workshop, Kripalu, and so on. Each style of yoga offers something unique. Each teacher’s CV and personality are as similar as falling snowflakes – no matches.
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Shhh! Sacred Pantry Secrets Revealed!
We can all picture the scene: it’s past 9pm on a weekday night when you unlock the door to your dark apartment. You’ve been at work since 6am, you skipped lunch, drank way too many coffees or green teas, you skipped your workout, you didn’t make time to pick up dinner, and now it’s too late to order in. You’re nothing short of irritable, tired and hungry. You open the fridge and there’s leftover brown rice, an almost expired bag of pre-cut/pre-washed/ready-to-eat stir-fry vegetables, and a luxurious unopened can of soda water. You root around your fruit basket and actually smile; a small lime, like a rare emerald, is shining for you. Most people would despair at this point, but not you…
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