by Richard Tardif Last week I wrote about how prolonged sitting affects the glutes and hamstrings and can lead to lower back pain and postural abnormalities, which is consistent with society’s desk job syndrome, but another muscle, the Psoas (pronounced so-as), also may be contributing to back pain and misguided posture. The Psoas, a thick …
The seat or muscle of the soul – a Psoas by any other name Read More »
By Richard Tardif I am planning to live into my nineties, and I hope you are too? I’m also picturing myself biking, hiking and exercising, what I’m doing today, and also into my nineties. I’m not placing anything on my retirement shelf until I’m called away to the great beyond. I won’t be rocketing to …
by Richard Tardif Viceland repeated a broadcast called “Life after food” this week either attempting to discredit a food replacement cleverly labeled Soylent, or to give it some credit. The host of the show went on a 30-day Soylent test. He lost ten pounds through the process and reported only a vitamin D deficiency, something …
By Richard Tardif Walking around barefooted may be just what you need to strengthen the small muscles in the feet and ankles and reconnect to your natural core and while shoeless training is not new, more people are seeking relief of pain and inflammation with their feet firmly planted on the ground. “Barefoot training is …
Your feet in the buff – barefoot training and its benefits Read More »
By Richard Tardif A recent Pan-Canadian Public Health progress report concluded that one in three Canadian children and youth are overweight (18.6 percent), or obese (12.5 percent). Compare that to the 2005 Pan-Can study reporting 26 percent overweight, a significant decrease, and eight percent classified obese, or a 4.5 percent increase. See Press Release here. Keep …
By Richard Tardif Late night television is really something, isn’t it? I surfed to Shaun T’s reduced Insanity T25, one of the most popular workout programs in the world, as was his 60-minute butt busting in your face 2010 Insanity workout, and thought, “Do we still believe the weight loss hype?” Real name Shaun Thompson, former …
Richard Tardif French author of poetry and memoirs La Rochefoucauld once said, “To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art,” and so in perpetuity the seventeenth century moralist re-united eating, a staple of common peasant bread and rotting meat, with overall health, not so good given that century’s miserable life expectancy …
When you think about it, we eat one hundred meals a month, given we stick to the caveat of three squares a day. While many of us are learning to eat smaller and more often during the day, the “Take a 100 meal journey. Make small changes, one meal at a time” theme for National …
March is Nutrition Month so go for 100 good meals – Richard Tardif Read More »
There’s nothing like walking around a city to get know the layout, and after three days in Toronto last week my Fitbit needed to be recharged! It seems I logged in 15 to 20,000 steps a day, but at the end of each day, checking the calories burned over the three days, I was discouraged. …
I first learned about bodyweight training in the military during physical training, which was three times a day, and I cannot recall too many weight lifting sessions nor did we enter a weight room. Bodyweight workouts were the norm. They were called calisthenics. With all the push-ups, sit-ups, leg raises, chin-ups and something fashionable to …
It’s not only about burpees and lunges! by Richard Tardif Read More »
