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 »
There’s a popular and not so popular approach to slimming that says you can eat anything so long as you exercise and sweat off those calories. So just like the zebra song, does a Zebra have white stripes or black stripes, do we eat more because we go to the gym, or do we go …
Eat up! We’ll burn it at the gym! by Richard Tardif Read More »
I have good taste…in my buds that is. I should say my taste buds seem to have changed in the last year. Foods I loved a year ago just, well, taste different today. I went for that pizza last week and with anticipation to bite into my only slice and…that was all. “It’s Mother Nature happening …
A Japanese company marketing the simple and affordable “manpo-kei,” loosely translated as “10,000 steps meter” popularized the general notion that 10,000 steps a day will shed the weight, but it was actually a Japan walking club during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics that began using a belt meter to count their steps. While no doubt there are …
The numbers don’t lie, or do they? Part 3 – 10,000 steps? Read More »
By Richard Tardif Are we eating more than two decades ago? Three? Four? According to some long-term research we’re not eating more calories than decades ago yet we are heavier, and that’s hard to believe. If this is the case, to lose weight today, we have to eat less and burn more calories than our …
By Richard Tardif Calories in, calories out for optimum weight loss is a simple formula, but this idea of burning more calories than we eat is being challenged by health practitioners, researchers and the general public. At the onset of weight loss the formula seems to be working, but after the initial drop in weight …
By Richard Tardif Last week I had a great workout. It left me exhausted and somehow wanting more. Yes, I took a session, something I said I would never do. CrossFit is a conditioning program that mixes Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, calisthenics, gymnastics, sprints, plyometrics, and incorporates hard-to-do exercises like rope climbing with a weight vest …
By Richard Tardif Lately Multi-Level Marketing health, wellness and vitamin companies hoping to add me as a sales generator have bombarded me, and while I don’t support or criticize these companies, nor their hard working salespeople, I was curious about the latest offering. In particular, the differences between pharmaceutical grade vitamins, sometimes called neutriceuticals, and the …
Long walks or walk meetings, I read, can add to your overall fitness and health goals. It’s called Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) and it isn’t a pass to eat more, because you cannot out walk or out exercise your unhealthy eating patterns, yet NEAT is attracting a great deal of attention lately, and all for …
NEATness counts, maybe for couch potatoes – By Richard Tardif Read More »
