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 »
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 …
