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GGS Holiday Gift Guide – Fitness for the Family
Girl Get Strong’s Holiday Gift Guide Giving the Gifts of Health and Fitness Fit Family Edition It can be a challenge keeping ourselves fit, let alone thinking about the rest of the family. But who needs family fitness when you can play together? Here are a few gift ideas – both low tech and high [...]
Fitness company challenges families to be healthy
We recently learned of Canadian fitness retailer Fitness Town‘s new 21 Day Family Fitness Challenge, which is a program designed to encourage families to embrace lifelong health through nutrition and fitness. Child obesity is reaching alarming proportions With more and more children creeping into the obese category, Sian and I are excited by the effort [...]
It’s time for your -110C spa treatment
The Cold Sauna Popular in Europe, the cold sauna has come to North America. How cold? Try -110 degrees. Celcius. “You will not believe it, but when everyone walks out they are smiling…” The cold sauna provides a treatment called cryotherapy, which involves spending up to three minutes in a room set at -110°C. [...]
The Sweet Smell of Success at the Newest Steve Nash Sports Club
What does it take to get the GGS girls out to a grand opening of a fitness club? Free food? Champagne? Hot sports stars? The newest Steve Nash Sports Club offered all that and more at their VIP reception yesterday during their official Grand Opening of the new Morgan Crossing location, but that’s not what [...]
Oscars 2010: Celebrities’ Pre-Awards Weight Loss Plans
Elle.com contacted us to post this fantastic article about the celebrities Pre-Award Weight Loss plans, which the GGS crew thought our readers would enjoy. Oscars 2010: Oz Garcia, nutritionist to the stars, reveals Hollywood’s slimming secrets By Emily Hebert Hollywood’s leading ladies never fail to dazzle the night of the Academy Awards—but don’t be fooled: Their [...]
The GGS Holiday Gift Guide – Click here for new picks
. It’s that time of year again…. ….shopping time! . This year why not show your loved ones how much you really care and give them the gifts of fitness and health? We’ve put together a series of fab finds with the coolest books, dvds, gear, gadgets, clothing, equipement, footwear and…well, you get the drift! [...]
Welcome to the new GGS!
It’s far too late for me to be writing and we’re still tweaking our new look, but we’re really excited to share it with you right now, so here we are! You’ll notice some new categories, and that we’ve dropped (or are soon to drop) categories that are unrelated to fitness. But they aren’t deleted, [...]
Twitter part-ay, a new look and expansion, oh my!
So much fun going on, I’m not even sure where to start… so I’ll just jump right in: Tonight we’re excited to be co-hosting the #galtime Twitter Party from 6-8 PST/ 9-11 EST. Go here to rsvp and be entered to win some fabulous gift-card door crashers reserved for RSVPers only! But no you don’t [...]
Where the Girls are – a GGS update
Happy Monday! We’ve had a couple of sunny fun-filled weeks as our children have settled back into their school routines and now, with our little darlings safely tucked away at school, we (the GGS girls) are able to turn our minds and bodies firmly toward fitness once again. So what’s new? The new GGS Club [...]
Bone up on your facts: young girls establish bone density for life
Moms, did you know that most bone density is established by the time a girl turns 18? Yikes! I didn’t. Need to bone up on your facts? Don’t worry! On September 2, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the launch of Best Bones Forever. Best Bones Forever is a campaign designed to improve girls’ bone health [...]
Hot Topics: 3 year old gets 96 stitches from a dog but no charges laid
In our local news, a toddler is recovering in hospital after he was attacked by a large dog in the Vancouver area last week. Half of three-year-old toddler’s face is covered in 96 stitches after a dog bit the boy on the face.The boy was left with deep gashes to the right side of his head — including one [...]
A little press for GGS
I was recently interviewed by the wildly intelligent and very lovely Nadia Murdock who is a Fitness Examiner for New York. Click here to read the interview and be sure to check out Nadia’s other articles while you are there.
Hey, how YOU doin’?
Hi, thanks for dropping by girlgetstrong.com! Grab a cup of coffee and get comfy because we’re here to amuse, inspire and (best of all!) celebrate with you the sometimes wonderful, sometimes zany and always unique experiences that all of us girls go through every day as we try to become stronger women. We hope you [...]
