All Entries in the "Workin’ Out – OUTSIDE" Category
Great Tips to Improve Work Life Fitness Balance
A balanced life creates contentment and satisfaction in professional and personal areas. Obtaining balance is an ongoing process that continually evolves as your professional life and home life develop. When your life is unbalanced, an unmanageable schedule and a conflicted home life may ensue. Prevent overwhelming feelings and conflict by implementing basic work-life balance tips. [...]
Why you Might Want to Consider Becoming a Runner
A fitness program should include the basics of aerobic exercise, strength training, and stretching or flexibility, according to MayoClinic.com. For many people, running is the preferred form of aerobic exercise, offering physical, emotional and financial advantages. Before you start a running program, consult your doctor to be sure you don’t have any medical issues that [...]
Does Running at Night make you Faster?
Blanketed by darkness and zipping past streetlamps, night runners may feel as though their nocturnal hours award swifter speeds. But does logging midnight miles actually inspire greater speeds, or is the quickened pace merely a mind trick? A Run On The Dark Side — Why It Matters Donning sneakers at sunrise rarely seems more appealing [...]
Running Tips: How do you get Started?
Anyone can run and you can, too. Really. But it will be a lot more enjoyable if you start runningthe right way. Here’s how NOT to do it. Growing up, I didn’t play sports, thereby I didn’t run. In eighth grade, I wanted to play field hockey and I agreed to go for a run [...]
5 Ways to Run Smarter at Night
As winter approaches the days are quickly becoming shorter and for many runners it gets increasingly difficult to fit a run in during daylight hours. Night running is never the safest option for any runner but if you run in the evening you need to be prepared for the unexpected. Follow these five tips to [...]
5 Very Creative Ways to Use your Halloween Candy
Halloween is a special time of year. Ushered in by aisles full of candy and celebrated with a touch of imagination, it is a magical event where adults and children alike can be whatever they dream to be for one single night. A part of the magical spell Halloween has us under is our diet. [...]
3 easy tips for running with your mate (without killing each other)
~ by Mike Romaniuk, sharing his “secret thoughts of men” 2011 is well past its half over mark and I don’t know about you, but I’m finding that life is speeding by faster each year. I’m also discovering that couple-time can be hard to squeeze into a busy schedule. Running with your spouse can be [...]
Would you Ever Consider doing THE Ironman?
I’ll admit it: I’m seriously considering training for an Iron Man. Please don’t tell my family – they complain that they don’t see me enough as is (no, I’m not married, nor do I have kids, so I’m safe on that end. I think. It’s my parents. Let’s not go there.). Anyway, the Iron Man…. [...]
A Guide to Running on Different Surfaces
As a runner, there’s nothing more wonderful than a cool morning, a gentle breeze, and some scenery. I love to run outside. Because of where I live, I typically run on pavement in neighborhoods. Sometimes I manage to run through parks and even along rivers during my weekly training. When everything is in sync, there’s [...]
Someone who is busier than you is running right now
Some days I find it hard to find time for exercise. Like every mom – no matter the size of the family - I find that life with four kids and their various schools (three) and sports (four) and activities (three) makes each day chaotic and busy. If I sleep in, or something throws me off-schedule [...]
We DID it! Adventure Challenge Freakette Style
WE DID IT!!! Fellow adventure challenge team member, Esther, who blogs over at BloggerBeyotch, writes this account of our adventure challenge. It was an amazing, fun race, and I can’t wait to do it again next year! ~Melanie (in photo, I’m on the far right; Esther is 3rd from the left) The Fitness Town Freakettes [...]
Kacy Duke’s Top Tips for Summer Fitness
Disclaimer: The GGS Media was not paid for this advertisement. We decided to run this for Dove because we do like their Campaign for Real Beauty. We were given samples of Dove Ultimate Visibly Smooth anti-perspirant/deodorant. Kacy Duke, fitness expert to celebrities including Gwen Stefani and Mary J. Blige, knows that feeling physically fit and [...]
2 Blondes in a Pink Kayak…Our First Experience
Kayaking. Always wanted to try it, never really got around to it. Part of the reason is just plain apprehension about tipping over! But when I signed on to participate in the a super-worthy Innovative Fitness Canuck Place Adventure Challenge which raises money to benefit the sick kids and their families that visit Canuck Place, [...]
Grinding Up The Grouse Grind
I don’t know what possessed me to check my phone the other night when my good friend Lori texted me. I was minding my own business reading and enjoying my second glass of wine of the evening. All was calm and peaceful and lazy… …and then my phone beeped and there was Lori’s text beckoning [...]
Spin Class Review: Hills and Drills at the Steve Nash Sports Club
I’ve come a long way, baby, since my first experience with spinning. In fact, I’ve come to really love it as a complement to my first love (running). And right now, since I’ve injured my shin – I’m about 90% recovered – spinning has taken over as the main part of my cardio routine. This [...]
Review: Real Ryder Bike
The GGS girls were presented with the opportunity to try out Real Ryder bikes at a spin class. Yipeeee…we love to spin! On a new type of bike…even better! We arrived at GOLD’s gym, in Langley, BC which conduct spin classes on the Real Ryder bike several times a day. We were greeted to a very professional, [...]
