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January 23, 2019 04:29 PM

Walking 10,000 steps everyday is my mainstay and a lifeline. It is not an easy thing to establish a life long habit ...  fitness, in general, has required my having to create some sort of obligation to others and I have almost always built in an aspect of commitment.  In 1987, when we moved from Thunder Bay to southern Ontario with our young family, we had to reestablish some kind of fitness routine in our new community. I decided to take the fitness instructors course at the local YMCA and ...Read more: Creating a Commitment to Fitness and a Healthier Life by Susan Lewis

April 20, 2017 03:21 PM

This is a post I've been meaning to put together for a while now. My friend Meagan Walker is a personal trainer, yoga treacher and team training coach at Goodlife Fitness on Weber street in Waterloo. She has helped me to put this all together for you. She is putting on a stretch workshop at Goodlife on May 27th. See poster below.   Kneeling Hip Flexor StretchThis is a stretch for the hip flexors and quadriceps. It counteracts sitting & relieves tension from low back.The hipflexors are amon...Read more: The best stretches you should do everyday!