Category: Workouts

Bodyweight workouts… Lots of folks think that you need a lot of bells and whistles to have a good workout. Not so. Your bodyweight is sufficient for an amazing workout, as you’ll see if you do the follow along workout I have for you below. Now, I must be honest, I don’t ONLY use bodyweight … Continued

Have you met my alter ego? As some of you may already know, I have multiple personalities…(So you really don’t need another trainer…kidding!) My first blog is called Female Fat Loss Over 40 and it caters to women (obviously) over 40. I started this blog to help many of my local fitness boot campers who … Continued

Tell the truth….do you do ‘cardio’? Before my kids, I did a few physique shows. I fared pretty well ending up at the National level here in Canada despite the fact that training for fat loss was different than it is now. Back in the day, I did a lot of traditional steady state cardio … Continued

In keeping with the rules that I give my daughter Hannah when she’s traveling, I didn’t tell anyone what we were up to here in Costa Rica a few days ago. I always hated it when Hannah was in SE Asia and would tell me, ‘Mom, tomorrow I’m going bungee jumping’. I told her, the best way … Continued

Sometimes you’re just stuck with your body weight. I was out in Kelowna moving my Dad into a retirement home. Before the day got started and the weather got too hot, I busted out a workout each morning. You can always fit 20 minutes of fitness in if you really want. Here were my workouts … Continued

I distinctly recall returning to school in the fall of my fifth grade year and was asked to write ‘What I did on my summer vacation’… (Knowing me, I have that paper somewhere in a journal – I tend to keep all kinds of embarrassing written things that I hope someone will burn when I … Continued

Want to strengthen your core and back and get a toned stomach? Forget crunches and sit-ups. They not only won’t get you the results you’re after, you’re quite likely to hurt your back and damage your spine. <===Meet my publishing partner, Lisa Bullock. Lisa and I have been working together for a couple years. She’s … Continued

  ‘Man the jib.’ ‘Pinch to the mark.’ ‘Time to tack.’ ‘Launch the spinnaker.’ ‘We’ve got dirty air’….       I could go on and on about this foreign sailing language that I’m trying to learn. I have the good fortune of being BFF’s with an experienced sailor who’s invited me to be crew … Continued