Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: How much cardio? Hi Hayley, I'd love to get your advice on how much cardio I need in my exercise routine please. I'm currently doing 2-3 boot camp sessions a week, plus maybe one pilates and one yoga class. I'm generally happy with how I look, even By Hayley • May 08, 2015 11:43 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: A mid-run blast Last night while out training for the Nike Women’s 15km race in Toronto, I picked up the intensity of my workout and added in a 15 minute High Intensity Training session at the half way point of my run. This is something that, if you are a runner and By Hayley • May 07, 2015 11:27 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Fitness Challenges Hi Haley, I've been working out for a few years now and been trying to figure out what works for my body and what doesn't. More recently, I've been noticing quite a lot of "8 week fitness challenges" popping up by fitness By Hayley • May 01, 2015 10:46 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Core for down there Hey Hayley, I've had a bit of a rough time with lady part issues this past year; large ovarian cysts, ruptures, endometriosis, fibroids, severe anemia. You get the icky picture. I had one surgery last spring and have another lined up next month. Chronic pelvic pain has put By Hayley • Apr 23, 2015 10:57 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Improving leg strength after injury Hi Hayley, I've torn both ACLs -- one 12 years ago, one 2 years ago. Both knees feel pretty good, considering, and I'm lucky insomuch that I have very few problems. I'm still an active person; I currently play in two soccer leagues and By Hayley • Apr 17, 2015 11:46 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Spring running and race training Spring is my favourite time of year as it is symbolic of a new beginning, and with the snow melting and new buds blooming I am always inspired to start fresh. I review old data from last season’s training to help set new and improved goals; for this season’ By Hayley • Apr 16, 2015 10:56 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Bloated stomach Hi Hayley, I am very active, and I do cardio 6 times a week, changing it up between treadmill running, HIIT on the treadmill, and the Elliptical. I am doing the P90X Ab Ripper twice a week, and after my long runs I do few minutes of rowing, biceps, triceps By Hayley • Apr 09, 2015 11:50 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Heavy babies Hi Hayley! Can you suggest any exercises to help alleviate back pain caused by carrying my toddler around? My sweet boy wants me to hold him all the time, and he's now over twenty pounds. My back aches all the time now. I actually went to my doctor By Hayley • Apr 02, 2015 11:30 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Road Trip Health Hi Hayley, In May I will begin something that I have dreamed of for a long time– a road trip across the States and then up to Canada. Having lost my mother this past year due to a horribly long bout of mouth cancer, I’ve decided enough is enough, By Hayley • Mar 26, 2015 10:26 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: At-home workouts Hey Hayley, Can you give me a basic workout I can do at home? I walk or run outside regularly but a gym membership isn't really in my budget at the moment, and my free time is fairly limited, so I'd love a simple routine I By Hayley • Mar 25, 2015 11:10 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Continued muscle soreness Hi Hayley, I workout regularly 3 to 4 times per week. The problem is I am always sore. Muscle soreness. If it's not my triceps, it's my quads, if not my quads, it is my back, if not my back, then it is my shoulder muscles. By Hayley • Mar 12, 2015 10:52 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Belly blasters Last week I posted about lifestyle changes in an attempt to reduce belly fat (click here for a refresher) and I promised this week to show you a few of my favourite exercises for strengthening and toning your abs. These exercises can be done anywhere and all you will need By Hayley • Mar 05, 2015 11:39 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Stress and Belly Hi Hayley! I was just wondering if you could recommend any exercises that slim down the waist specifically (i.e. without also slimming the hips/chest)? Basically my dream body is the hourglass figure. I'm in my early 20s and my stomach is (already) very much my problem By Hayley • Feb 27, 2015 11:43 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Weight loss but no poo Help! I don't know who to ask and am too embarrassed to Google this! I recently started exercising daily (elliptical, strength, and cycling) and I have overhauled my diet. I eat lots of veggies and get my protein from white fish or sometimes white meat chicken. No more By Hayley • Feb 26, 2015 12:10 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Thoughts on the HCG Diet This morning two of my clients brought up the HCG diet in their workout, which is something that I had never heard of before. They were expressing concern to each other as they had noticed lately that they’d read on a few mom blogs that some women were promoting By Hayley • Feb 24, 2015 10:39 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Biking is a pain in the ass Hi Hayley, After not having been on a bicycle in two decades, I bought myself cheap mountain bike last fall. I only rode it a few times as I was in so…much...pain. I can handle my legs feeling like jello but my ass hurt so bad, it felt By Hayley • Feb 20, 2015 11:09 am
