Smutty Fitness For Your Fitness: Fall Workout Shoes Is it just me or does the first week of September always make you feel like it’s time to end the summer fun and start getting back to work? Routines become the norm again and scheduling workouts into your day is a breeze (or at least a lot easier By Hayley • Sep 03, 2019 03:55 pm
Smutty Fitness For Your Fitness: Those Summer Days I’ve been working one on one with clients for over 12 years and every year there are two seasons that can knock them off track. Christmas holidays and summer. We will leave the first for a few months from now but let’s take a minute to talk about By Hayley • Aug 15, 2019 02:44 pm
Celebrity Social Media For Your Fitness: The Ideal Fitness “Mix” Hi Hayley, thanks for your advice in advance! I’ve been going to one of the large chain gyms for a few years, historically doing two cardio, two weights, and one yoga or pilates class each week. Recently I put my membership on hold to do a two-month HIIT gym By Hayley • Jul 19, 2019 03:20 pm
Smutty Fitness For Your Fitness: Gym Connections Hi Hayley, I’m a single guy, new in town and I’m wanting to meet more friends, and maybe even someone special, and I was wondering if you have any advice on how to do that in a gym. Is a gym even a good place to meet people? By Hayley • Jul 04, 2019 02:00 pm
Smutty Fitness For Your Fitness: A starter swimming routine Hi Hayley, In an effort to combat the slowly but steadily rising number on my scale, and to try to find exercise I actually enjoy instead of dread, I have turned to swimming laps. I loved swimming as a kid but it was always for fun, not specifically for exercise. By Hayley • Jun 19, 2019 03:32 pm
Smutty Fitness Smutty Fitness: Temporary exercise restriction Hayley, Looking for advice on how to stay active while on a doctor ordered 2-3 week exercise restriction from lower back injury (moved wrong doing kettlebell swings). After two pregnancies in two years and turning 38 in two weeks, I was super happy to be back in the gym and By Hayley • Jun 05, 2019 01:10 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: When life changes, so do workouts Being active has been a part of my life since I was a kid running around on the beaches of my hometown on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I have played community sports, school sports, high level club sports, university sports as well as competed in multiple triathlons, marathons, By Hayley • May 24, 2019 12:26 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: What is your “handstand”? There really is no better feeling than accomplishing something that you maybe didn’t think possible. We all have it, that feeling of self-doubt and that little voice in the back of our head that is constantly trying to tell us we can’t do something. Right now, that voice By Hayley • Apr 26, 2019 03:23 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Spring eating and fitness I had a discussion last week with colleagues of mine about fad diets, which began when one of my mentors suggested that I check out this new Paleo restaurant by our studio. He lost me at the word Paleo, and then another colleague piped up and said he stops listening By Hayley • Apr 12, 2019 01:47 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Soreness Hi Hayley, I'm writing for two reasons: First reason: when I work out I'm in a lot of pain after. I've had shin splints in the past and now get them touch and go. But I get really knotty calves from working out. I By Hayley • Mar 29, 2019 03:41 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Questions about Keto Hi Hayley, Please get down and dirty with the whole trend of high fat, low carb dieting. It seems like everyone is on keto and raving about how they are losing weight while eating butter and I just can't wrap my head around it. I understand what ketosis By Hayley • Mar 18, 2019 03:58 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: A Captain Marvel-inspired workout So, I am a little late to the Captain Marvel party (finally just saw the movie) and it has me inspired to create an ass-kicking, strength-building workout to help pull out the superhero in all of us. I read Sarah’s review and one thing that she said about the By Hayley • Mar 15, 2019 03:32 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Fitness your way A long-time childhood friend visited me this weekend and in a span of 3 days we managed 3 hikes, an ocean side 10km walk and an ocean kayak. She said it was the most exercise she has done in months (part of the job of being my friend I guess) By Hayley • Mar 08, 2019 03:12 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Bridesmaid (and Oscar) food and fitness plan Hi Hayley, I love your column and am all about intentional fitness and doing it to feel good, rather than look a certain way. I don't have a scale in my house and instead just try to exercise regularly, eat mostly veggies, legumes and grains, and don' By Hayley • Feb 22, 2019 03:53 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Maternity leave workout Hi Hayley, I was hoping you could help me with a quick, effective routine to do while on maternity leave. I don’t have much equipment and am hoping to do mostly body weight stuff. I am 16 weeks postpartum. I had a C-section and have been cleared to resume By Hayley • Feb 21, 2019 03:35 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Body image and acceptance Hi Hayley, The question I'm about to ask you might be an impossible one for you to answer. Self-esteem is such an elusive thing to understand, and I know that! I'm going to try to explain where I'm coming from. Growing up, I didn& By Hayley • Feb 14, 2019 03:53 pm