Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Surviving the holidays The holidays are fast approaching (scary!) and with American Thanksgiving this weekend we all know that sooner rather than later our kitchens will be filled with Christmas baking, our glasses filled with Christmas cheer and our schedules filled with Christmas festivities. As much fun as the holiday season is, trying By Hayley • Nov 21, 2012 09:15 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Push-ups Hi Hayley, I want to be able to do pushups! My goal is to be able to do 10 with proper form. Pushing up is not easy but doable, my problem is that when I lower down I quickly break form through the middle and can either flop down belly By Hayley • Nov 16, 2012 02:47 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: I need to run Hi Hayley! After losing over 80 lbs of baby weight through diet and exercise, I got back to my old love, running. This past summer I did 2 10k races, 2 Try-A-Tris and a Warrior Dash. I was starting to work on my goal of a half marathon when I By Hayley • Nov 13, 2012 08:47 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: A reminder about excuses Excuses. I know I have written about them before. They are everywhere, telling us to stay in bed for another 30 minutes because it is dark and cold outside, convincing us we should eat the giant chocolate chip cookie in the lunchroom because we were good all morning or that By Hayley • Nov 08, 2012 08:46 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: 5 exercises to improve skiing Ski season is just around the corner and with my favourite mountain, Whistler BC, scheduled to open November 22nd it is time to get the legs ready for some long days on the slopes. Every year I suffer my first day on the hill, having to stop multiple times to By Hayley • Nov 02, 2012 09:19 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Running on old shoes Hi Hayley! I have a shoe problem. First some background. I bought a pair of Adidas Duramo running shoes and started training for a 10km in January 2010. I fell in love with races and ran my first half marathon in the fall of that same year. After I completed By Hayley • Oct 30, 2012 08:57 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: My First Half Marathon Hayley, Ok, so I finally did it. After saying I was going to run a half marathon the last (a lot) of years, I finally signed up for one. It's official now. No backing down. I'm in it for the long haul. The marathon I am By Hayley • Oct 26, 2012 09:39 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: A Long Term Relationship With Health I had the privilege of attending TEDxVancouver on Sunday, where Lainey was one of the presenters. While we were waiting for Lainey to speak I was lucky enough to hear many other inspirational talks and the one theme that really stuck with me was the need for our society to By Hayley • Oct 23, 2012 02:36 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Controlling the cravings Hi Hayley, Back in May you wrote a Smutty Fitness article called 10 lbs in 2 Months. There was a line in that article that has stuck with me and has been rattling around in my head ever since, so I'm writing to you to find out more. By Hayley • Oct 18, 2012 09:51 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Do not ignore pain Hayley, 6 months ago I joined a Crossfit box. I was looking for a way to get stronger and faster and I found it. I loved it immediately. I had never done any Olympic lifting so everything was new to me and I was seeing immediate results. I was getting By Hayley • Oct 15, 2012 08:49 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Learning to enjoy exercise I was out shopping on a break yesterday and as I was dressed in my work attire (which most days consists of running pants, a tank top and a running shirt) so it was pretty easy for the girl at the store to recognize me as an athletic trainer. When By Hayley • Oct 12, 2012 09:21 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Group Classes Hi Hayley, I LOVE group classes. I can't afford a personal trainer but I like someone telling me what to do, and the energy of working out with others. My question is, how does one know what the best combination of group classes is for optimum cardio and By Hayley • Oct 10, 2012 09:17 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: I am obese Hi Hayley I am obese. I hate that word, but I can't deny it any longer. I weigh 220lbs and I am 5'5. I’ve been overweight for more than 15 years, I’m 35, and I’m at the highest weight I've ever By Hayley • Oct 05, 2012 09:17 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: The Balance Board I want to introduce you to the balance board, one of my favourite toys to add to my clients’ training sessions. You might have seen this in your gym, probably sitting in a corner somewhere and covered in dust. Here are five exercises (besides just standing on it and trying By Hayley • Oct 03, 2012 08:55 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Fitness from Summer to Fall Fall is here bringing with it shorter days and darker mornings, less daylight to exercise outdoors and cooler temperatures to exercise in. In the summer we have to plan our workouts to make sure that we miss the heat (or at least survive in it) but come fall and winter By Hayley • Sep 28, 2012 09:35 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Male, 23 Hi Haley, I am a 23 year old male who stands 5"11 and weighs 160-165 lbs. I don't know what or if there even is a standard weight for my age/height and what that falls into, I certainly know I'm not large by By Hayley • Sep 25, 2012 01:45 pm
