LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: An Avengers workout I have a confession to make: I have never been a marvel comic movie fanatic! I watched Iron Man, the first one, but since then I’ve paid zero attention to all the other movies that have followed. So with the release of the most anticipated Marvel movie upon us, By Hayley • Feb 15, 2018 02:22 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Olympics-inspired workout The Olympics – I just love them. Everything about them: the triumphs, the heartbreaks, the close victories and the near-misses. I love the stories behind the athletes and I love how not only does the Olympics bring countries together but how they bring the world together and how they inspire all By Hayley • Feb 09, 2018 01:18 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Our emotional bodies Every morning, for the past 6 weeks, the first thing that I do when I wake up is take a little white pill for my anxiety and because today is Bell Let’s Talk day I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about it. I have always suffered with By Hayley • Jan 31, 2018 02:27 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Winter running shoes Hi Hayley! Hope 2018 is off to a good start for you. I'm based in Toronto and went for a run the other day when it was above zero and my feet got absolutely soaking wet. I was hoping you might be able to recommend your favourite pairs By Hayley • Jan 26, 2018 03:19 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: training for endurance sports Happy New Year Hayley! I am going into my 39th year, and starting to see the light with my youngest of 3 entering kindergarten in September, so seeing this as a year of new challenges for me fitness-wise. In the last couple years I have found a new love in By Hayley • Jan 16, 2018 03:35 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: 4 fitness forward questions & answers By way of background, my husband and I kind of ‘let ourselves go’ a little bit, with three kids in six years and the general chaos that ensues. Both our diet and fitness levels suffered as a result, and the weight slowly but surely crept on. In August we decided By Hayley • Jan 11, 2018 02:10 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Mental and physical health in 2018 For this first post of 2018 I’m sharing my fitness journey, because I think it is important to understand that life is a journey and it is forever changing. What works for us at one point in our lives may not work for us at another. Fitness for me By Hayley • Jan 04, 2018 03:10 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Happy Holidays from Hayley I wanted to finish this year off with a letter to you and a recap of what I feel is the most important lesson we learned in 2017. With the ongoing LaineyGossip theme of Show Your Work and the ever strong #metoo movement that took the end of the year By Hayley • Dec 21, 2017 11:45 am
LifestyleArticle 30 minute holiday fix So it is one of the busiest times of the year right now and your schedules are jammed packed with parties, family gatherings and hectic weekends, trying to finish up your last minute Christmas shopping. As I wrote about last week consistently sweating is key, especially during times like this. By Hayley • Dec 12, 2017 03:29 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Just get sweaty consistently Unless you are a pro athlete, or on your way to South Korea for the Olympics, it’s just sweat. Really. Whether you are doing cross fit, water aerobics, yoga, boot camps or Zumba, it is just exercise. It is getting your heart rate up, it is filling your body By Hayley • Dec 06, 2017 03:07 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Lower Belly Strength One of my favourite abdominal exercise, which can be done in so many different ways and works the entire body, is the prone straight arm plank. Exercises that use this posture are found in so many different ways of moving, such as in a downward dog in yoga, a push-up, By Hayley • Dec 01, 2017 02:51 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Holiday creep Ok. Here we go again. It seems that every year the holiday creep happens a little sooner so I thought I would get my holiday creep on now, tell you all how to survive the holidays, and then we can all move on and enjoy ourselves. I don’t know By Hayley • Nov 24, 2017 11:59 am
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Respect your ankle injury Hi Hayley, A few months ago I suffered a major ankle injury (torn tendons and a fracture). I am just now starting to walk on it again (with a boot) after using a scooter. I want to get back into a semi-normal workout routine (I usually practice Ashtanga or strong By Hayley • Nov 17, 2017 01:16 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Fuelling after a late workout Hi Hayley, Can you recommend some foods I should be eating after I work out in the evenings? The only time I can work out is around 8pm after my daughter is in bed, but I've found some great online programs and do a variety of cardio, weights, By Hayley • Nov 08, 2017 05:51 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: The Red Zone Hi Hayley, I have a heart rate monitor (chest strap) that I enjoy using; however, I really struggle to get into the more intense levels. I have a low resting heart rate and seem to be burning a lot of calories but my green zone is others’ red zones. We By Hayley • Oct 31, 2017 03:57 pm
LifestyleArticle Smutty Fitness: Injuries and obstacles Hi Hayley, I am writing to you out of desperation. I am a mom of a 2 year old, and a lawyer with a busy, time consuming job. I never feel like I get enough exercise but I was keeping it together through running, a couple of boot camp type By Hayley • Oct 25, 2017 10:56 am
