Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Replace the excuses with a plan When I am working towards a goal, whether it’s in the gym, in a race or in life, I always figure out exactly what needs to be done in order to achieve my goal and then I create the plan, breaking it into months, days, hours and even minutes. By Hayley • Aug 24, 2012 09:34 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Managing Nutrition & Fitness Hi Hayley, I'm a professional gardener which means I spend my days outdoors in all kinds of weather conditions engaging in really physical work. Some days it's great, but most days my body takes a beating from all the lifting, hauling, digging, overhead reaching for tree By Hayley • Aug 22, 2012 11:26 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Less than 200lbs in 2 months During college I gained the freshman 15, the sophomore 30, and then some. The summer before my senior year I finally got my act together and lost a good amount of weight. 8 years later and I found myself weighing more (234lbs) than I ever have before. I've By Hayley • Aug 17, 2012 09:22 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: How hard do celebrities train? Hi Hayley, After a few years as a busy single mom, I have recently started working out again, and noticed how much more I can do in the gym now that I’m a little larger, eat a little better, and have spent the time carrying around my child/their By Hayley • Aug 14, 2012 08:56 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Paula Findlay didn’t give up I love the Olympics. Whether it is the Winter or Summer Games I find myself glued to the television from start to finish. I love the stories that unfold during the Games, the stories of athletes overcoming obstacles, athletes who make history, athletes who miss their glory by seconds and By Hayley • Aug 10, 2012 09:55 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Protein Shakes Hi Hayley, My question is for my husband. My constant nagging him to exercise hasn’t been working, but a trip to the doctor who told him, again, that he needs to lose weight has motivated him to say we can start going for bike rides together. Yay! So that’ By Hayley • Aug 03, 2012 10:52 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Create Your Mantra I am currently on my summer vacation, two weeks with my family in a place I like to call the best place on earth. It is my family’s summer cottage back east and I have been coming here since I was born. This is where I let my hair By Hayley • Aug 02, 2012 09:46 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Sweating Hi! Just back from the gym, where I do my own intense spinning class because I only have 30 minutes and I go for it! Hills, sprints, hill sprints ... anyway ... I am a sweater, I mean I have always been one to sweat and often buckets. I notice especially on By Hayley • Jul 27, 2012 09:54 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Running and Weight Gain This may seem like something that someone who is training for a running event may not need to worry about but all too often beginner runners will gain weight while training for their first half marathon or other running distance. You might be thinking that someone who is running 3 By Hayley • Jul 24, 2012 09:01 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Losing weight with a toddler Hi Hayley - My husband and I are parents to a 14 month-old. We both work long hours, but try to be home to spend time with our daughter before she goes to sleep at 7:30. We often eat after 8:00 and all we want to do is By Hayley • Jul 20, 2012 09:31 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Running Faster Hi Hayley. This weekend I completed my 5th Underwear Affair 10k race in Vancouver and for the first time ever I came in under an hour (under 57 minutes to be exact, 13 minutes faster than last year!). I wasn’t actively trying to go faster than last year; somehow By Hayley • Jul 17, 2012 09:59 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Don’t be afraid of bikini season While the rest of the world has been basking in the warmth of summer, those of us on the west coast are just now starting to feel the heat. (Lainey: seriously, in Vancouver, summer came this week. MID JULY.) Along with this sunshine comes beaches, barbeques, patios, pools and uh By Hayley • Jul 11, 2012 09:59 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: We can do anything for 10 minutes I want to talk about those workouts that we have that, well, the ones that suck. You know, the ones that you dread going to from the minute you wake up, the ones that you try and find every excuse to get out of, the ones that make you feel By Hayley • Jul 06, 2012 09:23 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Half Marathon 14 week program I have had a lot of emails lately from readers who looking to challenge themselves beyond the 10km distance and embark on a journey to a half marathon. As the fall is a very easy time to find a half marathon in most cities, now is the perfect time to By Hayley • Jul 04, 2012 09:44 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Exercises for pregnancy Hi Hayley, I recently found out I am pregnant (yay). I like to exercise including running and weight lifting. I know my workouts need to change but I’m not sure exactly how. I was hoping you could share some exercises that were safe for me and my baby. Thanks! By Hayley • Jun 29, 2012 08:50 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Running In The Heat Hi Hayley, This winter I really got into running, and am now training to run my first half marathon in October! I’ve been running three times a week steadily over the winter and spring, and am now able to run up to 14k on my long runs. Now that By Hayley • Jun 26, 2012 09:50 am
