Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Is a trainer worth it? I recently joined a new gym and with that comes with the "free session with a trainer" and while the session was informative and I can see some of the benefit of having a trainer (I committed to 12 sessions), I'm not sold on the long-term By Hayley • May 25, 2017 04:56 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Summer Prep I am holding out hope that warmer, dryer weather is going to show up at some point here on Canada’s west (wet) coast. However, rather than allow myself to get frustrated over days and days of rain, I decided to create a few exercises to help get my body By Hayley • May 15, 2017 11:58 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: What is health? Lately I have been focusing a lot on my own wellness. I have been doing yoga, I started meditating, and I am slowing down and taking some time to cook for myself (although I have a nicely packaged box of prepped food arrive weekly at my doorstep). Sure, if someone By Hayley • Apr 27, 2017 04:39 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: meal prep service Here’s my secret: I hate cooking and everything that goes along with it. I hate planning meals and nothing gives me more anxiety then grocery shopping. I feel like a child who has lost their mother every time I walk into a grocery store and I can never seem By Hayley • Apr 13, 2017 12:23 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: No wrong way to move Put your hand up if this sounds like you. You have been working your butt off for a week now, you haven’t had a grain of sugar or a sip of alcohol and you have killed yourself in the gym every single day. You are about to step on By Hayley • Mar 31, 2017 11:49 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: “These Three Moves” I need to rant for a second about what makes my job so difficult and why so many women are unsatisfied with their bodies. I was in the grocery store lineup the other day and staring right at me was Gwyneth Paltrow in a white bikini on the cover of By Hayley • Mar 22, 2017 01:11 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Pelvic healing time Hi Hayley! I just had my second baby two months ago and it was a bit of a rough delivery. My little one came out at lightning speed-less than two hours flat from start to finish, kind of like the extreme sports version of labor- and though I did Kegel By Hayley • Mar 13, 2017 02:55 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Big goals and small goals There seemed to be a common theme last week amongst the incredible people I am surrounded by. Some are in the middle of making a career change, some are trying to start a family, some are working hard to lose weight and some are trying to get their finances on By Hayley • Mar 08, 2017 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Oscar prep post-Oscars Part 2 The other day I wrote about how celebs eat while preparing for the red carpet so today’s post is how they work out. Now, I am not saying that if you do these exercises you are going to look like Emma Stone or Halle Barry, but they won’t By Hayley • Mar 03, 2017 01:53 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Oscar prep post-Oscars Whether you were watching the Oscars with your besties at an Oscar party, or sitting at home alone (moi) and watching it while trying to prep for the week, we can all agree that A LOT went into making those celebrities as beautiful as they were and it was not By Hayley • Mar 01, 2017 03:38 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Back row to the front Exercising can be intimidating, especially these days when many group classes seem to be more about a popularity contest then a workout. I recently experienced a workout where I was forced to have to sit at the back of the class because I was new and I had to earn By Hayley • Feb 22, 2017 03:49 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Gliders I was teaching a class the other day and we were doing a set with a paper plate and an exercise band and I said to them, “See! This is all you need for a good workout. Something stretchy and something that glides”. Then one of the participants said, “Yeah, By Hayley • Feb 16, 2017 03:38 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Vitamins, Juicing, and Exercise Classes Hi Hayley, You've helped me in the past to focus on health over the scale, strength over skinny-ness, etc. (you also gave me hooked on Coola sunscreen, the best thing ever) But I recently reached my pre-baby weight after having 3 kids in 5 years (nothing drastic that By Hayley • Feb 01, 2017 05:39 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Mental health is important too Motivation. Sometimes we just lack it. Sometimes we lack it for a long time and sometimes it is short lived, but with this past Wednesday being Bell Let’s Talk Day I thought this was a perfect time to talk about what I think is a very important aspect of By Hayley • Jan 26, 2017 04:13 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Workout appetites I'm really hoping you can offer some guidance here because I am struggling. Ok, so here's what's up. I've been working out for about 7 years now consistently. I do a combination of cardio, weight training and Pilates and have recently added By Hayley • Jan 20, 2017 03:36 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: 10 Days Of Fitness 2017 – Day 9 The last bit of advice for kick-starting 2017 is whatever your goal is, whatever you are trying to accomplish, whatever changes you are trying to make, commit to it 100%. You are the one in control and only you can decide your success. You need to hold yourself accountable and By Hayley • Jan 16, 2017 11:37 am
