As a fitness instructor I heart exercise modifications. I love that with a few small adjustments you can make an exercise accessable to someone who cannot do the traditional version for whatever reason. Sometimes modifications make exercises more difficult, sometimes they make them easier, sometimes they make part of the exercise easier while making another […]
Money Talk: Food Budgeting
Hi everybody! I thought today we’d talk about something we all deal with – buying groceries. You might not expect a fitness instructor to be a numbers nerd, but I am. I come from a background in finance so crunching numbers is one of those weird things I enjoy doing. Like counting money (and it […]
Chobani SoHo
When I heard that a Chobani yogurt bar had opened up in SoHo the week before I was heading to New York, I knew I had to check it out. We’re still living in a Chobani-less world here in Nova Scotia so anytime I head to the US I always make sure to get my […]
Do You Fondue?
A while back the lovely folks at Velata contacted me to see if I would be interested in trying out one of their new silicone fondue warmers. Melted chocolate for dipping? Yes please! I happily replied that I would be delighted to try out the product. The funny thing is, up until now I’ve always […]
BlogHer 2012 Day 2: Sweating Pink and Sarabeth’s
I’ll be upfront with you, I didn’t make it to any official BlogHer sessions on the second day of the conference. When you are thrown into a conference that is only two days long with people you’ve only been able to talk to online and never in real life, sometimes you have to choose what […]
BlogHer 2012 Day 1: The Rockettes, Martha Stewart and Physique 57
I wish I could sit down and write out all of the things that happened during my trip to New York last week. At some point I hope to at the very least write out the story of the calamidy Jen and I ended up in within minutes of finally meeting each other in person […]
In A New York Minute
BlogHer 2012 is over and I’m back home. Okay, so it was less like a minute and more like 23 hours of sitting around in the Newark airport alone after all flights to Halifax were cancelled. Either way, I am back in the good old Nova Scotia! I’ve got a lot that I want to […]
5 Years
It has been five years since I handed in my notice to my full-time office job to start down this weird and wonderful road to where I am sitting now. Am I happy I made the change? Heck yeah. Being a fitness professional has done more for me than I ever thought it would, but […]
ZIN Day Canada 2012
The time has come. It’s taken me over a week, but I’m finally writing about my trip to ZIN (Zumba Instructor Network) Day in Toronto a week or so ago. I did share a few photos with you last week but now I’ll give to a better overview of the happs that went down. 😉 As […]
The Best Homemade Granola!
If there is one thing I like it’s granola. Well no that’s not true, if I was just going to choose one food to like it would probably be pizza but, I do really like granola! However, I’m not always fan of the store-bought kind. So what is a girl to do? Make her own […]