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Author: Paul Radcliffe
September 14, 2015
I’m a Ten (???)
A couple of weeks ago there was some situation at the Goodlife Fitness Gym I frequent where a customer was using chalk and a bunch of managers and staff went out to tell him he shouldn’t. But, before they approached him they talked each other up saying: “What are you?” “I’m a ten!” Some trainers and other staff kind of rolled there eyes, but others, especially the fitness manager was very into it. From what I understand, many of them attended a session at the CanFitPro expo earlier that week and “I’m a ten!” was a takeaway saying. I guess[…continue reading]
September 9, 2015
Back to Action!
With the time of year, I could call this a “back to school” article, except that I’m back to training after an injury. So, a few weeks ago I got a pretty bad scare when I was worried that I had a stress fracture in my foot. There were a few things that could have caused it. The first was that I was trying a new shoe that was half-a-size too small and was putting a lot of pressure on the top of my foot. The second and more likely cause was overtraining. I had a wonderfully intense week on[…continue reading]
September 5, 2015
August Review
I said this would be a make or break month. Unfortunately, it became a break month. I started the month with a much needed vacation. Getting away from work and sleeping about 9 hours a day did wonders to restore my mood. Then I hit training hard again. But it seems I hit it too hard the week of August 10 and did something awful to my right foot. I didn’t run at all for the last 2 weeks of August. Disconnecting One of the most marvellous things I enjoyed at the beginning of this month was disconnecting. I[…continue reading]
