Improving health and fitness over the long term."Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential"- Winston S. Churchill Achieving long-term health and fitness goals hinges on one crucial factor: consistency. Many encounter...
The ‘Murph’ Challenge: Origins and Success Stories
“Doing physically hard things is an enormous life hack. Do hard things and the rest of life gets easier and you appreciate it all the more,” ― Michael Easter, The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Of the numerous Crossfit...
Black Bean & Quinoa Burger
Recipe Courtesy of FiT Trainers Black Bean and Quinoa Burgers Difficulty: MediumTotal Time: 45 minutes Active: 30 minutesServes: 6-8 peopleIngredients:Chipotle Mayo - 1 ½ cup mayo 1 can Chipotle Chiles in adobo sauce Burgers - 2 cups cooked quinoa (recommended: cook...
Jonathan's Journey towards Optimized Health
For years, the discussion around FiT has centered on how we can best serve our clients and community. Thom and I would hear frequently from our team that they were doing everything they could for their clients but felt frustrated that they couldn’t do more - ‘We...
It's a new year, where do I start?
The Resolve to End Failed Resolutions It’s a new year! If you are like me, and many others, at some point in recent weeks, you have been a bit reflective - what did I do well last year? What do I hope to do better this year? If you haven’t taken the...
Move more, feel better
The more we move, the better we feel - moving not only contributes to better physical health, but also a healthy mind and soul. As we’ve heard in recent news, sitting is the new smoking - 86% of full time American workers surveyed spend their day sitting and...
Health is Everything
Getting Older Isn’t Supposed to Hurt It’s generally accepted that health declines as we age. At around 40 or 50, the wheels start coming off the bus as our doctors start prescribing medicine to control cholesterol, to lower our blood pressure or starts...
Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wp-content/themes/Divi/epanel/custom_functions.php on line 629
The Power of Rest
Here at FIT, we are always encouraging clients to set goals to work towards. In the busy world that we all live in, however, these goals are unfortunately often undermined by “life events” and other time constraints that derail us. It’s amazing though, that...
7 Myths about Hormone Replacement Therapy & BHRT
Menopause Doesn’t Have to be MiserableMenopause is something that all women experience but is seldom a topic of discussion over coffee with friends. And little is offered by the medical profession to help us manage or even flourish during this period of our...
An Intentional Self-Care Plan Impacts Health and Wellbeing
Optimizing Health: The Importance of Self-Care. The All Too Typical Day It’s hard to imagine packing more into your already busy day. You already have plenty to tackle in the office, from meetings, to project deadlines, to reaching out to clients. At home,...