April 22, 2012 Below is a photo showing how I spent most of my training day today! . . . . . . . WORKOUT Snatch, 8×2 Clean & Jerk, 8×2 Front Squats, 5×3, 401 tempo . Today was one of those days that tests your patience.  I failed many of my Snatch attempts as [...]

I’M BACK… It has been a year or so since my last blog post.  I won’t bore you with the details of my whereabouts in this post as I just want to get down to business. I have been playing with Olympic Weight Lifting for the better part of the last year.  Well, more like [...]

… aka AVOCADO Below are many of the benefits of eating avocados.  Hippocrates was never more on the money when he said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”  The question I often get is how to consume avocados other than chopping them up and adding them to a salad?  I encourage you to come back to this [...]

RAW VEGAN ZUCCHINI HUMMUS This recipe is courtesy of Joanne Gero of VibeAlive (www.vibealive.ca). This recipe has quickly become one of my go to staple foods.  It is super easy to make and very easily digestible which makes it a superb choice in my books.  The zucchini hummus is so versatile too as it can [...]

DO YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO? After 7 months of waking up every day with one goal in mind it all comes down to Sunday’s Super Bowl game.  The Super Bowl is the biggest stage and even the unlikeliest of players have an opportunity to be the hero.  That may seem obvious but many of us, within [...]

Hello my friends, This week I vowed to get back to using my dehydrator as it had been a number of months since it last got some use.  Since I have been so busy I was buying all my pizza crusts, crackers and treats out of convenience from my local health food store.  As most [...]

WELLNESS CENTRE, SWEAT EQUITY MAGAZINE & THE 7 WONDERS OF NATE’S WORLD It has been way too long since I last blogged.  So much has been happening that I could barely find the time to sleep let alone write about what is going on these days.  I apologize to my die hard followers and hope [...]

NUTS….this is what work has been like the last few weeks.  There is so much to get done when opening your own Wellness Centre (or any facility for that matter).  Overall though the wellness centre is coming along and should be ready to open early December.  For real this time….for real, for real!  Check out [...]

Hey everyone, Real quick this evening as it is 10:30pm and it is an hour or so past my school night bed time.  What’s the reason for the late night posting you ask?  Tara and I had a date night and caught a performance of Wicked.  We both really enjoyed it and found it interesting [...]

To be honest, I am just a SOUL TRAINER wannabe.  However, everyone needs to start somewhere, right? What does it mean to be a Soul Trainer?  Well, to my understanding it is doing something for the absolute love of it and not worry about how your performance effects the end result in regards to a [...]