Your guide to what type of running shoe you should wear

Ever been to a running shoe store and had a sales associate look at your feet and tell you that you require

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Is strength training better then cardio to protect from heart disease?

Recently we read some headlines questioning whether aerobic activity is actually the best way to protect against heart disease. We were intrigued.

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Reduce your cancer risk: Eat organic

  “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates Warning: discussion ahead on Cancer is a little heavier than

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Is lifting weights 3 times per week or 6 times per week better to gain strength and add size? (new research)

Sometimes working out sucks. Your kids are sick, you have schoolwork to do, or you just feel plain lazy. We’ve all been

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How many reps is best to build muscle?

If you listen closely you can hear the collective frustrated yelling of ‘old school’ strength coaches as each of the tenets that

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Get stronger in just 13 minutes

No this is not just another grandiose late night infomercial claim. This is an important finding from recent research that might change

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DOES EXTREME EXERCISE ACTUALLY WEAKEN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM? (practical steps inside)

Exercise immunology sits right next to doping urine analyzer in a competition for most boring sport related jobs. That’s why even we

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Sold on Sauna’s: Why we built the Schenkel Sweat Shack

Love a good sauna session? Well get in there more and consider it part of a healthy routine just like the Finns

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Shoes off kids…please!

Our ancestors did not wear “stable shoes with lots of support”. In fact until recently, on the evolutionary timeline that is, humans

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Running Posture and Technique to Minimize Injury

On Tuesday June 27 Dave, Alysun Lillico, Physiotherapist and Larissa Robinson (our newest team member, massage therapist) joined forces to present to

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