Monday Morning Randomness

So after spending the past few weeks in academic isolation, I finally wrote a pretty big exam in Calgary this weekend, and am now able to start plugging away at a few additional projects I have on the go. Ever have one of those times of year where everything, and I mean EVERYTHING hits you at once?? The good thing is that persistence seems to be paying off, as my list is starting to whittle down.

So like a complete ass-hat, last week I put up a post talking about the newly updated Ultimate Cancer Survivor’s Guide, but put in the wrong link to the product page. Apparently I have no friends since no one decided to mention it to me, either through email or comments, so I wound up leaving it up almost all day. Come on everyone, help out the slow Canuck whose had a few shots to his head-bone and got himself a few concussions and can’t remember things so good and tell me when I make a complete jack-bag out of myself!! I kinda felt like these two when I figured out what was going on.

I’ve since fixed it, so please do me a solid and scope it out HERE.

Lindsay’s been hitting the weights a little extra hard as of late, in her attempt to begin “Shredding for the Wedding.” She’s one of those people who could hoola-hoop with a Cheerio, so we’re essentially focusing on muscle hypertrohpy to make sure she can sell some tickets to the gun show and help recoup some of the money spent on the wedding and fineries. My training goals are slightly different, and as a result I’ve dropped 14 pounds in the past 8 weeks, which means that by the time the big day comes, I’ll be rockin the goal weight like a Boss.

To be honest, I haven’t really changed a lot. I’ve switched up my snacks throughout the day, and have started eating more eggs and veggies. Other than that, the biggest benefit has come from interval cycling into work along 97 street during rush hour traffic and trying to avoid becoming grill-meat to some Ram truck, and running outside twice a week in my Boot Camp group. Beyond that, I’ve been mixing in some rower intervals between sets of resistance training exercises to get a bit of a heart rate elevation, and make sure I’m consistently hitting the weights at least 2-3 times a week in addition to everything mentioned before. Piece of cake.

I wanted to let everyone know about a website I’ve been doing some writing for, called the Personal Trainer Development Centre.

The site was started up by Jon Goodman, a trainer in Toronto who decided to help other trainers learn more about building their business and increasing their career opportunities. Unfortunately, this is one of the first times a training website has been dedicated to business, which is also a good thing since the resource has some of the biggest names in training, strength and conditioning, and rehabilitation (plus some bozo named Somerset). The goal is to make it a one-stop shop for anyone looking to increase their knowledge base of how to improve their business and get more bang from their time. Give it a check-out HERE and see what all the buzz is about.

A good friend named Mark Young started doing something really cool a little while ago. Every time he worked out, he would post “DOSE” on his Facebook status to let everyone know that he had just had his dose of exercise for the day. The American College of Sports Medicine started a program called “Exercise is Medicine” recently, and I thought this was a really cool way of actively and non-confrontationally trying to motivate as many people as possible to get their own DOSE of exercise each day. Kudos Mark.

That being said, I want to hear from you about whether you had your dose today or not. Leave a comment below, simply saying DOSE if you worked out, and if you want to get specific and tell others what you did for your workout, have at ‘er. This way you may learn some new stuff from some of the other commenters, and they may learn something new from you.