It was a battle and the girls played their hearts out, but in the end the Sir Oliver Mowat Mustangs, senior girls volleyball team, ended up just short of becoming back-to-back Ontario champions.
Riding an impressive 48 – 1 record into OFSAA, the Scarborough school had high expectations, and brought their best, but in the end it was Ottawa based, Ecole secondaire publique Louis-Riel, that took home gold winning in three straight sets over Mowat (30-28, 25-21, 25-21).
As defending Ontario champions, Sir Oliver Mowat, had entered this year’s provincials, in Stratford, hoping to become the first Toronto school to win back-to-back girls’ titles since the
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Toronto is so well known for its diversity, green space, fine cuisine and great night life. While these characteristics tend to dominate our conversations when discussing our beautiful city, Toronto also holds claim to some of the most eye catching and enjoyable running and walking routes in urban North America.
To better showcase, these hidden gems we present the Exercise Toronto ‘
run of the week.’
This week’s run is a favorite of Exercise Toronto follower, Annie, who lives in the Annex and completes this run three times a week. She discovered it while training for the Sporting Life 10km two years ago, and it has become a staple in her fitness
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The Best Way to Spend Your St. Patrick's Day!
As Spring approaches it's time to get back outside and start enjoying that warming weather. Perhaps there is no better way to mark this occasion than the annual
St Patrick’s Day, 5km Run & Walk in support of Achilles Canada, taking place March 14
th at the Steam Whistle Brewery.
An annual event for 11 years now, the St Patrick’s Day, Run & Walk has grown into a staple event for exercise-enthusiasts from all over the Greater Toronto Area.
This year, event organizer, Brian Mclean is expecting close to 1,500 participants to show up for a fun filled morning in support of a good cause
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The good old push-up!
We all know this exercise as a classic and this is how it will, undoubtedly, remain. Some things never change, and as the old saying goes, “
if it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it.” In celebration of our love for all things traditional, we here at Exercise Toronto have decided to feature the push-up as our exercise of the week.
Today, we live in an era where the health and wellness industry is full of so much choice that it is easy to get caught up in finding the ‘quick fix’ and easy to forget some of the traditional elements, that have proven results.
While many of these new exercises and technologies are beneficial and certainly serve t
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Name: Reyna Puri
Exercise/Sport: Yoga
Specialty: Various yoga disciplines, including meditation and teacher training.
This week’s Exercise Toronto.Com athlete of the week, Reyna Puri, is a respected yoga specialist based out of Brampton who has learned and taught at Yoga hotbeds all over the world.
Here is her story:
I began my journey in India. I resided there for a couple of years in pursuit of an acting career, but as my life carried on, I ended up down a path directed towards health and fitness instead of entertainment.
Originally, I studied under the classical Patanjali style of
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Name: Sarah Hankins
Age: 24
Exercise/Sport: Running, Yoga, Spin Classes
When this week’s ExerciseToronto.Com Athlete of the Week was asked to describe her ideal day she couldn’t help but include exercise at the top of her list. Like many other Toronto residents, Sarah Hankins, 24, balances a schedule of full-time work, socializing and daily fitness.
Growing up just north of Toronto, Hankins remains actively involved in the Toronto exercise community and is now focused on tackling new fitness achievements and milestones as the summer approaches.
“Last summer I ran the Sporting L
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Toronto’s holistic community is vast and diverse. The city offers many different forms of wellness services benefiting both spiritual and physical healing.
Recently we had the opportunity to visit one of Toronto’s fastest growing health and wellness centers, Sage Clinic. Located just south of Yonge and Bloor we dropped in for a massage and left not only feeling relaxed, but also left with a better understanding of the power massage and all it has to offer for overall health.
There are hundreds of different kinds of massage and bodywork techniques. At Sage Health and Wellness Clinic they utilize multiple techniques, all aimed at healing and relaxing someone’s body and mind.
The
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“Our wrestling program has a rich tradition of winning and that's a result of our commitment and team-first approach.”
After talking with the Newtonbrook Secondary School‘s Wrestling coach, we were left with four words that perfectly describe the wrestling program at this Toronto based high school: commitment, hard-work, talent and family.
Since November 2009, the Newtonbrook Wrestling Team has been practicing for three hours a day, three times a week and is considered the measuring stick for all other wrestling programs in the city.
After this year’s Toronto City Championship it looks as if this will continue.
This was
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If you're an active runner, than you probably know the story of Roger Bannister and the four-minute-mile, but the truth is, it never gets old.
It’s the type of story that legends are made of, the type of story that is only heard of in fairytales and the type of story that lead a little known athlete from Middlesex, born in 1929, to become knighted by Queen Elizabeth and cemented as not only an English hero and but an exercise legend.
Throughout history there are endless stories of individuals overcoming what was believed to be ‘impossible’ to only break through and acheive something that not only is remarkable, but eventually becomes routine due to the power of
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Name: Carolyn Fauteux
Purpose: To educate people on the keys to nutrition, fitness and beauty
Goal: Bring awareness to her blog Baring Brilliance
This week’s ExerciseToronto.Com athlete of the week, Carolyn Fauteux, is an individual whose passion for health has allowed her to be successful in athletics at all levels and serves as the guiding light for her professional career today.
Fauteux, 24, is a regular contributor to health websites and blogs all over the world and has recently introduced her own blog,
Baring Brilliance, which is a platform to k
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