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, Dave. An avid Toronto runner, Dave has taken on pretty much every run Toronto has thrown at him.
It’s a 7km loop that is almost entirely on roads. Pretty quick and simple. The run will sta
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Walking in, I feel an instant surge of feminine power and a sense of confidence making me feel as though I can do anything...
I have entered Felinity, an all-women’s fitness centre located at 794 Broadview Avenue in Toronto, that incorporates fun and unique forms of fitness to get you fit and achieve your fitness goals.
Through the core feminine movement series, the studio has created workouts specifically designed for women that include mind/body fitness, pole dancing and hula hooping, all using techniques from dance, yoga and pilates.
In addition to their wide selection of classes, members can utilize the fitness centre, consisting of cardio, strength training machines and free weight
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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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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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Toronto's Yoga Studios Look to Bring Positive Energy Back to the Community
Down Ward Dog... Happy Baby Pose... Warrior...
Yoga has become one of the hottest fitness crazes of the last ten years, stretching and strengthening the muscles, all while developing positive energy to use throughout daily life. Building on the concept of creating positive energy through each practice, yoga studios have started to translate this energy, giving back to the community with the introduction of karma classes.
There are a number of yoga studios throughout the city now offering karma classes, including
Moksha Yoga Uptown, who introduced the karma class almost
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Running From the Elements...
How to prepare for your outdoor run in Toronto’s winter.
“How cold is to cold? Toque on or off? Jacket on or off?”
If you enjoy exercising outside during the winter, these are all questions that you will ask yourself at least once this winter, as you prepare to get out and enjoy our Greater Toronto Area weather. And, if you’re like me your answers to these questions will always end up as one of two extremes:
a) Either sweating buckets and ripping off layers faster than a gourmet chef peels onions.
b) Incorrectly predicting the freezing wind chill and entering the
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The Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club
Making a Difference in the Ring and the Toronto Community
Meet Savoy Howe. Owner and founder of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, the city’s only women’s and trans-gendered boxing club, located in the heart of east Toronto. Considered a trailblazer in the Toronto boxing community with over 18 years of experience, Howe is responsible for pioneering one of the fastest growing boxing clubs in the Toronto area.
“I was fairly new to Toronto in 1992 and wanted to learn a form of self-defense,” says Howe. “I tried martial-arts, and while effective, it just didn’t seem right for me. One day I saw a
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Toronto's Hidden Gems
Skating goes hand in hand with hockey, hockey goes hand in hand with winter and winter goes hand in hand with Canada...
Therefore, skating is Canada.
If you’ve ever experienced a January evening on an outdoor rink or frozen pond then you no doubt understand both the joys and discomforts of roughing it in a Canadian winter on the ice.
While the opportunity to skate on frozen ponds in the Toronto area may be scarce due to over-development and ‘yo-yo like’ weather conditions, the chance to skate on outdoor skating rinks in the Toronto area is plentiful.
The city of Toronto is home to an astounding 50 outdoor skating
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Your guide to dog parks in Toronto.
Endlessly, I have been told by friends that owning a dog is almost like test driving the car to start a family. The early mornings, the dependency, as well as the love that you not only have to give, but will be fortunate enough to receive from your dog, is the closest representation to a parent-child relationship there is.
Our dogs are dependent on us and because of the close bonds we develop with them, they tend to enjoy many of the same activities in life that we do. From sitting down for a healthy, protein-loaded meal to having our backs scratched by our closest friend, to going for a nice long walk through the woods, dogs
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