Four Steps to Eating for your Workout: Step 1 – FUELING

20-30 minutes before a workout – SIMPLE MEAL OR LIQUID ENERGY SOURCE! Think of your food as the gas to your car. If the tank is empty you will go nowhere. It is important to fuel your workout with healthy, easy digestible foods. A lot of people experience discomfort...

Cheating with Lagree YYC: It’s no Laughing Matter!

With 10 Lagree YYC sessions under my belt, I have said goodbye to my training wheels, incorporating regular Full – Body sessions into my weekly exercise routine including a May long weekend session with Cassandra that left me gasping. It was truth in advertising . . ....

The Road to Well is Paved with Quinoa

On Wednesday, I arrived at my Lagree-Full Body-Light class feeling that I could do anything. I had the Flames and the Alberta NDP party to thank for that; on the same, historic evening they proved that anything is possible, even the pairing of Flame Roasted Duck and...

Telltale signs that your body is overdue for a detox

Our bodies are designed to eliminate the toxic sludge we expose it to on a daily basis. Our liver, kidneys, colon, lungs and skin all work together like a fine tuned machine to clean our blood from the thousands of substances we expose it to daily. Germ killing...

“IT MUST BE JELLY ‘CAUSE JAM DON’T SHAKE LIKE THAT”

My fourth Lagree – Full Body – Light class proves memorable for a number of reasons.   My Long-Suffering Husband acknowledges that I have achieved a personal best . . . four consecutive workouts at the same studio during one lifetime. He generally refers to my fitness...

More Adventures at Lagree YYC

An exercise studio is not my natural habitat. I live in my brain. Trouble is . . . my gray matter needs a better house to live in. That is why I’ve beat a path to the doors of Lagree YYC, daring myself and the Lagree Method to reverse years of neglect. Kim Rothenberg,...

My Fateful First Date with a Megaformer

I begin at lululemon because I have a deep concern for what perfect strangers think and don’t want them to arrive at the correct conclusion that this is my first rodeo. I discover that lululemon’s top size is 12. I am a solid 14, but I take the 12s because I want to...

Will Lagree YYC Agree with Me?

It began as a writing gig and suddenly, to my huge surprise, I find myself signed up for classes at Lagree YYC . . . my first fitness foray in decades. Usually, I am able to say no to exercise with astonishing speed and agility. I have done so with relative impunity...