Nutrition

Starting your day with a morning smoothie ensures that you get fruit and vegetables first thing as well as protein and water.

Happy Thanksgiving. A few clients this week asked Vintage Fitness personal trainers here in Toronto how to stick to their healthy living and eating habits over thanksgiving. Here are a few tips to keep you on track this weekend:

I wish you and your family all of the best this Canada day long weekend. There will be lots of parties and events to mark the important birthday. I know many of you are trying to make positive choices with how you live your life by moving more often and eating lots of foods that nourish your body. My daughter asked me today how she can be social on Canada Day but still eat healthy so here goes:

To start off I would like to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday and thank you for reading this Vintage Fitness blog. Vintage Fitness is a Toronto based company that provides in home personal training for people over 50. With the holidays just a few days away I wanted to give you a few tips to make your break healthy.

Diabetes is a metabolic disease that affects the pancreas’ ability to produce insulin which helps the body control blood sugar levels. The Canadian Diabetes Association release a “Diabetes Charter” revealing that 3.4 million Canadian had Diabetes in 2015 and is predicting that number to rise to 5 million by 2025.

The Vintage Fitness in home personal training team specializes in energizing the lives of people over 50 understand and empathize with clients who are scared or unmotivated to start to exercise. We work slowly focusing on a goal that is important to the client. Vintage Fitness is a team of personal trainers who work across the GTA including Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, Ajax, Oshawa, Pickering and Downtown.

Last night on CBC’s national news they covered a story about bone density and the intake of calcium in older adults. The main crux of the story was that older adults may not need as much calcium in their diets as was once thought. If you have low bone density you should be weight training for your bone health.

Happy Canada Day! I hope that you enjoyed the day and were able to celebrate with family and friends. I have to admit that I struggle to eat well over the summer, with all of the BBQs and cottage drinks my resolve diminishes and I think maybe I will give myself a break over the summer. A “cheat day” every so often where you let yourself have a few treats is a great strategy to keep you on the healthy eating track in the long term but weeks of “treats” will make you feel tired and disappointed